Friday, March 29, 2019

Yahoo News compiled for the BBC's Biodun Iginla--March 29, 2019

World

Reuters

Turkey will honor its air defense deal with Russia, Ankara said on Friday after four U.S. senators introduced a bill to ban the planned delivery of F-35 fighter jets if Turkey ignored U.S. opposition and accepted the S-400 system. "We have agreed with Russia in the end and signed an agreement.
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Lawsuits against news platform Rappler have drawn global concern about a free and open media in the democratic Southeast Asian country. Rappler and its officials are now facing 11 cases, said Ressa, who posted bail for the seventh time. Ressa was served an arrest warrant over a libel case live on television
Reuters

Dozens of representatives of governments from around the world joined New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the remembrance service in Hagley Park, near the Al Noor mosque where more than 40 of the victims were killed by a suspected white supremacist during Friday prayers on March 15. Ardern,
Christian Science Monitor

Local residents are working to lessen the effect of marble quarrying in the Apuan Alps. World-renowned Carrara marble has been mined from the Apuan Alps since Roman times. Now, however, the group Salviamo le Alpi Apuane (Save the Apuan Alps) is closing down highly industrialized quarries and replacing
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Christian Science Monitor

Barring a majority winner, which polls indicate is unlikely, the two candidates who receive the largest plurality of votes will head into a decisive April 21 second round. There are currently three front-runners, and which make it into that final round will determine the tone of debate over Ukraine&

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One day, we may look back at this time of anger and instability in world politics as the age of deceptively easy answers. What matters most, if we’re to understand the staying power of this trend, is the inability of time-honored institutions and traditions of democratic government to do much about
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The nationalist Finns Party has overtaken Prime Minister Juha Sipila's Centre Party to become Finland's third-most popular party before an April 14 election, according to a poll published by public broadcaster Yle on Friday. Support for the eurosceptic Finns Party rose to 15.1 percent in March
Associated Press

LASUANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC says it has disqualified three athletes, including a bronze medalist weightlifter from Azerbaijan, for doping at the 2012 London Olympics.
Reuters

Talks to form Thailand's next government will have to wait until after the coronation of King Maha Vajiralongkorn in May, a party linked to the ruling military junta said, as the outcome of last Sunday's election remained inconclusive. The chaotic count and charges of vote-buying have marred
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Top Asian News 10:26 a.m. GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in will travel to the United States in two weeks for a summit with President Donald Trump on stalemated North Korean nuclear diplomacy. It would be their first meeting since Trump's second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi
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BANGKOK (AP) — Rangers at a national park in northeastern Thailand have rescued six baby elephants that were trapped in a mud pit.
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BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of students are gathering in the German capital, skipping school to take part in a rally demanding action against climate change.
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Egypt's most prominent pro-democracy activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, was released on probation Friday after five years in prison on charges of organising an illegal protest. The outspoken dissident and blogger, who was an iconic figure of the Arab Spring revolution that unseated longtime autocrat Hosni
Reuters

President Tayyip Erdogan said later on Friday the building in which the fire broke out was abandoned and uninhabitable, and Ankara Governor Vasip Sahin told state media that the cause of the fire had not been determined yet. Burak Burhan Biyikli, a local resident who knew the victims, said the building
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BEIJING (AP) — A southern Chinese city is offering cash rewards for information about "illegal religious groups" as the ruling Communist Party continues to tighten its grip over faith communities.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two-time Olympic gold medalist Hsu Shu-ching apologized Friday for testing positive for doping and said she is willing to accept her punishment.
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PARIS (AP) — The wife of the detained former Interpol president expelled this week from China's ruling Communist Party is reiterating calls for proof that he is still alive.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey is committed to a deal to purchase S-400 air defense systems from Russia despite warnings from Washington that the deal could put Turkey's participation in the U.S. F-35 fighter aircraft program at risk.
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Reuters

The centre right is set to remain the biggest group in the EU legislature after elections in May, according to a survey by the European Parliament released on Friday that showed the conservatives were gaining seats from a poll last month. The European People's Party (EPP), which includes German
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — A leading Egyptian pro-democracy activist was freed from prison early Friday after serving a five-year sentence for inciting and taking part in protests, his family and lawyer said. The terms of his release, however, require that he report to a police station every day for the next five
Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament will not discuss and vote upon any amendments during Friday's debate on Brexit, Speaker John Bercow said. Lawmakers had submitted three possible amendments, which could have changed the meaning or outcome of Friday's debate. However, with none of those
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Associated Press

OSTERSUND, Sweden (AP) — From the Italian capital to western Mexico to a club located 200 miles from the Arctic Circle, a player who Alex Ferguson said "possessed as much natural talent as any youngster" at Manchester United is going to great lengths to revive his career.
Reuters

Thousands of protesters gathered in central Algiers on Friday, piling pressure on President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika to resign days after the country's powerful military called for his removal. The army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah, on Tuesday asked the constitutional council
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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — A man who survived New Zealand's mosque attacks told a crowd of about 20,000 people on Friday that he forgives the terrorist who killed his wife and 49 others.
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Involving around 900 million voters, India's general election will be the world's largest democratic exercise, with the vote taking place in seven phases between April 11 and May 19. "The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its National Democratic Alliance partners will get more seats than
Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The head of a Philippine online news site, which is among media agencies critical of President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested Friday in a second case in two months, this time over an alleged investment law violation.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The number of cholera cases among survivors of a devastating cyclone in central Mozambique has jumped to 139, officials said, as nearly 1 million vaccine doses are rushed to the region.
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's interior minister has accused the incumbent president and a former premier of waging campaigns that involve bribing voters ahead of Sunday's presidential election.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's unemployment rate has slipped to 5.1 percent, with the labor market benefiting from a traditional springtime rebound despite a less rosy outlook for Europe's biggest economy.
Reuters

"There were no proper fire exits in the building that houses many offices and several restaurants," Julfikar Rahman, director of the Fire Service and Civil Defence, told Reuters. "It the building had proper fire exits, people would have been able to come out.
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MPs are set for a momentous third vote Friday on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit divorce deal, which could end a months-long crisis or risk Britain crashing out of the EU in two weeks. The House of Commons has twice rejected May's withdrawal agreement, both times by large margins, but has
Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Arab leaders meeting in Tunisia on Sunday hope to project unified opposition to the Trump administration's acceptance of Israeli control over the Golan Heights and Jerusalem, but as with past Arab League summits, the gathering is likely to expose their own bitter rivalries.
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TOKYO (AP) — Mark Karpeles, who headed Mt. Gox, a Japan-based bitcoin exchange that went bankrupt after a massive hacking, is appealing his conviction on charges of manipulating electronic data.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A U.N. official is urging Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers to avoid a violent escalation on the eve of the first anniversary of the start of weekly border protests.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cypriot law enforcement official says a court has fined a U.S. national and a Norwegian man 6,000 euros ($6,730) each for illegally searching for an old shipwreck off the east Mediterranean island's coast.
Reuters

Britain's parliament will hold a special sitting on Friday to discuss and vote on Brexit, potentially unlocking a delay to May 22 to the country's exit from the European Union but falling short of the criteria needed to formally ratify the deal. The government hopes to avoid another heavy defeat
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - There is fear in parliament that Britain may never leave the European Union, trade minister Liam Fox said on Friday, as Prime Minister Theresa May struggles to get her Brexit deal approved by lawmakers. Asked on LBC radio if he now feared Brexit would never happen, Fox said: "
Reuters

"You are a Filipino who was allowed to abuse our country ... in the name of the holy grail of press freedom," President Rodrigo Duterte said in a speech in January 2018, addressing Ranada directly. "You are not only throwing toilet paper, you are throwing shit at us." It was an
Reuters

There have been 138 cases of cholera confirmed in two neighborhoods of the wrecked Mozambican port city of Beira in the wake of Cyclone Idai, the government said on Friday. "We expected this, we were prepared for this, we've doctors in place," Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Fullback David Havili scored two tries as the Crusaders beat the Hurricanes 32-8 in Super Rugby on Friday, ensuring their first loss in a year didn't turn into a streak.
Reuters

Former South African president Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane will stand trial for culpable homicide over a fatal car accident in 2014, a Johannesburg judge said on Friday, rejecting a request to dismiss the case for lack of evidence. Driving a Porsche sports car, Duduzane Zuma, 35, crashed into a minivan
Reuters

The vote, on the day the country was originally due to exit the European Union, illustrates the depth of the three-year Brexit crisis that has left it uncertain how, when or even if it will ever leave. Lawmakers will vote on May's 585-page EU Withdrawal Agreement at a special sitting but not on
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish low-cost fashion brand Hennes & Mauritz AB has announced first-quarter profit dropped to 803 million kronor ($86.4 million), down from 1.4 billion kronor a year ago, saying the earlier period was positively affected by one-off tax income as a result of U.S. tax reform
AFP

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's regime, bolstered by a Russian military deployment infuriating the US, on Thursday announced a ban on Washington-backed self-declared interim leader Juan Guaido holding public office. It was the latest scuffle between Maduro and Guaido, who lay rival claims
Reuters

Friday's parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement is the last chance to vote for Brexit as we understand it, Britain's international trade minister said. "It is in fact really the last chance we have to vote for Brexit as we understood it," Liam Fox
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is forging ahead with promoting moderate Islam during a weekend trip to Morocco, seeking to build on warming ties with the Sunni world while also ministering to a tiny Catholic community and offering solidarity with migrants.

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Reuters

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Voting for Prime Minister Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement on Friday would be a surrender, pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker Mark Francois said on Friday. Asked by LBC radio if he could vote for May's deal to ensure Britain leaves the EU, Francois said: "No. You can
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Five years after a deadly separatist conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine, the front line between government forces and Russia-backed separatists has become a de-facto border, cutting off a generation of first-time voters from Sunday's presidential election.
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US and Chinese negotiators wrapped up "constructive" trade talks in Beijing on Friday ahead of another round next week, a top American official said as the economic superpowers aim to settle a bruising tariffs battle. US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's air quality has deteriorated from among the cleanest in the world to one of the most polluted over the past two decades, shaving five years from life expectancy in some regions, researchers say.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats intensified their demands for Robert Mueller's full report after learning the special counsel's findings from his Trump-Russia investigation run to more than 300 pages, while President Donald Trump boasted of total exoneration based on a four-page summary by his attorney
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Investigators probing the fatal crash of a Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia have reached a preliminary conclusion that a suspect anti-stall system activated shortly before it nose-dived to the ground, the WSJ reported Friday citing people familiar with the matter. The findings were based on flight recorder
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BERLIN (AP) — The German government has extended a ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia by six months until the end of September, but is making a conditional exception for systems developed jointly with other countries.
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Facebook Inc has removed a social media network in the Philippines for "coordinated inauthentic behavior", and took the unusual step of linking it to a businessman who said he had managed the president's online election campaign in 2016. Facebook said its investigation found that the online
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As Ukraine heads in a presidential election on Sunday, two artists have created an unflattering portrait of incumbent Petro Poroshenko using sweet wrappers and bullet casings. From Poroshenko's perspective probably the best thing about the piece is that the artists had to use 20 kilograms (44 lb
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the "mother of all caravans," even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — For Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Sunday's local elections are not just a vote to decide who should collect the garbage and maintain roads — they are about Turkey's future national "survival."
Reuters

Britain's next prime minister must be someone who believes in Brexit, the former leader of the ruling Conservative Party Iain Duncan Smith said on Friday. "A new leader can take (this) forward, and a leader that really believes in Brexit. The problem has been the negotiations have been conducted
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Montreal (AFP) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has announced it will cut some 1,500 jobs at its factory in Windsor, Canada, around a quarter of its local workforce.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say the latest Taliban attacks have killed 17 policemen across the country.
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Uzbekistan international Otabek Shukurov had his leg broken by China's Wei Shihao.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian appeals court on Friday dismissed a bullying case brought by an engineer who accused his former supervisor of repeatedly breaking wind toward him.
Reuters

The deputy leader of the Northern Irish party propping up Prime Minister Theresa May's government said a Brexit outcome that keeps the United Kingdom more closely aligned to the European Union is now a possibility. "From our point of view, the concern and priority for us and Northern Ireland
Reuters

Moon will hold a summit meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington on April 11 to discuss North Korea and other alliance issues, the White House said on Friday. "The alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea remains the linchpin of peace and security on the Korean peninsula
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in will travel to the United States in two weeks for a summit with President Donald Trump on stalemated North Korean nuclear diplomacy.
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MIAMI (AP) — The game had been over for at least half an hour and 2,000 people remained in the stands at AmericanAirlines Arena, all of them standing.
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Thailand's recent general elections, its first since a 2014 military coup, set off jubilation among party loyalists and efforts by various party leaders to build a governing coalition even though the official results aren't required until May.
Reuters

Investigators looking into a Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people have reached a preliminary conclusion that an anti-stall system was activated before the plane hit the ground, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people briefed on the matter. U.S. safety investigators
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SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei's deputy chairman defended its commitment to security Friday after a stinging British government report added to Western pressure on the company by accusing it of failing to repair dangerous flaws in its telecom technology.
Reuters

"Many feel that Thaksin will not be able to come back, so they have to vote for someone that they can depend on rather than what is in their heart," Mu said. The pro-junta party won in Phayao, the first time since 2001 that a Thaksin-loyal party has lost in a town that - like much of the north
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