Plesse, France (Reuters) – France’s presidential pretenders will this week make mandatory campaign stops at the annual Paris farm fair as polls show farmers increasingly tempted by the far-right’s Marine Le Pen when they even bother to vote at all.
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Like a headmaster addressing rowdy pupils, the United Nations envoy for Syria began peace talks in Geneva last week by telling the warring parties to behave and show respect.
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BISHKEK (Reuters) – A Kyrgyz court jailed a prominent opposition politician on corruption charges on Monday, a move his supporters said was part of a politically motivated crackdown by President Almazbek Atambayev.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The spectacular Carnival parade of Rio’s top samba troupes was marred by the injury of 20 people who where pushed against a wall by a faulty float at the start of the famed Sambadrome show, organizers said on Monday.
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GENEVA (Reuters) – South Korea called on Monday for major powers to criminally pursue North Korea’s leadership before its “ever-worsening” human rights record including mass executions and forced labor threatened world peace.
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SEOUL (Reuters) – The board of an affiliate of South Korea’s Lotte Group approved a land swap with the government on Monday that will enable authorities to deploy a controversial U.S. missile defense system, the defense ministry said.
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. Human Rights Council must set up a commission of inquiry into Myanmar’s human rights record, as it has done for North Korea and Eritrea, and not spare its leader because of her iconic status, a former U.S. human rights envoy said on Monday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) – The South Korean special prosecutor’s office said on Monday it will not be able to question President Park Geun-hye in person as part of its investigation into an influence-peddling scandal that threatens to topple Park.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – A pressure cooker bomb exploded in the courtyard of a government building in the Indonesian city Bandung on Monday, police said, adding that the attacker had been shot and seriously wounded.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Gunmen opened fire on a prison bus in Colombo on Monday, killing five prisoners and two warders on their way to court in what was believed to be a gangland dispute, officials said.
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