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Lyft driver kicks out gay couple mid-ride after back-seat kiss A gay couple in Indianapolis, Indiana, said they were kicked out of a ride-share vehicle earlier this month for kissing in the back seat.
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Pennsylvania Democrat resigns as mayor after allegedly soliciting 'police informant' for sex A Democratic mayor from Pennsylvania has resigned after being arrested on prostitution charges that he claims were fabricated because of his "political position."
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Pope's Chile Abuse Summit Ends Amid Signs of Departures Pope Francis on Thursday ended his emergency summit with Chile's bishops by thanking them for their "full willingness'' to do whatever it takes to recover from a sex abuse and cover-up scandal that has discredited the church. Francis said farewell to each of the 34 bishops from Chile after four days of meetings and prayer, amid indications that some departures could be coming. Vatican television showed the Chilean bishops thanking Francis as they took their leave. The only one Francis is shown kissing on each cheek and patting on the arm was Bishop Juan Barros, who is at the center of the scandal. In a farewell letter given to each bishop, Francis said he had already apologized to the sex abuse victims he discredited. He reminded the churchmen that they had joined in that apology "with the firm aim of repairing the wounds.'' "I thank you for the full willingness each one of you has shown to cooperate in all the short-, medium- and long-term changes and resolutions that we must implement to re-establish justice and the ecclesial communion,'' Francis wrote. Francis summoned the entire Chilean bishops' conference to Rome after admitting that he had made "grave errors in judgment'' in the case of Barros, who is accused by victims of Father Fernando Karadima, Chile's most notorious predator priest and a mentor to Barros, of witnessing and ignoring their abuse. Barros has denied their claim. Francis had strongly defended him during his January trip to Chile, drawing scorn from Chileans and even his own top sex abuse adviser. Vatican inquiry After returning home, Francis sent two Vatican investigators to look into the matter, and they came back with a much broader view of the scale of priestly abuse and cover-up in the Chilean church, presenting Francis with a 2,300-page dossier. One of the investigators, the Reverend Jordi Bertomeu, said Thursday that Francis was "making history'' with the summit. "What is sure is that we are facing a very, very particular moment for the universal church, not only for Chile,'' he told reporters. "It's not normal to call here an entire bishops' conference. Therefore, if I were you, I would expect measures and conclusions that will be important.'' For years, sex abuse victims have blasted the Chilean hierarchy for discrediting their claims, protecting abusers, moving them around rather than reporting them to police, and then handing out light sentences when church sanctions were imposed. Francis, too, though, was harshly criticized for discrediting victims by saying their accusations against Barros were "calumny'' and demanding proof. He appointed Barros bishop of Osorno, Chile, in 2015 over the objections of other Chilean bishops who knew his past was problematic. Turnabout by Francis After receiving Bertomeu's report, though, Francis did an about-face, blaming a "lack of truthful and balanced information'' about the case for his missteps. He invited the three main whistle-blowers for a four-day retreat at the Vatican hotel he calls home. Many Chileans are expecting that at least Barros and two-other Karadima-trained bishops will resign, if not more. At the start of the summit, representatives of the Chilean bishops' conference had said they were prepared to accept whatever measures Francis proposed, including bishop resignations, reforms of Chile's seminaries and economic reparation for victims. Such measures were also on the table when American cardinals in 2002 and the 24-member Irish bishops' conference in 2010 were hauled before the pope for a dressing down for their dismal handling of abuse cases. The American leadership, discredited after the abuse scandal exploded in Boston, went on to craft tough "one strike and you're out'' guidelines that are seen as a model worldwide. Irish church leaders were summoned after a decade of Irish government fact-finding commissions documented widespread abuse and cover-up by clerics. The Irish church was subsequently subjected to a wide-ranging, yearlong Vatican investigation into their dioceses, seminaries and religious orders.
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Young Girls Get a Head Start for a Life in Politics Here in the United States, campaigning has begun for the 2018 midterms in November, and President Donald Trump has announced his slogan for what he says will be his 2020 re-election campaign. But at one Summer Camp in Washington, young Maira Phillips is getting ready for her White House run, about 27 years from now. Faith Lapidus explains.
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It's been one year since Mueller began his investigation. It's past time for it to wrap up The year-long special counsel investigation seems to have raised more questions about the possible misbehavior by Mueller's investigators and other government officials than by the Trump campaign.
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Las Vegas shooting witnesses describe chaos and compassion Police documents about the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history included reports from at least two people who said a person they believed to be the gunman ranted in the days prior to last October's Las Vegas Strip attack about the federal government and gun control.
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Hamas admits most killed in Gaza violence were its members A senior Hamas official admitted Wednesday that dozens of rioters killed by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip were members of the militant group.
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Gulf Arab states rebuke Israel, but alliances inch closer Arab states resoundingly condemned the killing of more than 50 Palestinians in this week's Gaza protests, just as they have after previous Israeli violence going back decades.
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Florida Felon Takes Lead in Fight to Restore Voting Rights In 2004, Desmond Meade, while serving a 15-year prison sentence for a drug offense in Florida, got a break. An appeals court returned his conviction to the original trial bench, allowing him to plead guilty to a lesser charge and get out of prison in three years, most of which he had already served. But his freedom came with a price, something that didn't quite register with him at the time: as part of his plea agreement with prosecutors, Meade agreed to give up his civil rights: the right to vote, to serve on a jury and to run for office. "At the time, when I first accepted the plea deal, I didn't understand the consequences," Meade says. Fourteen years and a pair of college and law degrees later, Meade still can't vote; his application to regain his civil rights was rejected in 2011. The reason: a new Florida law that requires felons like him to wait for seven years before they could apply for rights restoration. Home to nearly a quarter of the nation's disenfranchised voters, Florida has become a battleground in a debate over felony disenfranchisement laws. With lawmakers deeply divided over the issue, Meade says he wants the state's voters to take matters into their own hands when they head to the polls on Nov. 6. He's promoting a ballot initiative that would amend the state's constitution, restoring the voting rights of all felons in Florida (except those convicted of murder and sexual assault) after they've completed the terms of their sentence. The measure enjoys broad voter support. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted in February showed that 67 percent of Floridians were in favor of restoring the voting rights of felons other than those convicted of murder and sexual assault. Another poll showed support at 71 percent. "We're going to change the system," Meade says confidently. "What we're doing is taking the power out of the hands of politicians and we're allowing the citizens of the state of Florida to decide whether or not folks should have a second chance, to be able to vote." Rates of Voter 'Disenfranchised' Soar Meade is one of more than 6 million American citizens who have lost their voting rights because of a felony conviction. Their number has soared in recent decades as the U.S. prison population has ballooned. Felony disenfranchisement disproportionately affect African-Americans like Meade. One in 13 African-Americans of voting age, such as Meade, can't vote. It is a rate more than four times higher than for other races, according to the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice research and advocacy organization. In Florida more than 1-in-5 African-Americans are disenfranchised. But Meade says the felony disenfranchisement crosses racial and political lines. "This is what I can tell you: there are three times as many people who can't vote in Florida who are not black," Meade says. When it comes to letting felons vote, the United States is out of line with the rest of the democratic world, says Marc Mauer, executive director the Sentencing Project. Some democracies such as Canada allow prisoners to vote and politicians to campaign inside prisons. Other countries such as Britain restore prisoners' voting rights after serving their time. "There is no other democratic nation that takes away the right to vote for the rest of your life as is done in some states in the U.S.," Mauer says. States Set Voter Qualifications The U.S. Constitution gives the states the right to set voter qualifications and to disqualify anyone who participates in "rebellion, or other crime." That has led to an assortment of voting rights laws for felons, ranging from the most liberal -- Maine and Vermont, which impose no restrictions on felons – to the strictest in four states, such as Florida, that permanently revoke the voting rights of convicted felons. This panoply of statutes has led to confusion over who has the right to vote, sometimes with harsh consequences. Last month, a Texas judge sentenced a 43-year-old African-American woman to five years in prison for voting illegally in the 2016 election while she was on supervised release from prison. Defenders of the practice say there are compelling reasons to bar felons from voting, a practice that dates as far back as ancient Greece and came to the United States from England. "The short answer is: if you're not willing to follow the law, you should not be making the law for everyone else," says Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the conservative Center for Equal Opportunity. The longer answer, Clegg says, is that voters must meet "certain minimum objective standards of responsibility and commitment to laws" before they're empowered with voting rights. "When you think about it, we don't let everybody vote," he says. "We don't let children vote, we don't let non-citizens vote, we don't let mentally incapacitated people vote, and we don't let people who have committed crimes against fellow citizens." Because of a high rate of recidivism among criminals, Clegg says felons must wait for a period of time to prove they've "turned over a new leaf" before they're allowed to vote. "Unfortunately, you can't assume somebody is no longer a criminal just because they're no longer in prison," he says. But advocates of broader rights say that the high rate of recidivism among felons is itself an argument for restoring their voting rights. "When people come out of prison, if we hope to reduce recidivism, we need to have these people connected with positive institutions within the community," Mauer says. Another frequent argument advocates make is that the right to vote is one of the most fundamental rights of citizenship. And just as a felon doesn't lose the right to get married or divorced or to buy property, so, too, he or she shouldn't lose the right to vote. "If we say to people, you may have done your time in prison, but we're still not going to permit you to vote, that's essentially sending a message that they're a second-class citizen," Mauer says. 'Returning Citizens' That's how Meade feels. "I think voting is probably one of the purest expressions of citizenship," Meade says. "As long as I'm not allowed to vote, I'm only a second-class citizen, if that at all." After the governor's board informed him that his application had been rejected – five years after he'd submitted it – Mead had to wait another two years before he could reapply. But instead of waiting, he founded the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, a grassroots organization run by felons who call themselves "returning citizens," while going to law school. The organization helps felons navigate Florida's cumbersome system of restoring felons' civil rights and apply to the board of clemency. The board, made up of the governor and three elected cabinet members, meets quarterly to review about 100 cases from a backlog of more than 20,000. In some cases, applicants have to wait 10 years or more before they have a hearing before the board. "If I help you file an application today, you'll not know anything about this application until May 2025," Meade says. In February, a federal judge ordered Florida officials to overhaul the process, calling it "fatally flawed." An appeals panel later blocked the order. Meade graduated from Florida International University College of Law in 2014 only to realize that he couldn't take the bar exam because he'd lost his civil rights. But by then he'd found a calling. "Me not being able to vote, me not being able to practice law is not what sits at the heart of my passion," he says. "What sits at the heart of my passion is seeing my fellow citizens not being able to vote."
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Barletta, Trump backer, wins GOP nod to take on Sen. Casey Pennsylvania U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta is projected to defeat state Rep. Jim Christiana in Tuesday's Republican primary to determine who will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in November.
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Barletta projected to win Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary as House battles roil state Pennsylvania U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta was projected to defeat state Rep. Jim Christiana Tuesday in the Republican primary to determine who will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in November.
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Democrats Seek to Counter Trump's 2020 Message Grappling with the realities of President Donald Trump's reign, Democrats are trying to offer a counterweight to the president's message — without making it all about Trump. An annual conference organized by a prominent Democratic think tank included an early glimpse Tuesday at some of the Democrats plotting a challenge to Trump in 2020. But it also laid bare some of the challenges Democrats face in opposing a president whose presence has been all-consuming and in developing an alternative agenda to reach voters who turned to Trump in 2016. "What they want to hear about is the economy and their plans for it. They don't want to hear about Donald Trump every single minute,'' Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said at the Center for American Progress' Ideas Conference. "We resist, but we also insist on a better way forward.'' The lineup at the daylong conference featured appearances by several potential 2020 candidates, including Klobuchar and Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Also speaking: former Housing Secretary Julian Castro and current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. In the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats have pointed to growing activism since Trump's election, from the women's march after his inauguration to a student movement in support of gun control measures following the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. And they have captured special election victories in Alabama, electing Democratic Senator Doug Jones, and in western Pennsylvania, helping Democrat Conor Lamb overcome millions in Republican expenditures in a GOP-leaning district. Democrats are hoping for a "blue wave'' in the midterms to recapture one or both chambers in Congress, which they have said would serve as a precursor to ousting Trump from office. Grass roots 'stood up' "The reason why we don't have Trumpcare today,'' said New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, referring to the president's failed attempt to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, "is because the grass roots stood up, stood tall and said, 'No.' '' But the party is still dealing with tensions on how far it should move to embrace more liberal policies on the economy and health care in response to Trump. Sanders, who battled Hillary Clinton for the party's nomination in 2016, rattled off a litany of liberal causes, including the need for a single-payer health care system, a $15-an-hour minimum wage, reproductive rights and universal child care. But he pointed to the role of the "oligarchy in this country'' as the nation's most central challenge, a movement he said was leading to "a government of the few, by the few, and for the few.'' "It is so important that we set big goals and we not be afraid of that,'' said de Blasio, who announced plans for the New York Police Department to "overhaul and reform'' policies related to marijuana enforcement in the next month. Castro, HUD secretary under President Barack Obama and a former San Antonio mayor, said the party needed a "new blueprint'' that would make universal prekindergarten a reality, provide free college for at least the first two years and protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. Trump's distilled message One of the critiques of Clinton's 2016 Democratic presidential campaign was that it failed to present a coherent argument on what the party would stand for under her watch. Trump, meanwhile, successfully distilled his message into his slogan, "Make America Great Again,'' and narrowly defeated Clinton in Midwestern states like Michigan and Wisconsin that had been safe Democratic territory. Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, noted that Trump claimed victory in Ohio, a perennial presidential battleground, by nearly 9 percentage points in 2016, saying the president won in "communities he had no business winning.'' "I think workers in my state are looking for somebody in elected office to talk about the dignity of work, to talk about whose side are you on, to talk about why work matters,'' Brown said. "I don't hear that enough from elected officials.'' Neera Tanden, the center's president and a longtime Clinton adviser, said that while Trump represents "an unprecedented threat to our values and our norms,'' Democrats cannot simply resist the president and his policies but instead need to provide an alternative to his agenda. The event was attended by a number of financial donors, political strategists and activists who are beginning to assess what is expected to be a massive field in 2020, spurred in part by Trump's sluggish public approval ratings. Robert Wolf, a major Democratic donor who attended the conference, said the party was "starting to build a narrative of things we stand for,'' as opposed to simply opposing Trump at every turn. "We have to make sure we're the party of 'for things,' '' Wolf said.
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Family Photo Becomes New Picture of Militancy in Indonesia In the photo, the mother rests one hand on her youngest son's arm. Two little sisters in the front hold flowers against matching red head scarves. Dad stands in the back next to the oldest son who has already outgrown him. The six are dressed in happy prints and colors — a purple batik shirt, a pink flowered dress — and Mom's flowing headscarf is the color of sky. It appears to be a picture of a happy middle-class Indonesian family. But it has shocked the world's most populous Muslim nation this week by becoming its new face of militant violence. Friends and neighbors describe the Muslim parents as normal and nice, associating regularly with Christians who lived nearby and letting their home-schooled children play with others in the neighborhood. But on Sunday, they fanned out with suicide bombs attached to themselves and their children, attacking three churches. The entire family was killed in Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya. At least 13 people died in the churches and more than 40 others were injured. The youngest human bomb, the little girl staring directly at the camera with big brown eyes, was just 8 years old. Her big sister was 12. Before people had time to fully process that children had been used for the first time to carry out a suicide attack in Indonesia, it happened again. Another family — including a 7-year-old child who survived — participated in a similar suicide mission at police headquarters in the same city on Monday. Three members of a third family also died when homemade bombs exploded in their apartment Sunday night, and three children survived. Police say the attackers all knew each other, and the father who carried out the church bombings, Dita Oepriarto, headed the Surabaya cell of Jemaah Anshorut Daulah, an Indonesian network of extremist groups affiliated with the Islamic State group. In all, 26 people — including 13 militants and their children — have died since Sunday. Authorities say the surviving children are being treated for physical and mental issues and will eventually be placed with safe family members. "For the kids, I think this is craziness,'' said Taufik Andrie, who runs an Indonesian institute that helps rehabilitate former militants ready to rejoin society. "It's the first time in Indonesia. I'm afraid this will be a new trend.'' Indonesia suffered its worst terrorist attack in 2002 on the resort island of Bali when 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, were killed in nightclub bombings. Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaida-affiliated network, was responsible. The country has been relatively quiet in recent years after major cells connected to larger organized groups were stamped out. The new spate of bombings comes just ahead of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, and follows a melee at a detention center near Jakarta last week in which jailed Muslim extremists killed six officers. Andrie said much information leaked out after the incident, likely inciting others to act. IS has claimed responsibility for the recent violence in both cities. "I think the message is simply that they can create momentum,'' he said. "And they don't want to lose it.'' Using women and children in militant attacks has long been a tactic deployed in other countries — Nigerian terror group Boko Haram often uses children as suicide bombers. Experts say more than 1,000 Indonesians have gone abroad to help IS, and their return raises new worries. "We've got hundreds of fighters coming back. Probably the Indonesians don't even know how many are coming back,'' said Bilveer Singh, a political science professor at the National University of Singapore. "If you don't get this thing right, then you are going to get more and more terrorist attacks in the coming months and years.'' He said the buildup to Indonesia's presidential election next year coupled with growing religious intolerance could spark new violence, especially if Islam is used as a politicizing weapon. President Joko "Jokowi " Widodo has struggled to push through anti-terror legislation proposed since 2016 which would make it easier for law enforcement officers to go after extremists. In condemning the recent attacks, he vowed to issue an emergency presidential decree if parliament continues to drag its feet. "I'm not afraid of the bombing. I think it's the rising radicalization and growing intolerance of Indonesia,'' Singh said. "It has been moving in a very dangerous way, and it has not been stopped. And I think the danger of Indonesia is not tomorrow. The danger of Indonesia is in the next five to 10 years.''
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Romanian prosecutors seek jail sentence for top politician Romanian prosecutors have called for the country's most powerful politician to be imprisoned over misconduct charges.
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China Tech Giants Bet on Untangling Logistics of Indonesian E-commerce In a warehouse on the outskirts of Indonesia's capital, supervisors at e-commerce company Lazada use bikes or electric scooters to zip around a floor the size of four soccer fields, where up to 3,000 staff pack and dispatch goods around the clock. The warehouse is one of five that Lazada has opened across Indonesia to cut costs and expand its reach in an archipelago whose 17,000 islands are sprinkled across an area bigger than the European Union. Chinese tech firms, including Lazada's top investor, Alibaba Group Holding, have poured at least $6 billion into nearly every aspect of Indonesian e-commerce. Lazada uses Alibaba's inventory management systems and has tied up with ride-hailing companies, often using their motorbikes to deliver goods in a country with creaking infrastructure and traffic-clogged cities. The payoff could be huge. It is a market forecast to grow from about $7 billion last year to $63 billion by 2027, according to Morgan Stanley. "Indonesia, both in terms of the customers and behavior, is a very unique challenge and we need to adapt," Florian Holm, co-chief executive at Lazada Indonesia, told Reuters. Lazada and Tokopedia, in which Alibaba is also an investor, dominate Indonesia in customer traffic, with more than 117 million monthly website visits each, according to data from e-commerce aggregator iPrice. Alibaba doubled its investment in loss-making Lazada to $4 billion in April, underscoring its global ambition to secure a bigger share of the e-commerce market. Between the investment and the rewards, however, lie enormous complexities. The World Bank has said logistical costs swallow up around a quarter of Indonesia's gross domestic product, citing bottlenecks in supply chains, long dwelling times in ports and lengthy trade clearances. Lazada has opened warehouses in places like Balikpapan, on the coast of Borneo, to avoid hauling everything from Jakarta. Holm said that had in some cases reduced shipping costs by 90 percent. Competitive pressure is growing. Another Chinese heavyweight, JD.com, arrived in Indonesia in 2016. And the U.S. giant Amazon, which opened a warehouse in Singapore last year, may be prepared to dip a toe into the Indonesian market soon. Chinese influence Indonesia's e-commerce sales are set to rise from 3 percent of retail activity now to 19 percent by 2027, Morgan Stanley estimates. The same report said there were 159 million smartphones in Indonesia at the end of 2016, a number that could rise to 275 million by 2021. Indonesia's young population and room for improvement in transportation and communications add to the prospects for growth, the bank said. That has attracted other Chinese companies. Tencent Holdings, which owns regional e-commerce player SEA, has entered the fray. Tencent and JD.com have stakes in Indonesia's ride-hailing firm Go-Jek, while JD.com has invested in online travel company Traveloka. But Usman Akhtar, a partner at Bain & Co. in Jakarta, said Indonesian companies such as Blibli, backed by a unit of the Djarum group, remain a force. "I would not characterize Indonesia as turning into a replica of China's e-commerce market, at least not yet," said Akhtar, referring to how JD.com and Alibaba dominate in China. Kusumo Martanto, who heads Blibli, told Reuters the company had seven warehouses in Indonesia with seven more planned, and said it was important for local e-commerce companies to compete against Chinese players. Alibaba founder Jack Ma is on an Indonesian government steering committee for e-commerce, advising on areas such as tax, cyber security and human resources. Indonesia's communications minister, Rudiantara, said there was no conflict of interest in Ma's role, describing him as a "guru" who could help sell the country's potential. But some policies seem to be turning toward Ma's home turf. Indonesia, which is trying to tackle a shortage of talent in the digital sector, dropped sponsorships for 20 students to study in places like Australia and the United States. Instead, 10 students will go to India and 10 to China to study this year "because the future of the digital economy is in China and India," said the minister, who uses one name. Eying Amazon Caterine, a 30-year-old housewife who lives west of Jakarta, used to shop in conventional stores once a week, but after her baby was born six months ago, she has been shopping online two to three times a week for convenience. "I prefer online shopping because it is quick. I can just click and click and the goods will arrive," she said, adding she mostly used Shopee and Tokopedia for goods such as diapers and clothing. Morgan Stanley said delivery times of all types across Indonesia are down to about 3 days from 10 days, while deliveries in big cities can take 24 hours or less. While in urban areas delivery times have greatly improved, other parts of Indonesia's e-commerce supply chain are still inefficient, said Willson Cuaca, co-founder of East Ventures, a tech investment fund. "To send goods from point A to B, the logistics company needs at least two modes of transport," he said, referring to the complications of operating across so many islands. Amazon, by contrast, prefers to control its own supply chains from start to finish. But entering a market like Indonesia could require it to revisit that strategy. Amazon Singapore did not respond to a request for comment on whether it had plans for Indonesia. Much of the U.S. giant's international focus has been on developing its business in India, even though some view its entry into Singapore last year as a stepping stone for expansion in the region. "At this moment, I believe it is trying to test the market, by selling products through third-party sellers," said Daniel Tumiwa of the Indonesian e-commerce Association. Zhang Li, who heads JD.com's Indonesian joint venture with Provident Capital JD.ID, was not overly concerned about competition from the likes of Amazon. "E-commerce is a global and borderless business, so we have to prepare and do continuous improvement to make our customers happy," Zhang said.
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Australian fastest to scale highest peaks on 7 continents An expedition organizer says an Australian mountaineer has scaled Mount Everest to become the fastest to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents.
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First China-Built Aircraft Carrier Begins Sea Trials China's first domestically built aircraft carrier has begun sea trials. The still-unnamed ship left the northern port of Dalian early Sunday to "test the reliability and stability of its propulsion and other system,'' the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The 50,000-ton carrier will likely be formally commissioned sometime before 2020 following the completion of sea trials and the arrival of its full air complement. The ship's design is based on the former Soviet Union's Kuznetsov class, with a ski jump-style deck for taking off and a conventional oil-fueled steam turbine power plant. The carrier will be the second to enter the Chinese navy. The first, the Liaoning, was bought second-hand from Ukraine, refitted in China and commissioned in 2012. State media reports say China is also planning to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier capable of remaining at sea for long durations. China has the world's largest navy in terms of numbers of ships, although it lags far behind the U.S. in technology and combat capabilities. The Chinese military has undergone rapid modernization since President Xi Jinping took power five years ago. The Chinese navy, especially, has been used to assert Beijing's claim to virtually the entire South China Sea and is increasingly ranging farther into the Pacific and Indian oceans. Last year, China established its first overseas military base in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, where rivals such as the U.S., Japan and several European nations also have a permanent presence.
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