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| Indonesia's Aceh introduces whipping as punishment for gay sex | | | BANDA ACEH Indonesia (Reuters) - The Indonesian province of Aceh on Saturday approved an anti-homosexuality law that can punish anyone caught having gay sex with 100 lashes, a lawmaker said. After a three-decade-old separatist movement, a peace agreement signed in 2005 granted special autonomy to Aceh, at the northern tip of Sumatra, on condition that it remained part of the sprawling archipelago. As part of that deal, Aceh won the right to be the only Indonesian province to use Islamic sharia law as its legal code. ... |
| Japanese swimmer charged with stealing camera at Asiad | |  INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - A Japanese athlete at the Asian Games has been charged by police after admitting to stealing a camera from a South Korean journalist, police said on Saturday. The Japanese Olympic Committee said in a statement the athlete was swimmer Naoya Tomita, a gold medallist from Guangzhou in 2010 but who finished out of the medals in Incheon. Incheon police told Reuters the athlete had been booked without detention and barred from leaving the country. ...
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| China's top prosecutor body launches campaign to chase economic fugitives - Xinhua | | | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's top prosecuting body has launched a six-month campaign targeting corruption suspects, especially those who have fled overseas, as Xi Jinping's government ramps up its crackdown on graft, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. The Supreme People's Protectorate (SPP) said it would use China's confiscation rules more vigorously to prevent corrupt officials from benefiting from their gains and urged prosecutors to collaborate with other departments such as the police and courts to improve the system's efficiency. ... |
| China pledges "harshest penalties" for food-safety violations | | | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has vowed to hand out the "harshest penalties" to food safety violators and to further reform the food and drug safety administration, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Vice-Premier Wang Yang made the comment during an inspection tour of Beijing's food safety monitoring centre on Friday, the news agency said. Food safety is a highly emotive issue in China where there have been numerous scandals from photos of food oil being scooped from drains to tales of phoney eggs and melamine-tainted milk powder. ... |
| Domestic violence, abuse top concerns facing USOC chief | |  By Steve Keating CHICAGO (Reuters) - Of all the issues facing the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), the one that gives chief executive officer Scott Blackmun the greatest concern is making sure sport is free from domestic abuse and other violence. Domestic violence has become the hot-button issue in American sport following a rash of high-profile incidents involving National Football League players and another case that has landed close to home for the USOC involving Hope Solo, the decorated goalkeeper of the U.S. national women's soccer team. ...
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| Chicago-area air traffic center fire grounds 1,750 flights | |  By Mary Wisniewski and Karl Plume CHICAGO (Reuters) - A fire apparently set by an employee at a Chicago-area air traffic control center led to the cancellation of more than 1,700 flights at the city's two major airports, snarling air traffic across the United States, officials said. Flights resumed at O'Hare International Airport, one of the world's busiest, after a delay of about four hours, but there were bottlenecks across the entire air system that carriers expect to last through the weekend. ...
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| Small-town U.S. politician emerges as unlikely foe of Modi | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - A city council member from a Chicago suburb of 25,000 people is making for an unlikely antagonist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, population 1.2 billion. Joseph Whittington of Harvey, Illinois, worked with a group of New York lawyers to found a nonprofit and file a civil lawsuit that said Modi failed to stop anti-Muslim rioting in 2002. The suit was filed on Thursday in New York and seeks damages for crimes against humanity. ...
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