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| China regulator blasts Alibaba for illegal business on its websites | |  By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A China regulator has accused Alibaba Group Holding Ltd of failing to clean up what it called illegal business deals on the e-commerce titan's platforms, in an unusually strong government criticism of one of the country's biggest private firms. The State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), in a report published on its website on Wednesday, said many products sold on Alibaba's e-commerce websites and services infringed upon trademarks, were substandard or fake, were banned or endangered public security. The report was later removed from the main page of the SAIC website. SAIC said the report summarised a July 16, 2014, meeting between government business regulators and Alibaba, and that it had delayed releasing the report to avoid affecting the e-commerce firm's initial public offering, which took place in September.
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| Afghans arrest commander of group that claimed killing Swedish journalist | | | Afghanistan's main intelligence agency said on Wednesday it had arrested a commander of a militant group known as the "Suicide Front", that claimed responsibility last year for the execution-style killing of a Swedish journalist. Nils Horner, 51, who worked for Swedish Radio and held dual British-Swedish nationality, was shot dead in the capital's diplomatic quarter in last March. The militants, who described themselves as a Taliban splinter faction, said the radio journalist was a spy for Britain's intelligence agency. Britain's mission in Afghanistan said it did not comment on such allegations. |
| Funk icon Sly Stone awarded $5 million in lawsuit over royalties | |  (Reuters) - Funk legend Sly Stone was awarded $5 million in a lawsuit on Tuesday against his former manager and lawyer over royalties he said he was cheated out of, his attorney said. A Los Angeles jury found in favor of Stone, who led Sly and the Family Stone to hits like "Dance to the Music" and "Everyday People" in the 1960s and 70s, after two days of deliberation, attorney Nicholas Hornberger said. Hornberger said Stone was persuaded in the late 1980s into signing an employment and shareholder agreement with Even St. Productions, a company run by his former manager Gerald Goldstein and attorney Glenn Stone, and that the two stole payments from him. The jury assessed damages of $2.5 million against Even St., $2.45 million against Goldstein and $50,000 against Glenn Stone, Hornberger said.
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| Mother of Japanese captive begs PM to save son held by Islamic State | |  By Elaine Lies and Takashi Umekawa TOKYO (Reuters) - The mother of Islamic State captive Kenji Goto appealed for his life on Wednesday after a new video appeared to show the Japanese journalist saying he had 24 hours to live unless Jordan released a would-be suicide bomber. The voice on the video added that another hostage, Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh, had a shorter time to live. Japan confirmed the existence of the video at 11 p.m. (1400 GMT) on Tuesday. The voice said Goto would be killed unless Jordan freed death row inmate Sajida al-Rishawi, an Iraqi woman held by Jordan for her role in a 2005 suicide bombing that killed 60 people in Amman.
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| Mexico says murdered students were mistaken for rival gang | |  By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The 43 Mexican students who disappeared four months ago were murdered on the orders of a drug cartel who mistook them for members of a rival gang, the government said on Tuesday, finally confirming the deaths of the trainee teachers. Their disappearance on the night of Sept. 26 in the southwestern city of Iguala led to massive street protests in Mexico and international condemnation of its security situation, embarrassing President Enrique Pena Nieto and plunging his administration into its biggest crisis. Until now, the government had said only that the students were almost certainly murdered after clashing in Iguala that night with corrupt police officers, who handed them over to members of local drug gang Guerreros Unidos. "There's no doubt that the students lost their lives, their freedom and were then incinerated and thrown into the Rio San Juan," Attorney General Jesus Murillo told a news conference, referring to a river by the town of Cocula, near Iguala.
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