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| North Korea executes defence chief on treason charges - South Korean media |
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 By Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has executed its defence chief on treason charges, Seoul's National Intelligence Service was quoted as telling lawmakers, in the latest of a series of high-level purges since Kim Jong Un took power after his father's death in 2011. Hyon Yong Chol, who heads the isolated country's military, was purged and then executed by firing squad with an antiaircraft gun, watched by hundreds of people, South Korean media reported on Wednesday, citing the NIS's comments to a parliamentary panel. The execution comes after South Korea's spy agency said late last month that Kim ordered the execution of 15 senior officials this year as punishment for challenging his authority. "North Korean internal politics is very volatile these days," said Michael Madden, an expert on the North Korean leadership and contributor to the 38 North think tank.
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| UK's Cameron to set out new laws to tackle radicalism |
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 British Prime Minister David Cameron will on Wednesday set out new laws intended to curb organisations and individuals who promote militant ideologies at home and recruit young people to radical islamist groups abroad. Charities will be subject to greater scrutiny to stop funds being diverted to militant organisations, and the broadcast regulator will be given new powers to act against channels showing extremist content. Cameron, who won a surprise majority in national elections last week, is expected to tell a meeting of his top security advisers that new laws will be fast-tracked through parliament in the first year of his government.
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| Boxing contender and convicted rapist Ayala dead at 52 in Texas |
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| By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Former boxer Tony Ayala Jr., a middleweight title contender whose career was cut short by a rape conviction, was found dead on Tuesday at the age of 52 at a gym in San Antonio. Ayala's death was confirmed by Henry Rodriguez, a long-time friend and business associate. After his release from prison, Ayala was seen as a mentor to a generation of Texas boxers, Rodriguez said. Ayala was born to a prominent San Antonio boxing family with his father and two brothers being prize fighters. |
| Two top allies of embattled Macedonian prime minister quit |
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 By Kole Casule SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's interior minister and its powerful intelligence chief resigned on Tuesday, apparently sacrificed by embattled Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to save his government from months of damaging wire-tap disclosures. Gruevski's conservative government is increasingly on the ropes over opposition allegations of authoritarianism and abuse of power stemming from dozens of taped phone conversations released to the media by opposition leader Zoran Zaev.
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