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| Panama court orders arrest of ex-president over spying | |  By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's top court on Monday ordered the arrest of former President Ricardo Martinelli who is alleged to have used public money to spy on more than 150 people illegally, one of a series of accusations he faces. After more than four hours deliberating, Supreme Court judges voted for the provisional detention of the multimillionaire supermarket tycoon who ruled the Central American country from 2009 to 2014. Martinelli, who oversaw a public works boom and Latin America's fastest economic growth in recent years, fled from Panama in January and is believed to be living in Miami.
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| Prominent China rights lawyer to be released with suspended sentence | | | By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court convicted one of China's most prominent human rights lawyers on Tuesday for seven online posts that criticised the government, but handed down a three-year suspended sentence that would result in his immediate release from custody. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court said Pu Zhiqiang was being punished on the charges of "inciting ethnic hatred" and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", state television CCTV said on its microblog. The suspended sentence means Pu does not have to serve prison time as long as he stays under formal probation during that period, legal experts said. |
| China anti-terror law may restrict media reporting on attacks | |  China may further restrict the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, state media reported on Tuesday, under a tough new law that could be passed before the end of the month. The draft anti-terrorism law has already attracted concern in Western capitals as it could require technology firms to install "backdoors" in products or to hand over sensitive information such as encryption keys to the government. The law is currently having another reading at the latest session of the standing committee for China's largely rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, which ends on Sunday.
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| Actor Nicolas Cage returns stolen dinosaur skull he bought | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage has agreed to turn over a rare stolen dinosaur skull he bought for $276,000 to U.S. authorities so it can be returned to the Mongolian government. The office of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, filed a civil forfeiture complaint last week to take possession of the Tyrannosaurus bataar skull, which will be repatriated to Mongolia. The lawsuit did not specifically name Cage as the owner, but Cage's publicist confirmed that the actor bought the skull in March 2007 from a Beverly Hills gallery, I.M. Chait.
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| Six arrested over small blast outside Hong Kong legislature | | | Hong Kong police confirmed on Tuesday that six men had been arrested in connection with a small blast outside the city's Legislative Council earlier this month. Five men, aged 18 to 22, were arrested on suspicion of arson on Monday morning and a 24-year-old man was arrested later in the evening, a police spokeswoman said. The small blast followed hours after a contentious copyright bill, which opponents say will restrict freedom of expression, had been listed for debate but was adjourned when not enough legislators turned up. |
| IAAF under fire again over Russian doping | |  By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was again forced to defend its actions over Russian doping on Monday after a leaked email showed how officials planned a damage-limitation strategy before the 2013 Moscow world championships. The email suggesting a "special dossier" on Russian drugs cheats was from IAAF deputy general secretary Nick Davies to Papa Massata Diack, the son of former president Lamine Diack, who then worked for the sport's governing body as a marketing consultant. Both Diacks are under investigation over corruption offences, while Russian athletes are currently banned from the sport following revelations of widespread, state-sponsored doping.
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| Controversial China anti-terror law looks set to pass this month | |  China's controversial anti-terrorism law could be passed as soon as the end of this month, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday, legislation that has drawn concern in Western capitals for its cyber provisions. The draft law, which could require technology firms to install "backdoors" in products or to hand over sensitive information such as encryption keys to the government, has also been criticised by some Western business groups. U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he had raised concern about the law directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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| Oregon woman held in Las Vegas Strip sidewalk rampage drove with licence suspended | |  By Alexia Shurmur LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - An Oregon woman who killed one woman and injured at least 35 pedestrians when she plowed her car into crowds on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk on Sunday evening was driving with her licence suspended, authorities said on Monday. Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, who was homeless and had been living in her sedan with her toddler, gave herself up to officers a short distance from the scene of the carnage. Surveillance video from the scene supports the police assertion that Holloway drove into pedestrians as "an intentional act," Lombardo said.
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| Actor Nicolas Cage seen returning stolen dinosaur skull he bought | | Monday, December 21, 2015 10:46 PM | |
| By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - It appears Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage is the mystery owner who agreed last week to forfeit a rare stolen dinosaur skull to U.S. authorities so it can be returned to the Mongolian government. The office of Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, filed a civil forfeiture complaint on Wednesday to take possession of the skull, which will be repatriated to Mongolia. The lawsuit and a press release from Bharara's office did not specifically name Cage as the owner.
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| Exclusive - In favouring Middle East ally, U.S. glossed over human rights record | | Monday, December 21, 2015 10:39 PM | |
| | By Jason Szep, Matt Spetalnick and Yara Bayoumy WASHINGTON/MUSCAT (Reuters) - As the United States negotiated this year's nuclear pact with Iran, the State Department quietly agreed to spare the Gulf sultanate of Oman from an embarrassing public rebuke over its human rights record, rewarding a close Arab ally that helped broker the historic deal. In a highly unusual intervention, the department's hierarchy overruled its own staff's assessments of Oman's deteriorating record on forced labour and human trafficking and inflated its ranking in a congressionally mandated report, U.S. officials told Reuters. The move, which followed protests by Oman, suggests the Obama administration placed diplomatic priorities over human rights to pacify an important Middle East partner. |
| People who reject Syrian refugees are allies of extremists - U.N. | | Monday, December 21, 2015 10:35 PM | |
|  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - People who reject Syrian refugees are the "best allies" of Islamic State militants and other extremists, the United Nations refugee chief said on Monday after U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed an entry ban on foreign Muslims. U.N. High Commissioner for refugees Antonio Guterres told the Security Council they cannot be blamed for the terror they are risking their lives to escape. "Those that reject Syrian refugees, and especially if they are Muslim, are the best allies of the propaganda and the recruitment of extremist groups," Guterres said in a swipe at Trump and some U.S. state governors and European leaders.
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| California shooters' ex-neighbour denied bail in terrorism case | | Monday, December 21, 2015 10:01 PM | |
|  By Nichola Groom RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) - A federal magistrate on Monday denied bail to the man accused of providing the assault-style rifles used by a married couple to massacre 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in an attack inspired by Islamic State. Enrique Marquez, 24, who told authorities he had plotted attacks with Syed Rizwan Farook before their friendship waned, was shackled for his court appearance and visibly upset by the refusal to grant bail, frowning as he left the courtroom in chains. Marquez was arrested on Friday and charged with providing material support to terrorists for supplying Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, with the weapons for their Dec. 2 attack on a holiday party attended by Farook's co-workers.
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| U.S. 'deeply concerned' by arrest of Vietnam rights activist | | Monday, December 21, 2015 9:51 PM | |
| | The United States said on Monday it was deeply concerned by the arrest of a Vietnamese human rights lawyer and called on Hanoi to release all prisoners of conscience. Rights activist Nguyen Van Dai, who was badly beaten this month by unknown attackers, was arrested last week for anti-state "propaganda," the latest incident in what rights groups are calling an alarming crackdown on government critics. "We're deeply concerned by the arrest of human rights advocate Nguyen Van Dai under national security-related article 88 of Vietnam's penal code," U.S. State Department Spokesman John Kirby told a regular news briefing. |
| Massachusetts man charged with fraud over 'Kung Fu Panda' drawings | | Monday, December 21, 2015 9:41 PM | |
| | A Massachusetts man who sued DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc claiming he had invented the title character in the 2008 film "Kung Fu Panda" committed fraud by back-dating drawings he relied on as evidence, prosecutors said on Monday. Federal prosecutors in Boston charged Jayme Gordon, 51, of Randolph, Massachusetts, with wire fraud and perjury, asserting that he lied in a 2011 lawsuit against the Hollywood studio by claiming the high-kicking bear named Po infringed on characters he had developed in the 1990s. |
| New trial for Baltimore officer in Freddie Gray death set for June | | Monday, December 21, 2015 8:45 PM | |
|  By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore police officer will face retrial on a manslaughter charge over the death of black detainee Freddie Gray starting on June 13, a Maryland judge ruled on Monday, after the officer's first trial ended in a deadlocked jury. Judge Barry Williams set the trial date after meeting prosecutors and defence lawyers, the Maryland state courts office said in a statement. Gray's death in April caused protests and rioting in the majority black city of 620,000 people and intensified a U.S. debate on police treatment of minorities.
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| Police identify suspect who drove into pedestrians on Las Vegas Strip | | Monday, December 21, 2015 8:16 PM | |
| | LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A suspect who drove into pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip, killing one person, was identified on Monday as 24-year-old Lakeisha N. Holloway of Oregon, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Joe Lombardo said on Monday. Holloway is expected to face murder and other charges in connection with the incident on Sunday night, Clark County District Attorney Steven Wolfson said at a news conference alongside Lombardo. Holloway had been homeless and living in her vehicle with her young child, the sheriff said. ... |
| Bill Cosby sues model Beverly Johnson for defamation | | Monday, December 21, 2015 8:15 PM | |
|  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Bill Cosby sued model Beverly Johnson on Monday, saying she defamed him by accusing him of drugging her, and making her the eighth accuser he has filed suit against this month. Johnson is among more than 50 women who have come forward in the past year with claims that Cosby had drugged, and in numerous cases, sexually assaulted them in incidents dating back decades. Cosby's suit charges that Johnson, a leading model in the 1970s and '80s and one of his most high-profile accusers, defamed him and intentionally inflicted emotional distress.
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| Greek guerrilla group claims responsibility for bomb blast in central Athens | | Monday, December 21, 2015 8:14 PM | |
| | A Greek urban guerrilla group, the People's Fighters Group, has claimed responsibility for a bomb explosion outside the offices of a Greek business federation in central Athens last month, police said on Monday. The blast, the first such incident since leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came to power in January, badly damaged the nearby Cypriot embassy but caused no injuries. Police said the group claimed responsibility in a 32-page document stored in a USB that was found in central Athens earlier on Monday. |
| Croatia faces further delay in forming new government, holding up urgent reforms | | Monday, December 21, 2015 7:59 PM | |
| | By Igor Ilic ZAGREB (Reuters) - The leader of a small party that emerged as kingmaker after Croatia's inconclusive Nov. 8 election said it would ask its president on Tuesday for more time for negotiations on a future government to avoid a disruptive new election. Croatia is the newest of the European Union's 28 members and its economy is among the weakest. Any prolonged delay in forming a new government would hold up reforms needed to spur investment and prevent further, crippling downgrades in its credit rating. |
| Platini slams FIFA ban as 'masquerade', vows to fight in court | | Monday, December 21, 2015 7:36 PM | |
|  The head of European football, Michel Platini, vowed on Monday to go to court to fight a decision by the independent Ethics Committee of the world football body FIFA to ban him for eight years, calling it a "pure masquerade". Platini and Sepp Blatter, the former FIFA president who is also appealing, were both banned and fined for ethics violations in connection with a 2 million Swiss franc payment that FIFA made to Platini in 2011, at a time when Blatter was seeking re-election.
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| Spain's PM Rajoy says has mandate to form government | | Monday, December 21, 2015 7:12 PM | |
| | Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday said he had received a democratic mandate after Sunday's general election to try and form a government that gives political stability to Spain over the next four-year term. "The People's Party believes it has a responsibility and a mandate to start a dialogue and explore the viability of a stable government that can offer the necessary certainty inside and outside Spain," Rajoy told a news conference after meeting with senior leaders of his PP. Rajoy also said he would be open minded during those talks. |
| Oracle settles FTC charges that it left its customers open to hacking | | Monday, December 21, 2015 6:53 PM | |
|  By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp has settled allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that it failed to notify customers about unaddressed hacking dangers when it released security updates for the estimated 850 million U.S. computers with Java SE software, the agency said on Monday. The FTC alleged that Oracle promised consumers that its updates would make the software "safe and secure." In fact, the agency said, the updates removed some of the problematic software but left behind older versions of Java which were vulnerable to being hacked. Oracle, which acquired Java in 2010 when it bought Sun Microsystems, Inc, declined comment on the settlement.
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| KaloBios fires Shkreli as CEO | | Monday, December 21, 2015 6:52 PM | |
|  (Reuters) - Drugmaker KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc said it fired Martin Shkreli as chief executive on Dec. 17, the day he was arrested on charges of a securities fraud. Shkreli, who has become the poster child for the issue of soaring prices for prescription medications, has already stepped down as CEO of private drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals Inc, in addition to resigning from KaloBios' board of directors. Shkreli was arrested last week for engaging in what U.S. prosecutors said was a Ponzi-like scheme at his former hedge fund MSMB Capital Management and Retrophin Inc , a company he headed before he took the helm of Turing Pharmaceuticals.
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| Soccer star among 140 to stand trial in Italy for mafia links | | Monday, December 21, 2015 5:43 PM | |
|  An Italian court on Monday ordered more than 140 people to stand trial for alleged mafia links, including a member of Italy's victorious team in the 2006 soccer World Cup. The court in the northern city of Bologna indicted the defendants on charges of aiding, or being members of, the 'Ndrangheta, Italy's most powerful organised crime network. The 'Ndrangheta, based in Calabria in the southwestern tip of the Italian mainland, has grown steadily in the last 10 years due to its role in smuggling cocaine and other drugs into Europe from South America.
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| Brussels police release five detained in connection to Paris attacks | | Monday, December 21, 2015 5:28 PM | |
|  Belgian police on Monday released five people they had detained following raids on homes in Brussels as part of investigations linked to attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November, prosecutors said. On Sunday evening police raided a building near the fashionable Dansaert district of central Brussels, detaining two brothers and their friend after an analysis of phone records. Another search was carried out on Monday in the Laeken area of Brussels, in the north of the city, where two more people were detained.
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| Frail but unapologetic, Blatter vows "I'll be back" | | Monday, December 21, 2015 3:30 PM | |
|  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - He was introduced as "the elected president of FIFA" but the Sepp Blatter who sat in front of reporters on Monday, shortly after receiving an eight-year ban from soccer, appeared very different to the confident man who had led the sport's global governing body for 17 years.
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| Blatter and Platini banned by FIFA for eight years | | Monday, December 21, 2015 3:19 PM | |
|  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA boss Michel Platini, the two most powerful men in world soccer, were banned for eight years on Monday for ethics violations, leaving the world's most popular sport rudderless in a sea of corruption cases. The pair, who were also fined, had been suspended in October while an investigation was carried out into a 2 million Swiss franc ($2.02 million) payment that soccer's global governing body made to European boss Platini in 2011, with Blatter's approval, for work done 10 years earlier. The decision means that Blatter's 17 years at the helm of world soccer, already tarnished by controversies over the awarding of several World Cup tournaments and a host of corruption cases against senior soccer officials, will end in disgrace.
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| Bangladesh court accepts Rana Plaza murder charge sheet | | Monday, December 21, 2015 3:12 PM | |
|  A court in Bangladesh agreed on Monday to put on trial several defendants on murder charges over the collapse of the Rana Plaza which killed 1,135 workers, many of them making garments for Western retailers, a court official said. Forty-one defendants in total face charges over the April 2013 disaster at the complex, which housed five garment factories supplying global brands. Plaza owner Sohel Rana is the principal accused.
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| Iranian hackers infiltrated computers of small dam in NY - WSJ | | Monday, December 21, 2015 1:52 PM | |
|  Iranian hackers breached the control system of a dam near New York City in 2013, an infiltration that raised concerns about the security of the country's infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing former and current U.S. officials. Two people familiar with the breach told the newspaper it occurred at the Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye, New York. The small structure about 20 miles from New York City is used for flood control.
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| Swiss Muslim group denies wrongdoing over jihadist documentary | | Monday, December 21, 2015 1:31 PM | |
|  An executive at a Swiss Muslim organisation said on Monday that a documentary he had made about jihadists in Syria was intended to shed a harsh light on their activities rather than glorify them as prosecutors have alleged. A criminal investigation against Naim Cherni, head of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland's (ICCS) multimedia department, was launched with the country on high alert after the Islamist State attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 which killed 130 people. Speaking at a news conference in Berne, Cherni said his film was "an important contribution in the fight against Islamic State", the SDA news agency reported.
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| Syria funds suggest IS link to militants arrested in Indonesia | | Monday, December 21, 2015 11:10 AM | |
| | By Gayatri Suroyo and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Some of the Indonesian men arrested at the weekend after tip-offs that they were planning a string of militant attacks had received funding from Syria, hardening evidence of their links to Islamic State, police said on Monday. Officials said the raids in five cities across the island of Java, during which nine people were detained and bomb-making equipment was seized, may have foiled plans to target New Year celebrations. Police said they remained on high alert, underlining concern about a resurgence of militant attacks by Indonesians who have returned from fighting with the radical Islamic State group in Syria. |
| Arun Jaitley sues rival Arvind Kejriwal for slander | | Monday, December 21, 2015 10:20 AM | |
|  By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sued Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for 100 million rupees ($1.51 million) on Monday for slander, escalating a battle between the ruling party and the opposition that has stalled key reform legislation in parliament. Jaitley's office said he filed civil and criminal defamation cases against Kejriwal and five members of his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Kejriwal, who routed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in state elections this year, accused Jaitley last week of allowing fraud at a cricket association he ran from 2003 to 2013.
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| Obama chides Republicans for lack of alternatives on Islamic State | | Monday, December 21, 2015 10:11 AM | |
|  By Julia Edwards HONOLULU (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said his administration is open to some "legitimate criticism" for failing to adequately explain its strategy to counter Islamic State, though he chided Republican presidential candidates for criticizing his policy without offering an alternative. In a Dec. 17 interview set to air on NPR public radio at 5 a.m. ET (1000 GMT) on Monday, Obama attributed his low approval ratings for how he has handled terrorism to the saturation of Islamic State attacks in the media after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Obama noted that the United States has carried out 9,000 strikes against the Islamic State and taken back towns including Sinjar, Iraq from the militant group.
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| FIFA statement on Blatter and Platini bans | | Monday, December 21, 2015 9:30 AM | |
|  Here is the full text of the statement issued by FIFA on Monday detailing the suspension of FIFA President Sepp Blatter and European soccer boss Michel Platini for eight years: The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee chaired by Mr Hans-Joachim Eckert has banned Mr Joseph S. Blatter, President of FIFA, for eight years and Mr Michel Platini, Vice-President and member of the Executive Committee of FIFA and President of UEFA, for eight years from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) on a national and international level. The proceedings against Mr Blatter primarily related to a payment of CHF 2,000,000 transferred in February 2011 from FIFA to Mr Platini.
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| India introduces bill for bankruptcy law in parliament | | Monday, December 21, 2015 8:08 AM | |
|  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government on Monday introduced a bill in parliament aimed at bringing sweeping changes to an outdated and overburdened bankruptcy system, setting deadlines for the first time for processing insolvency cases. At present, Asia's third-largest economy has competing laws with unclear jurisdictions to deal with the liquidation or revival of companies. This often results in the process dragging on for years, inflating costs for investors and taxpayers. The bill, introduced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the lower house, seeks to enact a single bankruptcy code. ...
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| No power to extend juvenile's sentence - SC | | Monday, December 21, 2015 7:26 AM | |
|  The youngest convict in the Nirbhaya gangrape case walks free after three years.
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| 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' star to be released from prison - paper | | Monday, December 21, 2015 6:50 AM | |
|  A star of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" reality TV show who last year pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud is due to be released from prison this week, local media reported on Sunday. Teresa Giudice, 43, pleaded guilty in March 2014 to charges related to hiding income to maintain her lavish lifestyle, portrayed on the Bravo channel program that shows her and her husband living in luxury.
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| Insight: Some of China's most wanted live openly in U.S. and Canada | | Monday, December 21, 2015 6:32 AM | |
|  By Elizabeth Dilts, Julie Gordon and Tim Reid FORT LAUDERDALE/NEW YORK/SEATTLE/VANCOUVER(Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian officials have pledged to work with China to track down and repatriate Chinese fugitives living abroad. Another woman on the list chose to return to China from the U.S. herself, and at least one more is in a U.S. immigration detention center awaiting deportation.
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| Eleven activists summoned amid deepening Thai park scandal | | Monday, December 21, 2015 5:46 AM | |
| | Thai police on Monday said they will charge 11 activists who tried to stage a protest over suspected corruption in an army-built park with illegal assembly as allegations of irregularities in the park's funding persist. Dozens of students activists were arrested on Dec. 7 while trying to protest against alleged army corruption after a train they were travelling on was intercepted. The park has been at the centre of allegations of corruption and misspent funds that threaten to embroil the junta. |
| Canadian diplomats say pastor jailed in N.Korea in good spirits - church | | Monday, December 21, 2015 4:11 AM | |
| | By Hyungwon Kang TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian diplomats were allowed to meet a Canadian pastor soon after he was sentenced to life in prison in North Korea last week and found him in good spirits and health, a church spokeswoman said on Sunday. Hyeon Soo Lim, held by North Korea since February, was sentenced to hard labor for life for subversion on Wednesday, a ruling Canada called "unduly harsh." Lim, a Canadian citizen, had been doing humanitarian work in North Korea since 1997 and had visited the isolated country more than 100 times, according to his Toronto church, the 3,000-member Light Korean Presbyterian Church. |
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