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| King of Mandela's clan jailed in South Africa - media | |  The king of the AbaThembu clan of South Africa's late anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has started a 12-year jail sentence for arson, kidnapping and assault, local media reported on Thursday. South Africa recognizes several royal families, who command respect, especially in the countryside.
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| Belgium detains six people over New Year's attack plot | |  By Robert-Jan Bartunek and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police detained six people during house searches in Brussels on Thursday as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to carry out an attack in the capital on New Year's Eve. Police carried out searches at six locations in the Belgian capital and one just outside the city, seizing computers, mobile phones and equipment for airsoft, a sport involving guns that shoot non-lethal plastic pellets. Two Belgian nationals arrested earlier this week and named as 30-year-old Said S. and 27-year-old Mohammed K., are being held on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, prosecutors said.
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| Erdogan vows no respite in Turkey's war on Kurdish militants | |  By Nick Tattersall and Melih Aslan ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday vowed no let-up in a military campaign which he said had killed more than 3,000 mostly Kurdish militants this year in some of the heaviest fighting since their insurgency began three decades ago. In a New Year statement, Erdogan said Turkey had "the resources and determination" to deal with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which first took up arms in 1984 to push for greater autonomy in the largely Kurdish southeast. The violence has preoccupied the NATO member's armed forces and complicated international efforts to fight Islamic State in neighbouring Syria, where a Kurdish group linked to the PKK is fighting the jihadists.
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| Thai junta extends "attitude adjustment" to New Year drink drivers | |  Thailand's military government has expanded a draconian "attitude adjustment" programme aimed at muzzling its critics to include drink drivers in a bid to limit road accidents during the New Year period. Driving under the influence of alcohol remains a chronic problem in Thailand, a big consumer of beer and whiskey. Drivers who fail breathalyser tests or people caught racing face seven to 15 days in detention, according to an announcement made in the Royal Gazette.
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| BBC reports own websites hit by cyber attack | |  The BBC's online services, including its news website and iPlayer catch-up TV platform, were taken down on Thursday by a large web attack, the British broadcaster reported. The BBC's sites, which rank only behind Google and Facebook in visitor numbers in Britain, according to Internet analytics firm comScore, were hit from 0700 GMT, with many users receiving an error message rather than content. The BBC press office said it would not confirm or deny it had been hit by an attack.
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| China processing graft case against security boss's ex-mistress - paper | |  Chinese judicial authorities are processing a corruption case against a one-time mistress of the country's disgraced top security boss, a state-run Beijing newspaper reported on Thursday. Citing anonymous sources, the paper said Li Xiaomei reaped more than 30 million yuan ($4.6 million) by illicitly obtaining and reselling distribution rights for natural gas. Jiang Jiemin, once the top regulator of state-owned assets and a close acolyte of former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, aided Li in obtaining rights to sell the natural gas, the paper said.
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| Indonesia arrests three with suspected links to Islamic State - media | | | Indonesian police on Thursday arrested three men with suspected links to Islamic State as part of an operation in the province of Central Sulawesi to capture the country's most-wanted man, state media reported. The arrests came as the U.S. embassy in Jakarta issued an "emergency message" for U.S. citizens warning of potential security threats at tourist beaches on the island of Lombok surrounding the New Year's celebrations. Counter-terrorism officials believe there are at least 1,000 sympathisers of the radical jihadist group across Indonesia. |
| China to prosecute former deputy environment minister for graft | | | Chinese authorities will prosecute a former deputy environment minister for corruption after a probe by the ruling Communist Party found he abused his power and took bribes, the party's anti-graft watchdog said on Thursday. The investigation of Zhang Lijun, who served in his position between 2008-2013, began in July. While in office, he took gifts in exchange for promotions, abused his position for the business interests of family members and of unnamed companies, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a short statement. |
| China says overseas anti-terror missions must respect host nation | | | Any foreign counter-terrorism mission for China's armed forces would need to respect the charter of the United Nations and the sovereignty of the host nation, China's Defence Ministry said on Thursday, outlining the possible limits to such a deployment. Under China's new anti-terrorism law, passed at the weekend, its military is allowed to venture overseas on counter-terrorism operations, though experts have said China faces big practical and diplomatic problems if it ever wants to do this. China says it faces a threat not only from home-grown Islamists in its far western region of Xinjiang, but also from militants in the Middle East, some of whom it says are from Xinjiang. |
| India to tighten rules for credit cooperatives to protect investors - official | |  By Mayank Bhardwaj and Sumeet Chatterjee NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will crack down on errant financial firms that raise funds, mainly from millions of rural poor customers, through loosely regulated credit cooperative societies, a senior official in the agriculture ministry said. This follows a Reuters investigation that revealed an expansion in fund-raising by embattled conglomerate Sahara India Pariwar using four credit cooperatives in different parts of the country. Reuters spoke to dozens of savers who said Sahara had not given them their money when their deposits matured.
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| Texas 'affluenza' teen delays extradition, mother deported from Mexico | |  By Marice Richter and Dave Graham FORT WORTH/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The mother of a Texas teenager, scorned for his "affluenza" defense in a trial over a deadly car crash, arrived in the United States on Thursday after deportation from Mexico, while her son won a delay in his extradition, media and Mexican officials said. Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, were captured in the Mexican Pacific Coast city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday. Tonya Couch, who is wanted on a charge of hindering apprehension, was flown out of Mexico and landed in Los Angeles early Thursday en route to Texas, the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press reported.
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| Bangladesh sentences two to death for blogger killing | | | A fast-track court in Bangladesh sentenced two former students to death on Thursday for the 2013 murder of an online critic of religious militancy, lawyers said. Rajib Haider, an architect and blogger, was hacked to death near his house in the capital, Dhaka, in February 2013, having led a popular movement demanding the death penalty for Islamist leaders accused of atrocities in Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence. This year, four more bloggers and a publisher have also been killed in Bangladesh amidst a rise in Islamist violence in which liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have also been targeted. |
| Mother of Texas "affluenza" teen arrives back in U.S. | | | The mother of a Texas teenager, known as the "affluenza" teen for using his family's wealth as a defense for killing four people in a drunk driving incident, was deported from Mexico and arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday, local media said. Tanya Couch, mother of Ethan Couch, 18, was to be handed over to the U.S. Marshals Service who would take her back to Texas. |
| Belgium makes 10th arrest in Paris attacks investigation | | | A man was arrested during a search of a house in Brussels on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said on Thursday, making him the 10th person to be held in Belgium over the militant attacks in Paris which killed 130 people in November. The man, named as 22-year-old Ayoub B., was charged with terrorist murder and participation in a terrorist organisation, prosecutors said on Thursday. Belgium has been at the heart of investigations into attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 in which 130 people were killed, as two of the Paris suicide bombers, Brahim Abdeslam and Bilal Hadfi, had been living in Belgium. |
| French journalist has to quit China after article on troubled Xinjiang | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - A French journalist is being forced to leave China after the government said it would not renew her press credentials for the new year in response to a critical report on Beijing's policies in the troubled western region of Xinjiang. The departure of Ursula Gauthier, a reporter for the French current affairs magazine L'Obs, will mark the first time in more than three years that a journalist has been forced to leave China due to a refusal by authorities to renew accreditation. China's foreign ministry said on Saturday that Gauthier could no longer work in China because she did not make a public apology for an article she wrote on Nov. 18.
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| South Korea defends accord with Japan to settle 'comfort women' issue | |  South Korea defended on Thursday an agreement with Japan to settle the issue of "comfort women" following criticism it was inadequate, saying it was the best any government could do in the lifetimes of the elderly victims of abuse. Under Monday's agreement, South Korea confirmed the issue of "comfort women," as those forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels are euphemistically known, was resolved "finally and irreversibly", if Japan faithfully took steps to help survivors. Many other South Koreans have been critical and the political opposition called it "degrading".
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