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| Minority report: Chinese official "faked family's ethnicity" | |  Chinese authorities will prosecute a former senior official in the far western region of Xinjiang for corruption, involving faking the ethnicity of his wife and child, the government said on Thursday. Ethnic minorities get special rights, sometimes including subsidies, and there have been cases of people from the majority Han community who lie and get a different ethnicity printed on their identity cards. Some minorities are so integrated after centuries of living with the Han they have lost their separate languages and customs, meaning it can be easy for Han to pass themselves off as something else.
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| Japan minister heads to Korea to try to resolve "comfort women" issue | |  TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is heading to South Korea this month to seek a resolution on the "comfort women" issue, public broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday. South Korea's ties with Japan have long been strained by what Seoul sees as Japanese leaders' reluctance to atone for the country's brutal wartime past, including a full recognition of its role in forcing Korean girls and women to work in Japanese military brothels. In the first formal talks between the two leaders since both took office, Abe and Park agreed to speed up negotiations to resolve the issue.
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| Factbox: The hunt for the Paris attackers | |  (Reuters) - France and Belgium are hunting suspects after the shootings and bombings on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people and injured hundreds at a rock concert hall, sports stadium and bars and restaurants in Paris. The number involved in the attacks may have been 10 or higher and at least four people are being sought, chief among them Salah Abdeslam, who police think may be an assailant referred to in an Islamic State statement claiming responsibility for the attacks. Seven assailants died during the attacks: three at the Bataclan concert hall, three outside the Stade de France stadium and one of three gunmen involved in the cafe shootings.
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| Myanmar men sentenced to death for murder of British tourists in Thailand | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre KOH SAMUI, Thailand (Reuters) - A Thai court sentenced two Myanmar migrant workers to death on Thursday after convicting them of the 2014 murders of two young British tourists on a holiday island in a case mired in controversy and a dispute over DNA testing. The battered bodies of backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in September 2014. Police said Witheridge, 23, had been raped and bludgeoned to death and Miller, 24, suffered blows to his head.
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| Ninth person arrested in Belgium over Paris attacks | |  Brussels police have arrested a man in connection with the Nov. 13 militant attacks in Paris which killed 130 people, federal prosecutors said on Thursday, bringing the total number of arrests in Belgium to nine. "This person is suspected to have had contact several times with Hasna Ait Boulahcen, Abdelhamid Abbaoud's cousin, in the period between the terrorist attacks and the events in Saint-Denis," the prosecutor said in a statement. Boulahcen and Abaaoud were both killed in a police raid in Saint-Denis, France, days after the Paris attacks.
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| Belgian prosecutors say man arrested had contact with Paris attack suspects | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian prosecutors said on Thursday that a man arrested earlier this week had been in contact with the suspected plotters behind the Paris militant attacks which killed 130 people last month. "This person is suspected to have had several contacts with Hasna Ait Boulhacen, Abdelhamid Abbaoud's cousin, in the period between the terrorist attacks and the events in Saint-Denis," the prosecutor said in a statement. (Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek; editing by Barbara Lewis) |
| Western countries issue rare Christmas security alerts for Beijing | |  At least four Western countries took the unusual step on Thursday of issuing Christmas security warnings for Westerners in a popular Beijing diplomatic and entertainment district as police stepped up patrols. Beijing is generally safe and criminals rarely target foreigners, although the fashionable Sanlitun bar and restaurant area occasionally sees fights. The U.S. Embassy said in a brief statement it had "received information of possible threats" against Westerners in Sanlitun, also home to many embassies, on or around Christmas Day, December 25.
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| As Islamic State threat mounts on its doorstep, Indonesia scours a jungle | | | By Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi POSO, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian forces are mobilising for a manhunt in steamy jungles on the far-flung island of Sulawesi to flush the country's most-wanted man from his hideout and deal a pre-emptive blow to Islamic State. Militant leader Santoso, the first Indonesian to publicly pledge loyalty to the radical jihadist group that holds swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, has eluded capture for years. Raids by security forces across the populous island of Java last week netted several Islamic State supporters and foiled a string of attacks. |
| China waste site firm "urged to stop work" days before landslide | |  The firm managing a waste heap which collapsed and buried dozens of buildings in southern China was urged to stop work four days before the disaster, an executive with a government-appointed monitoring agency said on Thursday, citing safety concerns. Two people died and more than 70 people were missing after Sunday's landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, a boomtown near Hong Kong, in China's latest industrial disaster. The man-made disaster has raised questions about China's industrial safety standards and lack of oversight.
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| China jails former newspaper group president for fraud | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Thursday jailed the former president of a major Chinese news organization for four years after finding him guilty of extortion and fraud. Shanghai prosecutors last year arrested Shen Hao, president of 21st Century Media Ltd. and publisher of influential business daily 21st Century Business Herald, on counts of extortion, bribery and misappropriation of funds. The Shanghai court found that Shen demanded money from companies in exchange for covering up bad news or for reporting positive stories, state news agency Xinhua reported. ... |
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