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| Armed Russian police raid offices of Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky | |  By Andrew Osborn and Dmitry Solovyov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armed Russian police on Tuesday raided the offices of a pro-democracy movement founded by outspoken Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a move they said was part of a criminal investigation into the former tycoon and his associates. Khodorkovsky, whom police accused this month of organising a contract killing in 1998, interpreted the latest pressure on him as payback for his criticism of President Vladimir Putin. "Searches at the Open Russia (movement) after my meeting with journalists," the 52-year-old wrote on his official Twitter feed.
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| India lowers crime trial age to 16 after Delhi gang rape furore | |  By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India passed legislation lowering the age at which someone can be tried for rape and other crimes to 16, spurred into action by an uproar over the release of a minor convicted in a 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a Delhi bus. Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said on Tuesday the legislation aimed to strike a balance between the rights of a child and the need to deter heinous juvenile crimes, especially against women. "Juvenile crime is the fastest rising segment in the country and the bill will help to stop (this)," she said.
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| Apple hits out at British plans to extend online surveillance | |  By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Apple has warned that a British plan to give intelligence agencies extra online surveillance powers could weaken the security of personal data for millions of people and paralyse the tech sector. Critics however say the Investigatory Powers Bill gives British spies authority beyond those available in other Western countries, including the United States, and that it constitutes an assault on personal freedom. Apple submitted its response to a British parliamentary committee that is scrutinising the new bill in the latest clash between Western governments seeking to monitor the threat from Islamist militants and online companies working to maintain security.
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| Deutsche Bank's suspicious Russian trades count rises to $10 bln - source | |  By Arno Schuetze and Kathrin Jones FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank may have been used by some of its Russian clients as a hub for money laundering to a greater extent than previously assumed, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The "mirror trades" may have allowed Russian customers to move money from one country to another without alerting the authorities, potentially allowing them to breach the sanctions against Russia after its 2014 annexation of Crimea. Deutsche Bank, which declined to comment on the size of the trades, said it is investigating certain equity trades in Moscow and London, adding the total volume of the transactions under review is "significant".
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| Indonesia hunts militant leaders after foot soldiers arrested | | | By Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Counter-terrorism forces are searching for the leaders of an estimated 1,000 Islamic State sympathisers across Indonesia after a string of raids that led to the arrest of several men suspected of planning bomb attacks, police said on Tuesday. Nine people were arrested and bomb-making equipment was seized from towns across the island of Java over the weekend, heightening fears of militant attacks by radicalised Indonesians returning from fighting with Islamic State in Syria. National Police spokesman Anton Charliyan said authorities were aware of plans to attack officials - including President Joko Widodo - government offices and public landmarks. |
| French minister questions ban on would-be FIFA chief Platini | |  France's sports minister publicly questioned the legitimacy of FIFA's ethics committee after it imposed an eight-year ban that seriously endangers fellow-Frenchman Michel Platini's prospects of becoming the next head of the world football body. Patrick Kanner said he still backed Platini, head of the powerful European soccer body UEFA, and questioned whether he had been given a fair hearing by a committee he said was close to the old guard of the FIFA world soccer body. FIFA President Sepp Blatter and would-be successor Platini were both banned from the sport for eight years on Monday for ethics violations.
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| Iraqi troops storm into centre of Islamic State-held Ramadi | | | Iraq's armed forces stormed the centre of Ramadi on Tuesday, a spokesman for the counter-terrorism units said, in a drive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining stronghold in a city they captured in May. The operation to recapture Ramadi, a Sunni Muslim city on the river Euphrates some 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, began in early November after a months-long effort to cut off supply lines to the city, whose fall to Islamic State was a major defeat for Iraq's weak central government. U.S. officials have also cautioned against the use of Iran-backed Shi'ite militias in retaking Ramadi from the hardline Sunni militants to avoid fanning sectarian tensions The Baghdad government has said it also wanted to spare civilians and give them the opportunity to leave the city. |
| Chinese police raid offices of firm in dump site disaster | |  By Paul Carsten SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Chinese authorities raided the offices of a company managing the dump site where a killer landslide left 76 people missing, while government records showed the firm was not qualified to do the job. A Reuters reporter saw police at two premises of Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development on Tuesday and no sign of employees. At least one body has been recovered from the rubble after a giant deluge of mud and construction waste from the overfull dump site buried 33 buildings at an industrial park in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen on Sunday.
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| Some heed Pope Francis's call to succour refugees, others look away | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - One Catholic parish in Germany tore out its pews to make space for refugees. Franciscan monks near Rome took a family into their hilltop convent. Four months after Pope Francis appealed to the parishes and religious communities of Europe to each take in one family of refugees, the response is decidedly mixed.
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| Prominent China rights lawyer convicted but avoids jail | | | By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - A court convicted one of China's most prominent rights lawyers on Tuesday of "inciting ethnic hatred" with posts criticising the government, handing down a suspended sentence that means he avoids jail but will not practise law again. Activists said the three-year suspended sentence for Pu Zhiqiang would serve as a strong reminder to other rights lawyers that the Communist Party, currently engaged in a severe clampdown on dissent, would brook no challenge to its rule. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court said Pu was being punished on the charges of inciting ethnic hatred and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", state television CCTV said on its microblog. |
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