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| 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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| Japan's Abe to send foreign minister to Korea to seek settlement of "comfort women issue" - NHK | |  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will send Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida to South Korea this month to seek a resolution on the "comfort women issue", public broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday. Japan and South Korea agreed last month to speed up negotiations to resolve the issue of comfort women, a euphemism for girls and women forced into prostitution in Japanese wartime military brothels, a feud that has been a major obstacle to better ties between the two sides. (Reporting by William Mallard and Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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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. |
| 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. The man was arrested earlier this week but prosecutors kept it quiet in order not to alert potential accomplices, a spokesman for federal prosecutors said. Belgian newspaper DH reported that the man arrested had been contacted by Hasna Ait Boulahcen, who gave shelter to the presumed ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
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| 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. ... |
| 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.
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