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| Thai court sentences Myanmar men to death for murder of British backpackers |
| Thursday, December 24, 2015 3:42 AM | |
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 A Thai court sentenced two migrant workers from Myanmar to death on Thursday after finding them guilty of the 2014 murders of two British tourists on a holiday island. Backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found dead on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in September 2014. Following weeks of pressure to solve the case, police arrested Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun and said the two had confessed to the crimes.
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| Japan seeking information after reports Japanese journalist held hostage in Syria |
| Thursday, December 24, 2015 3:35 AM | |
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 By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government is seeking information after reports a Japanese freelance journalist is being held hostage in Syria and has been threatened with execution, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said this week it had received information that an armed group holding journalist Yasuda Jumpei hostage had started a countdown for an unspecified ransom to be paid and had threatened to execute or sell him to another group if their demands were not met. RSF said in a statement on its website that Yasuda was kidnapped in July by an armed group in an area controlled by the militant Nusra Front, al Qaeda's Syria wing, shortly after entering Syria earlier that month.
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| Script for Tupac Shakur biopic peddled in celebrity hacking case - studio |
| Thursday, December 24, 2015 3:29 AM | |
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| A production company behind an upcoming biopic about hip hop artist Tupac Shakur acknowledged on Wednesday that the film's script was among those allegedly peddled by a Bahamian man who was arrested for hacking celebrities' email accounts. Alonzo Knowles, 23, is being held without bail after a Tuesday appearance in Manhattan federal court on criminal copyright infringement and identity theft charges. Among the information that Knowles allegedly hacked was a recently finished script for "All Eyez On Me," a biopic of Shakur, who died in a 1996 shooting, according to Greg Mielcarz, executive vice president of marketing and publicity at Los Angeles-based Morgan Creek Productions, the studio making the biopic. |
| Suspected Boko Haram fighters launch four strikes on Lake Chad area |
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| By Madjiasra Nako and Abdoulaye Massalaki N'DJAMENA/NIAMEY (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants launched four attacks over 24 hours on villages in Niger, Chad and Cameroon, killing at least seven people, security and administrative sources said on Wednesday. The Islamist militants are mostly based in northeastern Nigeria but have become a major threat to wider regional security by carrying out attacks in the lawless Lake Chad zone where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria meet. |
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