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| Blasts, gunfight in Indonesian capital; at least 3 dead | | | Several explosions went off and gunfire broke out in the centre of the Indonesian capital on Thursday and police said they suspected a suicide bomber was responsible for at least one the blasts. One blast was in a Starbucks cafe and security forces were later seen entering the building. "The Starbucks cafe windows are blown out. |
| China returns corruption suspect from Britain | | | China has secured the return of a top corruption suspect from Britain, China's anti-corruption watchdog said on Thursday, the latest person from a list of 100 overseas fugitives repatriated amid an ongoing graft crackdown. The government last year unveiled an initiative called "Sky Net" to better coordinate its fight to return corrupt officials, and published the list of suspects subject to an Interpol "red notice" - the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant. Chen Yijuan, a Communist Party member and former employee at a subsidiary of state-run China Mobile who fled to Britain in 2013, returned to China and surrendered, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in an online statement. |
| Australian police say operation underway at Sydney Opera House | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - A police operation was underway at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday, police said, with at least one ferry leaving the area cancelled and media reporting that people were being cleared away from the site. A police spokeswoman said an operation was going on but could not provide any details. The Twitter account of the city's ferry service said one ferry service had been cancelled due to the operation.
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| China's Xinjiang to draft rules against extremism - China Daily | | | Legislators in China's far-western region of Xinjiang will start drafting regulations this year against religious extremism, which they blame for violent attacks in the country in recent years, the China Daily reported on Thursday. Xinjiang's legislature will also draft local implementation guidelines for a new counterterrorism law, which the National People's Congress passed in December, the newspaper said. "Drafting local regulations on anti-terrorism and eliminating religious extremism are the main focus of this year's legislative work, which will provide solid legal support for Xinjiang to combat terrorism and religious extremism," Nayim Yassen, director of the Standing Committee of Xinjiang's regional People's Congress, was quoted as saying. |
| Man held on U.S. terror charges targeted Texas malls - newspaper | | | (Reuters) - A Palestinian born in Iraq who entered the United States as a refugee was an Islamic State sympathizer planning to set off bombs at two Houston malls, a federal investigator was quoted as telling a U.S. court on Wednesday. U.S. investigators began looking into Omar Faraj Saeed Al-Hardan in 2014 and found that he was buying components on eBay to detonate homemade bombs, the Houston Chronicle quoted Herman Wittliff, a Department of Homeland Security special agent, testifying at a federal court hearing. Al-Hardan, 24, pleaded not guilty at the court in Houston to charges he supplied support to Islamic State and lied to U.S. officials, it reported. |
| Smitten with actress, Mexico's 'Chapo' tripped up by flirting | |  By Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Details of flirtatious phone messaging chats between Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and actress Kate del Castillo have gripped Mexico, and an official said his "obsession" with her led him to lower his guard and be caught. Guzman, 57, was arrested in the northern city of Los Mochis on Friday, six months after a dramatic second jailbreak through a tunnel in his cell. Mexican authorities said they intercepted a series of instant message conversations in which del Castillo, 43, brokered a secret meeting between Guzman, herself and Hollywood star Sean Penn in October, helping them trace the kingpin.
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| Briton goes on trial in France for trying to smuggle Afghan child into UK | |  By Ingrid Melander and Pauline Mevel BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (Reuters) - Former soldier Rob Lawrie goes on trial in France on Thursday for trying to smuggle a four-year-old Afghan girl into Britain at her father's request. Lawrie went to help migrants in the squalid "jungle" camp in Calais, northern France, where he met Bahar Ahmadi, known as Bru, and her father, who asked Lawrie to take the girl to Britain. "She's a special little girl," he told Reuters in Britain while awaiting trial.
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| FBI says probing Philadelphia police shooting as terrorist attack | | Wednesday, January 13, 2016 11:54 PM | |
|  (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating the recent shooting of a Philadelphia police officer as a terrorist attack, FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday, a Pennsylvania newspaper reported. Comey's comments at a Federal Bureau of Investigation field office in Pittsburgh and reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, were confirmed to Reuters by an FBI spokesman. FBI investigators were seeking to find out if suspected gunman Edward Archer, 30, was in touch with or inspired by anyone linked to Islamic State, the report said.
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| South Korea calls for 'bone-numbing' sanctions on North for nuclear test | | Wednesday, January 13, 2016 11:53 PM | |
|  By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea warned North Korea on Wednesday that the United States and its allies were working on sanctions to inflict "bone-numbing pain" after its latest nuclear test, and urged China to do its part to rein in its isolated neighbour. With tension high on the border after the North's fourth nuclear test on Wednesday last week, South Korean forces fired shots towards what Yonhap News Agency said was a suspected North Korean drone.
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| Niger says four have confessed to planning foiled coup | | Wednesday, January 13, 2016 11:42 PM | |
| | By Abdoulaye Massalaki NIAMEY (Reuters) - Four people arrested for ties to an attempted coup in Niger in December have confessed to the plot and asked for clemency, the defence minister said on Wednesday. At least 13 people, including a civilian, had been arrested, Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidio said. Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou said on national television on Dec. 17 that the coup had been foiled. |
| Ex-football boss in Americas pleads not guilty to U.S. bribery charges | | Wednesday, January 13, 2016 11:28 PM | |
| | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former high-ranking football official in the Americas pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme at the heart of a U.S. investigation into corruption in the sport's world governing body. Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, a former FIFA vice president who also led the North and Central America and Caribbean confederation, CONCACAF, entered his plea in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, after being extradited from Switzerland. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Levy began considering bail for Hawit at the court hearing and will resume on Thursday. |
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