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| Islamic State bomb supply chain includes firms in 20 countries including India - report | |  By Dasha Afanasieva ANKARA (Reuters) - Companies from 20 countries are involved in the supply chain of components that end up in Islamic State explosives, a study found on Thursday, suggesting governments and firms need to do more to track the flow of cables, chemicals and other equipment. The European Union-mandated study showed that 51 companies from countries including Turkey, Brazil, and the United States produced, sold or received the more than 700 components used by Islamic State to build improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Islamic State controls large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
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| Indonesia overturns acquittal of international school teachers convicted of student abuse | | | Indonesia's supreme court has overturned the acquittal of two teachers, a Canadian and Indonesian, convicted of sexually abusing students at an international Jakarta school and ordered them to serve out their original sentence. The two teachers were originally sentenced to 10 years in prison but were acquitted in August, 2015. The Supreme Court reimposed the sentence and added another year to their sentence. |
| China's Xinjiang to use entertainment, possibly singing and dancing, in terror fight | | | China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang will use entertainment to fight terrorism, holding cultural activities - which typically involve singing and dancing - to spread its law-enforcement message, state media said on Thursday. Hundreds of people have been killed over the past few years in resource-rich Xinjiang, strategically located on the borders of central Asia, in violence between the Muslim Uighur people who call the region home and ethnic majority Han Chinese. China denies any repression in Xinjiang. |
| Australia warns travellers of possible militant attacks in Indonesia | | | Australia issued a warning on Thursday about possible militant attacks being planned in Indonesia, only days after a similar warning for the Malaysian capital, another sign of rising concern over militancy in Southeast Asia. "Recent indications suggest that terrorists may be in the advanced stages of preparing attacks in Indonesia," said the travel advisory on an Australian government website (http://smartraveller.gov.au/countries/indonesia). Australia issued a similar statement on Sunday about possible attacks in and around Kuala Lumpur. |
| Indian teenager escapes debt bondage, says employer burned his legs | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Marimuthu, a south Indian teenager, had no idea the debt bondage he was pushed into last year would lead to serious burns on his legs, forcing him to escape his abusive employer and seek hospital treatment. After working 15-hour days in a sweet shop with little time off, Marimuthu had a bad headache one day and asked for a break. The 15-year-old is one of nearly 16 million people in India who have been forced into manual labour, trafficked into brothels, stuck in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the 2014 Global Slavery Index. |
| Indian farmers deep in debt, seek subsidies, help with insurance | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian government action to increase spending on irrigation and crop insurance is not enough to end a cycle of indebtedness that has led to thousands of farmer suicides, and a complete overhaul of credit and subsidies to farmers is needed, activists said. Drought in many parts of the country has hit rice, cotton and other crops, and lower world commodity prices have added to the farmers' plight. More than half India's farming households are in debt, owing banks and moneylenders hundreds of millions of rupees, despite numerous loan write-offs by successive governments.
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| FIFA's Rogues' Gallery - banned, fined or suspended | | | Following is a list of high-ranking officials to have been implicated or punished in the bribery and corruption crisis that has engulfed FIFA. President of FIFA for more than 17 years, banned for eight years by the Ethics Committee he created to help clean up FIFA's image when it found him guilty of a conflict of interest by paying European soccer boss Michel Platini 1.3 million pounds ($1.86 million) for work done a decade earlier. At one stage seemed destined to succeed Blatter as FIFA president, but the payment he received from FIFA also landed him with an eight-year ban, reduced to six on appeal. |
| FIFA election to go ahead but Blatter told to stay away | |  By Brian Homewood and Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA will proceed with an election to pick a new president on Friday to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter and vote on a set of reforms aimed at restoring its credibility after the worst graft scandal in its history. One candidate had sought to have the vote on a new president delayed but sport's highest tribunal threw out his request, clearing the way for FIFA to hold its planned Extraordinary Congress in Zurich. FIFA urged members to approve its reforms at the congress, including term limits for top officials and disclosure of their earnings, to rebuild trust after several dozen officials were indicted in the United States and a criminal investigation was begun in Switzerland.
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| Blatter and Platini bans upheld, reduced to six years | | | By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the two most powerful men in world football, had their bans for ethics violations upheld on Wednesday, although they were reduced from eight years to six. The 79-year-old Blatter, who served for 17 years as FIFA president, and Platini, 60, one of the greatest players of all time and UEFA president since 2007, had appealed against the bans imposed last October. The ruling came two days before FIFA holds a special elective Congress to appoint a successor to Blatter, who was President of the ruling body from 1998 before standing down four days after winning his final term of office last May. Neither man will be at Friday's Congress following the decision and Platini could hardly contain his wrath. |
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