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| Major Thai trafficking trial opens amid fears for witnesses | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - The trial of 92 suspected human traffickers, arrested after the discovery of shallow graves of migrants in Thai jungle, began in Bangkok on Tuesday and the attorney-general's office said it would be over within a year amid fears about the safety of witnesses. Traffickers abandoned boatloads of migrants at sea last year after a crackdown by Thai authorities that led to a regional migrant crisis with Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Bangladesh refusing boats permission to land. ...
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| Mass killer Breivik to sue Norway for "inhuman treatment" | |  By Gwladys Fouche SKIEN, Norway (Reuters) - Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik goes to court on Tuesday to accuse the Norwegian state of inhuman treatment, in a case that is raising questions about how to deal with a man who killed 77 people in 2011. Breivik, 37, will argue that his isolation in Skien jail violates a ban on "inhuman and degrading treatment" under the European Convention on Human Rights. "He wants contact with other people," his lawyer, Oeystein Storrvik, told reporters before the March 15-18 trial.
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| Myanmar's parliament elects Suu Kyi confidant Htin Kyaw as president | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the first head of state who does not hail from a military background since the 1960s. Suu Kyi led her National League for Democracy (NLD) to a landslide election win in November, but a constitution drafted by the former junta bars her from the top office. It is the victory of my sister Aung San Suu Kyi," Htin Kyaw told Reuters after the vote.
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| Bangladesh central bank governor resigns over heist | |  Bangladesh's central bank governor Atiur Rahman said on Tuesday he had resigned after $81 million was stolen from the bank's account at the New York Fed in one of the largest cyber heists in history. Rahman told Reuters that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had accepted his resignation. Unknown hackers breached the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank and transferred $81 million from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to casinos in the Philippines between Feb. 4 and Feb. 5.
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| India says number of child workers declined 60 percent in 10 years | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of child labourers aged 14 or below in India dropped to 4.5 million in 2011 from 12.6 million a decade before, said the country's labour minister, urging lawmakers to approve planned changes to existing legislation to curb the problem. Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya told the Lok Sabha on Monday the government will amend a three-decade-old child labour prohibition law, and called on both houses of parliament to support its passage. This session too, it could not be passed though I gave notice," Dattatreya said.
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| Mexico governor floats idea of medical opium growing to reduce drug violence | |  A senior Mexican official has said legalizing cultivation of opium poppies for medicinal purposes might help reduce violence in one of the regions most affected by brutal drug gangs that have ravaged the country for years. Hector Astudillo, governor of Guerrero, one of the most violent states in Mexico, told Milenio television it was worth at least exploring the possibility of allowing cultivation. "Let's do some sort of pilot scheme," Astudillo, a member of President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, told Milenio in an interview recorded last week but broadcast on Monday.
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| Beijing expects young pro-democracy "radicals" to become Hong Kong lawmaker - SCMP | | | Beijing accepts that several young pro-democracy "radicals" will be elected to Hong Kong's law making Legislative Council in September, a Hong Kong newspaper cited a top Chinese official as saying, as tensions in the city over independence remain high. Beijing's refusal to grant the former British colony full democracy has embittered a younger generation of activists, which culminated in massive protests in 2014. "It will be normal that several radical young people will be returned as lawmakers (in September)," Feng Wei, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing, told South China Morning Post in an interview. |
| Repeat champ leads pack as Alaska's Iditarod dog sled race enters home stretch | |  By Steve Quinn JUNEAU, Alaska (Reuters) - One musher in Alaska's grueling sled-dog race appears to stand between Dallas Seavey's third consecutive Iditarod title and a painful second place finish - his father, Mitch. As competitors in the nearly 1,000-mile race through the U.S. state's frigid wilderness, father and son have been exchanging the lead while being pushed by upstart Brent Sass and perennial contender Aliy Zirkle. Based on last year's times, a winner could cross the finish line in Nome as early as 4 a.m. local time (1200 GMT) on Tuesday.
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| China calls for FBI cooperation in internet security, counter-terrorism | |  China wants to have deeper internet security and anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States, China's public security minister told the visiting director of the FBI, state news agency Xinhua said. Meeting in Beijing, the minister, Guo Shengkun, told James B. Comey that China was willing to enhance strategic mutual trust and the respect of each others core interests, Xinhua said late on Monday.
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| Chinese man in Manila given millions from Bangladesh heist - lawmaker | |  By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - More than $30 million of the money hackers stole from the Bangladesh central bank's account at the New York Fed was handed over in cash to an ethnic Chinese man in Manila, a Philippines senator looking into the suspected laundering scheme said. The cash deliveries over several days from a foreign exchange broker were made up of 600 million pesos ($12.87 million) and around $18 million, which altogether would have meant a haul of at least 780,000 banknotes. "Obviously this is not one bang, it was done in instalments," Teofisto Guingona, head of the Philippine Senate's anti-corruption committee, told Reuters ahead of a panel hearing on the case that is due to open later on Tuesday.
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| China anti-graft campaign to tackle poverty relief funds misuse | | | China's anti-graft campaign will take on a new dimension by targeting officials who misuse or embezzle poverty relief funds, the country's top prosecutor told state media in an interview published on Tuesday. Cao Jianming told the official China Daily graft probes will become "more aggressive" by going after grassroots officials to stamp out abuse of finances for rural living allowances, education and medical insurance, as well as ecological protection. Officials overseeing traffic management in rural areas, hypdropower and electric power infrastructure, in addition to rural home renovations will also come under scrutiny, Cao said. |
| Analysis - Apple fight could escalate with demand for 'source code' | |  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The latest filing in the legal war between the planet's most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high-stakes confrontation could escalate even further. In what observers of the case called a carefully calibrated threat, the U.S. Justice Department last week suggested that it would be willing to demand that Apple turn over the "source code" that underlies its products as well as the so-called "signing key" that validates software as coming from Apple. Together, those two things would give the government the power to develop its own spying software and trick any iPhone into installing it.
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| Exclusive - Chinese hackers behind U.S. ransomware attacks: security firms | |  Hackers using tactics and tools previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer network intrusions have joined the booming cyber crime industry of ransomware, four security firms that investigated attacks on U.S. companies said. Ransomware, which involves encrypting a target's computer files and then demanding payment to unlock them, has generally been considered the domain of run-of-the-mill cyber criminals. "It is obviously a group of skilled of operators that have some amount of experience conducting intrusions," said Phil Burdette, who heads an incident response team at Dell SecureWorks.
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| In secret meetings, Taliban rejected Pakistan pressure on peace process | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Jibran Ahmed ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani officials threatened to expel Afghanistan's Taliban from bases in Pakistan if they did not join peace talks this month, but the militants rebuffed their traditional patron, two officials said, casting doubt on how much influence Islamabad retains over them. After the secret meetings with Pakistani officials about two weeks ago, the Taliban's Supreme Council met at an undisclosed location and voted to reject the talks scheduled for early March with the Afghan government, according to a council member. Instead, the insurgents are now pouring back into Afghanistan for what they say will be a fierce spring offensive to be launched soon. Pakistan's influence over the insurgents is the lynchpin to the peace plan developed over last few months by Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China to bring an end to the 15-year-old war in Afghanistan.
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