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| Congo starts trial of soldiers accused of sexual abuse in Central African Republic | | | Twenty soldiers from Democratic Republic of Congo went on trial this week for alleged rape and other crimes committed while serving as U.N. peacekeepers in neighbouring Central African Republic, the Congolese government said on Thursday. The soldiers have been in jail since returning to Congo in December and January following investigations conducted in Central African Republic by military investigators, said Jeanine Mabunda, President Joseph Kabila's adviser on sexual violence. The U.N. mission in Central African Republic has been beset by accusations of sexual abuse since taking over control from an African Union mission in September 2014. |
| Islamic State urges attacks on German chancellery, Bonn airport - SITE group | | | Islamic State posted pictures on the Internet calling on German Muslims to carry out Brussels-style attacks in Germany, singling out Chancellor Angela Merkel's offices and the Cologne-Bonn airport as targets, the SITE intelligence group reported. Western Europe is on high security alert after last week's Islamic State suicide bombings in the Belgian capital that killed 32 people at its airport and in a metro station. The Islamic State images and graphics, widely published by German media on Thursday, included slogans in German inciting Muslims to commit violence against the "enemy of Allah." Germany's BKA federal police, who monitor suspected militants with German passports returning from stints fighting in Syria and Iraq, said it knew of the images but that their publication did not necessitate extra security measures. |
| South Korea prostitutes decry court ruling, demand right to work | |  By Jee Heun Kahng SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean activist prostitutes said on Thursday they would appeal to the United Nations to win back their right to work after the Constitutional Court rejected a petition to overturn a law that punishes sex workers. Prostitution is illegal in South Korea but was generally tolerated in the conservative, Confucian country until a 2004 law set out punishments for both prostitutes and customers of up to a year in jail or a fine of up to 3 million won ($2,600). "We are people and workers just the same," Chang Se-hee, a member of a prostitutes' activist group, told a news conference after the court's decision.
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| Turkish military accuses media of damaging morale, launches legal action | | | The Turkish military said on Thursday it had launched legal action against unspecified media outlets over reports it said were damaging morale, as Turkey faces an almost unprecedented combination of national security threats. Turkey's military has a long history of intervening in politics, pressuring an Islamist-led government out of power as recently as 1997. "The administrative and legal mechanisms of the Turkish Armed Forces, which take their strength from the deep love and trust of the people and express their adherence to democracy at every opportunity, are employed constantly and effectively." It said legal action had been initiated against those writing news "with other motives" who "had gone too far". |
| One dead, dozens wounded in wave of bombs in south Thailand | | | Several bombs have gone off in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south killing one person and wounding dozens in a new wave of violence, the military said on Thursday. The blasts were in Pattani, one of three Muslim-majority provinces in largely Buddhist Thailand, near the Malaysian border, on Wednesday and Thursday. More than 6,500 people, including Buddhist monks, teachers, troops and separatist insurgents have been killed since then. |
| South Africa's top court says Zuma failed to respect constitution | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma failed to "uphold, defend and respect" the constitution when he ignored the instructions of an anti-graft watchdog to repay some of the $16 million spent on his private home, the country's top court ruled on Thursday. The ruling by the Constitutional Court is the latest twist in a six-year saga that has damaged Zuma politically. It is also a vindication for Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, a constitutionally mandated anti-graft watchdog. (Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; Writing by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Ed Cropley)
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| Myanmar's NLD seeks to bolster Suu Kyi's dominant cabinet role | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Aung Hla Tun NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's majority National League for Democracy (NLD) moved on Thursday to consolidate the dominant role of Aung San Suu Kyi in the new cabinet, underscoring the divide between the party and the powerful army over the junta-drafted constitution. The NLD tabled a special bill, mentioning Nobel peace laureate by name, that would create the post of a National Presidential Adviser, giving her freedom to coordinate intra-ministerial affairs and help influence the executive. The position would likely allow Suu Kyi, who will also oversee ministries of education, energy and electric power, foreign affairs and the president's office, to formally circumvent the constitution barring her from the presidency and allow her to rule "above the president", as she has planned.
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| Italy police arrest suspected "hospital ward" serial killer | | | A woman suspected of murdering 13 patients in a Tuscan hospital in 2014 and 2015 has been arrested, Italian police said in a statement on Thursday. Called "the hospital ward killer", the woman allegedly committed multiple homicides while working as a nurse in the intensive care and anaesthesia ward of a hospital in Piombino, a city on the Tuscan coast. Italy's para-military police, the Carabinieri, detained the woman late on Wednesday. |
| El Salvador plans 'extraordinary' moves to fight violence | |  El Salvador plans to boost prison security and deploy more troops in the streets to battle a rising wave of gang violence that has pushed murder rates to record levels, President Salvador Sanchez Ceren said on Wednesday. Officials also plan to contract a thousand reserve soldiers to reinforce existing troops in controlling chunks of territory taken over by gangs, known as maras. "Faced with this irrational violence, we are forced to take urgent measures, of an extraordinary character, in order to guarantee security (and) peace for all Salvadorans," Sanchez Ceren said in a national broadcast.
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| U.N. widens probe of fresh Central Africa sex abuse allegations | | | By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Wednesday said it has widened an investigation of allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by foreign peacekeepers in Central African Republic and notified authorities in France, Gabon and Burundi about the charges. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Monday the world body had received new sexual abuse allegations against U.N. peacekeepers from Morocco and Burundi in Central African Republic (CAR), including one that involved a 14-year-old girl. |
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