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| Foreign captives held by Philippine militants appeal for help | | | Three foreigners kidnapped by militants in the Philippines nearly six months ago have appealed to their governments for help to secure their release, as their al Qaeda-linked captors issued a one month deadline for their demands to be met. "To the Canadian prime minister and to the Canadian people in the world, please, do as needed to meet their demands, within one month or they will kill me, they will execute us," said one of the men who identified himself as John Ridsdel, a Canadian mining consultant said. Another of the men, who identified himself as Robert Hall, who is also Canadian, said he did not know how much money their captors were demanding but he appealed for help quickly. |
| Iraq's al-Sadr supporters back PM's move for non-partisan cabinet to fight graft | |  By Maher Chmaytelli BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wants Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to stay in power but replace his cabinet with professionals with no party affiliation so he can fight corruption, the head of the Sadrist bloc in parliament said. Corruption is eating away at Baghdad's resources even as it struggles with falling revenue due to rock-bottom oil prices and high spending due to the costs of the war on Islamic State. A year and a half into his four-year term, Abadi said last month that he wanted to replace his ministers with technocrats to weaken the system of patronage that distributing posts along political, ethnic and sectarian lines creates.
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| Two missing booksellers return to China hours after re-appearing in HK - report | |  Two Hong Kong booksellers released from mainland Chinese custody after going missing went straight back to China after returning home to ask police to drop their missing persons cases, a Hong Kong newspaper reported. The two, Cheung Chi Ping and Lui Por, were among five Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared over the past six months and re-surfaced in mainland Chinese police custody.
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| How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said. The hackers breached Bangladesh Bank's systems last month and stole its credentials for payment transfers, two senior Bangladesh Bank officials said. Four requests to transfer a total of about $81 million to the Philippines went through, but a fifth, for $20 million, to a Sri Lankan non-profit organisation got held up because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO.
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| At least five killed, several hurt in shooting near Pittsburgh - police | | | (Reuters) - Two gunmen ambushed a backyard party near Pittsburgh on Wednesday, killing at least five people and injuring several others, police said. Four women and one man were shot and killed, with three more people wounded in the attack, in a residential neighborhood in Wilkinsburg, about 8 miles (13 km) east of the city, the Allegheny County Police Department said. Two suspects fired from an alley onto a backyard party at a home and then fled, the department said in a statement. |
| Myanmar's NLD names Suu Kyi confidant as presidential candidate | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) has proposed a close friend of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as its presidential candidate, ending a four-month wait for the identity of the president expected to rule in her name. The NLD nominated Htin Kyaw, who joined the party just two months ago, as its lower house candidate. The wildly popular Suu Kyi and the NLD won a landslide electoral victory in November, but she is barred from holding the presidency herself under a junta-drafted 2008 constitution because her children are not Myanmar citizens.
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| NEWSMAKER: Presidency beckons for Suu Kyi confidant after two months in party | |  By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Until two months ago, Htin Kyaw was not even a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD). Now, he is the favoured presidential candidate of Myanmar's ruling party, on course to become the country's first head of state who is not a former top-ranking member of the military since the 1960s. Htin Kyaw has risen to prominence for one reason: he is among Nobel peace prize laureate Suu Kyi closest friends, and she trusts him to run the country as her proxy.
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| Yazidi teenager escaped Islamic State, appeals for help for sex slaves | | | By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was a "black morning" two years ago when Islamic State militants seized the Yazidi town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq, abducting thousands of civilians including a 15-year-old girl and 27 members of her family. The teenager, Nihad Barakat Shamo Alawsi, was taken to Syria and then to the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq, she told an event in London on Wednesday. "They raped us, they killed our men, they took our babies away from us," Alawsi, now 17, said at the event organised by the UK-based AMAR Foundation, a charity that provides education and healthcare in the Middle East. |
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