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| Brother of Paris attacker on trial over militant training | | | Seven people went on trial in Paris on Monday accused of travelling to Syria to train as militant fighters, among them the brother of one of the militants who killed 130 people in the French capital last November. The seven, aged from 24 to 27, face up to 10 years in jail if found guilty of taking part in an Islamist recruitment network and receiving training in Syria from the Islamic State militant group. The accused, a gang of friends from eastern France, were part of a larger number who in December 2013 travelled to Syria, where two of them died. |
| Leadership row in Turkey's nationalist opposition helps Erdogan | |  Turkey's nationalist opposition on Monday blocked a move by party dissidents to hold a special congress next month to try to oust its veteran leader, dragging out a dispute that is key to President Tayyip Erdogan's ambitions for greater powers. Opinion polls suggest the removal of Devlet Bahceli as leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) could lead to a surge in support for his party, weakening Erdogan's chances of securing strong parliamentary support for the introduction of a full presidential system in Turkey. A court-appointed organising committee on Monday said the party's extraordinary congress would take place on June 19.
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| UAE acquits two Libyan-Americans and Canadian of militancy charges | | | A security court in the United Arab Emirates on Monday acquitted two Libyan-American businessmen and a Libyan-Canadian charged with supporting Libyan militants, a lawyer and a family representative said. "The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Abu Dhabi Supreme Court State Security Chamber found American businessmen Kamal and Mohamed Eldarat not guilty, after nearly two years of arbitrary detainment and a four-month trial," a statement from the Eldarat family said. Kamal and son Mohamed were arrested at their home in the UAE in 2014, according to the family. |
| Mexican striker Pulido rescued after kidnap, in good health | |  Mexican soccer player Alan Pulido was rescued within a day of his kidnapping in the restive northeastern state of Tamaulipas after he was able to make a phone call and alert authorities of his location, a state official said on Monday. The 25-year-old Mexico national team player and striker for the Greek soccer team Olympiakos disappeared in his hometown of Ciudad Victoria on Saturday night, when he was intercepted by gunmen after leaving a party. "The most important thing is that is he is here with us," Tamaulipas Governor Egidio Torre Cantu told reporters in footage broadcast on local television, standing next to Pulido.
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| Bahrain more than doubles jail sentence of top opposition leader | |  A Bahraini appeals court on Monday more than doubled the prison term imposed on the country's most prominent opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, to nine years from four, a ruling that could increase political tensions in the Gulf kingdom. Bahrain's public prosecutor said the stiffer sentence related to "crimes of promoting change to the political system by force", according to state news agency BNA. Sheikh Salman's al-Wefaq Islamic Society denounced the decision as "provocative" and said it undermined any chance of resolving a political crisis in the Sunni-ruled kingdom tinged with sectarianism and rivalries among regional powers.
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| Suspect arrested at Cologne-Bonn airport after security breach | | | German federal police on Monday arrested a 62-year-old Spanish man suspected of entering the security area of Terminal 1 at Cologne-Bonn airport without being checked, a spokeswoman said. The breach led police to clear the security area of the departure floor in Terminal 1 at 12:15 local time (10:15 GMT) and to ground five planes in their parking positions, the airport said. The airport reopened the security area at 13:30 local time (11:30 GMT) and said operations were returning to normal at Terminal 1 but some departures were delayed. |
| Mauritius ramps up security after gunshots fired on French embassy | | | By Jean Paul Arouff PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius police said on Monday it had stepped up security after gunshots were fired at the French embassy and a hotel in the capital city. A police official said nobody had been injured and an inquiry had begun to identify and apprehend the perpetrators, adding graffiti mentioning Islamic state was discovered on the wall of the French embassy. "Police attended a request early in the morning in St Georges street and found traces of projectiles on the bay window of St Georges Hotel and a window found on the ground floor of the French embassy," police commissioner Mario Nobin told reporters. |
| Big cats removed from Thailand's infamous Tiger Temple | |  By Patpicha Tanakasempipat KANCHANABURI, Thailand (Reuters) - Wildlife authorities in Thailand on Monday raided a Buddhist temple where tigers are kept, taking away three of the animals and vowing to confiscate scores more in response to global pressure over wildlife trafficking. The Buddhist temple in Kanchanaburi province west of Bangkok has more than 100 tigers and has become a tourist destination where visitors take selfies with tigers and bottle-feed their cubs. The temple promotes itself as a wildlife sanctuary, but in recent years it has been investigated for suspected links to wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.
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| Somalia sentences two to life in prison for February airline blast | |  By Feisal Omar and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A Somali military court sentenced 10 people it said were behind a bomb blast that blew a hole in the fuselage of a plane bound for Djibouti in February, a senior government official said on Monday. In the incident, a suspected suicide bomber was sucked out of the Daallo Airlines plane through a one-metre (one-yard) wide hole when a blast ripped open the pressurised cabin in flight, officials said. Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents said they were behind the blast.
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| Strikes, protests pose new headache for Paris tourism | |  By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) - As Paris tourism struggles to overcome last November's Islamist attacks, the world's most visited city faces a new threat from a wave of protests and further planned strikes, tourism officials warned on Monday. "The scenes of guerrilla-type action in central Paris, beamed around the world, reinforce the feeling of fear and misunderstanding from visitors in an already angst-filled climate," Frederic Valletoux, head of the Paris region tourist board said in a statement on Monday. The tourist board issued the warning as French authorities were due to launch a new campaign later in the day to bolster the appeal of the French capital to foreign visitors.
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| Former Chad president Habre found guilty of crimes against humanity | |  Former Chad president Hissene Habre was found guilty on Monday of crimes against humanity for ordering the killing and torture of thousands of political opponents during his eight-year, cold war-era rule. Habre was sentenced to life in prison by the Special African Chamber, a tribunal created in 2013 by Senegal and the African Union. The verdict caps a 16-year battle by victims and rights campaigners to bring the former strongman to justice in Senegal, where he fled after being toppled in a 1990 coup in the central African nation.
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| Bangladesh panel finds possible insider role in central bank cyber theft | |  Officials of Bangladesh Bank may have been involved in a brazen theft of $81 million from its account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank in February, the head of a government-appointed panel investigating the cyber heist told reporters on Monday. Hackers broke into the computer systems of the Bangladesh central bank and issued instructions through the SWIFT network to transfer $951 million of its deposits held at the New York Federal Reserve Bank to accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Most of the transactions were blocked but four went through, amounting to $81 million, sparking allegations by Bangladeshi officials that both the Fed and SWIFT had failed to detect the fraud.
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| China protests to Indonesia over seizure of fishing vessel | | | JAKARTA/BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday it had lodged a "stern" protest with Indonesia after the Southeast Asian country's navy seized a Chinese vessel it suspected of fishing illegally in its waters. The dispute comes amid heightened tension over China's reclamation activities in the South China Sea and its claims on swathes of the key waterway, where several Southeast Asian nations have overlapping claims. The Indonesian military said it detained the vessel, Gui Bei Yu, last Friday, after it entered Indonesia's exclusive economic zone in the resource-rich Natuna Sea off the northwest coast of the island of Borneo. |
| Chinese worker wounded in Pakistani bomb attack | | | A Chinese worker and his driver were wounded in Pakistan on Monday in a bomb attack claimed by ethnic nationalists opposed to plans for extensive Chinese investment, police said. The attack is likely to raise concern about a planned China Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC), involving $46 billion in Chinese investment in roads, power plants, railway lines and a new port in Pakistan. Pakistan, battling Islamist militants as well as separatist guerrillas in parts of the country, has promised to ensure security for the project. |
| Myanmar says record drug seizure has street value of $36 million | | | By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Authorities in Myanmar seized roughly 21 million methamphetamine pills with a street value of around U.S.$35.5 million near the border with China, state-owned media said on Monday, the country's second largest haul of the contraband. Although better known for its opium production, Myanmar, a country with restive and porous borders, is a major producer and exporting hub of low-purity pills made primarily of caffeine and methamphetamine. The pills, which deliver a cheap high, are taken both by recreational users and labourers toiling for long hours who need to stay awake. |
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