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| Jordan king swears in new government to prepare for elections - palace source | |  Jordanian King Abdullah swore in a new government led by a business-friendly politician on Wednesday and charged him with preparing for parliamentary elections by September and pushing legislation to spur sluggish growth. Hani Mulki, 64, who has held a string of senior diplomatic and ministerial posts, is a former chief commissioner of Jordan's economic zone in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba. Official sources said the government is expected to maintain traditional support for U.S. policies in the region and continue with IMF-guided reforms.
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| Saudi Arabia sentences 14 to death for terrorism - lawyer | | | Saudi Arabia sentenced 14 people to death for terrorism on Wednesday after they were convicted of attacks on police in the Shi'ite Muslim minority area of Qatif in Eastern Province, scene of past anti-government protests, their lawyer said. Another nine people were given jail sentences of three to 15 years and one was acquitted, their defence lawyer, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters. Some Saudi Shi'ites complain they suffer systematic discrimination in Saudi Arabia, whose majority follow a strict form of Sunni Islam that regards the minority sect as heretical. |
| German cabinet approves state fund for nuclear storage costs | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday that adopted recommendations requiring Germany's utilities to pay 23.3 billion euros ($25.98 billion) into a state fund to cover the costs of storing nuclear waste, government sources said. The new law will also close a loophole to ensure that if companies split up, they will still remain liable towards the newly established state fund, the sources said. A 19-member commission recommended in late April that Germany's "big four" power firms - E.ON, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall - pay a total 23. ...
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| Dead tiger cubs found in Thai temple amid trafficking fears | |  Thai wildlife authorities found 40 tiger cub carcasses in a freezer in Thailand's infamous Tiger Temple on Wednesday as they removed live animals in response to international pressure over suspected trafficking and abuse. The Buddhist temple in Kanchanaburi province west of Bangkok had become a tourist destination where visitors snapped selfies with bottle-fed cubs. A raid that began on Monday is the latest move in a tug-of-war since 2001 to bring the tigers under state control.
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| China to prosecute Xinjiang judge for letting off terror suspects | | | Authorities in China's violence-prone western region of Xinjiang will prosecute a former judge who reduced penalties and let off people suspected of terrorism, a regional government said. Hundreds have died in recent years in Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, in unrest blamed by Beijing on Islamist militants and separatists, though rights groups say the violence is more a reaction to repressive Chinese policies. Fulati Qiuwaer was a senior judge in Aksu, in heavily Uighur southwestern Xinjiang, but had been sacked and expelled from the ruling Communist Party for his leniency in dealing with terror suspects, the Aksu branch of the party's anti-graft watchdog said. |
| Germany investigates sexual attacks on women at music festival | | | German prosecutors are investigating claims by 26 women that they were sexually harassed at a music festival in the western city of Darmstadt at the weekend and police have arrested three men with Pakistani backgrounds, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The incident has set off alarm bells in Germany after mass sexual attacks on women at New Year's Eve in Cologne, which fuelled a backlash against Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door migrant policy. Hundreds of women said they were groped, attacked and robbed outside the Cologne train station and police said the suspects were mainly of North African and Arab appearance. |
| Malaysia uncovers immigration racket raising trafficking, security fears | |  By Rozanna Latiff and Emily Chow KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Authorities in Malaysia have uncovered an immigration racket involving the sabotage of a computerised passport-screening system at its main international airport, police said on Wednesday, raising worries about human-trafficking and security. The immigration department fired 15 officials on Tuesday, took disciplinary action against 22 and said it was investigating more in connection with the security breach at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, which could have been going on for years. "We have identified the suspects. We are still investigating but we will make arrests soon," deputy police chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim told reporters on Wednesday.
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| Peru's Kuczynski backs out of plans to join anti-Fujimori rally | |  Peru's centrist presidential hopeful Pedro Pablo Kuczynski canceled plans to take part in a rally against his rival Keiko Fujimori on Tuesday, in a last-minute U-turn that could reinforce a view he is indecisive ahead of Sunday's vote. Tens of thousands of Peruvians marched in downtown Lima to protest Fujimori's candidacy, calling the center-right frontrunner a threat to democracy and the embodiment of the authoritarian government of her father Alberto Fujimori, who is now in prison for corruption and human rights abuses. Kuczynski, a 77-year-old former World Bank economist who endorsed Fujimori during her first presidential run in 2011, said it would be "undemocratic" for him to join calls to stop Fujimori.
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| Thailand jails country singer for seven years in royal insult case | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Wednesday jailed a country singer and political activist for 7-1/2 years, on grounds of insulting the monarchy in a public speech made three years ago. The conviction swells a list of prosecutions pushed by Thailand's military - the self-designated protectors of the monarchy - after it seized power in a coup two years ago. The junta has a zero-tolerance approach to criticism of the monarchy, making use of a draconian lese-majeste law that prescribes a prison term of up to 15 years for each offence.
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