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| U.S. reiterates support for South China Sea arbitration, peaceful resolution | |  The United States on Wednesday reiterated its call for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes in the South China Sea, in response to the setting of a date for a decision in an international court case brought by the Philippines against China. An arbitration court hearing the dispute between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea will deliver its decision on July 12, it said in a statement on Wednesday. "Consistent with our longstanding policy, we support the peaceful resolution of disputes in the South China Sea, including the use of international legal mechanisms such as arbitration," a State Department spokeswoman, Anna Richey-Allen, said when asked about the announcement.
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| "LuxLeaks" accountants given suspended prison sentences | |  By Francois Aulner LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A Luxembourg court on Wednesday handed out suspended sentences to the two former accounting firm employees who leaked data about Luxembourg's tax deals with large corporations, which gained prominence in the so-called "LuxLeaks" affair. Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet, both French citizens and former employees of accounting firm PwC, received suspended sentences of 12 and nine months respectively. French television journalist Edouard Perrin, who used the leaked data for a broadcast made in 2012, was acquitted of all charges.
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| India arrests five suspected of plotting Islamic State attacks | | | Indian counter-terrorism officials on Wednesday arrested five men on suspicion of plotting a series of attacks across the country on behalf of Islamic State, two intelligence officials said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and local police raided 11 locations in the southern city of Hyderabad at dawn, seizing ammunition, explosive materials and cash. "We have ample proof to show that the suspects were working for ISIS (Islamic State) and also had direct connection with Syrian leaders," the first official told Reuters. |
| Pakistan extends Afghan refugee registration deadline by 6 mths | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan has extended by six months a deadline for Afghan refugees to register with the government, a refugee official said on Wednesday, a day before the deadline was set to expire. Pakistan has the world's second largest refugee population, with more than 1.5 million registered, and about a million unregistered, refugees from Afghanistan, most of whom fled the Soviet occupation of their country in the 1980s. The number of Afghans voluntarily returning home has plunged this year as violence worsens in Afghanistan, where the government and its U.S. allies are fighting a stubborn Taliban insurgency.
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| Armed guards to patrol French beaches this summer | | | Police officers armed with automatic pistols will patrol France's beaches for the first time this summer, a national police spokesman said on Wednesday. Around 100 police officers will carry the pistols, rather than the customary telescopic truncheons, when sent on beach safety duties for the peak summer season, the official said. "This is not about a specific terrorist threat to France's beaches but rather a decision to increase security generally given the very high threat level nationwide," the official said. |
| Supreme Court to consider intervening in Muslim 'triple talaq' divorce law | |  By Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Supreme Court said it will examine how far it could interfere in Muslim laws governing family-related issues as it heard a plea to end a practice allowing Muslim men to divorce their wives by saying "talaq" three times. A Supreme Court bench said Muslim personal law affected a large number of people and asked the federal government to weigh in on the debate as to whether intervening in the law would violate the Muslim community's fundamental rights. "We have to hear all of the views and take a call as to what extent courts can interfere in Muslim personal laws," he said.
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| Lloyds to axe 640 jobs in cost-cutting drive - sources | |  By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group plans to axe about 640 jobs, sources close to the matter said on Wednesday, as Britain's largest mortgage lender continues to scale back its branch network and workforce. All affected employees work in information technology and back-office roles and are being told of the decision on Wednesday, the sources said on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to discuss the plans. Lloyds, rescued in a 20.5 billion pound ($27.4 billion) taxpayer bailout during the financial crisis, is in the midst of major restructuring as part of an aggressive cost-cutting programme.
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