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| Militants kidnap 17 members of Afghanistan's Hazara community | | | MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Gunmen have kidnapped 17 members of Afghanistan's Hazara community, officials said on Thursday, the latest incident involving members of the Shi'ite Muslim minority highlighting the risk of sectarian violence. "The passengers, all our Hazara brothers, were travelling towards the city centre when their van was stopped by the Taliban and taken away," said Zabihullah Amani, spokesman for the provincial governor. Mohammad Noor Rahmani, head of the provincial council, said the kidnapping happened a day after a Taliban commander in the area was detained by Afghan forces during a clash. |
| EgyptAir black box search zone narrows after signal detected | |  By Lin Noueihed and Richard Lough CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) - Search teams zeroed in on the wreckage of EgyptAir flight MS804 on Thursday after a French vessel picked up a signal from one of the crashed jet's black boxes. An Egyptian source on the investigation committee told Reuters the search zone for the crashed Airbus A320 had been reduced to a 2 km (1.24 miles) radius from 5 km. France's transport minister said it would be about eight days before the flight recorder was recovered from the Mediterranean seabed. Locating the black boxes is crucial to understanding why the jet plummeted into the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19, killing all 66 people on board.
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| Three monks charged in Thailand as tiger potions, charms point to illicit trade | |  By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities charged three Buddhist monks on Thursday after they were caught trying to smuggle tiger skins and charms made from tiger parts out a temple which monks said was a tiger sanctuary but critics said was a money-spinning tourist trap. The Buddhist temple west of Bangkok has long been popular with tourists who paid about $20 each to get in and pose for pictures with its tigers, and to feed cubs and walk among them. The discovery on Thursday of the tiger skins and charms, or amulets, made from skins in a pick-up truck, and jars containing the bodies of tiger cubs in the temple, pointed to an even more lucrative business than thought.
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| Families of six crew on downed Malaysian plane MH17 sue airline | |  The families of six cabin crew aboard ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 sued the airline on Thursday for negligence and breach of contract, nearly two years after the plane was downed over eastern Ukraine. Flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down in July 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew. The aircraft was shot down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile, the Dutch Safety Board concluded in a report last year, but did not identify any responsible party or group.
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| Odisha becomes first state to give welfare to transgender community | | | By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Odisha is the first region in the country to give transgender people social welfare benefits - such as a pension, housing and food grains - usually allocated for only the most impoverished, an official said on Thursday. Niten Chandra, principal secretary of Odisha's Department of Social Security, said the move to give the transgender community the same benefits as those living below the poverty line was aimed at improving their overall social and economic status. For example, they very often do not get employment easily," Chandra told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. |
| Leaders of banned Tajik Islamist party get life sentence in coup case | | | Two former leaders of a banned Islamist party were jailed for life in Tajikistan on Thursday on charges of being behind an attempted coup last year, in a case criticised by human rights groups as politically motivated. Russia, which supported President Imomali Rakhmon in a civil war in the 1990s, maintains a military base there. The sentences passed by Tajikistan's Supreme Court completed the virtual elimination of the main opposition force capable of challenging Rakhmon, in power since 1992, and follow a May referendum that could allow him to rule for life. |
| Sweden convicts man of preparing suicide bomb attack | | | A 20-year-old Swede was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday for preparing to build a bomb to carry out a suicide attack, a court said. "The man had gathered information on bomb-building from the Internet and downloaded propaganda from IS," the Attunda District Court said. "He is now sentenced to five years in prison for preparing to commit a terrorist crime." The man, named as Aydin Sevigin, was found guilty of buying materials such as a pressure cooker and ball bearings to make a bomb, intending to blow himself up in a suicide attack. |
| Terror case opens up Kuwait's sectarian divisions | |  By Sylvia Westall KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaiti security service officers raided farmhouses near the Iraqi border late last summer, slicing through carpets and smashing open concrete floors. Hidden in large plastic containers was a weapons cache, the largest discovered in Kuwait's history. State television showed Kuwait's Interior Minister, a senior ruling family member, solemnly viewing the results of the operation.
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| Lionel Messi testifies in tax fraud trial | |  By Richard Martin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Soccer's five-times World Player of the Year Lionel Messi arrived at a court in Barcelona on Thursday to testify against charges of tax evasion. A few bypassers applauded the arrival of the Argentina and FC Barcelona player while several people shouted at him, but in contrast to when he appeared at a local court in 2013 to give evidence, there were no Barcelona supporters present. Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, entered the court immediately without speaking to reporters.
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| Court convicts 24 in Gulbarg society massacre case | |  A court convicted 24 Hindus on Thursday of murder and other charges related to an anti-Muslim riot in Gujarat in which dozens of Muslims were killed at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister. A total of 69 Muslims, including a former lawmaker, were killed at a housing society in Ahmedabad in the 2002 riot when a mob set fire to their homes and attacked fleeing families, prosecutors said. "It has taken me 14 years to prove the crime committed against innocent Muslims.
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| Lebanese army kills IS militant, arrests three during raid-source | | | The Lebanese army shot and killed an Islamic State militant and detained three more during a raid on Thursday in the Akkar region of northern Lebanon, security sources said. The cell was accused of participating in the killing of Lebanese soldiers and of wounding an officer in the Interior Ministry's intelligence branch. The raid took place at a house in the village of Khirbet Daoud, near the northern border with Syria. |
| Philippines' Duterte denounced for defending killing of some journalists | |  Philippine media groups denounced President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday for saying journalists were being killed because they were corrupt and "you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a bitch". Duterte's comments about extrajudicial killings, calling bishops "sons of whores" and a joke about a murdered rape victim do not appear to have dented his popularity in the largely Roman Catholic country. About 175 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since 1986, ranking it among the most dangerous places to work in the news business.
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| Sporadic gunfire heard at Mogadishu hotel day after al Shabaab attack | | | Somali authorities said on Thursday at least 16 people were killed and 55 wounded in a car bomb and gun attack on a hotel in the centre of Mogadishu where sporadic gunfire could still be heard on Thursday. Islamist militant group al Shabaab, affiliated with al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Hotel Ambassador. "So far we have confirmed 16 people, mostly civilians, died and 55 others were injured," Major Nur Mohamed, a police officer, told Reuters on Thursday. |
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