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| Wife of former Chinese domestic security tsar sentenced for graft | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - The wife of former Chinese domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang has been jailed for nine years for corruption, a court said on Wednesday, the latest high-profile figure to be felled in President Xi Jinping's anti-graft campaign. Jia Xiaoye, a former state television journalist, was also fined 1 million yuan ($150,000) for taking bribes, the court said on its official microblog. She will not appeal, the court said in its statement. Zhou was once among China's most powerful officials and was at the centre of its biggest corruption scandals in more than six decades. ... |
| French PM urges hardline union to halt anti-reform rallies in Paris | |  French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Wednesday urged the hardline CGT union to stop organising mass rallies in Paris against a contested labour reform after fresh clashes between masked youths and riot police at a demo. On the sidelines of a CGT-led march on Tuesday, gangs of black-clad youths hurled makeshift firebombs at police and broke windows, including at Paris' main children's hospital. "When you cannot organise a demo and take responsibility, leaving thugs in the middle of the march ... then you don't organise this sort of demonstration that can degenerate," Valls said on France Inter radio.
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| Australian lawmaker prompts anger over shooting ad days after Orlando killings | |  Australian lawmaker Bob Katter drew online complaints on Wednesday after posting a campaign video in which he shoots dead political opponents just days after a gunman killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub. The video, uploaded to his social media channels, features two men wearing shirts for Australia's major political parties, the conservative Liberal Party and centre-left Labor Party, putting up an "Australia for sale" placard. Katter, whose minor Katter's Australia Party focuses on issues related to rural Australia, denied that he was attempting to be deliberately controversial with the video.
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| France will see further terror attacks - PM | |  France is doing all it can to prevent terrorist attacks but there will be more of them, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday following this week's murder of a policeman and his wife by a Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Valls said the intelligence and police services had foiled 15 attacks since 2013 and were waging a non-stop battle to track down would be terrorists.
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| ASEAN countries retract statement expressing concerns on South China Sea | |  By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Southeast Asian countries withdrew a statement that expressed the region's deep concerns over rising tensions in the disputed South China Sea, where China has been involved in territorial disputes. The strongly-worded statement by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), released by the Malaysian foreign ministry, did not name China directly but warned against raising tensions in the contested waters, where Beijing has been building artificial islands and increasing its military presence. "We expressed our serious concerns over recent and ongoing developments, which have eroded trust and confidence, increased tensions and which may have the potential to undermine peace, security and stability in the South China Sea," said the statement, which was issued following a meeting in the Chinese city of Kunming between ASEAN and China's foreign ministers.
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| Lawyers deny Indonesian woman poisoned coffee to kill friend | | | By Fergus Jensen and Fransiska Nangoy JAKARTA (Reuters) - Lawyers for an Indonesian woman charged with murdering her college friend by poisoning her coffee said on Wednesday there was no evidence that she committed such a crime. At the opening court hearing, prosecutors accused Jessica Kumala Wongso, a resident of Australia, of the premeditated murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin at a Jakarta cafe in early January. If found guilty she could face the death penalty. |
| Thai military cadets drilled for role on constitution referendum day | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Preparations by Thailand's junta for a referendum in August over a new constitution that critics fear will entrench the military's influence were stepped up on Wednesday as military cadets were shown what do at polling stations on the day. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's junta has ordered some 100,000 cadets - high school and university student volunteers - to carry the message to people that they have a responsibility to vote. The junta has threatened to jail anyone who violates that rule for up to 10 years.
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| Former Thai PM Yingluck wows fans but remains divisive figure | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Andrew R.C. Marshall PHRAE/BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuters) - When former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrived in this sleepy corner of northern Thailand and flashed her familiar smile, waiting supporters gasped and spoke of a political revival. In the two years since the military overthrew her government, Yingluck has been on trial for corruption over a multi-million-dollar rice subsidy scheme. Phrae was one stop in a series of provincial trips aimed at keeping Yingluck, Thailand's first female prime minister, in the public eye and making the junta think twice about jailing her.
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