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| Focused global strategy needed to end child slavery by 2025 - Jeffrey Sachs | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries can end child slavery within the next decade if there is a focused global strategy that includes modernising laws, getting companies to clean their supply chains and breaking trafficking networks, said economist Jeffrey Sachs. While 193 countries have committed to ending child labour and slavery by 2025 under the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sachs said there now needs to be a targeted plan of action in place in order to meet the deadline. "We have agreed globally to end child labour and to end trafficking and all forms of modern slavery, but we have to do it now," Sachs, a top adviser to the U.N. on the SDGs, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview over the weekend.
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| Syrian army, Iraqi militia accused of "slaughter" of civilians in Aleppo | | | By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Tuesday it had reports that Syrian government troops and an allied Iraqi militia had deliberately shot dead scores of men, women and children in eastern Aleppo, and warned the same "slaughter" could happen elsewhere. The U.N. human rights office cited reports that at least 82 people had been killed on the streets while fleeing or in their homes in four different neighbourhoods in the last few days. "The crushing of Aleppo, the immeasurably terrifying toll on its people, the bloodshed, the wanton slaughter of men, women and children, the destruction – and we are nowhere near the end of this cruel conflict," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said in a statement. |
| Russia says wants peace deal with Japan but sees no quick fix | | | Russia wants to boost bilateral ties with Japan on all fronts and hopes to reach a peace treaty with its eastern neighbour, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Tuesday, adding however that agreeing a peace treaty needed "scrupulous work." Ushakov was briefing reporters before Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Japan later this week. A territorial dispute between Tokyo and Moscow over a chain of western Pacific islands, seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War Two, has upset diplomatic relations ever since, precluding a formal peace treaty between the two countries. |
| I've always refused alcohol, says Toure after accepting drink-driving charge | |  Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure admitted on Tuesday to being over the legal limit following a drink-driving conviction but had no explanation for the reading after saying he does not consume alcohol because of his religious beliefs. Toure was arrested in London on Nov. 28 and was given an 18-month ban and an income-related fine of 54,000 pounds ($68,600) at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Monday. Anyone who knows me or follows football will have seen me refuse champagne for Man of the Match performances because of my commitment to my religion," Toure said, adding that he decided not to challenge the charge because he was above the allowed limit.
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| Japan casino bill clears panel, paves way to legalise gambling | |  By Thomas Wilson TOKYO (Reuters) - A contentious bill to legalise casinos in Japan cleared a key parliamentary panel on Tuesday, paving the way for high-stakes gambling in the world's third-biggest economy. Brushing off concerns - even from within Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition - over gambling addiction and other social ills, lawmakers in an upper house committee approved the bill, which essentially assures its enactment into law. Domestic and international companies from MGM Resorts International to Japanese game-machine maker Sega Sammy Holdings Inc could benefit from legalised casinos in Japan, a market that brokerage CLSA estimates could be worth up to $40 billion a year.
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| Friend of South Korea's Park chooses to appear to "get fair trial" | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - A friend of South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the centre of a scandal that led to Park's impeachment in parliament will attend the preliminary hearing in her corruption trial next week, even though she is not required to, her lawyer said. Choi Soon-sil has not appeared in public since arriving at a prosecutors' office on Oct. 31, losing a shoe as she pushed through a scrum of journalists, and protesters demanding she be brought to justice. Prosecutors have charged Choi, 60, with colluding with Park into pressuring big businesses to pay funds to foundations that backed Park's policy initiatives.
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| Cosby in court as prosecutors aim to call 13 accusers as witnesses | |  Bill Cosby returns to a Pennsylvania courtroom on Tuesday, where his lawyers are expected to renew their battle with prosecutors over whether more than a dozen female accusers can testify at his criminal sexual trial next year. The outcome of the argument is crucial for Cosby, 79. If prosecutors are successful, the entertainer would face a parade of witnesses portraying him as a serial predator, rather than a single woman testifying about a decade-old encounter fueled by drugs and alcohol.
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| Romania's president calls parties for government consultations | |  BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's President Klaus Iohannis called political parties for a first round of consultations on Wednesday on forming a new government following Sunday's national election. The Social Democrat Party won the ballot with just under 46 percent of votes in both houses of parliament, official results from more than 99 percent of polling stations showed. It is in pole position to form the new government after its long-time ally ALDE secured about 6 percent. ...
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| Turkish military strikes Islamic State targets in northern Syria - army | | | Turkish warplanes pounded 28 Islamic State targets in northern Syria while another 157 targets were hit by artillery and other weaponry in the latest attacks, the army said on Tuesday. The jets hit shelters, vehicles mounted with guns, ammunition depots and other targets in the strikes on Monday in the al-Bab and Bzagah regions of northern Syria, the military said in a statement. The strikes in northern Syria are part of Ankara's almost four-month-old "Euphrates Shield" operation with Turkish-backed rebels, which aims to push the jihadists and Kurdish militia fighters away from the Syrian border region. |
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