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| From a former sex slave to a climate poet: five unsung heroes of 2016 | |  By Zoe Tabary LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of people around the world work tirelessly to defend human rights – often risking their lives to expose abuses against women, children, minority groups and landless farmers amongst others. * Biram Dah Abeid, anti-slavery activist The leading Mauritanian campaigner was born to slaves and should have faced a life of servitude in the desert nation which straddles the Arab Maghreb and black sub-Saharan Africa. Abeid has spent much of his life campaigning for the end of slavery in Mauritania where some 43,000 people, or about 1 percent of the population, live as slaves, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index, although others put it at 20 percent.
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| China details operating areas for foreign NGOs under new law | | | China's Ministry of Public Security has unveiled a list of areas where foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) are allowed to operate, from legal advice to equality of the sexes, ahead of the enforcement of a new law. President Xi Jinping's administration has made sweeping changes to the law in the name of boosting national security, including a cyber security law passed last month and another targeting foreign NGOs, slated for Jan. 1. Potentially sensitive services such as legal aid and legal education will be allowed, but NGOs will have to be supervised by the Justice Ministry, the Public Security Ministry said on Tuesday. |
| South Korean court allows prosecution documents in Park impeachment case | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Constitutional Court allowed on Thursday the admission of prosecutors' investigation documents in President Park Geun-hye's impeachment proceedings, dismissing an objection by Park's defence team. The court also reviewed procedural plans to rule on an impeachment vote passed by parliament on Dec. 9. (Reporting by Joyce Lee)
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| Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant - report | | | By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday. The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices, intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against the artillery in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine, the report from cyber security firm CrowdStrike found. The hacking group, known commonly as Fancy Bear or APT 28, is believed by U.S. intelligence officials to work primarily on behalf of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency. |
| North Carolina rebuffs transgender bathroom law repeal | |  By Marti Maguire RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature on Wednesday rejected a bid to repeal a state law restricting bathroom access for transgender people, which has drawn months of protests and boycotts by opponents decrying the measure as discriminatory. A one-day special legislative session ended abruptly after the state Senate voted against abolishing a law that has made North Carolina the latest U.S. battleground over lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. Democratic Senator Jeff Jackson said the repeal effort was defeated because Republicans reneged on their deal to bring the measure to a floor vote with no strings attached.
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| Cause of deadly Mexico fireworks blasts still unknown | |  By Natalie Schachar and Noe Torres TULTEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) - Forensic investigators scoured the charred remains of a fireworks market outside Mexico City on Wednesday for clues to what caused a series of massive blasts that killed at least 33 people, the third fiery accident there in 11 years. In late 2005, explosions struck the market days before Independence Day celebrations, injuring scores of people.
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| Australian police say blast at Christian group's HQ not politically motivated | | | By James Regan SYDNEY, (Reuters) - Australian police said on Thursday an explosion caused when a van drove into the headquarters of a conservative Christian lobby group in the national capital, Canberra, was not politically or religiously motivated. The 35-year-old Australian driver of the van, which was carrying gas-filled cylinders, walked into a nearby hospital suffering severe burns and was in critical condition, Australian Capital Territory Police Commander Mark Walters said. " ... As a result of our conversations with the male driver of the vehicle, we have established that the actions of this individual are not politically, religiously or ideologically motivated," Walters told reporters. |
| Witnesses fearful in wealthy heir Durst's L.A. murder case - prosecutor | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Witnesses expected to testify in the Los Angeles murder trial of real estate scion Robert Durst are concerned for their safety, a prosecutor told a judge on Wednesday, citing the heir's vast wealth and the deaths of people close to him. Durst, 73, whose ties to several slayings were chronicled last year in the HBO documentary "The Jinx," is charged with fatally shooting writer and longtime confidante Susan Berman in December 2000. Prosecutors say he killed her because of what she knew about the death of Durst's wife in New York two decades earlier.
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| China blames loss of control for Beijing minibus deaths | | | Beijing police on Thursday blamed poor driving for an accident in a northern part of the city, where four people were killed when a minibus drove into a market. The incident happened in mid-afternoon on Wednesday in a small town in Beijing's largely rural Changping district, where the minibus drove into an agricultural market. Police said in a short statement the driver "improperly operated" the minibus, causing it to lose control. |
| U.N. Security Council to vote Thursday on Israeli settlements | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Thursday on a draft resolution that would demand that Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem." Egypt circulated the draft on Wednesday evening and the 15-member council is due to vote at 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Thursday, diplomats said. It was unclear how the United States, which has traditionally protected Israel from U.N. action, would vote. U.S. officials said this month that President Barack Obama was not expected to make major moves on Israeli-Palestinian peace before leaving office. |
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