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| Chinese court jails former coal group chiefs for bribery | | | A Chinese court has jailed two former chiefs of state-owned Shanxi Coking Coal Group for bribery, the court said on Thursday, the latest in a series of company chiefs brought down by China's crackdown on corruption. Shanxi Coking Coal Group is the largest coking coal producer in China, with annual coal production of over 100 million tonnes. The court in Jiangsu, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, jailed Bai Peizhong, former group chairman, for 13 years and six months for taking and offering bribes, it said in a statement after Wednesday's trial. |
| U.N. council to vote Thursday on end to 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. The White House declined to comment. Some council diplomats hope President Barack Obama, who has had a rocky relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may allow Security Council action by abstaining on the vote.
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| Afghan police search house of parliament member after attack | |  Afghan police and security officials combed through the wreckage of a member of parliament's house in Kabul on Thursday after an attack by Taliban gunmen in which at least seven people were killed. Broken glass and spent bullet cartridges lay on the bloodstained ground of the heavily fortified house in the district of Khushal Khan belonging to Mir Wali, a member of parliament from the volatile southern province of Helmand. It was really horrible and we couldn't sleep whole the night." The Taliban said 20 people, including senior security officials from Helmand, had been killed in the attack but government officials put the death toll at seven.
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| South Korean court holds first hearing on Park's impeachment case | |  By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday began its deliberations on a parliamentary impeachment vote against President Park Geun-hye, who could become the first elected South Korean leader to be thrown out of office. Park was indicted in a December 9 parliamentary vote by a wider-than-expected margin after being accused of colluding with a friend to pressure big businesses to make contributions to non-profit foundations backing presidential initiatives. Park, whose father ruled the country for 18 years after seizing power in a 1961 coup, has denied wrongdoing but apologised for carelessness in her ties with the friend, Choi Soon-sil, who is facing her own trial.
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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. |
| 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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