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| China to try former secret police official for bribery | | | China will prosecute a former high ranking official in its secret police for suspected bribery, the state prosecutor said on Monday, taking a step that will almost certainly result in a conviction. Ma Jian, once a vice minister at China's Ministry of State Security, is the most senior security official to be investigated since former domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang was ensnared in a graft scandal and jailed for life in 2015. Ma, who was put under investigation in January 2015, was expelled from the party in December after it accused him of abuse of power, taking bribes and interfering in unspecified law enforcement activities. |
| Philippine agency running drugs war says army to play only support role | | | By Martin Petty and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops will only provide back-up in the war on drugs and not patrol the streets or play any kind of leading role, the head of an anti-narcotics agency that has been given charge of the campaign said on Monday. Last week, President Rodrigo Duterte suspended the national police from the anti-drugs war that has killed over 7,600 people in seven months after a South Korean businessman was kidnapped and killed by members of a police drugs squad. "They (troops) will be in support of PDEA agents," the agency's director general, Isidro Lapena, said in an interview. |
| Hungarian court orders new procedure in toxic spill case | | | A Hungarian court on Monday annulled an earlier ruling that acquitted 15 people tried in connection with a toxic spill from an alumina reservoir that killed 10 people in 2010. The spill was one of Hungary's worst environmental disasters. |
| Romania to draft new criminal bill after protests stop decree | |  Romania's justice minister said he will publish details of a new bill on the criminal code on Monday, a day after the government scrapped an earlier decree following the biggest mass protests since the 1989 overthrow of Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. Hundreds of thousands of Romanians had protested in the capital Bucharest and dozens of other cities against the decree that would have effectively shielded some officials from prosecution on corruption charges. The government has said the decree, hastily adopted late on Tuesday was designed to bring the criminal code into line with recent constitutional court rulings.
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| Turkey says detains 748 Islamic State suspects in weekend operations | | | Turkey detained 748 Islamic State suspects in weekend operations in 29 provinces, the interior ministry said, in its biggest round-up targeting the jihadist group in Turkey. Turkish police seized numerous documents, digital materials, two guns, four rifles and ammunition in the operations, the statement said. Thirty-nine people, mainly foreigners, were killed at New Year when an Islamic State militant opened fire inside the Reina night club in Istanbul. |
| Afghan diplomat shot dead at consulate in Pakistan's Karachi | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI (Reuters) - An Afghan diplomat was shot dead on Monday in the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi in what was described as a personal dispute, Pakistani officials said. The consulate's third secretary was killed by a private guard, who had been arrested, police official Saqib Ismail told Reuters.
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| Samsung Group to disband its corporate strategy office after probe ends | |  By Se Young Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Group said it will disband its corporate strategy office after a special prosecution probe ends, setting a timeline on a pledge to wind up a power centre that has been criticised for its role in South Korea's graft scandal. The strategy office, comprised of some 200 elite staff hand-picked from affiliates of the nation's top conglomerate, is the vehicle through which the founding Lee family makes key decisions such as restructuring and investments for new businesses, insiders and analysts say. It has been under intense scrutiny as the South Korean special prosecutor's office probed the smartphones-to-biopharmaceuticals business empire as part of a wider investigation into the scandal that threatens to permanently unseat President Park Geun-hye.
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| Thailand says royal insult suspects in Laos made death threats against PM | |  Thai people wanted for breaking a law on insulting the monarchy have issued death threats against the Thai prime minister, from Laos where they have fled to avoid arrest, Thailand's top security officer said on Monday. Last month, Thailand pressed Laos over the extradition of Thai fugitives accused of lese majeste, or royal insult, which carries a jail term of up to 15 years for each offence. Thailand's military government says there are up to six Thai suspects in Laos who it is seeking.
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| Deleted postings about missing Chinese billionaire hint at tensions | |  By Julie Zhu and Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scores of China social media postings about a well-connected billionaire who went missing from a Hong Kong hotel have been deleted, pointing to what appears to be heightened sensitivity in Beijing over the case of Xiao Jianhua. Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Xiao, one of China's richest men who has close ties to some of its leaders and their relatives. The case has echoes of the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers more than a year ago who had published books critical of China's leaders.
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| Legal battles to test Trump and his immigration ban | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban faced on Monday the first of several crucial legal hurdles that could determine whether he can push through the most controversial and far reaching policy of his first two weeks in office. On Monday, the government has a deadline to justify the executive order temporarily barring immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries and the entry of refugees after a federal judge in Seattle blocked it with a temporary restraining order on Friday. The uncertainty caused by a judge's stay of the ban has opened a window for travelers from the seven affected countries to enter the United States.
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| Somalia's al Shabaab executes four men accused of spying | | | Al Shabaab militants in Somalia publicly beheaded four men accused of spying for the country's Western-backed government, the United States and neighbouring Kenya, residents in the south of the Horn of Africa country said. The al Qaeda-linked group confirmed the executions, which took place on Sunday after the men were found guilty by an al Shabaab court in Jamame district of lower Jubba region, some 70 km (43 miles) north of Kismayu. "The court ruled on their cases and four of the men were executed publicly in Jamame District according to the Sharia this (Sunday) afternoon," Mohamed Abu Abdalla, al Shabaab's governor for the Jubba region, told Reuters, without elaborating on the method of execution. |
| Samsung Group says process to disband its corporate strategy office underway | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group said on Monday it will disband its corporate strategy office tasked with managing long-term group-related affairs at the conclusion of the current special prosecution probe. Jay Y. Lee, third-generation leader of the country's top conglomerate, said at a December parliament hearing he plans to disband the office but did not give a specific timeline. Samsung said in a statement the process of dismantling the office is already underway but did not elaborate further. (Reporting by Se Young Lee; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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| Australian PM under threat from party split as shift to the right grows | |  By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - A prominent member of Australia's government is set to defect to form his own conservative party, media reported on Monday, further evidence of a shift towards the right that is weakening Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's already tenuous grip on power. Adding to centre-right leader Turnbull's woes, an opinion poll published on Monday showed that support for his coalition had slipped to its lowest since he took power in a party-room coup 17 months ago and that his Liberal-National coalition would easily fall if an election was held now. Both developments came only days after Turnbull's leadership was questioned after he was berated by U.S. President Donald Trump over a refugee resettlement deal in a tense telephone call that hit international headlines.
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