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| Two Thais arrested for trafficking of Bangladeshis, Rohingya | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities have arrested two men with human trafficking, police said on Tuesday, following the discovery of 134 suspected victims in southern Thailand at a time when the military government is under international pressure to tackle the crime. The two Thais were charged in relation to a group of 53 men found on Saturday at a rubber plantation - 38 from Bangladesh and 15 Rohingya, a mostly stateless Muslim minority from western Myanmar. ... |
| UK anti-terrorism police arrest six in Syria-linked operation | | | LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested three men and three women on Tuesday in a counter-terrorism operation linked to the civil war in Syria. Counter terrorism officers detained the suspects in London, Portsmouth, on England's south coast, and in Farnborough, west of the British capital. The group, aged between 23 and 57, were being held on suspicion of range of terrorism offences. ... |
| FACTBOX: How does someone end up stateless in Europe? | |  By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There are an estimated 600,000 stateless people in Europe who are not recognised as nationals by any country. Campaigners are calling for better protection of the continent's "legal ghosts". Below, seven people tell their stories. NATASHA grew up in the former USSR in what is now Moldova. In 1991 she was trafficked to Slovakia and forced into prostitution. She escaped and remained in Slovakia without documents. ...
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| Europe urged to end plight of 600,000 ghost people | |  By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - European countries must end the plight of an estimated 600,000 stateless people by giving them similar protection to refugees, campaigners said on Tuesday as they launched a day of action to highlight the predicament of the continent's "legal ghosts". Stateless people, who are not recognised as nationals of any country, are denied basic rights that most people take for granted. They cannot work, access healthcare or even get married. They often end up destitute or in detention and are highly vulnerable to exploitation. ...
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| "Like tumbleweed, I can never put down roots" - stateless woman | | | By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Railya Abulkhanova flies abroad she faces hours of interrogation by immigration officials. When she applies for a job she is met with suspicion. The former university professor has never been in trouble with the law -- her problem is she has no nationality: she is stateless. "I cannot put down roots so it's like tumbleweed which rolls and rolls without stopping. I want to stop and put down roots, but I can't," says Railya, who was born in the Soviet Union's Kazakh republic and now lives in France. ... |
| Palestinian mosque in West Bank torched in suspected arson | | | AQRABA West Bank (Reuters) - A mosque was set alight in a suspected arson attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and the name of an Israeli vigilante group called "price tag" was found scribbled on an outside wall, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. Israeli police said they were investigating the incident, which took place in Aqraba, a village east of Nablus. Residents told Reuters they noticed smoke coming from the building before dawn and rushed to douse the flames, which damaged a carpet and blackened one of the walls. ... |
| Hundreds of alleged Dropbox passwords leaked | |  (Reuters) - Hundreds of alleged usernames and passwords for online document-sharing site Dropbox were published on Monday on Pastebin, an anonymous information-sharing website. The anonymous user, who claims to have hacked close to 7 million accounts, is calling for Bitcoin donations to fund the operation. "We will keep releasing more to the public as donations come in, show your support," the anonymous Pastebin user said on the site. Dropbox, however, said it has not been hacked. ...
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| Russian hackers target NATO, Ukraine and others - iSight | |  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Russian hackers exploited a bug in Microsoft Windows and other software to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union, Ukraine and companies in the energy and telecommunications sectors, according to cyber intelligence firm iSight Partners. ISight said it did not know what data had been found by the hackers, though it suspected they were seeking information on the Ukraine crisis, as well as diplomatic, energy and telecom issues, based on the targets and the contents of phishing emails used to infect computers with tainted files. ...
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