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| Texas resident charged with conspiracy to provide support to Islamic State | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Texas resident has been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to Islamic State, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Asher Abid Khan, 20, of Spring, Texas, is accused of trying to travel to Syria to fight for the militant group. He was arrested on Tuesday morning and was to appear before a Texas federal judge later in the day, prosecutors said. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison. (Reporting by Lindsay Dunsmuir) |
| Washington Post reporter goes on trial in Tehran behind closed doors | | | Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian went on trial on espionage charges behind closed doors in Tehran on Tuesday, 10 months after he was arrested at his home and imprisoned, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The three, all American-Iranian, were in court for around two hours before the session was adjourned, IRNA added. Iranian authorities have not released details of any charges and pressed on with the case in the face of calls from U.S. President Barack Obama, family members and rights groups for Rezaian's release and more information on the charges. |
| Poachers decimate Mozambique elephant population | |  Mozambique has lost half its elephants over the past five years, part of a wave of poaching driven by red-hot demand for ivory from fast-growing Asian economies such as China and Vietnam, a conservation organisation said on Tuesday. The results of a survey indicate the southern African nation's elephant population fell to 10,300 from 20,000 five years ago, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said in a statement. "This decline is due to rampant elephant poaching," WCS said.
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| Teenager in Austrian 'Playstation' terrorism case gets 2 years | | | A 14-year-old boy from Austria who downloaded bomb-making plans onto his Playstation games console was sentenced to a two-year jail term on Tuesday after pleading guilty to terrorism charges, a court spokeswoman said. As well as researching how to build a bomb, the boy made contact with militants supporting the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, prosecutors said ahead of the trial. The boy, a Turkish national, will serve what remains of the eight-month custodial term in a juvenile detention centre, the spokeswoman for the regional court in Sankt Poelten said. |
| Bombing exposes Saudi failure to curb sectarian strains | |  By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - A suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia as it presses on with its war against Shi'ite fighters in Yemen has exposed the Sunni kingdom's failure to curb sectarianism at home and prompted fears that such tensions can only get worse. Islamic State, which claimed Friday's attack on a Shi'ite mosque, is trying to stir up sectarian confrontation as a way of hastening the overthrow of the ruling Al Saud, and is keenly aware of the war's potential for pitting Sunni against Shi'ite. Saudi authorities have avoided using openly sectarian terms to describe the Houthis, allies of Iran who adhere to the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, but many journalists, clerics and social media users have shown no such restraint.
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| Prince Ali approached by individual offering 'votes' | |  FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein's election team informed police after being approached by an individual who said he could deliver 47 votes at Friday's election, they said on Tuesday. The approach was made in April and the individual also offered to provide "what appeared to be illegally obtained" information relating to the financial activities of FIFA president Sepp Blatter, his campaign added. The individual was not identified, although the campaign said he was a third party, who was not part of FIFA nor connected to any national football association.
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| China pressure suspected as Malaysia bars Hong Kong teen activist | |  By Anuradha Raghu and Shan Kao KUALA LUMPUR/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Malaysia on Tuesday denied entry to a prominent teenage Hong Kong activist for a series of talks on democracy in China, raising concerns that Beijing may have put pressure on Kuala Lumpur. Joshua Wong, 18, was one of the leaders of last year's pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that paralysed key roads in the city for 79 days and presented China's Communist Party leadership with one of its biggest political challenges in decades. Wong and other protest leaders were accused by China's state media at the time of trying to foment a "colour revolution" to undermine Beijing's rule.
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| In Malaysian trafficking camp, evidence of abuse and fear | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Praveen Menon BUKIT WANG BURMA, Malaysia (Reuters) - It's a one-hour trek through thick jungle from the nearest road to the ramshackle camp along Malaysia's northern border, but for all its remoteness this was a perfect setting for human traffickers to ply their grisly trade. Prisoners could be kept alive with water from a stream running through the gully where the now-abandoned camp was nestled and, thanks to a good mobile phone signal from Thailand, they could communicate with accomplices across a trafficking supply chain that begins in Bangladesh and Myanmar. Altogether the authorities have found nearly 140 shallow graves at 28 camps strung along the border, some of which they believe were abandoned in haste after Thailand launched a crackdown on people smuggling earlier this month.
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| British regulator to fine 'death bonds' boss $116 million | |  By Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial regulator announced on Tuesday a decision to fine the boss of a firm which sold so-called "death bonds" 75 million pounds ($116 million), the biggest penalty it has ever handed to an individual. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it would impose the fine upon Stewart Ford, former chief executive of Keydata Investment Services. It also handed fines of 4 million pounds and 200,000 pounds respectively to Mark Owen, former sales director at Keydata, and Peter Johnson, its former compliance officer and said the individuals would be banned from roles in the regulated financial services market.
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