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| Egypt's judges new frontline in battle against militancy | | | By Yara Bayoumy and Haitham Ahmed CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces have grown accustomed to being targeted by Islamist militants. Militants are estimated to have killed more than 600 soldiers and police since the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013. A violent campaign against judges could spell trouble for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has only just managed to deliver some stability following years of upheaval in Egypt. |
| Forced sex camps prepare girls for child marriage in Zambia and Mozambique | | | By Emma Batha CASABLANCA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Girls as young as eight in Mozambique and Zambia are forced to go to camps where they are shown how to please a man in bed in order to prepare them for married life, activists said at an international conference on ending child marriage. Anglican priest Jackson Jones Katete said initiations in Zambia happen among girls between the ages of eight and 13, and may involve girls being cut by women for not performing sexual movements correctly. |
| Eight British men appear in court over multi-million pound gem heist | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Eight British men appeared in court on Thursday accused of carrying out a daring raid in London's jewellery business district that involved abseiling down an elevator shaft and drilling through a two-metre thick wall. The eight, who range in age from 48 to 76, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court charged with conspiracy to burgle the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Ltd building over the course of two nights during the long Easter weekend last month. British media have estimated that the raid on a vault full of boxes in which many of the area's gold, diamond and jewellery businesses kept some of their goods may have been the country's biggest ever heist by value. |
| Greenpeace staff to work for free after India blocks funds | |  By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Greenpeace is determined to keep operating in India even after the central government froze its bank accounts, leaving it with no funds to pay wages to hundreds of staff, its country head said on Thursday. Greenpeace took legal action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist government after bureaucrats found holes in its balance sheet and suspended transactions for six months. "The government has made it impossible for us to operate but our employees are willing to work without pay for one month because they see that the larger commitment has always been to fight against injustice," said Greenpeace India head Samit Aich.
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| Amnesty report says Qatar still failing migrant workers | |  BERNE/DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup, is doing little to improve conditions for migrant workers despite promising reform last year, Amnesty International said on Thursday, but Doha said several of the allegations were inaccurate. Amnesty said little had changed for the 1.5 million migrant workers and soccer's governing body FIFA had a "clear responsibility" to put pressure on Qatar to do more. "Without prompt action, the pledges Qatar made last year are at serious risk of being dismissed as a mere public relations stunt to ensure the Gulf state can cling on to the 2022 World Cup," said Amnesty researcher Mustafa Qadri.
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| Phone-hacking victims win damages from UK's Trinity Mirror group | | | Eight mostly celebrity victims of phone-hacking won a total of 1.2 million pounds ($1.9 million) in damages from Britain's Trinity Mirror newspaper group on Thursday in the first civil lawsuit related to the tabloid scandal to conclude in court. The victims were actress Sadie Frost, retired footballer Paul Gascoigne, BBC executive Alan Yentob, three actors from TV soap operas, a TV producer and a flight attendant who had dated England footballer Rio Ferdinand. Trinity Mirror, owner of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror tabloids, said it was considering an appeal against the High Court ruling. |
| China to investigate anti-Japan TV drama decried as vulgar | | | China's media watchdog will investigate an anti-Japan television serial that viewers have criticised as vulgar for a scene showing a woman making use of a grenade concealed in her crotch to kill Japanese soldiers, state media said on Thursday. Ties between the neighbours have been shadowed for years by what Beijing calls Japan's refusal to admit to wartime atrocities by its soldiers in China between 1937 and 1945. The 58-episode show featuring the offending scene is called "Fight the Devils Together", and started airing on May 7, but broadcasts have since halted, state news agency Xinhua said. |
| Activists alarmed about Indian laws curbing free speech amid charity crackdown | |  By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Human rights activists have called on India to reform or repeal laws that threaten free expression in the world's largest democracy and muzzle charities such as environmental group Greenpeace. Some laws are not only silencing marginal voices but are also fuelling graft, a report by PEN International, a London-based group of writers promoting freedom of speech, and the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto said.
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| Greenpeace says Chinese vessels illegally fishing off Africa, Beijing disagrees | | | Chinese fishing boats have been illegally fishing off West Africa, Greenpeace said on Wednesday, adding that Chinese companies expanded operations in Africa from 13 vessels in 1985 to 462 vessels in 2013, but the government said they are within the law. One fifth of China's distant water fishing fleet now operated in Africa, Greenpeace said in a report, and was dominated by bottom trawlers, "one of the most destructive fishing gears in the modern fishing industry." Over a 10-year period, 183 illegal fishing cases involving 118 Chinese vessels were reported in six West African countries - Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone. |
| China passive, Washington paranoid in espionage case - state media | | | Beijing must respond in the face of U.S. espionage charges against six Chinese citizens, Chinese state media said on Thursday, calling Washington paranoid for accusing the group of stealing technology often used in military systems. The U.S. Justice Department announced the charges on Tuesday, the third time in as many years that U.S. authorities have made accusations of economic espionage conducted on behalf of China, an issue Washington has termed a top national security concern. China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said it was checking the details of the case and that it was seriously concerned about the charges, a response that appeared to fall short for the Global Times, a nationalist tabloid run by the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper. |
| South Korea's Park names new PM after scandal strikes again | | | South Korean President Park Geun-hye nominated her justice minister as prime minister after the incumbent stood down amid scandal - her sixth choice for the job since taking office in 2013. Three of her nominees have stepped down before confirmation amid allegations of personal improprieties and two served, although the second also resigned amid scandal. Lee Wan-koo stepped down as premier in April amid allegations he accepted illegal campaign funds from a businessman who committed suicide after telling a newspaper that he had given money to prominent politicians. |
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