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Prince Ali approached by individual offering 'votes'
1:03:33 PM

Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, FIFA   presidential candidate, attends the Soccerex Asian Forum at the King Hussein   Convention Center at the Dead Sea, JordanFIFA 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.




China pressure suspected as Malaysia bars Hong Kong teen activist
12:49:36 PM

Student leader Joshua Wong is scolded by government   supporters during a promotional event on electoral reform in Hong Kong, ChinaBy 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.




In Malaysian trafficking camp, evidence of abuse and fear
12:44:02 PM

Combination picture shows clothes photographed near   abandoned human trafficking camp in the jungle close the Thailand border at Bukit   Wang Burma in northern MalaysiaBy 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.




British regulator to fine 'death bonds' boss $116 million
12:24:06 PM

The logo of the new Financial Conduct Authority is   seen at the agency's headquarters in the Canary Wharf business district of   LondonBy 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.




Nepal moves to protect children from traffickers after quake
11:21:50 AM

Woman holding her child stands in a queue to receive   food near a makeshift shelter after the April 25 earthquake in KathmanduBy Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal banned children from travelling without parents or approved guardians on Tuesday in an unprecedented move to deter human traffickers who authorities fear are targeting vulnerable families after last month's devastating earthquake. Hundreds of thousands of families lost their homes in Nepal after two large earthquakes struck on April 25 and May 12, killing more than 8,600 people and raising concerns among rights groups that trafficking rings in the region are taking advantage of the chaos. Children under 16 would not be permitted to travel outside their home district without a parent or another adult approved by the district's Child Welfare Board, a senior official said.




Security at Vienna Airport suspected of human trafficking, Britain's G4S sacks employee
10:56:30 AM
Private security staff at Vienna Airport are suspected of smuggling refugees, mainly Sri Lankans, through security checks onto flights to the United States and Britain, Austrian prosecutors said on Tuesday. Police are investigating 13 private security staff operating at Vienna Airport over suspicions they abused their access to security systems. British security firm G4S said one of its staff was under suspicion in the case and had been sacked.


Taliban suicide bombers attack Afghan court killing two
10:44:16 AM
Taliban suicide bombers attacked a court in Wardak province on Tuesday, killing two police officers before being shot dead as they entered the compound, the police chief said. The police officers were killed when one of the bombers detonated his vest at the first entrance. Wardak province is about an hour's drive west of the capital.


Teenager gets two-year sentence in Austrian terrorism case
10:17:31 AM
VIENNA (Reuters) - A 14-year-old boy from Austria was sentenced to a two-year jail term on Tuesday for preparing to join militants in Syria and researching how to build a bomb, a court spokeswoman said. The Turkish citizen, who pleaded guilty to the charges, has been in pretrial custody since October. Sixteen months of the sentence was suspended, the spokeswoman said. (Reporting by Shadia Nasralla; editing by John Stonestreet)


Kenya says five policemen wounded by Al Shabaab, no deaths
10:14:32 AM
Five Kenyan police officers were wounded by Somali militants who attacked two patrols in rural areas in the east of the country, Kenya's police chief said on Tuesday, contradicting earlier reports that about 20 people were killed in the attacks. Two officers were critically wounded and three sustained minor injuries when the patrols were attacked in the Fafi and Yumbis areas, Inspector General Joseph Boinnet said in a statement. Al Shabaab said it killed 25 officers while local media had earlier put the death toll at about 20.


Washington Post reporter goes on trial behind closed doors in Tehran
9:55:14 AM
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 U.S.-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.


Malaysian police reveal grim secrets of jungle trafficking camps
9:37:21 AM

Forensic policemen carry body bags with human remains   found at the site of human trafficking camps in the jungle close the Thailand   border after they brought them to a police camp near Wang Kelian in northern   MalaysiaBy Praveen Menon and Andrew R.C. Marshall BUKIT WANG BURMA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysian police forensic teams, digging with hoes and shovels, began pulling out the remains of dozens of suspected victims of human traffickers on Tuesday from shallow graves discovered at a jungle camp near the border with Thailand. The government said it was investigating whether local forestry officials were involved with the people-smuggling gangs believed responsible for nearly 140 such graves discovered around grim camps in the country's northwest. The dense forests of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major stop-off point for smugglers bringing people to Southeast Asia by boat from Myanmar, most of them Rohingya Muslims who say they are fleeing persecution, and Bangladesh.




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