| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| China probes deputy minister on Olympic panel for discipline breach | | | A deputy sports minister on China's Olympic committee is being investigated for suspected "serious breaches of discipline and the law", the ruling Communist Party's graft watchdog said on Thursday. China's sports bodies are in the international spotlight, as Beijing competes with Almaty in Kazakhstan to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022. China, which is aggressively stamping out graft in the ranks of its government and Communist Party, has also sought to eject corrupt elements from its sports establishment, especially soccer, which has been hit by match-fixing scandals. |
| Internet firms should brief U.N. on tackling extremists - experts | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Key Internet and social media companies should brief a United Nations Security Council sanctions committee on their efforts to stop al Qaeda, Islamic State and other extremist militants spreading their ideology online, U.N. experts said. Alexander Evans, coordinator of the team of experts, said such a briefing could stimulate a conversation among the 15-committee members on whether U.N. sanctions could be expanded to help stem Internet use by Islamist militants, but he added that the "the answers are not easy." "Late last year a range of actions made much of the social media domain less-permissive territory for (militants)," he said in an interview. "The companies are aware and they have responded, but the political question is have they done enough, who should do what and what's the international consensus on this." Diplomats said the committee is considering the recommendations by the experts, who monitor the U.N. sanctions and assess the strength of the groups. |
| China says getting good global cooperation on graft fight | | | China has been getting good international cooperation in its campaign to return suspected corrupt officials who have fled abroad, including tip-offs from overseas and help from the media, the Communist Party's graft watchdog said on Thursday. The government earlier this year unveiled an initiative called "Sky Net" to better coordinate its fight to return corrupt officials and published a list of 100 suspected corrupt people believed to be abroad and subject to an Interpol "red notice". "Since the release of the 100 person 'red notice' list, our country has had positive cooperation with many other countries' legal authorities, and signs have appeared of some suspects abroad who have been hidden for a long time and thought they'd gotten away with it," the watchdog said. |
| Egypt's imprisonment of journalists at all-time high - CPJ | | | By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is holding the highest number of journalists behind bars since record keeping began, using the pretext of national security to crack down on press freedoms, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday. A prison census conducted by the CPJ on June 1 found at least 18 Egyptian journalists were being held in jail for reasons related to their reporting, the most in Egypt since the CPJ began recording data on imprisoned journalists in 1990. "The threat of imprisonment in Egypt is part of an atmosphere in which authorities pressure media outlets to censor critical voices and issue gag orders on sensitive topics," the CPJ said in a report published on Thursday. |
| China may increase penalties for illegal cults to life in prison | | | China may extend the maximum sentence for people found guilty of cult-related crimes to life imprisonment from 15 years in jail, according to a draft amendment to the country's criminal law reported by state media on Thursday. China's Communist Party does not tolerate challenges to its rule and is obsessed with social stability. The draft amendment is being considered by the Standing Committee of the country's largely rubber-stamp parliament, which is meeting until July 1. |
| Five Thai students detained in Pakistan return home | | | Five Thai students detained in Pakistan for trying to board a plane with a pistol and ammunition have been freed and returned to Bangkok on Thursday, said Thailand's foreign ministry. The men, who were studying at a religious school in Pakistan, were trying to catch a Thai Airways flight on June 8 when they were intercepted. Thailand's government said an investigation into the students found the men had no links to the Islamic State militant group or any criminal organisation. |
| Exclusive: Swiss authorities examine FIFA grants in soccer probe - source | |  By Mark Hosenball LONDON - (Reuters) - Swiss authorities are examining development grants made by FIFA around the world as part of their investigation into the sport's global governing body and its award of World Cup hosting rights for Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022, a source familiar with the probe said. The Swiss investigation is running alongside and in cooperation with a U.S. probe that led to the criminal indictment on May 27 of nine current and former FIFA officials and five executives in sports marketing and broadcasting on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges. Information technology specialists from Switzerland's federal police agency, as well as prosecutors and financial experts, are poring over masses of evidence collected by the office of Switzerland's Attorney General, the source said. The evidence includes voluminous internal records, most in digitized form, seized from the offices of FIFA's President Sepp Blatter, Secretary General Jerome Valcke and finance and administrative chief Markus Kattner.
|
| Obama announces new hostage response, but no U.S. ransoms | |  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a more coordinated U.S. response to help rescue Americans held hostage by terrorists abroad, and acknowledged his government had sometimes let the families down. After an emotional meeting with relatives of hostages, he said: "I acknowledged to them in private what I want to say publicly, that it is true that there have been times where our government, regardless of good intentions, has let them down." He added: "I promised them that we can do better." The president reasserted the main plank of U.S. policy that, unlike some allies, the government would not make concessions or pay ransom to hostage takers, saying this would enrich the militants and encourage further abductions.
|
| Confederate symbols of Civil War divide U.S. 150 years on | |  By Wayne Hester BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - More and more voices across the U.S. South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that adds new emotion and tensions to a year of soul-searching over race in America. From Alabama to Mississippi, Louisiana to Tennessee and beyond, politicians distanced themselves from flags and statues memorializing southern heroes of the 1861-65 Civil War. Alabama's governor ordered the Confederate flag and three other flags of the Confederacy removed from the grounds of the state's Capitol in Montgomery, a historically significant city in America's civil rights movement where Martin Luther King Jr. led protests in the 1950s.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment