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| China targets rights lawyers as crackdown on activists widens | | | By Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have widened a crackdown on human rights groups, detaining or questioning more than 50 lawyers and activists in a sweep over the past few days, rights groups say. Citing the need to buttress national security and stability, President Xi Jinping's administration has tightened government control over almost every aspect of civil society since 2012. Amnesty International said on Saturday at least 52 lawyers and activists from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou had been detained or questioned over the previous 48 hours. |
| English FA boss Dyke slams Blatter over "strange" outbursts | |  English FA chairman Greg Dyke slammed embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Saturday for being anti-British and said the next boss of football's governing body had to be very different from the controversial Swiss. Last month Blatter announced, just days after his re-election, that he would step down amid a widespread corruption scandal at the organisation. This is a man that was triumphant, he thought he was going to run FIFA for four years when actually he only ran it for four days.
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| Cocaine smugglers turn to South Asia for new routes, markets | |  By Ruma Paul and Frank Jack Daniel DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police who seized Asia's largest known shipment of liquid cocaine at a Bangladeshi port late last month say it was headed for India, the latest sign that drug cartels are increasingly plying their trade in South Asia. It isn't clear whether India was the final destination for the cocaine, worth as much as $14 million, or whether it was a transit point for other markets in Asia and Europe. "They wanted to redirect it to India when it got stuck at Chittagong," Bangladeshi police official Mohammad Kamruzzaman said.
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| Mali makes arrests linked to Islamist attacks - sources | | | The Malian army captured two people linked to Islamist group Ansar Dine and seized evidence linking them to planned attacks, security sources said on Saturday. Ansar Dine was part of an alliance of Islamist fighters that helped seize Mali's desert north after a Tuareg uprising in 2012 but was ousted by a French military operation a year later. The group this week claimed responsibility for a series of recent attacks across Mali's south and west, including the capital Bamako, formerly deemed safe. |
| Tripoli parliament stays away from signing of Libya peace agreement | | | By Aziz El Yaakoubi SKHIRAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Some Libyan warring factions signed an initial United Nations-sponsored agreement on Sunday to form a unity government and end fighting, but a key player from a parliament controlling the capital Tripoli stayed away. An armed alliance known as Libya Dawn took over Tripoli and declared its own government and parliament a year ago, driving out the internationally recognised premier and deepening anarchy in the North African country. The United Nations, wrapping up months of negotiations, had invited the warring factions to the Moroccan coastal town of Skhirat to sign an initial power-sharing agreement. |
| After slavery, trafficked fishermen face lonely road to recovery | |  By Astrid Zweynert PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When hundreds of fishermen were rescued from a life of slavery on Thai fishing boats off the coast of Indonesia earlier this year, the world took notice. Trafficked and sold to work on the boats, the men - mostly from Myanmar and Cambodia - had endured beatings, abuse and torture. "Everyone is shocked when they hear about the conditions on these fishing boats - but then what?
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