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| Three jailed as Thai police launch sweeping royal defamation probe | | | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai military court jailed three people on Wednesday, including an aide to the crown prince, as part of a major probe into a group of people who allegedly falsely claimed links to the monarchy. Thailand's lese-majeste laws are the world's harshest and make it a crime to defame, insult or threaten the royal family. The investigation comes at a time when the government is cracking down on perceived royal defamation with prosecutions skyrocketing since a May 2014 coup. |
| Chinese consul shot and wounded in Philippine restaurant | | | A Chinese woman shot and wounded China's consul general to the Philippine city of Cebu and killed two staff while they were eating in a restaurant on Wednesday, a police spokesman said. Song Ronghua was rushed to a hospital for treatment, Chief Superintendent Prudencio Banas said, adding the woman was arrested. |
| Steenkamp's mother says wants no revenge against Pistorius | |  The mother of slain model Reeva Steenkamp said on Wednesday she did not want retribution against South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, who was released into house arrest this week just under a year into his five-year jail term. The disgraced track star, who was found guilty of culpable homicide for killing Steenkamp by firing four shots through a locked bathroom door, will be confined to his uncle Arnold's home in a suburb of the capital, Pretoria. "I don't want him thrown in jail and be suffering ... that's not going to bring Reeva back.
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| NY federal prosecutor probes daily fantasy sports business - WSJ | | | (Reuters) - Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is investigating whether the business model behind daily fantasy sports companies such as DraftKings Inc and FanDuel Inc violates federal law, the Wall Street Journal reported. The investigation is at an early stage and senior Justice Department lawyers in Washington are undecided on whether daily fantasy sports betting violates federal gambling statutes, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately reach representatives at the prosecutor's office, DraftKings, and FanDuel for comment outside regular U.S business hours. |
| New York court rejects appeal, lets Yale keep van Gogh painting | | | By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court upheld a lower ruling on Tuesday, allowing Yale University to keep a painting by famed Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh and denying a request by the great-grandson of a Russian art collector to argue his ownership of the painting. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the arguments made by Pierre Konowaloff, the great-grandson of art collector Ivan Abramovich Morozov, lacked merit. The 1888 oil painting, titled "The Night Café," once belonged to Morozov, one of three major art collectors whose collections were expropriated in 1918 by the Russian Bolshevik revolutionary government. |
| Singapore megachurch leaders hit a sour note in pop music fraud case | | | The co-founder of a Singapore church and five other leaders were convicted of multi-million dollar fraud on Wednesday for diverting money to support his wife's pop singing career, a rare fall from grace in the tightly regulated city-state. The mix of money, faith and scandal in the case has fascinated the public in affluent Singapore, where such cases are rare under a system with little tolerance for corruption. Senior pastor Kong Hee heads City Harvest Church, one of a growing number of Singapore's megachurches preaching "prosperity gospel" that blends spiritual and material aspirations. |
| Indonesia to use chemical castration to punish paedophiles - Attorney General | | | Indonesia's president will soon sign a decree authorising the use of chemical castration to punish paedophiles, the attorney general said, following a string of headline-grabbing child sex crimes. Indonesia will join a small group of nations that allows such punishment, including Poland, Russia, and Estonia, as well as some U.S. states. In 2011, South Korea became the first Asian country to use chemical castration as a punishment. |
| China investigates senior military logistics officer | | | A senior Chinese army logistics officer is being investigated for corruption, state media said on Wednesday, the latest military official to be probed in an ongoing anti-graft campaign. China's President Xi Jinping has made weeding out corruption in the military a top goal, with serving and retired officers warning that graft is so pervasive it could undermine the country's ability to wage war. Zhou Guotai, a major general and the former deputy head in charge of fuel and supplies at the military's powerful General Logistics Department, has been put under investigation for "suspected serious violations of discipline", China Military Online said. |
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