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| Texas 'affluenza' teen delays extradition, mother deported from Mexico | |  By Marice Richter and Dave Graham FORT WORTH/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The mother of a Texas teenager, scorned for his "affluenza" defense in a trial over a deadly car crash, arrived in the United States on Thursday after deportation from Mexico, while her son won a delay in his extradition, media and Mexican officials said. Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, were captured in the Mexican Pacific Coast city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday. Tonya Couch, who is wanted on a charge of hindering apprehension, was flown out of Mexico and landed in Los Angeles early Thursday en route to Texas, the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press reported.
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| Bangladesh sentences two to death for blogger killing | | | A fast-track court in Bangladesh sentenced two former students to death on Thursday for the 2013 murder of an online critic of religious militancy, lawyers said. Rajib Haider, an architect and blogger, was hacked to death near his house in the capital, Dhaka, in February 2013, having led a popular movement demanding the death penalty for Islamist leaders accused of atrocities in Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence. This year, four more bloggers and a publisher have also been killed in Bangladesh amidst a rise in Islamist violence in which liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have also been targeted. |
| Mother of Texas "affluenza" teen arrives back in U.S. | | | The mother of a Texas teenager, known as the "affluenza" teen for using his family's wealth as a defense for killing four people in a drunk driving incident, was deported from Mexico and arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday, local media said. Tanya Couch, mother of Ethan Couch, 18, was to be handed over to the U.S. Marshals Service who would take her back to Texas. |
| Belgium makes 10th arrest in Paris attacks investigation | | | A man was arrested during a search of a house in Brussels on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said on Thursday, making him the 10th person to be held in Belgium over the militant attacks in Paris which killed 130 people in November. The man, named as 22-year-old Ayoub B., was charged with terrorist murder and participation in a terrorist organisation, prosecutors said on Thursday. Belgium has been at the heart of investigations into attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 in which 130 people were killed, as two of the Paris suicide bombers, Brahim Abdeslam and Bilal Hadfi, had been living in Belgium. |
| French journalist has to quit China after article on troubled Xinjiang | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - A French journalist is being forced to leave China after the government said it would not renew her press credentials for the new year in response to a critical report on Beijing's policies in the troubled western region of Xinjiang. The departure of Ursula Gauthier, a reporter for the French current affairs magazine L'Obs, will mark the first time in more than three years that a journalist has been forced to leave China due to a refusal by authorities to renew accreditation. China's foreign ministry said on Saturday that Gauthier could no longer work in China because she did not make a public apology for an article she wrote on Nov. 18.
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| South Korea defends accord with Japan to settle 'comfort women' issue | |  South Korea defended on Thursday an agreement with Japan to settle the issue of "comfort women" following criticism it was inadequate, saying it was the best any government could do in the lifetimes of the elderly victims of abuse. Under Monday's agreement, South Korea confirmed the issue of "comfort women," as those forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels are euphemistically known, was resolved "finally and irreversibly", if Japan faithfully took steps to help survivors. Many other South Koreans have been critical and the political opposition called it "degrading".
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| China rolls out reforms of controversial security force | | | China has introduced reforms promising greater oversight over a controversial system of security officials that has often sparked public acrimony over reports of abusive practices, state media reported. The security officials work with police to enforce minor city rules and regulations, but they are often derided as thuggish. In an interview about the reforms on Thursday, Chen Zhenggao, minister of housing and urban-rural development, told the official Xinhua news agency that greater provincial and national oversight of the security officials, known as "chengguan", was needed. |
| China to prosecute former deputy environment minister for graft | | | Chinese authorities will prosecute a former deputy environment minister for corruption after a probe by the ruling Communist Party found he abused his power and took bribes, the party's anti-graft watchdog said on Thursday. The investigation into Zhang Lijun, who served in his position between 2008-2013, began in July. While in office, he took gifts in exchange for promotions, abused his position for the business interests of family members and of unnamed companies, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a short statement. |
| U.S.-trained commandos in Philippines kill 10 militants - army | | | U.S.-trained army commandos in the Philippines killed 10 al Qaeda-linked militants in a clash on a southern island, a military spokesman said on Thursday, as security forces intensify a search for foreign hostages. A lieutenant was among eight Philippine soldiers killed or wounded in a clash with about 300 members of the Abu Sayyaf militant group on Jolo island late on Wednesday, spokesman Major Filemon Tan told reporters. "Our troops are pursuing the Abu Sayyaf who broke into small groups and withdrew to the interior of the island," Tan said, adding that 15 militants had also been wounded in the fighting. |
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