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| Swiss examine 133 suspicious transactions linked to 2018 and 2022 World Cups | | | Swiss authorities are reviewing 133 reports of suspicious financial activity linked to the decisions by soccer's ruling body to let Russia and Qatar host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals, the Swiss Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said on Monday. Russia and Qatar, a small desert country with no real soccer tradition and where daytime temperatures can top 40 degrees Celsius (104F), have denied wrongdoing. An OAG spokeswoman said by email in response to a Reuters query that the suspicious activity reports came from a Swiss financial intelligence unit called the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS). |
| French teacher attacked by man claiming Islamic State link | | | A hooded man claiming to be acting for Islamic State attacked a nursery school teacher with a knife-like weapon as he prepared for classes in a school north of Paris, French officials said on Monday. According to one judiciary official, the assailant slashed at the teacher's neck and said the act was a signal from the Islamic State group, also referred to in France by the name Daesh. "This is Daesh, it's a warning," the attacker told his victim, the official said, adding the victim's life was apparently not in danger. |
| Burundi starts trial of May coup plotters, days after fighting | |  A group of generals and senior officers went on trial in Burundi on Monday accused of being behind a failed coup in May, with the capital still tense after attacks last week by insurgents on military camps in which about 90 people were killed. Former Defence Minister Cyrille Ndayirukiye and five other generals are among 28 people standing trial for their role in the attempted coup, launched when President Pierre Nkurunziza was abroad. While Burundi's government insists the army remains united, experts fear the violence could fracture the patchwork force and deepen a crisis in a region where memories of neighbouring Rwanda's 1994 genocide are still raw.
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| Participant in China Xinjiang attack was brainwashed - report | | | A participant in a September attack on a coal mine in China's far western region of Xinjiang that killed 16 people said he had been brainwashed to believe he was going to heaven, a state-run paper reported on Monday. Hundreds of people have been killed in the past few years in the region, which is home to the mainly Muslim Uighur people, in violence blamed by the government on Islamist militants seeking an independent state called East Turkestan. China only admitted last month the mine attack had happened, when it said its security forces had killed 28 of the "terrorists" involved. |
| Thai activists urge release of man detained over Facebook post | | | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai activists on Monday demanded the release of a man arrested for sharing an infographic on Facebook detailing alleged graft in an army-built park, saying plainclothes security officers took him by force. Since taking power in a military coup in May 2014, Thailand's ruling junta has issued directives that have largely stifled dissent, including barring political discussions and debate. On Sunday, a 25-year-old student, Thanet Anantawong, was taken from a hospital while he awaited an operation, said prominent anti-junta activist, Siriwat Serithiwat. |
| Iraqi state oil firm official shot dead in Kirkuk city - police | | | Gunmen shot dead a senior employee of Iraq's state-run North Oil Company (NOC) on Monday, the third company official to be killed in the past four months, police and sources within the company said. Deputy inspector-general Hassan Salim and three other employees were driving to their office in the northern oil city of Kirkuk when assailants in a speeding car sprayed their minibus with bullets. Salim and another employee were killed instantly and the two other passengers were seriously wounded, police sources said. |
| Laos shows "no political will" to solve activist's disappearance, U.N. rights official says | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Communist Laos has shown "no political will to solve" the mystery of the abduction of a prominent social activist, a United Nations human rights official said on Monday, on the third anniversary of the kidnapping. The United Nations and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said police in Laos refused to view new footage of the abduction of Sombath Somphone, a civil society leader who worked to promote sustainable development for the rural poor. Laurent Meillan of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said the abduction had created "a culture of fear" among workers of non-government organisations in Laos, one of Southeast Asia's poorest countries. |
| Trial of China rights lawyer lasts three hours, police block court access | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - The trial of one of China's most high profile human rights lawyers, on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble, lasted just three hours on Monday, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the Beijing court. Pu Zhiqiang, who has spent nearly 19 months in detention, faces up to eight years in prison if convicted, according to one of his lawyers, Shang Baojun. Dan Biers, deputy political counsellor of the U.S. embassy in Beijing, called for Pu's release and criticised the "vague charges" that have been handed down against Pu.
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| China recommends life term for wife of disgraced official Bo Xilai | |  A Beijing court has recommended a suspended death sentence for the wife of disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai be commuted to life in prison, after she showed repentance and committed no further crime, Chinese media said on Monday. Gu Kailai was sentenced in 2012 for murdering British businessman Neil Heywood the previous year, kicking off China's most sensational political scandal in years. A suspended death sentence is normally commuted to life in jail.
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| In American mosques, growing safety concerns - and more armed guards | |  By Idrees Ali CORONA, Calif. (Reuters) - From the suburbs of Los Angeles to the outskirts of Washington, D.C., mosques around the United States are warily stepping up security in the face of growing fears about reprisals on American Muslims. The increasing safety concerns described by American Islamic leaders - and the steps they are taking in response, including hiring armed guards - represent the flip side of the rising public anxiety about Islamic State-inspired terror after attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California. The call by Republican presidential contender Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the United States only amplified concerns about an anti-Islamic backlash at mosques and community centers, religious leaders and organizers say.
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| Australian teenager pleads guilty to a 'terrorism' charge | | | By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Melbourne teen arrested after police found explosives at his home pleaded guilty on Monday to a terrorism-related charge, highlighting concerns about youth radicalisation following last week's arrest of a 15-year-old Sydney boy in police raids. The 17-year-old was planning an attack using improvised explosive devices, police said in May when they raided his home in Greenvale, 20 kms (12 miles) north of Australia's second city, Melbourne. The boy, who could not be identified because of his age, pleaded guilty to a single charge of "engaging in an act in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act," the Australian Associated Press reported from the courtroom. |
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