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| 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. |
| 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. |
| In education push, Tanzania to punish parents of children out of school | | | By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Tanzania prepares to introduce free basic education for all, the government has warned that it will punish parents who fail to ensure their children go to school. In a major policy shift, primary and secondary schooling will be free for all Tanzanian children from January, as the government joins its East African neighbour Uganda in offering universal education free of charge. George Masaju, Tanzania's attorney general, warned that parents deemed to be holding back efforts to create a literate society by keeping children out of school would face punishment. |
| Twitter warns some users of possible state-sponsored cyber attack | |  Twitter Inc issued an alert to some users warning them that state-sponsored hackers may have tried to obtain sensitive data from their accounts, the company said, the first such warning by the micro blogging site. Twitter's notice is the latest amid concern about cyber attacks by state-sponsored organizations. One organization that said it received the notice, a Winnipeg-based nonprofit called Coldhak, said the warning from Twitter came on Friday.
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| Singapore court rules N.Korea-linked shipper guilty in illegal arms case | | | A district court in Singapore on Monday found Chinpo Shipping, a company implicated in an illegal shipment of arms on a North Korean container ship, guilty of two criminal charges. Singapore-based Chinpo Shipping Company (Private) Ltd had been charged by the city-state for transferring financial assets or resources that could have been used to contribute to North Korea's weapon programmes, which are subject to U.N. sanctions. |
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