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| Myanmar arrests leader of Saffron Revolution on immigration charges - media | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar has arrested a former monk and leader of a 2007 uprising on grounds of illegally crossing the border, media said on Wednesday, spotlighting the issue of political prisoners that faces Aung San Suu Kyi's incoming government. Nyi Nyi Lwin, better known as Gambira, was freed from prison during a 2012 general amnesty, a year after Myanmar's junta handed power to a semi-civilian government, following 49 years of direct rule of the southeast Asian nation. Since his release, Gambira has divided his time between Myanmar and neighboring Thailand, but Myanmar authorities have re-arrested him several times, in what his family has described as continued harassment for his criticism of the government.
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| As mobile fuels sports betting boom, corruption concerns mount | | | By Matt Siegel and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - The rise of mobile betting is transforming global sports wagering faster than regulators can react, flooding the industry with cash and potentially contributing to corruption scandals like the one roiling world tennis, experts and insiders say. The ubiquity of mobile phones and tablets has helped transformed bookmakers from operators of dingy, smoke-filled betting shops into multi-billion dollar de facto tech firms, pouring resources into developing apps and complex algorithms and marketing to younger and broader demographics. "Technology is everything." The greatest danger for mobile gambling to intersect with corruption lies in the ease of fixing a one-on-one sport like tennis, darts or snooker, according to experts and professional gamblers. |
| Gunmen kill at least 19 after storming Pakistan university | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A group of militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens as the army hunted for any gunmen still holed up on the campus, officials said. A security official said the death toll could rise to as high as 40 as the army cleared out student hostels and classrooms. A spokesman for the rescue workers, Bilal Ahmad Faizi, said 19 bodies had been recovered including students, guards, policemen and at least one professor.
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| Support for Merkel dips further on German refugee fears | |  Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservative bloc has slipped further due to her handling of the refugee crisis and worries about crime and security after assaults on women at New Year in Cologne, a poll showed on Wednesday. Merkel's open-door refugee policy, and her insistence that Germany can cope with last year's influx of 1.1 million migrants and more this year, has strained local authorities and split her right-left coalition. Mass sexual attacks on women in Cologne and other German cities at New Year which have been largely blamed on migrants have deepened public scepticism about Merkel's policy.
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| Colorado cinema killer James Holmes transferred to third prison | |  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes has been moved to a different prison for the third time since his conviction last year for shooting dead 12 moviegoers in 2012, a corrections official said on Tuesday. Holmes was moved this month under an interstate agreement, which allows transfers from other jurisdictions, the spokeswoman said, but she declined to say why he was moved, if he was transferred out of state or to a federal prison. Inmates can be transferred for many reasons, including security issues or conflicts with other inmates, Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman Adrienne Jacobson said.
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| Amnesty says Kurds conduct campaign to uproot Arabs in north Iraq | | | Kurdish forces have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of Arab homes across northern Iraq in what may constitute a war crime, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said in a report published on Wednesday. In the report, Amnesty said it found evidence of a "concerted campaign" by the Kurds to uproot Arab communities in revenge for their perceived support of Islamic State, which overran around one third of the country in the summer of 2014. Kurdish peshmerga forces have since driven the insurgents back in the north with the help of airstrikes from a U.S.-led coalition, expanding their control to include ethnically mixed territories they claim as their own. |
| Two gunmen killed in attack on Pakistan university - police official | |  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two of the gunmen who stormed a university campus in northwestern Pakistan have been killed, police said, but other attackers are believed to be on the second and third floors of campus buildings and firing is still going on. Deputy Inspector General Saeed Wazir said police believed that most of the students had been rescued but several gunmen remained at large inside the university. (Reporting by Jibran Ahmed; Writing by Tommy Wilkes)
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| India must strengthen planned law to protect transgender people, says rights group | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's draft law aimed at protecting the rights of the transgender community must be strengthened to allow people to be legally recognised by self identification rather than based on the opinions of experts, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. India's upper house of parliament in April last year passed "The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill" which recognises the right of an individual to be termed as of a third gender and provides them with benefits in education and employment. "The Transgender Persons Bill will help protect and empower India's transgender population, but the government needs also to address the bill's shortcomings," Meenakshi Ganguly, HRW's South Asia director, said in a statement.
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| Americans missing in Baghdad kidnapped by Iran-backed militia - Iraqi, US sources | | | By Mark Hosenball, Lesley Wroughton and Stephen Kalin WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. citizens who disappeared last week in Baghdad were kidnapped and are being held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, two Iraqi intelligence and two U.S. government sources said on Tuesday. Unknown gunmen seized the three on Friday from a private residence in the southeastern Dora district of Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. The U.S. sources said Washington had no reason to believe Tehran was involved in the kidnapping and did not believe the trio were being held in Iran, which borders Iraq. |
| China accuses detained Swede of fabricating information | | | The Chinese government has accused a detained Swedish national of operating an unlicensed rights group in China, which "fabricated and distorted" information about the country and organised others to "interfere" in sensitive cases. Beijing confirmed earlier this month that authorities had detained Peter Dahlin, the 35-year-old co-founder of the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group, on suspicion of endangering state security. Chinese police and national security authorities said in a statement they had "smashed an illegal organisation that sponsored activities jeopardising China's national security". |
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