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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 transform 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.
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| China busts child trafficking ring, recovers 15 infants - Xinhua | | | Police in China have broken a child trafficking ring that they say had been selling children from the remote southwest to buyers near the coast 2,000 km (1,245 miles) away for as little as about $3,000, the state news agency Xinhua has reported. Police caught 78 suspects and rescued 15 infants, the report late on Wednesday said. Xinhua said police spotted a suspicious couple in September that travelled frequently between the mountainous town of Liangshan in Sichuan province and the city of Linyi in Shandong province near the coast. |
| U.S. lawmakers delay bill on European data privacy deal | | Wednesday, January 20, 2016 11:34 PM | |
|  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation that would grant U.S. privacy rights to Europeans is being delayed in the U.S. Senate, which may complicate negotiations over a broader trans-Atlantic data transfer pact that faces a January deadline for completion, sources said on Wednesday. The Judicial Redress Act, which would allow citizens of European allied countries to sue over data privacy in the United States, is "likely to be held" from a scheduled vote on Thursday in the Senate Judiciary Committee, a panel aide said. Passage of the legislation is viewed as an important step toward securing a new "Safe Harbor" framework after the previous one was struck down by a top European Union court last year amid concerns about U.S. surveillance.
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| Man facing New Jersey terrorism charges cited Islamic State - prosecutors | | Wednesday, January 20, 2016 11:29 PM | |
| | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man accused of killing four people in New Jersey and Washington state to avenge U.S. foreign policy kept a journal where he expressed a desire to travel to Iraq to support the Islamic State militant group, according to state prosecutors in New Jersey. Ali Muhammed Brown was also on a federal terrorism watch list at the time of the killings, a prosecutor said in court on Wednesday, said a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office in Newark. Brown, the first defendant to face state terrorism charges in New Jersey, was in court to be sentenced for an unrelated armed robbery. |
| Foundation head pleads guilty in U.N. bribery case | | Wednesday, January 20, 2016 11:20 PM | |
|  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of a New York-based foundation pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in a scheme to bribe a former U.N. General Assembly president to advance various business interests, becoming the second defendant to admit wrongdoing in the case. Sheri Yan, who was Global Sustainability Foundation's chief executive, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to one count of bribery in connection with illicit payments made to John Ashe, the former General Assembly president. Choking back tears, Yan admitted that beginning in 2012, she agreed with others to pay money to Ashe, who was also the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda, to influence officials in Antigua and the United Nations to support business interests.
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| U.S. Senate Democrats block Syria refugee bill | | Wednesday, January 20, 2016 11:16 PM | |
|  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday narrowly blocked legislation that would slow the entry of refugees from Syria and Iraq to the United States in a contentious vote cloaked in presidential election-year politics. The vote was 55-43, with "yes" votes falling short of the 60 needed to advance the Republican-backed measure in the 100-member Senate. No Republicans voted against the bill, and only two Democrats backed it.
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| Links between slavery, environmental damage are cause for hope, author argues | | Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:44 PM | |
| | By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Human slavery and environmental destruction go hand in hand, a complex but encouraging combination that could make efforts to eradicate the global woes easier to focus and succeed, a leading expert argues in a new book. Enforcing and funding existing anti-slavery laws, which are universal, will lead naturally to protection of the environment, writes Kevin Bales, author of "Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide and the Secret to Saving the World." "These two problems, this ancient and terrible problem of slavery and this newer concern that we have about climate change, are actually so tightly linked together that the solutions are fitting both of them," Bales told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview this week. |
| Italy's Renzi moves closer towards curbing Senate's power to block change | | Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:39 PM | |
|  By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Senate gave its final consent on Wednesday to cutting its own powers, taking Prime Minister Matteo Renzi a step closer towards limiting its ability to bring down an elected government and block legislation. Since taking office two years ago, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has staked his political future on the bill to effectively abolish the upper house Senate as an elected chamber. Under the lengthy procedures required for constitutional changes, the Chamber of Deputies must now pass the reform again.
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