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| French police question Disneyland gun-carrier, militant links not seen | |  Initial questioning of a man arrested with handguns and a Koran in his baggage at the Disney theme park near Paris suggests he had no link to any potential militant attack, but he will remain in custody, police and public prosecutors said on Friday. France has been in a state of emergency since Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in a wave of jihadist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13. The 28-year-old man, who police said was of European origin, was detained on Thursday as he passed through security scanners at a Disneyland hotel.
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| Up to ten killed by suicide attack in northern Nigeria | | | Up to ten people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday at a busy market in a town in northern Nigeria where the jihadist Boko Haram group is waging an insurgency, residents and a Red Cross official said. Boko Haram has been waging an almost seven-year campaign in Nigeria's remote north to build an Islamic state. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attack bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which has been using suicide bombers since the army, helped by neighbours Chad and Cameroon, expelled the group from territory it had captured previously. |
| Six more children in Central African Republic accuse European troops of sex abuse | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Six more children in the Central African Republic (CAR) have accused European soldiers of sex abuse, the United Nations said on Friday, with one official saying such abuse was "rampant" there. The European Union, Georgia, France and another unnamed European country are investigating the alleged crimes, including rapes, mostly committed in 2014 in or near a camp for displaced people next to the airport at Bangui, CAR's capital. One of the girls interviewed by U.N. staff said that in 2014 when she was 7 years old she had performed sexual acts on French soldiers, part of the EU's EUFOR force, "in exchange for a bottle of water and a sachet of cookies", a U.N. statement said. |
| Uganda brings maids home from Saudi Arabia after abuse complaints | | | By Yasin Kakande KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ugandan officials are helping to bring back about 24 women working as domestic staff in Saudi Arabia after complaints about abuse that prompted a ban on sending Ugandans as housemaids to the Gulf state, a spokesman said on Friday. Seven women have returned to Uganda so far this week after the Ugandan Embassy in Saudi Arabia intervened when they left their employers complaining about abuse and mistreatment and moved into Saudi detention centres waiting to go home. Sheikh Rashid Yahya Ssemuddu, the Ugandan ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said the women were staying at a shelter operated by the Saudi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. |
| Suicide, shooting attack on Saudi Shi'ite mosque kills four | | | By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - A suicide bombing and gun attack on Shi'ite Muslim worshippers killed at least four people in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, the interior ministry and witnesses said, extending a spate of attacks on the kingdom's Shi'ite minority. The assault on the Imam Rida mosque in the Eastern Province town of Mahasen, a mixed Sunni-Shi'ite district in which there is an extension of a compound where state oil company Aramco employees live, also wounded at least 18 people. There was no early claim of responsibility but it resembled previous attacks by Sunni militants from Islamic State on Shi'ites it considers to be heretics. |
| 'Affluenza' teen faces Texas hearing on move to adult jail | | | By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - A hearing is planned on Friday to determine if the Texas teenager derided for an "affluenza" defense for killing four people while driving drunk will be moved from juvenile detention to an adult jail. Ethan Couch, 18, arrived in Texas on Thursday after being deported from Mexico. Couch is scheduled to appear to before a juvenile court judge, who will decide where he will be detained. |
| Pakistani court orders work to stop on Lahore metro line | | | A Pakistani court has ordered construction of the country's first metro train line to stop after campaigners in the city of Lahore argued that the project endangered historical buildings. Lahore High Court issued a stay order late on Thursday suspending all work within 200 feet (61 metres) of 11 buildings of historical value, said Azhar Siddique, a lawyer and petitioner in the case. Buildings deemed at risk include the Mughal Fort and Shalamar Gardens complex - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - a nineteenth century British-built church and the Victorian-era General Post Office. |
| Syrian government to start peace talks on Friday - U.N | |  The U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura will meet a Syrian government delegation in Geneva on Friday to kick off the first peace talks for almost two years and will later meet other participants in the talks, his office said in a statement. "Mr. de Mistura will start by meeting the government's delegation today, headed by the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, Mr. Bashar Jaafari.
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| Chinese military force to take lead on cyber, space defence | | | By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - A new Chinese military outfit will lead the country's push to enhance its cyber warfare, space security and online espionage capabilities, Chinese military observers and analysts said. Senior People's Liberation Army (PLA) officials and other observers have begun to give details of the country's new Strategic Support Force (SSF), whose establishment was announced at the end of last year as part of a major overhaul of the armed forces. "It's going to make them far more effective," said John Costello, a Washington-based analyst who focuses on China's cyber capabilities. |
| Burundi police detain British, French journalists in raids | | | Burundi police have arrested a British and a French journalist during a sweep for rebels in flashpoint districts of the capital, officials said on Friday, a move likely to further strain tense relations between Bujumbura and Western donors. Moise Nkurunziza, deputy police spokesman, said the police had picked up British photojournalist Phil Moore and Jean Philippe Remy, a French journalist, during raids in Jabe and Nyakabiga neighbourhoods in Bujumbura on Thursday. "The police arrested five people including a British national who was a journalist," said Nkurunziza, adding that the Frenchman had then come to ask about his British colleague's whereabouts and was also arrested "for interrogation motives". |
| China jails three rights activists in Guangzhou city - lawyers | |  By James Pomfret GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - A Chinese court jailed three rights activists for up to five years on Friday, lawyers said, on charges including inciting subversion, amid what critics see as an intensifying crackdown on dissent under President Xi Jinping. The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced human rights lawyer Tang Jingling and two other activists, Yuan Xinting, 44, and Wang Qingying, to five years, three-and-a-half years and two-and-a-half years imprisonment, respectively, according to their lawyers. Tang, 44, a prominent rights activist in the southern city of Guangzhou, was charged with "inciting subversion of state power" as well as publishing books on democracy.
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| EU slams China's on-air "confessions" as unacceptable | |  The European Union on Friday delivered some of its strongest criticism yet of China's human rights record, calling the televised broadcasts of confessions by Chinese and European citizens "unacceptable". The comments prompted a rebuke from China, which consistently rejects any criticism of its human rights record. In a statement on its website, the 28-member bloc's delegation to China said the disappearance of several Hong Kong booksellers, including a British and a Swedish passport holder, was part of a "worrying trend".
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| Exclusive: EgyptAir mechanic suspected in Russian plane crash - sources | |  An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's skies in late October, according to sources familiar with the matter. A senior security official at the airline denied that any of its employees had been arrested or were under suspicion, and an Interior Ministry official also said there had been no arrests. "After learning that one of its members had a relative that worked at the airport, Islamic State delivered a bomb in a handbag to that person," said one of the sources, adding the suspect's cousin joined Islamic State in Syria a year and a half ago.
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| Thailand's draft constitution unveiled, elections pushed back | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand published a draft constitution on Friday but the official in charge of drawing it up said he feared it would not resolve long-running troubles and critics said it would produce weak civilian government under the sway of the military. The draft of Thailand's 20th constitution is to replace one scrapped after a 2014 coup by generals who promised stability in Southeast Asia's second biggest economy and to heal divisions after a decade of turbulence. Meechai Ruchupan, chairman of the junta-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee, said his team had included clauses aimed at reconciliation but it had failed to come up with easy remedies.
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