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| Hungary jails 10 migrants for up to three years for border crossing | | | A Hungarian court on Friday sentenced 10 migrants to between one and three years in jail for illegally crossing the border during a riot in September 2015, after Hungary built a razor wire fence to seal its frontier with Serbia. It was the first case to come to trial under a law passed days before the incident that made illegal border crossing as part of a rioting crowd punishable by between one and five years in prison. |
| U.S. downgrades Myanmar, raises Thailand in human trafficking report | |  By Matt Spetalnick and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has placed Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Sudan and Haiti on its list of worst human trafficking offenders, drawing guarded praise from some human rights groups following criticism that last year's State Department report was politicized. While more than two dozen countries were downgraded in the closely watched Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report announced on Thursday, Thailand was removed from the bottom rung despite what the State Department described as "widespread forced labor" in the country's vital seafood industry.
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| Czech president urges referendum on EU, NATO, says would back staying | |  Czech President Milos Zeman has called for the Czech Republic to hold a referendum on its membership of the European Union and NATO following Britain's shock vote to leave the EU. Zeman, who said he would back the Czech Republic remaining in both organisations, has no power to call a referendum, which would require a constitutional amendment. "I disagree with those who are for leaving the European Union," Czech Radio quoted Zeman as saying at a meeting with citizens in the eastern Czech town of Velke Mezirici on Thursday evening.
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| Six killed in gun attack on two buses in Kenya's Mandera | | | At least six people were killed when gunmen sprayed two buses with bullets on Friday in Kenya's Mandera county on the border with Somalia, a regional official said. Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia told Reuters the attack happened at 9:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) as the buses were travelling to Mandera town from the capital Nairobi. The United States on Thursday warned its citizens against travelling to areas near the border with Somalia because of threats from Somali militant group al Shabaab. |
| French charity official says stabbed by couple shouting "Allahu Akbar" - media | | | French police opened an investigation on Friday after a director at the French Restos du Coeur charity said he had been stabbed earlier in the day by a couple shouting "Allahu Akbar," French radio Europe 1 said. A police source confirmed the director of the Restos du Coeur soup kitchen in Montreuil, east of Paris, had said he was stabbed by a couple carrying an axe and a knife and shouting 'God is Greatest' in Arabic. In June, a Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and also killed his partner. |
| Turkish police detain 11 more suspects over airport attack - media | |  Turkish police detained 11 foreigners suspected of being members of an Islamic State cell in Istanbul linked to the suicide bombers who staged the attack this week at Istanbul's main airport, broadcaster Haberturk said on its website on Friday. The arrests in the dawn raid, by a counter-terror police squad in the Basaksehir district on the European side of the city, brought the number of people detained in the investigation to 24, it said. Three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers killed 44 people in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbul's main airport on Tuesday, the deadliest in a string of attacks in Turkey this year.
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| Three arrested in Spain accused of promoting militancy | | | MADRID (Reuters) - Three people from Pakistan were arrested in Spain on Friday, accused of promoting Islamist militancy through social media, the interior ministry said. The three shared a home in the northeast city of Lleida from where they are accused of distributing content justifying Islamic State executions and supporting the Taliban and Pakistani groups, the ministry said. Authorities have not yet determined if they were part of a larger network, it added. Spain has now detained 29 people suspected of belonging to or acting for Islamist militant groups since the beginning of the year. ... |
| Australian election seen as a dead heat, minor parties likely powerbrokers | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia braced for an election that was too close to call on Friday, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warning of economic chaos if his gamble on an early poll backfires and leaves him without the outright majority he needs to enact major reforms. The leader of Australia's conservative coalition prompted Saturday's election by dissolving both houses of parliament in May, blaming intransigent independents in the upper house Senate for blocking his agenda. Turnbull argued on Friday that minor parties, possibly in coalition with centre-left Labor, could not be trusted to manage an economy hampered by the first mining downturn in a century and balance public finances after years of deficits.
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| Leader of Myanmar's 'Saffron Revolution' freed, charges dropped | |  By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - A former monk and influential leader of Myanmar's 2007 anti-junta uprising has been freed from jail and charges against him dropped, his lawyer said on Friday, just a day after new charges were levelled against him. Nyi Nyi Lwin, better known by his ordination name, Gambira, was arrested in January for allegedly entering Myanmar illegally from neighbouring Thailand. Robert San Aung, his lawyer, said on Friday that these charges had been dropped and that Gambira was now free.
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