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| Australian police arrest two linked to Syria militants | | | Australian police on Thursday arrested a man believed to have fought with Syrian militants and a youth who was stopped at the border allegedly planning to join Islamic State in Syria. The pair were detained in early morning raids in Sydney, underscoring Australia's tough stance on dealing with so called "foreign fighters" heading overseas to join in conflicts in countries including Syria and Iraq. Australia has imposed some of the harshest penalties in the world on foreign fighters returning home as the country leads a push for the United Nations to adopt international standards to curb the threat they pose. |
| Amid peace and prosperity, Myanmar farmers fall prey to land seizures | | | By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land conflicts in Myanmar have escalated in recent years, with military and armed groups driving people from their land, and new laws failing to protect farmers, a rights watchdog said on Thursday. Land disputes are a longstanding problem in Myanmar, but researchers from New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented rising discontent over displacement for agriculture, mining and infrastructure projects. Land confiscation and reprisals against protesters are particularly acute in resource-rich Kayin state, which borders wealthier Thailand and is seen as attractive for investment in tourism, mining and agriculture, HRW said in a report. |
| U.S. naval base in Japan briefly in lockdown amid reports of gunshots | | | A U.S. naval base in western Japan was briefly locked down on Thursday after reports of gunshots, but operations were soon back to normal with no evidence of an active shooter and no casualties, the navy said in an official tweet. Gunshots had been reported from a building on the base at Sasebo, 980 km (614 miles) west of Tokyo, on Thursday morning, and the base was put on lockdown as a precaution as the building was checked by security, said Darin Wilson, Deputy Public Affairs Officer for U.S. Naval Forces, Japan. U.S. troops have been stationed in Japan since its World War Two defeat. |
| Corrected - U.S. militia girds for trouble as presidential election nears | | | (Corrects 13th paragraph to show pistols and rifles were semi-automatic not automatic) By Justin Mitchell and Andy Sullivan JACKSON, Ga. (Reuters) - Down a Georgia country road, camouflaged members of the Three Percent Security Force have mobilized for rifle practice, hand-to-hand combat training -- and an impromptu campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. "How many people are voting for Trump? Ooh-rah!" asks Chris Hill, a paralegal who goes by the code name "Bloodagent." "Ooh-rah!" shout a dozen militia members in response, as morning sunlight sifted through the trees last weekend. |
| Mississippi church burned, vandalized with 'Vote Trump' | | | By Therese Apel JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) - A historic black church in Mississippi was burned and spray-painted with "Vote Trump" and authorities said on Wednesday it was arson and being probed as a hate crime committed one week before the U.S. presidential election. Greenville Fire Chief Ruben Brown Sr. told a news conference on Wednesday afternoon that investigators had determined the fire at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was "intentionally set." "Samples and evidence have been collected from inside the church and are being analyzed to determine the accelerant or ignition source," Brown said. "We're investigating this as a hate crime," Greenville Police Chief Delando Wilson told a news conference early on Wednesday. |
| Suspect arrested in ambush killings of two Iowa policemen | |  By Scott Morgan DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - A man known to police for several run-ins with the law, most recently for waving a Confederate flag at a football game, was arrested as a suspect in the ambush killings of two Iowa officers shot in their patrol cars early on Wednesday, authorities said. Police offered no possible motive for what precipitated the attacks, which unfolded shortly after 1 a.m. (0600 GMT) in Iowa's capital, Des Moines, and its affluent Urbandale suburb, nor did they explain what led them to the suspect, Scott Michael Greene, 46. Details of the shootings and the circumstances of Greene's arrest were not made public.
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| Report attacks 'gross errors' on Afghan Guantanamo detainees | |  Eight Afghans detained in Guantanamo Bay have been imprisoned for years on the basis of tenuous evidence, "fantastical allegations" and hearsay, a report issued on Thursday said. The report by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), an independent, non-profit research group, examined the cases of eight of the longest-serving Afghan detainees, all either still in Guantanamo Bay or recently moved to the United Arab Emirates. "Viewing the U.S. detention regime through the lens of the Afghan experience in Guantánamo raises broader questions about the effectiveness of U.S. intelligence and justice," it said.
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| Court to rule on whether London needs parliament to trigger EU exit | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will learn on Thursday whether she must seek parliamentary approval before triggering the formal process of leaving the European Union, a step some investors hope will lessen the chances of an economically disruptive "hard Brexit". London's High Court will hand down its judgement on whether May and her ministers have the authority to invoke Article 50 of the EU Lisbon Treaty, the mechanism by which a country can leave the bloc, without the explicit backing of parliament. May has said she will invoke Article 50 by the end of March, kicking off two years of divorce negotiations.
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| Anthony Weiner checks into sex addiction rehab clinic - Daily Mail | |  (Reuters) - Disgraced former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner has checked into a rehab facility that treats sex addiction, the DailyMail.com reported on Wednesday. The online version of the British newspaper said electronic devices are banned at the facility, which separates men from women and treats a range of addictions related to cyber sex, exhibitionism and anonymous sex and other acts. Weiner could not be reached for comment.
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