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| UK's oldest convict, 101-year-old child-sex offender, jailed for 13 years | | | A 101-year-old man, who last week became the oldest Briton to be convicted of a criminal offence, was jailed for 13 years on Monday for a string of historical sex crimes against two young sisters and their brother. Retired truck driver Ralph Clarke was found guilty of raping and abusing the sisters in the 1970s and early 80s, having earlier admitted indecently assaulting their brother and attempting to rape him when he was a schoolboy. Police said Clarke was the oldest person to have been found guilty of a crime in British legal history and prosecutors said the severity of his offences meant that he should face action despite his age and frail condition. |
| Killings in TN police custody go unpunished, says rights group | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Senthil Kumar's mother saw him being dragged off by policemen on charges of extortion. Standing outside the Vadamadurai police station in Tamil Nadu, she heard him scream for mercy. "He didn't die, he was killed," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, recalling the events of April 2010. |
| British FAs fined over poppy displays during internationals | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - The Football Associations of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have been fined by world soccer's governing body FIFA for displaying poppies during World Cup qualifiers played in November. England were given the biggest fines of 45,000 Swiss francs ($44,000), Scotland and Wales must pay 20,000 Swiss francs and Northern Ireland 15,000 for what FIFA described as the display of a "political symbol" and other incidents. ($1 = 1.0263 Swiss francs) (Writing by Brian Homewood in Berne, editing by Ed Osmond) |
| U.S. school an antidote to transgender discrimination complaints | | | The non-profit private Pride School Atlanta is seen as the first school in the American South focused on the LGBT community and one of few addressing similar concerns in the nation. "They don't have to fight for the right to exist here," Christian Zsilavetz, the school's transgender co-founder and director, said in an interview. Court records and data reviewed by Reuters show a 12-fold surge in transgender student-related civil rights complaints lodged with the U.S. Department of Education - from seven in 2014 to 84 in 2016. |
| Poland's political standoff spills into fourth day | |  By Marcin Goclowski and Justyna Pawlak WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish opposition lawmakers who accuse the ruling PiS party of undermining democracy and the constitution occupied the main hall of parliament for a fourth day on Monday, amid efforts to defuse Poland's biggest political standoff in years. President Andrzej Duda was due to discuss the situation with the speaker of parliament and Law and Justice (PiS) party chief Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Duda, a PiS ally, met opposition leaders on Sunday.
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| Thirty-three die in Siberia after drinking bath oil for alcoholic kicks | | | By Peter Hobson MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 33 residents of the Siberian city of Irkutsk have died after drinking bath oil, hoping it would give them the same sensation as alcohol, Russian investigators said on Monday. Use of counterfeit or surrogate alcohol is rife in Russia's regions, where two years of economic pain have pushed more people below the poverty line, though the death toll from this latest incident is unusually high. "It is a terrible tragedy," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call. |
| Banks may be able to sue EU if denied transitional deal - document | |  By Andrew MacAskill and Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Banks in Britain are being advised they may be able to sue the European Union if it fails to grant them a staggered departure from the trading bloc using rights from an arcane treaty that usually governs international law. The advice was given in a document drawn up by some of Britain's largest law firms for banks lobbying to retain so-called passporting rights that allow them to operate across all the EU out of their London bases. The document says there are a number of laws giving them rights for a deal, including the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, that gives them "acquired rights" under a treaty that cannot be suddenly withdrawn.
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| Trump's infrastructure splurge would collide with U.S. skilled labor crunch | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's drive to rebuild U.S. roads, bridges, ports and other public works projects with a $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan would come as the country faces a shortage of skilled laborers. Before any dirt can be moved, Trump would have to get approval from Congress. More than two-thirds of U.S. roads are in less than good condition and nearly 143,000 bridges need repair or improvement, the Transportation Department estimates.
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| New Yorker to be sentenced for 'death ray' plot against Muslims | | | A white supremacist convicted on charges that he planned to use a "death ray" to kill Muslims and President Barack Obama is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday in federal court in Albany, New York. Glendon Scott Crawford, 52, a Navy veteran and a self-proclaimed member of the Ku Klux Klan, was found guilty at trial in August 2015 of conspiring with another man to build a radiation dispersal device, dubbed a "death ray" by tabloids. Crawford is the first person to be convicted of attempting to acquire or use a radiological dispersal device, a statute passed by Congress in 2004 to punish individuals who try to set off a so-called "dirty bomb," which combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. |
| Friend of South Korea's Park denies charges as trial begins | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - A friend of South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the centre of a corruption scandal that led to Park's impeachment in parliament denied charges of fraud and abuse of power on Monday on the first day of her trial. The friend, Choi Soon-sil, 60, who had not appeared in public since arriving at a prosecutors' office on Oct. 31, was led into court by two correctional officers, her head down, wearing a bulky grey prison suit with a number on her chest. Prosecutors have named Park as an accomplice, although she has immunity from prosecution while in office.
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| North Korea diplomat defector says he was disenchanted with Kim regime | |  North Korea's former deputy ambassador to Britain said on Monday he defected to South Korea after becoming disenchanted with the North's regime under Kim Jong Un, a South Korean member of parliament said. Thae Yong Ho became the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to flee the isolated country when he defected to the South in August, in an embarrassing blow to the North. Thae, speaking to some members of South Korean parliament's Intelligence Committee on Monday, denied that he had defected to the South out of fear of punishment after committing a crime, as alleged by North Korea's state media, saying he had anticipated such accusations.
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| China says discussing return of undersea drone with U.S. military | |  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese and U.S. militaries are having "unimpeded" talks about the return of U.S. underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea last week, China's foreign ministry said on Monday. The drone, known as an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), was taken on Thursday in waters off the coast of the Philippines, the first seizure of its kind in recent memory. The Pentagon went public with its complaint about the incident and said on Saturday it had secured a deal to get the drone back.
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| India indicts Pakistan-based militants over Pathankot air base attack | |  By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top counter-terrorism agency on Monday charged Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and its top leader, with perpetrating a deadly attack on an Indian air force base in January. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) stated that all four gunmen who stormed the air base on Jan. 2 were Pakistani nationals and that Maulana Masood Azhar, the top leader of JeM, was the mastermind behind the attack. "All the terrorists are accused of waging war against India.
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| Malaysia calls for ASEAN to coordinate aid for Myanmar's Rohingya | |  By Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Monday the plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar was a regional concern and called for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to coordinate humanitarian aid and investigate alleged atrocities committed against them. Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman was speaking at a meeting of the 10-nation bloc in Yangon called by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi after weeks of reports that the army has killed, raped and arbitrarily arrested Rohingya civilians. Myanmar has denied the accusations, saying many of the reports are fabricated and it insists the strife in Rakhine State, where many Rohingya live, is an internal matter.
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| Singapore says deported close to 70 suspected radicals in past two years | | | Singapore has deported the majority of the 70-odd foreigners it has investigated for suspected radicalism in the past two years, although none planned to carry out attacks in the city-state, the ministry of home affairs said on Monday. Singapore, which has never seen a successful attack by Islamist militants, has been on heightened alert in recent months, with authorities telling the population that such an event was a matter of "when" not "if". Earlier this year, Indonesian police arrested six suspected militants believed to be linked to the Islamic State group and plotting an attack on Singapore. |
| Militia attacks east Congo as President Kabila's term expires | |  By Aaron Ross and Tim Cocks KINSHASA (Reuters) - Militiamen in eastern Congo attacked a prison on Monday, engaging in a gun battle with security forces amid heightened tensions as President Joseph Kabila's last term in office ends. No election has been held to choose a successor to Kabila, whose mandate expires on Monday, and popular anger is growing over what opponents say is an attempt to cling to power in defiance of the constitution. "Since this morning, there have been incursions by the Mai Mai (militia).
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