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| Surge in online sex trade of children challenges anti-slavery campaigners | | | By Paola Totaro LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Technology has fuelled a surge in the buying and selling of children online for sexual abuse with advertising a child on the internet as "easy as booking an airfare", campaigners told an anti-slavery conference in London. Lawyer Carol Robles-Roman, who was deputy mayor for legal affairs to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said legal reform was urgently needed to protect children from online sexual exploitation. The International Justice Mission (IJM), an anti-slavery organization, this week launched a campaign to tackle the "horrific crime" of cybersex trafficking that involves the sexual abuse of children in front of a live webcam. |
| Qatari news site says website blocked, blames state censorship | | | An independent English-language news site in Qatar accused the Gulf state of censorship on Thursday, saying two internet service providers had blocked access to its website. The Doha News, which stirred a debate about the limits of tolerance in the conservative country in August with an opinion column on gay rights in Qatar, said the two internet firms had simultaneously barred access to its website on Wednesday. "We can only conclude that our website has been deliberately targeted and blocked by Qatar authorities," the Doha News said in a statement. |
| Insight: Iraq's Shi'ite militias could prove bigger test than Mosul | |  By Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In early June, two Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias under the nominal control of the Iraqi government stormed into an Iraqi military airbase north of Baghdad. The Iraqi commander at the base, near the town of Balad, asked the militiamen to leave. The June standoff grounded four Iraqi F-16 fighter jets and pushed more than a dozen U.S. contractors – there to help local pilots bomb Islamic State militants – to flee, according to the army officers and an Iraqi military intelligence source.
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| Computer virus attack targeted Saudi government installations - state news agency | | | A computer virus attack in mid-November targeted Saudi government bodies and vital installations including the kingdom's transport sector, Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Thursday. The attack appeared to originate outside the country and was one of "several ongoing cyberattacks targeting government authorities", SPA quoted the National Cyber Security Center, an arm of the Ministry of Interior, as saying. A Ministry of Interior spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
| Philippines raises terror alert after foiled Manila bomb plot | |  The Philippines has raised its terror alert to its highest level after police said they had discovered a plot by Islamic State-linked militants to attack a park, following a foiled bombing near the U.S. embassy this week. Ronald dela Rosa, the national police chief, said the plot was revealed by two men arrested over the planting of a bomb near the embassy in Manila on Monday. "These men planned to detonate a bomb in a public park, but it failed, then they planted another improvised explosive device near the U.S. embassy," dela Rosa told a news conference, standing beside two men in yellow prisons shirts.
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| Erdogan says Turkish incursion in Syria only targets terrorist organisations | |  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey's military operation in support of rebels in northern Syria did not target any one country or individual, but was aimed at terrorist organisations. His comment, in a speech at the presidential palace, came after he said earlier this week that Turkey was in Syria to "end the rule of the cruel (President Bashar al-) Assad". (Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by David Dolan)
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| Swiss upper house backs immigration bill avoiding EU quotas | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss efforts to curb immigration from the European Union without provoking a clash with Brussels cleared another hurdle on Thursday when parliament's upper house backed giving locals first crack at open jobs rather than adopting outright quotas. The step is roughly in line with a bill the lower house adopted in September, skirting a direct confrontation with the EU which has insisted on upholding the free movement of people, a key condition for enhanced Swiss access to the single market. ... |
| UK wanted to resolve EU expat rights within months - Brexit minister Davis | |  Britain would have liked to quickly resolve the issue of post-Brexit rights of European Union nationals in Britain but needs the bloc's agreement on the reciprocal rights of Britons in the EU, Brexit minister David Davis said on Wednesday. The EU earlier this week rebuffed a call from pro-Brexit British lawmakers for a quick deal on mutual residence rights for British and EU expatriates, saying it had to wait until full-blown divorce talks began. "If were up to us we would have this resolved in months but we have to get the agreement of the European Union too," Davis said, adding that Britain had a responsibility to protect the rights of its citizens by not agreeing to a non-reciprocal deal.
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| Two tech companies win first Stop Slavery Award after workforce scrutiny | |  By Paola Totaro LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two multi-national tech companies previously questioned over labour and workforce conditions have won a new global award for turning the spotlight onto their own supply chains to eradicate modern day slavery from their operations. The inaugural Thomson Reuters Foundation Stop Slavery Award was conferred on U.S. technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NXP Semiconductors, the world's largest chip supplier to the automotive industry. The award, designed by Turner Prize winning sculptor Anish Kapoor, aims to recognise businesses that submit their labour practices to scrutiny and excel in efforts to investigate human rights abuses and clean up their supply chain.
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| Fire and loathing in former stronghold of S.Korea's Park | |  By Jane Chung DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) - Hours after South Korean President Park Geun-hye offered to step down over a corruption scandal that has left her struggling for political survival, a fire destroyed a sprawling century-old market in her hometown, just blocks from where she was born. On Thursday, Park made a brief and unexpected visit to the charred Seomun market in Daegu city, her first public appearance in over three weeks. Shop-owners who gathered at the traditional market after Wednesday's fire said they were badly hit economically, but also felt betrayed by Park, once proudly claimed as "a daughter of Daegu".
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| Delhi High Court quashes government ban on 344 drugs after industry petitions | | | By Suchitra Mohanty and Zeba Siddiqui NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Delhi High Court stayed on Thursday a government ban on 344 drugs that it deemed lacked therapeutic efficacy, after over six months of hearing more than 300 petitions filed by drugmakers against it. Sanjay Jain, a lawyer representing the central government, told Reuters the government was evaluating the decision and planned to appeal at a higher court. Thursday's decision provides interim relief to several local and multinational drugmakers operating in India's $15 billion drugs industry whose business had been hit by the ban. |
| World's growing inequality is "ticking time bomb" - Nobel laureate Yunus | |  By Astrid Zweynert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The widening gap between rich and poor around the world is a "ticking time bomb" threatening to explode into social and economic unrest if left unchecked, Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said on Thursday. The banking and financial system has created a world of "the more money you have, the more I give you" while depriving the majority of the world's population of wealth and an adequate standard of living, Yunus told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Wealth has become concentrated in just a few places in the world ... It's a ticking time bomb and a great danger to the world," said the founder of the microfinance movement that provides small loans to people unable to access mainstream finance.
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| Shamoon virus returns in new Gulf cyber attacks after 4-year hiatus | | | A version of Shamoon, the destructive computer virus that crippled tens of thousands of computers at Middle Eastern energy companies four years ago, was used in mid-November to attack computers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the region, according to U.S. security firms. FireEye said in a blogpost that its Mandiant unit "has responded to multiple incidents at other organisations in the region." A spokesman declined to identify the countries or organisations. The reappearance of Shamoon is significant as there have only been a handful of other high-profile attacks involving disk-wiping malware, including ones in 2014 on Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Sony Corp's Hollywood studio. |
| Met a friendly stranger? Call us, say Lithuania's spyhunters | |  By foreign agents, Lithuania means the Kremlin. Ties have always been tense with former imperial master Moscow. "People don't even think that information is being squeezed out of them until it's too late," Darius Jauniskis, the 48-year-old head of Lithuania's State Security Department, told Reuters.
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