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| China persuades fugitive graft suspect to return in "Operation Skynet" | | | China has persuaded a fugitive suspected of graft to return home as part of "Operation Skynet" that seeks to capture corrupt officials who flee abroad, the top graft agency said on Thursday. Zhang Jun, the former general manager of Shanghai Sports Investment Management Co Ltd, fled to Australia in 2014 under suspicion of corruption, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a statement on its website. The commission did not specify any charges against Zhang and it gave no details about when he came back to China and what will happen to him. |
| Prominent Turkish journalist says detained over tweet | | | Prominent Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik said on Thursday he was being detained by authorities over a Twitter statement he made and state media and an opposition lawmaker who spoke to him said the reporter was being accused of terrorist propaganda. "I am being detained," Sik said on Twitter. "I am going to be taken to the prosecutor's office over a tweet." Turkish prosecutors could not be reached for comment. |
| Sarajevo police commander indicted for war crimes against Serbs | | | A Sarajevo police commander whose special forces fought to defend the Bosnian capital from Bosnian Serb attacks during the 1992-95 siege, was indicted on Thursday for war crimes against Serb prisoners early in the war. Dragan Vikic, 59, and then Bosnian Interior Minister Jusuf Pusina, are accused of knowing, approving and covering up the killing of eight soldiers of the then Yugoslavian army (JNA) in Sarajevo Great Park in April 1992, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement. The soldiers, who were trapped in a broken armoured vehicle at the outskirts of Sarajevo while trying to leave the city as part of a JNA convoy, were killed in a machine-gun burst and their bodies taken away to an unknown location, it said. |
| Italian police search houses on trail of Berlin attack suspect | |  Italian police have searched three houses in and around Rome where the man suspected of killing 12 people in Berlin in an attack 10 days ago may have stayed in 2015, a judicial source said on Thursday. Anis Amri, a Tunisian, first arrived in Europe by boat to the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2011, and was shot dead by police in Milan four days after the Dec. 19 attack in Berlin. Police are investigating whether he was seeking shelter in Italy or trying to reach another country.
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| Syrian rebel charged in Sweden on suspicion of war crimes | | | A former Syrian opposition fighter has been charged with breaching international law over the execution in 2012 of seven soldiers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, the Swedish prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The 46-year-old man, who was arrested in March, appears in a video showing the killings, the prosecutor's office said. "The soldiers were captured and defenceless when this happened," prosecutor Kristina Lindhoff Carleson said in a statement. |
| Turkey says it and Russia to act as guarantors of Syrian ceasefire | |  Turkey and Russia will act as guarantors of a nationwide ceasefire in Syria that is due to go into effect at midnight, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Thursday. Ankara said the ceasefire agreement excluded groups deemed as terrorists by the U.N. Security Council and noted the importance of support from countries influential on the fighting sides. "With this agreement, parties have agreed to cease all armed attacks, including aerial, and have promised not to expand the areas they control against each other," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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| Women farmers in northern India battle tradition, self-doubt to own land | |  By Rina Chandran TAARDEH, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Now, at 32, Anjali's name will finally be on a title as joint owner of land allocated by the state, after months of petitioning local officials, and addressing age-old traditions and superstitions that deny women land ownership. "It has never been our custom for women to own land, and I never thought that I would one day be a land owner," said Anjali, who goes by one name, at a land-literacy meeting of advocacy group Landesa at a local school in Taardeh village.
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| No sign Berlin market attacker had network in Italy - PM Gentiloni | |  There is no sign the man suspected of killing 12 people with a truck at a Berlin Christmas market on Dec. 19 had a network in Italy, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday. Asked at a news conference about Anis Amri, the Tunisian suspect who was shot dead in Milan four days after the attack, Gentiloni said, "We have no evidence of particular networks ... that Amri had in Italy." Police are investigating whether Amri, who crossed Europe undetected after the attack, was seeking shelter in Italy or trying to reach another country.
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| Former Helsinki drug squad police chief jailed for 10 years | | | The former head of Helsinki police's drugs squad was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in jail for drug smuggling, official misconduct and other crimes including tampering with evidence. Jari Aarnio faces a total of 13 years in prison, including a previous three-year jail term related to the purchase of police surveillance equipment. Helsinki district court found Aarnio guilty of organizing the smuggling of about 900 kg (1,000 pounds) of hashish into Finland from the Netherlands and of preventing police colleagues investigating the case. |
| UK opposition leader accuses May of acting like Henry VIII over Brexit | |  Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May is acting like Tudor King Henry VIII in refusing to commit to giving parliament a vote on the deal to leave the European Union, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said. Corbyn told the Guardian newspaper on Thursday that any deal thrashed out between the British government and the 27 remaining countries in the European Union had to be endorsed by parliament. "The idea that on something as major as this the prime minister would use the royal prerogative to bypass parliament is extraordinary - I don't know where she's coming from." Henry VIII, who ruled from 1509 to 1547, is best known for his six wives and making himself head of the Church in England after breaking with Rome.
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| Nigerian police arrest man suspected of Lagos bridge bomb plot | | | A plot to blow up a major bridge in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos has been foiled following the arrest of a 43-year-old man suspected of being part of a gang that planned to carry out the attack, police said. Nigeria Police Force spokesman Don Awunah said, in a statement issued late on Wednesday, "credible intelligence" suggested the man was an explosives expert who planned to attack the Third Mainland Bridge in the city of 21 million inhabitants. Boko Haram militants have launched frequent bomb attacks in the northeast in the last few years and other groups have attacked oil facilities in the southern Niger Delta this year but Lagos, in the southwest, is usually peaceful. |
| Senior Chinese general being investigated for bribery | |  A Chinese general is being investigated for suspected bribery, the defence ministry said on Thursday, a man connected to the jailed former domestic security chief and one of the most senior incumbent military officials to be targeted for graft. Military prosecutors had already opened a case into Wang Jianping, a deputy chief of the joint staff department under the powerful Central Military Commission, ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told a monthly news briefing. It was not possible to reach Wang for comment and unclear if he had been allowed to retain a lawyer.
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| Philippine leader says once threw man from helicopter, would do it again | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened corrupt government officials with the prospect of being thrown out of a helicopter mid-air, warning he has done it himself before and had no qualms about doing it again. The fiery-tempered former prosecutor said he once hurled a Chinese man suspected of rape and murder out of a helicopter. "If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out.
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| Two migrants die in traffic accident in Serbia's south - police | |  Two Afghan migrants were killed and another 10 were injured in a traffic accident in southern Serbia on Thursday when a passenger car crammed with people swerved off the road and hit a safety barrier, the interior ministry said. Serbia was a focal point for migrants last year, when hundreds of thousands fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East and Asia travelled up through the Balkans to reach wealthy Western Europe. Although that route was closed off in March, Serbian authorities estimate a further 110,000 migrants have passed through the country, many using smugglers to travel across Serbia and cross its barbed-wire border with Hungary.
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| Moscow says new U.S. sanctions would be attempt to hamper Russia-U.S. cooperation - RIA | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that if the United States imposed new sanctions on Russia over hacking allegations it would be an attempt to disrupt possible cooperation between the two countries, the RIA news agency reported. The Obama administration is expected to announce on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Moscow for allegedly hacking into Democratic Party organisations ahead of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election. ...
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| South Korea prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for pension fund chief | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors investigating an influence-peddling scandal that has engulfed President Park Geun-hye said on Thursday they are seeking a warrant to arrest the head of the national pension fund, the world's third-largest. The special prosecutor's office said National Pension Service Chairman Moon Hyung-pyo had acknowledged that he had pressured the fund to approve an $8 billion merger between two Samsung Group units last year while he was head of the health ministry, reversing an earlier public denial. The NPS has also denied that Moon, 60, had exerted pressure on it to approve the deal.
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| Exclusive: Bangladesh police detail suspicions of inside help in central bank heist | |  By Krishna N. Das DHAKA (Reuters) - A top investigator into the electronic theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank is turning his attention to some IT technicians from the bank whom he suspects hooked up its transactions system to the public Internet, giving hackers access. In a series of interviews this month, Mohammad Shah Alam, a Bangladesh police deputy inspector general who is heading investigations in Dhaka, went into some detail about how insiders at Bangladesh Bank may have helped in the execution of one of the world's biggest cyber-heists last February. For instance, Alam said he was focusing on why a password token protecting the SWIFT international transactions network at Bangladesh Bank was left inserted in the SWIFT server for months leading up to the heist.
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| Prominent Turkish journalist says detained over tweet | | | Prominent Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik on Thursday said he was being detained by authorities over a Twitter statement he made while an opposition lawmaker who spoke to him said the reporter was being accused of terrorist propaganda. At least 81 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), with more than 130 media outlets shut since a failed coup attempt in July. "I am being detained," Sik said on Twitter. |
| Exclusive: Ukrainian activist faces corruption probe as reforms row festers | |  By Pavel Polityuk and Matthias Williams KIEV/ODESSA, Ukraine (Reuters) - A young activist who became prominent in Ukraine's 2014 uprising and was later appointed to work on a major project to reform the corruption-plagued customs of Odessa is herself being investigated for corruption. Roman Nasirov, the head of Ukraine's Fiscal Service, which is spearheading the probe, told Reuters that he suspected 27-year-old Yulia Marushevska, who resigned last month, of undervaluing cargo and other violations that he didn't specify. As evidence, Nasirov told Reuters that, in the weeks since Marushevska stepped down on Nov 14, the Odessa region had increased its customs revenues by 30 percent, or 300 million hryvnia ($11 million).
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