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Prosecutors investigate record numbers for bribery
Chinese prosecutors investigated 24 provincial, ministerial or higher level officials in the first 11 months of 2014.
Prosecutors across the country investigated over thirty-thousand cases involving close to forty-thousand people on suspicion of bribery in the time span.
Prosecutorial agencies had six-hindered eleven fugitives repatriated from overseas in the period.
A total of seven-thousand four-hundred forty-nine people were put under investigation for offering bribes in the same period, an increase of thirty-seven point nine percent.
Fewer firework accidents in Beijing this New Year
The number of accidents caused by fireworks on the eve of the Lunar New Year fell in Beijing this year.
In the hour from midnight on Wednesday to 1 a.m. on Thursday, there were 25 accidents and 22 injuries caused by fireworks, down by 14 percent and 24 percent respectively from last year.
Some eighty-three thousand boxes of fireworks were sold in Beijing on Wednesday, a decrease of thirty-four percent, and more than ten-thousand boxes of illegal fireworks were confiscated.
The fireworks exacerbated Beijing’s smog issues. The municipal environment bureau said pollutants rapidly increased from 8 p.m. on New Year’s eve, causing "heavy pollution" by midnight.
DPRK says to launch anti-graft campaign within ruling party
North Korea has said it will roll out an anti-graft campaign within the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.
The resolution was adopted at an enlarged meeting of the political bureau of the central committee of the WPK on Wednesday.
It stressed the need to wage an all-party intensive campaign against abuse of power, bureaucratism, irregularities and corruption.
It also called for efforts for to "thoroughly establish the monolithic leadership system of Kim Jong Un."
The North Korean top leader made a concluding speech at the meeting, urging officials to work and live "simple-mindedly, uprightly and honestly with conscience."
Thai prosecutors file criminal charges against Yingluck
Thailand's attorney general has filed criminal indictments against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for her alleged government’s role in an illegal rice subsidy scheme.
The charge is likely to bring a 10-year prison term.
Prosecutors submitted the case documents to the Supreme Court, accusing Yingluck of dereliction in overseeing a rice subsidy scheme that lost taxpayers billions of U.S. dollars.
Thursday's charges come on the heels of Yingluck’s impeachment by the legislature one month ago, which forced her out of politics for five years.
Yingluck stepped down from office in the wake of a court decision shortly before the military staged a coup in May, 2014 and seized power from her government.
Afghanistan sees record high of civilian casualties in five years
New analysis from the United Nations suggests conflict-related deaths involving Afghan civilians increased by over 20-percent last year.
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan recorded 10-thousand-548 civilian casualties in 2014.
This the highest number of civilian deaths and injuries recorded in a single year since 2009.
Among them, around 37-hundreds of them were deaths.
That’s a 25-percent increase compared to 2013.
Since 2009, more than 17-thousand Afghan civilians have been killed and nearly 30-thousand wounded in the conflict.
Aussie ex-Guantanamo prisoner cleared of terror charges
David Hicks, a former Australian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, has won a legal challenge against his terrorism conviction in Cuba.
Hicks originally pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorism in 2007 while in Guantanamo.
However, the US Court of Military Commission has struck down the conviction on the grounds the charge is not a war crime, and should not have been heard at a military court.
Hicks was a prisoner at Guantanamo for five years between 2002 and 2007 after accepting a plea bargain to plead guilty to a charge of providing military support for terrorism in exchange for an early return to Australia.
EU and NATO Condemns Rebels&`& Takeover of Debaltseve a Violation of the Ceasefire
European and NATO officials are condemning anti-government forces in eastern Ukraine, saying they are violating last week’s ceasefire agreement inked in Minsk.
The condemnation follows an informal meeting of EU defense ministers in Latvia.
The meeting was called in connection with the "fall of Debaltseve" to separatist forces after days of relentless fighting.
The town of Debaltseve is a key rail hub in eastern Ukraine connecting the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Debaltseve had been under the control of Ukrainian forces before the ceasefire officially went into effect this past Sunday.
However, rebel forces have stepped up their attacks this week, forcing the Ukrainian government to withdraw.
Greece to Submit Request for Loan Extension, Not Bailout Program
A leading member of the Greek opposition has confirmed the Greek government is going to put in a request for a loan extension from its euro zone creditors later on this Thursday.
European authorities have been giving Greece until Friday to ask for an extension.
Otherwise, the IMF had been threatening to cut off its financing to Greece.
Greece’s four-year bailout is due to expire at the end of this month.
However, the new Greek government is demanding a roll-back of the austerity provisions which have been forced on Greece in the original program.
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