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Loyalist paramilitaries behind some Northern Ireland trouble

Police in Northern Ireland have said loyalist paramilitaries have organised some of the recent violence over flags. In Belfast on Friday, eight officers were injured and 12 people arrested in clashes between loyalists and police. Six officers were injured in the Crumlin Road and Ligoneill Road area of north Belfast and two at Shaftesbury Square in the city centre. Senior officers have appealed to loyalists planning to protest in Belfast city centre later not to do so. Loyalists opposed to new restrictions on flying the union flag at Belfast city hall have been holding protests across Northern Ireland all week after the city council voted to fly the union flag on designated days. The city's Christmas Market will remain open on Saturday, with extra security in place, but politicians have warned that the economy is being damaged on what should be some of the year's busiest shopping days. On Friday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the city and condemned

Nepal Maoists protest outside party's Kathmandu headquarters

Hundreds of former Maoist fighters in Nepal, including former child soldiers, are camping outside the party's headquarters in Kathmandu to demand equal treatment for retired combatants. They told the BBC that they have been protesting for 10 days and will continue until their demands are met. Meanwhile President Ram Baran Yadav has extended a deadline given to political parties to agree a new coalition. Once in place, the coalition will oversee elections. The vote is due to be held some time next year. The leaders of the main parties have been in talks all week to agree a deal on the political make-up of the new government, missing a deadline that had already been extended by a week. Nepal has been governed by a caretaker Maoist-led administration since the collapse in May of an interim assembly that had failed to draft a new constitution following a 10-year civil war that ended in 2006. 'Proper treatment' The BBC's Surendra Phuyal in Kathmandu says that

Maoists fire, detonate landmine during security operation in Odisha

Malkangiri: A team of security personnel returning from an operation in a Maoist stronghold escaped unscathed after the ultras fired at them and also detonated a landmine in Odisha's Malkangiri district on Saturday.   The Maoists fired on the security personnel returning from Kanaguda village, considered a Maoist den, from nearby hills with the exchange of fire continuing for about two hours, Kalimela police station in-charge Surendra Kumar Nayak said.   The police fired 70 rounds at the Maoists, some of whom were suspected to have been injured, Nayak said. A powerful landmine was also detonated by the Maoists at Gamphakonda area nearby, but the security forces comprising the BSF, Special Operation Group of the Orissa police and local police, had safely passed the area, he said. The remnants of the exploded landmine were collected by scientific experts in the team. The villagers apparently had prior information about the raid and had fled before the arrival of the security force

Police clash with thousands of rioters in south China

BEIJING: Police in a south China city bordering Vietnam clashed with thousands of rioters who were protesting excessive brutality meted out to a suspected smuggler, the government and a rights group said. The incident occurred on Friday in   Dongxing city in   Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region , with rioters destroying numerous police and border patrol vehicles and clashing with security forces, local police said in microblog postings. "Five policemen were lightly injured and nine anti-smuggling vehicles were damaged... no one (else) at the scene was injured or killed," the Fangchenggang prefecture public security bureau, which oversees Dongxing, said on its microblog site late Friday. "During the incident the police did not adopt overly violent behavior." According to the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, up to 10,000 people joined in the rioting and over 20 police and customs vehicles were smashed or burned. Up to 100 people were &

'Jihad Jane' explains her strange journey from victim to radical Muslim

Terror suspect Colleen LaRose, the American woman known as 'Jihad Jane'. A white woman from suburban Philadelphia who became a Muslim jihadist and has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist under the codename "Jihad Jane" has revealed that she was drawn to Islam because it gave her a sense of belonging after a troubled childhood in which she was raped over many years by her biological father. The revelation from Colleen LaRose, 49, comes in the first media interview she has granted since her arrest in October 2009 for plotting to kill Lars Vilks, the cartoonist who drew an image of the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. Talking to the Reuters journalist John Shiffman from the Philadelphia federal detention center where she awaits sentencing on 17 May, LaRose relates how she became radicalised through online chats with an al-Qaida operative calling himself "Eagle Eye" and other Muslim extremists. Asked by Shiffman what she w

Pakistani hacker defaces more than 400 Chinese govt websites

ISLAMABAD: A   Pakistani hacker   has managed to break into and deface 400   Chinese government websites   and webpages.   According to website Hack Read, a hacker who goes by the username 'Code Cracker' and is part of the Pakistan Cyber Army hacking group, managed to post his groups' signature defacement image on the official website of Xuchang City People's Procuratorate before moving on and repeating the move on several of the sites sub-domains, reports The Express Tribune.   The website belongs to and is operated by the Xuchang City administration. The site was most recently hacked on November 29 this year.   Following the hack, the website and its sub-domains were taken offline.   In November, a hacker, eBoz, took advantage of vulnerabilities on the '.pk' domain on PKNIC servers to hack and deface Google's Pakistan sub-domain. Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Pakistani-hacker-defaces-more-than-400-Chinese-govt-website

Over 1,600 held for cyber crimes in 2011: Government

NEW DELHI: Over 1,600 people were arrested for cyber crimes registered under the Information Technology Act,   2000   and under sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) in 2011, the government today said.   "As per the crime data maintained by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a total of 154, 178, 288, 799 and 1,184 persons were arrested for cyber crimes registered under   IT Act , 2000 during 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively," Minister of State for Communications Milind Deora said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.   A total of 429, 195, 263, 394 and 446 persons were arrested for cyber crimes registered under sections of   IPC   relating to   cyber crime cases   during 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively, he added.   The IT Act, 2000 enables detection/tracking of cyber crimes and punishment to perpetrators, thus providing a legal framework to adrress the issues arising out of such crimes in cyber space.   "As per the crime data maintained by N

Pakistani Taliban creates Facebook page to recruit writers, video editors for quarterly magazine

ISLAMABAD: The banned   Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan   have created a   Facebook   page to recruit persons to write for a planned   quarterly magazine   and to work on tasks like video editing and translation.   The   Umar Media TTP   page, which has nearly 290 likes, has a message posted on November 22 seeking writers for "Ahyah-e-Khilafat", which is described as the "official quarterly magazine" of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.   "Dear brothers and sisters, 'Pen is mightier than the sowrd (sic)'. Now you have a chance to use this mighty weapon," the message says.   Prospective contributors can write on "on topic of your choice, or on jihadi current affairs, history, Islamic movements, plight of ummah, etc etc", the message adds.   An earlier message posted in October states that "Umar Media is proud to announce   online jobs opportunities   (sic)".   The job "discription (sic) is video editing, translations, sharing, uploa