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Turkey arrests 2 Chinese citizens over nightclub attack

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NewsHubOmar Asim and Abuliezi Abuduhamiti have been accused of being members of an „armed terror organization“ and of involvement in 39 counts of murder, reported the news agency.
A gunman opened fire, killing 39 people and injuring 69 others during a New Year’s party at the upscale nightclub, Reina. Authorities are searching for the gunman who carried out the massacre.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the New Year’s attack in a statement posted to Twitter, but CNN cannot independently verify it.
Days after the deadly attack, Turkish police arrested several suspects who were from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, on charges of aiding and abetting, reported Anadolu.
Xinjiang is home to a Turkic-speaking minority, known as the Uyghurs. The ethnicity of the two latest suspects were not reported.
So far, 35 people have been detained after the terror attack on the nightclub, police sources told Anadolu.

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Korean restaurant goes viral for labeling its least spicy food ‘white’

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NewsHubA picture of a Korean restaurant’s menu has gone viral for labeling its least spicy food “white.”
The Toronto eatery has a spiciness scale, with the hottest food labeled “extra spicy” and the least spicy food labeled “white.” Of course, when people saw the picture of the menu circulating online, it immediately sparked backlash and discussions of whether or not it was a joke about race, drawing on the stereotype that white people can’t handle spicy food.
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But it might not be related to race at all. Several people, on seeing the menu, pointed out that the label may have more to do with the color of the actual food than anything else. Typically, Korean broth is white, and its color comes from the added spices. So, if someone were to order food with no spice in it, the broth would be white.
To back up this argument, some online commenters pointed out that there are two different words for ‘white’ in Korean, with one referring to the actual color and one referring to Caucasian people. The Korean word in the sign refers to the actual color, not the race of people.
Grio fam, what do you think? Is this sign racist?

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VP Robredo hits police for ‘tokhang for ransom’

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NewsHubCEBU CITY—Vice President Leni Robredo expressed alarm Saturday over an Inquirer report that linked a policeman to the kidnapping of a South Korean national, stressing that rogue officers had taken advantage of the government’s war on drugs.
“They’re using drugs as a reason. Lately, it hasn’t been just killings, but also kidnapping, a sort of ‘tokhang for ransom,’” Robredo told a news conference after visiting Cebu City Jail’s female dormitory and the Operation Second Chance Center for children in conflict with the law.
Robredo was reacting to a spate of killings the past week. On Friday, two were killed by motorcyle-riding gunmen in Plaridel town while a man was killed in a drug bust in nearby Malolos city.
Last week, the wife of a South Korean kidnap victim missing since October came forward and linked a policeman to the crime.
“This has become alarming. Alarming in the sense that the rule of law is being disregarded. It’s as if anyone can just take the law into their hands. They no longer follow procedures that need to be followed,” Robredo said. “The message being projected here is giving people the license to resort to violence and that is what we want to stop.”
President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to protect policemen from prosecution in his bloody war against narcotics. More than 6,000 drug suspects have been killed since he took office in July, more than half of whom blamed on unknown vigilantes.

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Abu Sayyaf releases South Korean, Filipino hostages

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NewsHubA South Korean captain and a Filipino crewman abducted by suspected Islamist militants off the southern Philippines were released on Saturday, authorities said, ending a three-month ordeal where they endured beatings and hunger. The Philippine military said armed men identifying themselves as Abu Sayyaf militants kidnapped the pair from a South Korean cargo ship in October last year, the first such attack on a large merchant vessel. Jesus Dureza, a senior aide to President Rodrigo Duterte, fetched the freed hostages in Sulu, a remote archipelago known as a militant hideout, and brought them to Davao, a city about 600km from Sulu. The two seafarers were beaten by their captors and forced to sleep in the jungle while eating dried fish and drinking unclean water, Dureza said. “We were almost hopeless but I am thankful we were able to come home safely,” Filipino crewman Glenn Alindajao, 31, said in a news briefing. South Korean captain Park Chung-hung, 38, did not speak with reporters but like Alindajao, appeared weak and grew a beard while in captivity. The abduction on board the 11,400-tonne heavy load carrier Dong Bang Giant 2 occurred just off the southern entry of the Sibutu Passage, a 29km wide channel used by merchant shipping in transit between the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. The cargo ship was heading for South Korea from Australia. The freed captives were flown to the capital Manila on Saturday afternoon to undergo debriefing and a medical examination. “They were physically maltreated without any provocation,” Dureza said. “They have been very stressed out. They were moved from one place to another, sometimes sleeping in forests, different houses, eating just dried fish and drinking water from brooks.” Dureza said the Muslim rebel group the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which is in peace talks with the government, helped in facilitating the hostages’ release. The ship’s owners also negotiated for their freedom, according to Dureza, adding that he was not aware if a ransom was paid to Abu Sayyaf, which does not normally free hostages without huge sums of money. The Abu Sayyaf is a loose network of militants formed in the 1990s with seed money from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, and has earned millions of dollars from kidnappings-for-ransom. Abu Sayyaf militants beheaded two Canadian hostages last year after demands for millions of dollars were not met, and released a Norwegian man along with a number of Indonesian and Malaysian sailors after ransoms were believed to be paid. This week the group released a video showing an elderly German sailor abducted at sea late last year was alive. The Abu Sayyaf began kidnapping sailors in border waters between Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines last year, taking several dozen hostages. The spike in abductions sparked Indonesian warnings that the region could become the “next Somalia” and pushed the three neighbours to pledge coordinated patrols. Dureza said he would recommend that ships have armed security. Duterte, who took office last year, vowed to destroy the Abu Sayyaf and deployed thousands of extra troops to defeat them. But the militants have defied more than a decade of similar US-backed offensives, surviving in their mountainous and jungle-clad strongholds in the poverty-plagued southern Philippines. “The two hostages even planned to escape but they could not. They discovered that the community around is very supportive,” Dureza said. “They are able to benefit from [the kidnappings].”

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Philippine Islamist militants free Korean and Filipino from cargo ship

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NewsHubMANILA – Islamist militants in the Philippines allied with Islamic State freed on Saturday a South Korean cargo ship captain and a Filipino member of his crew held captive for more than three months on a southern island, an army spokesman said.
Park Chulhong, skipper of the South Korea-registered carrier DongBang Giant 2, and Filipino Glenn Alindajao, were brought to the house of the island’s governor after they were released by the militants of the Abu Sayyaf group, Major Filemon Tan said.
Members of a Muslim rebel faction cooperating with the government in the south of the predominantly Christian country had helped arrange the release, Tan told reporters.
“They were freed this morning with the help of rebels belonging to the Moro National Liberation Front,” Tan said, adding the two were flown out of the island by a presidential adviser.
The cargo vessel was sailing to Australia from South Korea when 10 Abu Sayyaf militants boarded it in October and abducted Park and Alindajao.
Presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza told reporters the government had not paid a ransom, though some media reported that some sort of payment was believed to have been made.
“You know the policy of the government, we don’t pay ransom. But, if there was some form of payment made, the government did not play any role in it,” the adviser, Jesus Dureza, told reporters.
The Moro National Liberation Front signed a peace deal with the government in 1996 and promised to help President Rodrigo Duterte free hostages and defeat the small but violent Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and extortion.
The Abu Sayyaf group is still holding two dozen captives on Jolo island, its stronghold where more than 10,000 troops have been deployed to fight the militants.
The captives include people from the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
The waters between the Philippines and Malaysia has become dangerous for merchant shipping due to rising threat of kidnappings, the International Maritime Bureau said this week.

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沈没貨物船の乗組員全員を北朝鮮に引き渡す、日本の海保

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NewsHub写真特集:北朝鮮の貨物船が沈没
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東京(CNN) 日本の長崎県五島列島沖で11日夜に起きた北朝鮮籍の貨物船沈没で、日本の海上保安庁は14日までに、現場海域で救出した同船の乗組員26人の全員を北朝鮮のタンカーに引き渡したと発表した。
沈没の現場は五島列島から南西へ61キロ離れた海上で、日本は26人を短時間保護して乗組員から聞き取り調査を実施した後、引き渡したとしている。
海保の巡視船などは沈没した貨物船からの救援要請を受けて出動。現場海域に到着した際、26人は救難ボートに乗り移っていたという。
同船は12日未明に浸水して船体が傾き始め、五島列島の沿岸部から20キロ離れた海上で完全に沈没したという。海上保安庁の報道担当者によると、26人は全員無事で、負傷者もいなかった。
海保による乗組員の事情聴取によると、沈没したのは「CHONG GEN(チョンゲン)」(6558トン)で、コメ5000トン以上を積んで北朝鮮西部の南浦(ナムポ)を出港し、東部の元山(ウォンサン)へ向かっていた。
沈没した原因は伝えられていない。
海保は、日本がこれほど多数の北朝鮮船の乗組員を救助したのは初めてとも見ている。

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中国海軍、新型の電子偵察船を配備 異例の公表

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NewsHub写真特集:中国軍の新型電子偵察船
(CNN) 中国紙「チャイナ・デーリー」は14日までに、中国海軍が新型の電子偵察船を今週前半、同国東部の青島港で就役させたと伝えた。
中国海軍が情報収集艦の配備などの情報を公表するのはまれとも報じた。就役したのは「Kaiyangxing」で、性能の詳細は不明だが、時速37キロでの航行が可能としている。中国海軍が保持する電子偵察船は計6隻とも伝えた。
Kaiyangxingが作戦遂行に当たる海域などは不明。
シンガポールの南洋工科大学の国際問題専攻の研究員は、同艦船の配備が今回明らかにされた背景には地政学的に2つの要因が絡むと分析。軍事力増強についての透明性を打ち出す狙いと、想定する敵対勢力への抑止力を図る思惑があるとしている。
また、係争海域における海軍活動を強化する米国などに対し中国軍は監視能力を有しているとのメッセージを伝える意味合いもあると付け加えた。ただ、同電子偵察船は戦闘艦船でないため他の戦力による防護がない場合、脆(もろ)さを示すとも述べた。

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フーリー、晴れ晴れと引退=ラグビー・トップリーグ:時事ドットコム

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NewsHub今季限りで引退する神戸製鋼の元南アフリカ代表CTBフーリーは、最後の試合を終え「満足してる。日本でのラグビーは人生で一番楽しい時間だった」。晴れやかな表情で、現役生活を振り返った。 代表キャップ72を誇る33歳。トップリーグではパナソニック時代も含めて6シーズンを過ごし、2013年度にはトライ王に輝いた。この日は後半19分から出場し、果敢なプレーで観客を沸かせた。「今後はコーチの勉強がしたい。もちろん日本に来る可能性もある」と話した。(2017/01/14-17:49)

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日本史に「妖怪ウォッチ」=水木さんの漫画も-センター試験:時事ドットコム

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NewsHub14日に実施された大学入試センター試験で、日本史Aの問題に人気アニメ「妖怪ウォッチ」のキャラクター「ロボニャン」「ムダヅカイ」が登場した。同じ問題には、2015年11月に93歳で死去した漫画家、水木しげるさんの「新ぬりかべ」「新ぬらりひょん」も掲載された。 問題は、4妖怪とその背景となる事象を説明した四つの文章のうち、正しい組み合わせを選ばせる内容だった。 センター試験では、14年の日本史でも漫画家の手塚治虫さんを取り上げた問題が出され、漫画も掲載された。(2017/01/14-21:49)

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スペースX、打ち上げ成功 爆発事故から再開 :日本経済新聞

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NewsHub【シリコンバレー=兼松雄一郎】米宇宙開発ベンチャー、スペースXは14日、昨年9月の試験中の爆発で止まっていたロケットの打ち上げを再開し、成功させた。所定の軌道に10基の小型人工衛星全てを配備。ロケットの海上回収にも成功した。現行のロケット「ファルコン9」の打ち上げは30回目で、成功率は9割に戻った。事故による打ち上げ中止期間を約4カ月にとどめ、失注が増えるのを回避した。
米カリフォルニア州バンデンバーグ空軍基地から米衛星通信サービス会社イリジウム・コミュニケーションズの10基の衛星をまとめて打ち上げた。イリジウムは多数の小型人工衛星を低軌道に星座のように配置し、へき地での通信サービスを提供している。老朽化した既存の衛星網を置き換えるため、スペースXに計7回の打ち上げを発注していた。今回の打ち上げはその第1弾だった。
昨年9月、スペースXのロケットはフロリダ州の発射場で打ち上げ前の定例の確認試験中に突然発火し爆発。原因究明に時間がかかり、イーロン・マスク最高経営責任者(CEO)は「会社設立以来、最大の難題」と語っていた。
最終的に同社と規制当局は、液体酸素タンクに圧力をかけるための超低温ヘリウムタンクにできたよじれが原因と特定した。ヘリウムの温度を下げすぎたためによじれができ、そこにたまった液体酸素から発火につながったと判断した。今回はヘリウムの温度を調整し、無事打ち上げに成功した。

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