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| Beijing security head detained in China graft probe - NYT | | | China has detained the head of Beijing's state security bureau as part of a wider investigation into powerful ex-domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, the New York Times said on Saturday. Liang Ke, director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of State Security, was taken into custody last month by the anti-corruption watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, sources told the newspaper. State media on Friday announced that Liang had been replaced, but gave no reason for the move or other details. President Xi Jinping has launched a sweeping crackdown on corruption since taking power, warning that the problem is a threat to the Communist Party's very survival. |
| Pakistan prisoner found hanging in Jammu jail | | | Jammu, Feb 22 (IANS) A Pakistani prisoner was Saturday morning found hanging inside a jail here, an official said. K. Rajendra Kumar, director general prisons, told reporters here that the body of Showkat Ali, son of Barkat Ali, a resident of Pind Sail Jathan in Sialkot Pakistan, was found hanging from the iron window of a barrack toilet inside the prison Saturday morning. Ali was arrested in Jammu in February 2011 after he crossed over from the international border. He was reportedly suffering from some mental ailment and was lodged in the Amphalla district jail in Jammu following court orders. |
| From jail, Venezuela protest leader urges resistance | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's jailed protest leader urged supporters on Friday to keep demonstrating peacefully against President Nicolas Maduro despite violence that has killed at least six people and rocked the OPEC member nation. "I'm fine, I ask you not to give up, I won't," Leopoldo Lopez told his followers in a handwritten note passed to his wife at Caracas' Ramo Verde prison and then posted on the Internet. The 42-year-old Lopez, a Harvard-educated economist and one of the few surviving relatives of Venezuelan independence hero Simon Bolivar, spearheaded protests against the socialist government that began at the start of February. At least six people have died, five from gunshots, and one run over by a vehicle, as the protests have degenerated into violence in Caracas and other cities around Venezuela, especially in the western Andean region.
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| Venezuela's Maduro calls for dialogue with Obama | | | CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday called on U.S. President Barack Obama to hold dialogue with Venezuelan authorities, only days after expelling three U.S. diplomats on charges they were stirring up violent protests. (Reporting by Brian Ellsworth; Editing by Chris Reese) |
| North Korea rejects UN human rights report as "lies and fabrications" | | | By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Saturday rejected the findings of a U.N. panel, which accused the state of crimes against humanity that evoked Nazi-era atrocities, saying they were based on "lies and fabrications deliberately cooked up by hostile forces and riff-raffs." North Korean security chiefs and even Kim Jong Un should face international prosecution for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings of its people, U.N. investigators said on Monday in a report. The unprecedented public rebuke to a head of state by a U.N. commission is likely to further antagonize Kim, but activists and defectors who fled the North including prison camp survivors expressed scepticism that the report will have any impact on the regime. The North's foreign ministry said it categorically rejects the report by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry, which it said was "set up the U.S. and its satellite forces out of inveterate repugnance towards the DPRK." DPRK stands for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the comments were carried by the official KCNA news agency. |
| Art collectors sue for $40 mln over labeling Keith Haring works 'fakes' | | Friday, February 21, 2014 11:55 PM | |
| | By Curtis Skinner NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several collectors filed a $40 million lawsuit on Friday against the foundation of late New York City painter Keith Haring, which has publicly stated roughly 80 works owned by the dealers are fakes. The collectors said they purchased the artwork from friends of Haring, including a New York City disc jockey. The foundation, however, rejected the artworks' authenticity in 2007 and refused to review additional evidence provided later by the collectors before stating they were fakes, according to the lawsuit in Manhattan district court. Representatives for the Keith Haring Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
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