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| Jordanian ambassador to Libya freed - Al Arabiya TV |
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| Jordan's kidnapped ambassador to Libya has been freed by his captors, Al Arabiya television reported on Tuesday. Al Jazeera television also reported the news. Al Arabiya cited Jordanian state television as saying the ambassador was on his way back to Jordan. Ambassador Fawaz al-Itan was kidnapped last month by gunmen who demanded an Islamist militant be released from a Jordanian jail in exchange for the diplomat's freedom. |
| Taxing times for pachinko as Japan considers casino gamble |
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 By Farah Master and Nathan Layne OSAKA/TOKYO (Reuters) - Moves towards legalising casinos in Japan have reignited a debate over the legal status of pachinko, with a potential new tax mooted for a $200 billion gaming industry that has existed for decades on the fringes of the law. With past links to organized crime, pachinko is not classified as gambling, which is illegal in Japan. Instead it's treated as an amusement activity like arcades and hostess bars, and the operators of pachinko parlours that are found in city streets across Japan pay no gaming tax. While years away, such reforms may have greater implications for the pachinko industry than the likely loss of customers to new casino resorts, analysts say.
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| China detains man for selling "false" reports to foreign website |
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| BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in Beijing have detained a man for selling and posting "fabricated information" to a foreign website, state media said on Tuesday, as China tightens its grip on the Internet ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Xiang Nanfu, 62, published "lots of false stories" on the website of the U.S.-based Chinese news portal Boxun since 2009, the official Xinhua news agency said. ... |
| Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners |
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 By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has offered to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for its members being held in detention, according to a video posted on YouTube on Monday. The search for the girls intensified as a senior U.S. administration official said the United States deployed manned surveillance aircraft over Nigeria and was sharing satellite imagery with the Nigerian government. About 100 girls wearing full veils and praying are shown in an undisclosed location in a part of the 17-minute video in which Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau speaks. Boko Haram militants, who are fighting for an Islamist state, stormed a secondary school in the northeastern village of Chibok on April 14 and seized 276 girls who were taking exams.
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