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| Iranian judge summons Facebook CEO for breach of privacy | |  A conservative Iranian court opened a case against instant messaging services WhatsApp and Instagram while also summoning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over complaints of privacy violation, state news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday. The case underscores the growing struggle between moderate Iranian president Hassan Rouhani's drive to increase Internet freedoms and demands by the conservative judiciary for tighter controls. "According to the court's ruling, the Zionist director of the company of Facebook, or his official attorney must appear in court to defend himself and pay for possible losses," said Ruhollah Momen-Nasab, an Iranian internet official, according to state news agency ISNA, referring to Zuckerberg's Jewish background.
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| Thai army gets down to work on economy, detains ex-minister | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military rulers settled down to work at their Bangkok headquarters on Tuesday, firmly in charge with royal endorsement while rounding up critics and searching for weapons they fear could still be used to fight their takeover. Soldiers burst into a journalists' club in Bangkok and detained a former minister after he had denounced the coup saying it would bring disaster. A protest in Bangkok passed off without incident with fewer people coming out to chant their opposition to the coup compared with previous days. Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power on Thursday, saying the army had to restore order after nearly seven months of sometimes deadly demonstrations.
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| Chemical weapons team in Syria attacked but safe-organisation | | | By Anthony Deutsch and Dominic Evans AMSTERDAM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A team of international experts investigating the alleged use of chlorine bombs in Syria came under attack on Tuesday but all members of the team were safe and returning to base, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said. Syria accused rebel fighters of abducting the members of the joint OPCW/U.N. fact-finding team, who had travelled to the central province of Hama to investigate allegations of illegal chlorine attacks by government forces. The OPCW said "a convoy of OPCW inspectors and United Nations staff that was travelling to a site of an alleged chlorine gas attack" when it came it came under attack. President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces have been battling rebels trying to unseat him for more than three years, agreed last year to hand over Syria's entire chemical weapons stockpile after hundreds of people were killed in a sarin gas attack near Damascus. |
| Entertainer Rolf Harris takes the stand to deny indecent assault charges | |  Veteran Australian entertainer Rolf Harris told a jury of his rise to stardom on Tuesday and even sang a snatch of his famous comedy song "Jake the Peg" as he gave evidence for the first time in his indecent assault trial. Harris, 84, is charged with 12 counts of indecent assault against four girls between 1968 and 1986, many of whom were too intimidated by his fame to go to the police. Did it happen?" asked Sonia Woodley, defending.
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| Egypt urges voters to cast ballots as Sisi nears presidency | |  By Maggie Fick and Stephen Kalin CAIRO (Reuters) - Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to emerge from a second and final day of voting on Tuesday as Egypt's next president, with the military-backed government seeking to boost turnout by declaring a holiday and extending voting hours. With victory for Sisi a foregone conclusion, turnout will be seen at home and abroad as an important measure of the level of popular support for the field marshal who toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi. Local media loyal to the government chided voters for not turning out in large enough numbers, and Egyptians received text messages reminding them that not voting was an offence punishable by a fine. After polls opened at 9.00 a.m. (0600 GMT), lines outside polling stations in various parts of Cairo were short, and in some cases no voters could be seen.
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| Son of senior Shi'ite cleric sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia | | | A Saudi court on Monday sentenced to death the son of a senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric after he was convicted of shooting at security forces in the kingdom's Eastern Province, local media said, in the first such ruling in three years. Minority Shi'ites have staged sporadic protests in the province for years. The www.rasid.net news website identified him as Rida al-Rubh, 26, and said his father, Sheikh Jaafar al-Rubh, has been leading contacts with the Saudi Interior Ministry to restore calm to the town of Awamiya, where most of the protests have taken place. "This was the first death sentence of its kind since protests marches began in Qatif three years ago," sabq.org, another Saudi news website, said. |
| Pakistan woman stoned to death by family for marrying man she loved | | | By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) - A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan's top courts on Tuesday in a so-called "honour" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said. Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said. Many Pakistani families think a woman marrying her own choice of man brings dishonour on the family. |
| Assad's staying power leaves Turkey frustrated and exposed | |  By Jonny Hogg and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's certain victory in an election next month, derided internationally as a charade, leaves Turkey facing a bitter truth - its assumption of his quick demise was a costly miscalculation. With al Qaeda-linked armed groups controlling patches of territory across Turkey's southern border and a registered refugee influx set to top a million within months, Syria's three-year old war presents Ankara with an increasing financial burden and a growing security threat. A gun battle in March when special forces raided the suspected Istanbul hide-out of an Islamist militant group active in Syria highlighted the potential threat to Turkey from the thousands of foreign jihadis who have been drawn into the conflict, a portion of them entering Syria over the Turkish border. The torching of a building housing Syrian refugees in Ankara this month meanwhile pointed to anger at the growing social and economic costs of a humanitarian response which has already cost Turkey close to $3 billion.
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| South Korea offers half-a-million dollar reward for ferry operator owner | |  South Korea has hiked to nearly half a million dollars its reward for information leading to the capture of Yoo Byung-un, the head of the family that owns the operator of a ferry that capsized and sank last month, killing more than 300 people. The figure of 500 million won ($490,000) being offered by authorities after a week of futile searching for Yoo is a tenfold increase from the 50 million set initially, and is the maximum allowed by criminal law as a reward for fugitives. "This is the largest amount ever offered by an investigative authority as reward," said a prosecution official involved in the case. Yoo is wanted on charges of embezzlement, negligence and tax evasion stemming from a web of business holdings centered around a holding company owned by his sons that ran the ferry operator.
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| China breaks up another "terrorist gang" in Xinjiang | |  Chinese police have broken up a "terrorist gang" in the restive western region of Xinjiang, the local government said on Tuesday, arresting five people conspiring to launch attacks with explosives, days after a deadly blast in the capital, Urumqi. China has announced a year-long anti-terrorism operation in Xinjiang, home to a large Muslim Uighur minority, as well as nationwide, following a series of bloody attacks that Beijing blames on Islamists and separatists from the region. Monday's arrests in the Hotan area of southern Xinjiang, reported on the local government's news website, come after authorities said they had caught more than 200 suspects in 23 "terror and religious extremist groups" in May. Police in Hotan arrested five gang members, destroyed two explosive-making sites and seized 1.8 tonnes of explosive raw materials, the Tianshan news website reported.
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| Modi's nationalist foot soldiers take centre-stage in India | |  By Frank Jack Daniel and Sanjeev Miglani LUCKNOW India (Reuters) - Standing with Narendra Modi as he was sworn in as prime minister on the majestic forecourt of India's presidential palace was a cabinet made up almost entirely of ministers whose careers started in a hardline Hindu nationalist movement. After the stunning majority won by Modi's party in the general election, the movement that believes multi-faith India should be recognised first and foremost as a Hindu nation feels closer than ever before to achieving its goals. In the election, these volunteers carried voter lists on tablet computers or mobile phones, the biggest operation by the organisation since 1977 when disparate opposition groups merged to beat former prime minister Indira Gandhi and her Congress party. "It is thrilling," said RSS campaigner Prabhu Narain Srivastava, wearing the group's uniform of baggy khaki shorts and a white shirt as children under his tutelage exercised and played school-yard games in Lucknow, the capital of India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.
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| Philippine lawmakers ask court to halt new U.S. defence pact | | | A group of left-wing Philippine lawmakers on Tuesday petitioned the Supreme Court to immediately halt a new defence pact with the United States, saying it was barred by the constitution. The petition by members of the lower house of Congress was the second legal challenge this week to the pact, and is bound to draw attention to President Benigno Aquino's battles with the courts. Manila and Washington last month signed a new Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) to allow U.S. forces wider access to local bases and construct facilities to store logistics for maritime security and disaster operations. Congressmen Neri Colmenares, Antonio Tinio, Terry Ridon, and Luz Ilagan and street activists led by Renato Reyes asked the Supreme Court for a temporary order to restrain implementation of the pact. |
| China pushing banks to remove IBM servers in spy dispute - Bloomberg | |  (Reuters) - The Chinese government is pushing domestic banks to remove high-end servers made by International Business Machines Corp and replace them with a local brand, the latest move by Beijing over U.S. spying claims, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The news comes a day after China accused the United States of "unscrupulous" cyber surveillance that included large-scale computer attacks against the Chinese government and Chinese companies.Government agencies, including the People's Bank of China and the Ministry of Finance, are reviewing whether Chinese commercial banks' reliance on the IBM servers compromises the country's financial security, the report said citing people familiar with the matter.
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