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| Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to 6 years for corruption | |  By Rami Amichai TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel's ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in jail on Tuesday for taking bribes in a real estate deal, a crime the judge said was akin to treason. The first criminal conviction of a former Israeli head of government all but ended speculation that Olmert - a centrist credited internationally with working towards a peace settlement with the Palestinians - might return to political life. \"A public servant who takes bribes is akin to a traitor,\" said Judge David Rozen in the Tel Aviv District Court, as he handed down a six-year prison term sought by prosecutors and fined Olmert 1 million shekels ($289,500).
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| Pressure builds on Thai Senate as crisis drags on | |  By Robert Birsel BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Senate was meeting on Tuesday to try to find a solution to protracted political turmoil, with both sides putting pressure on the only legislative assembly still functioning in the polarised country. Last week the Constitutional Court ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and nine of her cabinet ministers for abuse of power, but her caretaker government has remained in office, clinging to hope for a July 20 election which would probably see it returned to power. The crisis is the latest phase in nearly 10 years of rivalry between the royalist establishment and Yingluck's brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed by the army in a 2006 coup. With the military declining to get involved this time, the anti-government side has called on the Senate to step in and force what is left of Yingluck's administration to stand down.
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| Pakistani police charge 68 lawyers with blasphemy over protest | | | By Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police have registered a case of blasphemy against 68 lawyers who made a public protest after a police officer detained one of their colleagues, officials said on Tuesday, the latest in a tidal wave of such accusations flooding the country. Monday's charges followed a protest in which lawyers shouted slogans against senior police officer Umar Daraz for allegedly illegally detaining a lawyer in the Jhang district of central Pakistan. \"Lawyers were protesting against police, using foul language and the name of the inspector,\" the district's police officer, Zeeshan Asghar, told Reuters. One of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, founder of the Islamic religion, was called Hazrat Umar. |
| Mother identifies daughter on video of abducted Nigeria schoolgirls | |  A mother of an abducted Nigerian schoolgirl has identified her daughter in a video posted by Islamist rebels that showed dozens of girls in captivity, a school leader said on Tuesday. The mother watched the video on television on Monday evening and spotted her daughter among the girls sitting on the ground and wearing veils, said Dumoma Mpur, parent-teachers association chairman at Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria. The leader of rebel group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, issued the video on Monday offering to release more than 200 schoolgirls, who were kidnapped from the school in a raid on April 15, in exchange for prisoners held by the government. It was not immediately apparent when the video of the girls was filmed.
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