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| China sentences 39 on terrorism charges in crackdown | | | China on Wednesday sentenced 39 people to jail terms of up to 15 years on terrorism charges, as authorities crack down on the restive far western region of Xinjiang, hit by a recent string of knife and bomb attacks blamed on Islamist separatists. They were accused of crimes ranging from inciting violence and distributing recordings with extremist content to illegally making firearms and promoting ethnic hatred, the Legal Daily newspaper, run by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, said. "All those who dare to challenge the power of the state or the lives of the people, will be severely punished in accordance with the law without lenience," the paper quoted a judge of Xinjiang's high court criminal tribunal as saying. Three people were killed and 79 others injured in an attack on a railway station in the city of Urumqi, in Xinjiang, late in May. In March, 29 were killed and 143 more were injured at a train station in the southwestern city of Kunming. |
| Egyptian court sentences ousted leader Mubarak to three years jail | |  An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on charges of stealing public funds. "The court orders Mohamed Hosni Mubarak to be sent to jail for three years," said judge Osama Shaheen as Mubarak looked on from a cage flanked by his sons, who were sentenced to four years in jail on the same charges. The court fined Mubarak and his sons 21.197 million Egyptian pounds ($2.98 million) and ordered them to repay about 125 million Egyptian pounds of funds the court said they had stolen. Mubarak's former intelligence chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is poised to be elected president next week.
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| S.Korean sect submits to search for founder linked to doomed ferry | |  By Ju-min Park ANSEONG/INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - Hundreds of followers of a religious sect submitted on Wednesday to a search of their rural commune by South Korean authorities seeking the arrest of the head of the family that operated a ferry which capsized last month killing more than 300 people. Yoo Byung-un is wanted on charges of embezzlement, negligence and tax evasion stemming from a web of business holdings centered around I-One-I, an investment vehicle owned by his sons that ran the shipping company Chonghaejin Marine. Believed to be in his 70s, Yoo is a co-founder of the Evangelical Baptist Church that runs the sprawling Anseong compound about two hours south of Seoul. Arrest warrants have been issued for Yoo's two sons, the younger of which is believed to be in the United States.
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| In cyber spying row, Chinese media call U.S. a "mincing rascal" | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media labelled the United States a "mincing rascal" and "high-level hooligan" on Wednesday in response to Washington charging five Chinese military officers with hacking U.S. companies to steal trade secrets. The indictment on Monday was the first criminal hacking charge the U.S. has filed against specific foreign officials, and follows a rise in public criticism and private confrontation between the world's two biggest economies over cyber espionage. As a first response, China suspended a Sino-U.S. working group on cyber issues. In an editorial, the Global Times, an influential tabloid run by the People's Daily, the official newspaper of China's Communist Party, said this was the "right move, but we should take further actions." "We should encourage organizations and individuals whose rights have been infringed to stand up and sue Washington," the newspaper said.
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| Anti-Semitism taboo under threat in Hungary | |  By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Budapest's Jewish community is vibrant, visible and patriotic; Some Jews and academics blame this on the far-right Jobbik party, which has come from nowhere to become the second most popular party as one recession after another has held Hungarians' living standards far below the European average. Jobbik, which is expected to perform strongly in European Parliament elections this weekend, denies accusations that its rhetoric is allowing open anti-Semitism to become accepted in modern day, democratic Hungary. But surveys show a remarkably large minority owns up to harbouring beliefs - such as that a secret Jewish conspiracy controls political and economic life - that were common in the 1930s and 40s but were supposed to have been banished to the extremes by the horrors of the Holocaust.
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