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| Pop singer Justin Bieber accused of attempted robbery: police | |  (Reuters) - Pop singer Justin Bieber has been accused of attempted robbery, a Los Angeles Police Department official said on Tuesday, following media reports that he had tried to snatch a young woman's mobile telephone. Bieber, 20, has not been arrested or questioned, said LAPD spokeswoman Rosario Herrera. A spokeswoman for Bieber did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The incident occurred at about 10:30 p.m. on Monday in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles.
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| Vietnamese riot in industrial zones in anti-China protest | | | Rioting broke out at industrial zones in southern Vietnam during protests by thousands of workers angered by Chinese oil drilling in a contested area of the South China Sea, officials said on Wednesday. Workers smashed gates in the rioting on Tuesday and entered industrial parks housing factories in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces, which are central to Vietnam's sizable manufacturing interests. The destruction comes amid high tensions between China and Vietnam, which have close trade and political ties despite a history of incursions and territorial battles that are the source of deep resentment among Vietnamese. Vietnam's state-run newspapers and its television channels reported the rioting on Wednesday, but did not show photographs or any video footage. |
| Interim Thai PM to meet election body as coup fears mount | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's interim prime minister will meet the Election Commission on Wednesday, in the hope of fixing a date for polls that the government sees as the best way out of the country's protracted crisis but its opponents will probably reject. The crisis is the latest phase in nearly 10 years of hostility between the royalist establishment and Thaksin Shinawatra, a former telecommunications billionaire who won huge support among the rural and urban poor but angered the Bangkok-based elite and was deposed by the military in a 2006 coup. Last week, the Constitutional Court threw Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin's younger sister, and nine of her cabinet ministers out of office for abuse of power. But the remaining ministers selected a new premier and the caretaker government is hoping for a July 20 election that Yingluck's Puea Thai Party would probably win, given the enduring popularity of her brother.
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| Chinese police charge former GSK China head with bribery | |  By Megha Rajagopalan and John Ruwitch BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese police on Wednesday said they had charged the British former China head of drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC and other colleagues with corruption, after a 10-month probe found they paid billions of yuan in bribes to doctors and hospitals. Mark Reilly and two Chinese executives, Zhang Guowei and Zhao Hongyan, were also suspected of bribing officials in the industry and commerce departments of Beijing and Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency reported, quoting police in Hunan province. It is the biggest corruption scandal to hit a foreign company in China since the Rio Tinto affair in 2009, which resulted in four executives including an Australian being jailed for between seven and 14 years each. The money involved was in the billions of yuan (hundreds of millions of dollars),\" a Ministry of Public Security official told a press conference in Beijing.
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| Police say GlaxoSmithKline China head ordered bribery | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police said on Wednesday the former China head of British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC ordered his subordinates to commit bribery, bringing in "illegal revenue worth billions", the official Xinhua news agency reported. Mark Reilly, former head of China operations, and two other executives, Zhang Guowei and Zhao Hongyan, were also suspected of bribing officials in the industry and commerce departments of Beijing and Shanghai, Xinhua said. (Reporting by Kazunori Takada and John Ruwitch; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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| ICC prosecutor to examine alleged British crimes in Iraq war | | | By Mirjam Donath UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court re-opened on Tuesday a preliminary examination of allegations of \"systematic detainee abuse\" by British troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 after receiving new information. The Hague-based court had previously concluded an examination of similar accusations in 2006, but it did not launch a full investigation because the information did not meet the \"required gravity threshold.\" \"I received earlier this year substantial information, much more than what we had in 2006, on alleged crimes that were committed by the UK forces,\" ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told reporters at the United Nations after she had briefed the U.N. Security Council on the court's cases in Libya. They said more than 400 Iraqi former detainees had made allegations of grave mistreatment, of which 85 had been chosen as \"representative cases.\" Bensouda's office said in a statement earlier on Tuesday: \"The communication alleges a higher number of cases of ill-treatment of detainees and provides further details on the factual circumstances and the geographical and temporal scope of the alleged crimes.\" The British government rejected the allegations that British troops had carried out systematic abuse in Iraq. |
| Nigeria signals readiness to talk to Boko Haram rebels | |  By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government signalled a willingness on Tuesday to negotiate with Islamist militants holding more than 200 schoolgirls, a month after the kidnapping that has provoked global outrage. He was speaking a day after Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau posted a video offering to release the girls in exchange for prisoners held by the government. Instead, he referred to an amnesty committee that he heads, set up by President Goodluck Jonathan last year to talk to the Boko Haram militants behind a five-year-old insurgency. Boko Haram has killed thousands of people since 2009 and destabilised parts of northeast Nigeria, the country with Africa's largest population and biggest economy.
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