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| Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to 6-year jail term for corruption | |  Ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years' imprisonment on Tuesday for taking bribes, in a corruption case that resulted in the first criminal conviction of a former head of government in Israel. Olmert, a centrist credited internationally with working towards a peace settlement with the Palestinians, had denied wrongdoing in a real estate deal that took place while he was in his previous post of Jerusalem mayor. But in the new corruption trial, Judge David Rozen found Olmert guilty of two bribery charges and said he accepted 500,000 shekels ($144,000) from developers of the Holyland apartment building complex in Jerusalem and 60,000 shekels ($17,000) in a separate real estate project.
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| Pressure builds on Thai Senate as crisis drags on | |  By Robert Birsel BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Senate was due to meet on Tuesday to try to find a solution to protracted political turmoil, with both sides putting pressure on the only legislative assembly still operating 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 its 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 adminstration to stand down.
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| Jordanian ambassador to Libya freed | | | Jordan's kidnapped ambassador to Libya has been freed by his captors, has left the country and is on his way home, a Jordanian cabinet minister said on Tuesday. \"Ambassador Itan is on his way home and in good health,\" Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Joudeh was quoted as saying on state television. Earlier the pan-Arab news channel Al Arabiya Television said the Libyan foreign ministry had confirmed the release to it. Al Jazeera television also reported the news. |
| Taxing times for pachinko as Japan considers casino gamble | |  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 | | | 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. ... |
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