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| China's Xi urges army to create strategy for information warfare |
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 Chinese President Xi Jinping has said China will spur military innovation and called on the army to create a new strategy for "information warfare" as the country embarks on military reform, state media said on Saturday. Xi heads the Central Military Commission, which controls the 2.3-million-strong armed forces, the world's largest, and is stepping up efforts to modernise forces that are projecting power across disputed waters in the East and South China Seas. During a meeting with the ruling Chinese Communist Party's Politburo, Xi said China "must vigorously promote military innovation" but warned it will be difficult.
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| Egyptian court sentences Brotherhood leader Badie to life in prison |
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 An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, general guide of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and seven others to life in prison on Saturday for inciting violence during protests last year, judicial sources said. Badie had already been sentenced to death and received a life sentence in other cases, part of Cairo's toughest crackdown - widely criticised by human rights groups - on the country's oldest and most organised Islamist movement. The judge, Mohamed Nagi Shehata, also sentenced six other defendants to death in absentia. Badie was charged with killing at least nine people and inciting violence that injured 21 others in clashes near a mosque in Giza in 2013.
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| CBI charges Dayanidhi Maran, Malaysian tycoon in telecoms scandal |
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 By Devidutta Tripathy MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed charges against a former minister, his media mogul brother, and a Malaysian tycoon over alleged corruption to help Malaysia's Maxis group take control of an Indian mobile phone carrier eight years ago. Tamil Nadu politician Dayanidhi Maran, who was India's telecommunications minister between 2004 and 2007; Malaysia's second-richest man T. Ananda Krishnan and his aide Augustus Ralph Marshall, are among those named in the charge sheet filed in a New Delhi court on Friday, a police spokeswoman said. The case is separate from a massive scandal that Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said had lost the government about $29 billion during a 2008 telecoms permits sale process.
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