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| Pakistan prepares for showdown between protesters, police | |  By Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Pakistani riot police were braced to defend a diplomatic and political zone of the capital on Tuesday after tens of thousands of protesters began marching on parliament to try to oust the prime minister. The protests are led by former international cricketer Imran Khan, head of the country's third-largest political party, and cleric Tahir ul-Qadri, who controls a network of Islamic schools and charities. The protests have piled extra pressure on the 15-month-old government as it struggles to overcome high unemployment, daily power cuts and a Taliban insurgency. Khan and Qadri both want Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign.
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| Missouri racial unrest mounts; U.S. leaders call for calm | |  Law enforcement has made various efforts to soothe angry demonstrators, but police said they had come under heavy gunfire overnight and arrested 31 people despite the deployment of Missouri National Guard troops and the lifting of a curfew to allow protesters to have more freedom to demonstrate. Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who was traveling to Ferguson on Tuesday, told cable channel MSNBC. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, another Missouri Democrat, said calm was needed to allow federal investigators to evaluate the evidence.
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| S.Arabia opens family courts, first step in wider legal reform | | | By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Tuesday opened new courts focusing on family disputes, the first of a series of specialised tribunals aimed at making the kingdom's legal system faster, more transparent and predictable. Changes to the legal system are seen by analysts as an important step in wider social and economic reforms aimed at reconciling Saudi Arabia's ultra-conservative traditions with the demands of a young population and modern economy. The introduction of specialised courts is one of the most radical changes to a legal system in which judges use their own interpretation of Islamic texts to rule on cases that range from complex commercial disputes to murder. The new courts are the centrepiece of sweeping judicial reforms in Saudi Arabia that were announced by King Abdullah in 2007 but have faced opposition from conservatives who want legal matters to remain under the exclusive control of the clergy. |
| Corrected - Former Iraqi VP urges role for Saddam loyalists, criticises U.S. action | |  By Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - (Corrects to make clear Hashemi no longer in office after 2012 sentencing) Former dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath party must play a role if a political solution is to be found in Iraq, ex-vice president Tarek al-Hashemi said on Monday, warning that U.S. The Iraqi army has been trying to push back Sunni Muslim insurgents from Islamic State and other groups opposed to the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad since they launched a lightning advance two months ago. The United States this month began its first air strikes on Iraq since pulling out all troops in 2011, to support Kurdish fighters also trying to reverse gains by the insurgents, who have overrun much of Iraq's north.
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| Court drops suicide charges against Irom Sharmila | |  Irom Sharmila, 42, has been demanding the repeal of a law that gives the military sweeping powers to search and detain anyone suspected to be involved in an armed revolt in Manipur. On Tuesday a court in the state capital, Imphal, ordered that the charge of attempting suicide be dropped and Sharmila be freed. "The case of Sharmila attempting to commit suicide could not be established," her lawyer Babloo Loitongbam told Reuters. Critics say the law encourages soldiers to commit abuses, and even in Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been demanding its withdrawal, saying it alienates citizens.
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| Standard Chartered nears deal over compliance failure - source | |  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard Chartered Plc is close to a deal to pay between $200 million and $300 million to resolve allegations by New York's banking regulator that it failed to review high-risk transactions, two years after agreeing to reform its practices, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. The penalty would be the second the British bank has paid to the New York Department of Financial Services in two years. In August 2012, Standard Chartered agreed to a $340 million settlement over allegations that it stripped identifying information from transactions linked to Iran, making it impossible for U.S. It is unclear precisely what transactions are at issue in the current probe.
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