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| German judge lifts temporary ban on Uber ride-share service | |  By Eric Auchard and Harro Ten Wolde FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Frankfurt judge has lifted a temporary injunction on online taxi service Uber, only two weeks after barring the Silicon Valley company from operating a novel car-sharing service across Germany. Frankfurt Regional Court Judge Frowin Kurth said on Tuesday that the issues in the case brought against Uber by German taxi operator group Taxi Deutschland deserved a fuller airing in court, but lacked the urgency for a temporary injunction. ...
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| Fake Picasso anyone? Austrian police search for fraud victims | | | VIENNA (Reuters) - Art lovers who suspect they might have bought forged Pablo Picasso paintings should contact the Austrian police, who are looking for victims of a Serbian art fraud gang. The group operated out of a Viennese cafe, offering clients several fake Picassos, along with forged certificates of authenticity, police in the Austrian capital said on Tuesday. They demanded 300,000 euros ($388,410) for one work. The gang was arrested earlier this year, the police statement said, but it was not immediately clear how many people might have fallen for the counterfeits. ($1 = 0. ... |
| PM says Thailand not always safe for tourists after murder of Britons | |  By Kaweewit Kaewjinda BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's prime minister said on Tuesday the country was not always as safe for foreign visitors as their homelands, after the murder of two British tourists dealt a blow to the southeast Asian nation's image. The tourist industry accounts for 10 percent of Thailand's economy and it has yet to recover from a slump in visitors during months of sometimes bloody protests on the streets of Bangkok that preceded a military coup in May. ...
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| Iraq parliament rejects defence, interior minister nominees | |  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament failed to approve Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's candidates for the sensitive posts of defence and interior ministers in a vote on Tuesday, according to state television. The men - Riad al-Ghareeb nominated for the post of interior minister and Jaber al-Jaberi as defence minister - did not win the needed majority vote, it said. Abadi received parliamentary approval for most cabinet positions last week. Officials said parliament would vote again on the two posts on Thursday. ...
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| Police boss at centre of British child sex scandal quits | | | LONDON (Reuters) - The elected official in charge of policing in the northern English town of Rotherham quit on Tuesday after weeks of resisting political pressure to stand down over a scandal involving the sexual exploitation of as many as 1,400 children. Shaun Wright was in charge of children's services for the local authority during the time some of the abuse was occurring. An independent report last month revealed the crimes had been going on for 16 years. ... |
| U.N. experts caution powers they must heed 'laws of war' in fighting IS | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations war crimes investigators for Syria cautioned world powers preparing military action against Islamic State fighters that the 'laws of war' would apply to them and they must do everything possible to protect civilian populations. They said ISIS, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, had commited massacres of religious and ethnic groups and abused women. The government of President Bashar al-Assad, however, remained responsible for the majority of civilian casualties. ...
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| Indonesia anti-terror police question four foreigners | | | JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian anti-terror police are questioning four foreign nationals in a sign of tightening security in the country with the world's largest Muslim population, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Indonesia grappled with a string of militant attacks during the 2000s, including a bombing at a Bali nightclub that killed 202, with 88 Australians among them. Since then, it has been largely successful in cracking down on homegrown militant cells. ... |
| Ukraine agrees to grant "special status" to rebellious east | | | KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that will give "special status" to the separatist-minded eastern regions including a degree of self-governance for a three-year period, parliamentary deputies, who attended the closed session, said. A second law that was passed would grant an amnesty to separatists who were involved in recent fighting with government forces, the deputies told Reuters. (Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing By Richard Balmforth, editing by Elizabeth Piper) |
| Vietnam urged to tackle "alarming" rate of police abuse | |  HANOI (Reuters) - Abuses by Vietnam's powerful police force are occurring at an alarming rate, a rights group said on Tuesday and it urged the government to rein-in offenders and create bodies to investigate complaints of beatings, torture and killings. Tracking four years of alleged abuse of suspects in custody, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Vietnam's Communist government needed to recognise the scale of the problem and urgently initiate police reforms. ...
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| China's envoy to Britain slams "hypocritical" last governor of Hong Kong | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ambassador to Britain has branded London's last colonial governor of Hong Kong an irresponsible "hypocrite" for his recent criticism of a lack of democracy in the global financial hub. In a letter to the conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper on Tuesday, ambassador Liu Xiaoming said Hong Kong must never be allowed to become an obstacle to improving Sino-British ties, despite the "flawed" arguments of Chris Patten. ... |
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