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| China mum on diplomat's whereabouts amid Japan spying report | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry refused to say on Wednesday where its ambassador to Iceland was or who was even representing Beijing in the country, following reports he had been arrested by state security for passing secrets to Japan. New York-based Chinese language portal Mingjing News reported on Tuesday that Chinese ambassador to Iceland Ma Jisheng and his wife had been taken away by Chinese state security earlier this year. It said Ma was suspected of becoming a Japanese spy while working in the Chinese embassy in Tokyo between 2004 and 2008. ... |
| China prosecutor approves arrest of Jackie Chan's son on drug charge | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese prosecutors have approved last month's arrest of Jaycee Chan, son of kung fu movie star Jackie Chan, after a suspected drugs offence, the state-owned Beijing News reported on Wednesday, meaning he can now be formally charged. The younger Chan, a 32-year-old actor and singer, was arrested in Beijing after testing positive for marijuana and police said they found 100 grams of the drug at his home. President Xi Jinping said in June that China would "harshly crack down" on narcotics, state media reported. ...
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| Angry Pakistani passengers throw politician off plane | |  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Fed up with constant delays and flight cancellations, disgruntled Pakistani passengers prevented a senior politician from boarding an airplane after he turned up at least two hours late for the flight. A video posted online on Tuesday shows a group of passengers shouting "Shame on you" as they blocked Rehman Malik, an influential former interior minister, from entering the plane and then chasing him back to the terminal building. ...
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| Kosovo makes arrests in new push to stem flow of fighters to Syria, Iraq | | | By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Police in Kosovo arrested 15 people on Wednesday, including a number of imams, in the second major operation in weeks to stem the flow of young ethnic Albanians joining Islamist fighters in Iraq and Syria, a police source said. Local media reported that an influential imam of the Grand Mosque in the capital, Pristina, was among those arrested, as was the leader of an Islamic-rooted political party. Most of Kosovo's 1.8 million people are ethnic Albanian Muslims and lead largely secular lives. ... |
| OCA throws Iran official out of Asiad | | | By Peter Rutherford SEOUL (Reuters) - The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has thrown an Iranian official out of the Asian Games after South Korean police charged him with sexual harassment, while a Palestine soccer player has been charged with the same offence and banned from leaving the country. The OCA said in a statement on Wednesday that Amereh Ahmad, who looked after the equipment for the Iran soccer team, had been banned from all Asian Games sites, including the athletes village, venues and hotels. The OCA has also asked Iran's National Olympic Committee to send him home. ... |
| Bangladesh top court commutes Islamist leader's death sentence | | | By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted to life imprisonment a death sentence for a top Islamist leader convicted of war crimes during the country's war of liberation in 1971. The decision against Delawar Hossain Sayedee, a leader of the main Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, prompted strike calls by his party, and provoked scattered violence in the capital, Dhaka, and the northern district of Rajshahi. ... |
| South Korea arrests American trying to swim to North Korea - report | | | SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean marines arrested an American man late on Tuesday who had been swimming in a river that flows towards North Korea and said he had been trying to go to the North to meet its leader, Korean media reported. South Korean marines guarding the Han river, which flows into an estuary and meets the North's Imjin river, found the man lying on the river bank, apparently suffering from exhaustion, the South's Yonhap news agency said, citing a South Korean government official. ... |
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