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| International prosecutors accuse Kenya of withholding evidence against president | |  By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - International prosecutors accused the Kenyan government on Tuesday of failing to hand over phone and bank records they said would help them show President Uhuru Kenyatta paid collaborators to take part in post-election violence in 2007. Kenyatta denies charges of co-orchestrating the wave of violence in which 1,200 people were killed and a government representative dismissed the prosecutors' allegations. Kenyatta's lawyers have argued that the requests were a cover for a lack of evidence. ...
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| Bahrain prince does not enjoy immunity over torture claims, UK court rules | | | By Ahmed Aboulenein LONDON (Reuters) - A British court ruled on Tuesday that Bahraini Prince Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who has been accused of torturing detainees in Bahrain, does not enjoy immunity from prosecution in Britain. A Bahraini citizen, known only as FF, had sought the arrest of the son of Bahrain's king following allegations that he was directly involved in the torture of three prisoners in Bahrain during a pro-democracy uprising there in 2011. FF, who says he himself was tortured, was granted refugee status and now lives in Britain. ... |
| Thai martial law to stay until sweeping reforms in place - PM | |  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Tuesday dismissed calls to lift martial law, saying it would continue until sweeping national reforms are in place, despite calls by tourism bodies to scrap a measure that has deterred many visitors. Martial law was declared on May 20, two days before the army seized power in a bloodless coup following months of sometimes violent street protests aimed at ousting then Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. ...
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| Crime controls 25 percent of world sport, anti-doping chief says | |  By Ossian Shine LONDON (Reuters) - The man tasked with eliminating drug cheats says criminal gangs now control a quarter of all world professional sport. David Howman, director-general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, called for everyone involved in the fight against sports corruption to band together to ensure the "bad guys" don't win. "The biggest threat to sport is organised crime," Howman told delegates in London for a conference on securing sport. "Don't let us compartmentalise it into match-fixing or bribery, it's organised crime. ...
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| Hong Kong protests at crossroads as traffic, frustration pile up | |  By Donny Kwok and John Ruwitch HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's dwindling pro-democracy protesters relaxed blockades of key places on Tuesday, allowing some business supplies in and out, although traffic was still largely snarled and talks with the government offered little hope of a quick solution. Hundreds of protesters in the second week of their campaign for greater democracy were camped out on the road leading into Hong Kong's main government and business districts, the last holdouts after days of rallies that attracted tens of thousands at their peak. ...
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| Thai police chief defends investigation of murder of British tourists | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's police chief defended on Tuesday the arrest of two Myanmar men for the murder of two British tourists amid concern the pair may have admitted to the murders under duress. The bodies of Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found on a beach on the southern island of Koh Tao, a normally tranquil spot famous for its coral reefs and diving, last month. Miller died from drowning and blows to the head, while Witheridge died from severe head wounds, examinations by Thailand's forensics department found. ...
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