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| Hong Kong party asks anti-graft agency to probe Leung over $6.4 mln payment | |  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Democratic Party said on Thursday it has asked the anti-corruption agency to investigate the city's leader Leung Chun-ying over a $6.4 million payment he got from an Australian engineering company while he was in office. Australia's Fairfax Media reported this week that engineering firm UGL Ltd paid Leung a total of more than $6 million in 2012 and 2013 in relation to its acquisition of DTZ Holdings, a property consultant that employed Leung as its Asia Pacific director before he took office in July 2012. Both Leung's office and UGL have denied any wrongdoing. ...
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| China angered after FBI head says Chinese hacking costs billions | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States on Thursday of faking facts, after the head of the FBI said that Chinese hacking likely cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year. Charges over hacking and internet spying have increased tension between the two countries. In May, the United States charged five Chinese military officers with hacking into U.S. companies, prompting China to suspend a Sino-U.S. working group on cyber issues. China has denied wrongdoing. Speaking on CBS' 60 Minutes programme on Sunday, FBI Director James Comey said Chinese hackers were targeting big ...
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| Islamic State seizes one third of Syrian town Kobani - monitor | |  MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani despite U.S.-led air strikes targeting them in and around the town, a monitoring group said on Thursday. They moved into two districts on Wednesday in a three-week battle that Kurdish defenders say will end in a massacre and give the militants a garrison on the Turkish border if they win. ...
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| Sri Lankan president considers early election, ally says, amid signs of fading popularity | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa could hold a snap election in January, nearly two years before he has to, a close ally said, amid signs his popularity is fading among people who criticise his party for abusing power. Rajapaksa, 68, came to power in 2005 and retained the presidency in 2010 on a wave of popularity after the military defeated Tamil Tiger separatists in 2009, ending a 26-year-old civil war. ...
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| At least 20 killed in suicide bombing in Yemeni capital - Reuters witness | | | SANAA (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed on Thursday in a suicide attack apparently targeting a Shi'ite Muslim Houthi checkpoint in the centre of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, witnesses including a Reuters reporter said. One witness counted at least 20 bodies after the bombing in Tahrir Square in central Sanaa, which is under control of Muslim Shi'ite Houthi. Many other people were wounded in the attack, other witnesses said. A policemen guarding a local bank near the scene said a man apparently wearing a suicide belt approached the Houthi checkpoint. ... |
| Islamic State claims downing Iraqi military helicopter | | | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed that it shot down an Iraqi army helicopter in northern Iraq, the SITE monitoring group reported early on Thursday. The helicopter crashed on Wednesday in Salahuddin province north of Baghdad near the Baiji oil refinery, the largest such facility in the country, according to an Iraqi army officer. The officer confirmed two army personnel died, but said the crash was still under investigation. Islamic State said on Twitter that it downed the aircraft and published pictures that it claimed were of the debris and the corpse of one of the pilots. ... |
| Japan says S.Korea's indictment of Japanese reporter "extremely regrettable" | |  TOKYO (Reuters) - The indictment of a Japanese journalist in South Korea for defamation of its president was "extremely regrettable", Japan said on Thursday, but added that the door for dialogue between the two countries' leaders should stay open. South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday indicted the former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, Tatsuya Kato, after concluding that a report he wrote about President Park Geun-hye on Aug. 3 was based on "false information". The article discussed Park's personal life and whereabouts on the day of a deadly ferry disaster in April. ...
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| China bans tainted stars from TV, movie screens | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - Stars who have used drugs, visited prostitutes or been involved in other law-breaking will not be allowed to appear on Chinese television, movie screens or other forms of broadcast, state media said on Thursday, following a series of scandals. The ban by the broadcast regulator, which includes radio and advertisements, is meant to "keep the industry healthy", the official China Daily reported. ...
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| Russia moves closer to adopting compensation for sanctions law | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian parliament moved a step closer on Wednesday to adopting a law that would allow for foreign assets inside the country to be seized and for the state to pay compensation for the loss of property due to Western sanctions. The pro-Kremlin deputy who submitted the draft law says the bill would protect the interests of ordinary people. Critics say it would shield Russian billionaires and officials from the impact of sanctions imposed over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and its support for rebels in eastern Ukraine. ...
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| Former party boss of China's Guangzhou accused of extortion | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - The former Chinese Communist Party boss of the southern city of Guangzhou has been expelled from the party after being accused of extortion, bribery and "visiting private clubs", state media said on Thursday, the latest official to fall in an anti-graft campaign. Wan Qingliang was placed under investigation in June on suspicion of "serious disciplinary violations", the usual euphemism for graft. "Wan Qingliang used his position to seek benefits for others, extorted, received and gave a large amount of bribes ... ...
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