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| Thai PM says democracy roadmap on schedule, poll early next year | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister and coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Wednesday that a roadmap to return the country to democracy was on schedule, confirming plans for a general election in early 2016. Prayuth's comments came amid renewed tensions in Thailand, following twin bomb blasts in Bangkok on Sunday and last month's decision to ban former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from politics. "If everything goes according to our plan at the start of next year there will be a new general election," Prayuth told reporters in Bangkok, following a high-level meeting with cabinet members, the military and the country's legislature. Thailand has been divided for nearly a decade between rival camps: one led by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who like his sister Yingluck was deposed in a coup, and the other by the Bangkok-based royalist-military establishment.
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| Clerics denounce burning alive of pilot as un-Islamic | | | By Sami Aboudi and Suleiman Al-Khalidi DUBAI/AMMAN (Reuters) - Muslim clerics widely condemned the burning to death of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic State, saying such a form of killing was considered despicable by Islam, no matter the context. Islamic State militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show captured pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh being burnt alive in a cage. Jordan, which has participated in a U.S.-led military campaign to bomb Islamic State positions, responded overnight by executing two al Qaeda convicts on death row. The Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayeb, said the killers themselves deserved to be "killed, crucified or to have their limbs amputated." Saudi cleric Salman al-Odah wrote on his Twitter account: "Burning is an abominable crime rejected by Islamic law regardless of its causes." "It is rejected whether it falls on an individual or a group or a people. |
| China to ban online impersonation accounts, enforce real-name registration | |  China will ban from March 1 internet accounts that impersonate people or organisations, and enforce the requirement that people use real names when registering accounts online, its internet watchdog said on Wednesday. China has repeatedly made attempts to require internet users to register for online accounts using their real names, although with mixed success. The ban on impersonations includes accounts that purport to be government bodies, such as China's anti-corruption agency and news organisations like the People's Daily state newspaper, as well as accounts that impersonate foreign leaders, such as U.S. President Barack Obama and Russia's Vladimir Putin, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on its website.
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| Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan hanged two Iraqi jihadists on Wednesday including a female militant in response to an Islamic State video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive by the hardline group. Islamic State had demanded the release of the woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, in exchange for a Japanese hostage whom it later beheaded. Sentenced to death for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb attack in Amman, Rishawi was executed at dawn, a security source and state television said. Jordan, which is part of the U.S.-led alliance against Islamic State, has promised an "earth-shaking response" to the killing of its pilot, Muath al-Kasaesbeh, who was captured in December when his F-16 crashed over northeastern Syria.
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| China rebukes Norway for expelling scholar | | | China rebuked Norway on Wednesday for "violating the rights" of a Chinese scholar who was expelled from the country, in the latest friction that could strain ties already tense over a Nobel Peace Prize for a Chinese dissident. Norwegian police had ordered the Chinese doctorate student working at the University of Agder to leave Norway before Jan. 23, state news agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday. China has raised the issue with Norway, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a daily news briefing. "It also undermines Norway's academic image." Hong declined to respond directly when asked if the student was a spy, but called on Norway to "safeguard the legitimate rights of the relevant Chinese scholars and their academic freedoms". |
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