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| Protesters to African leaders: end Burundi presidential bid | | | By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Protest organisers in Burundi urged African leaders meeting in Tanzania on Wednesday to demand that their president halt his bid for a third term, which has triggered the nation's worst crisis since an ethnically fuelled civil war ended in 2005. At least two gunshots rang out as protesters returned to the streets of Burundi's capital on Wednesday. They say Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for another five years violates two-term limits in the constitution and the peace deal that ended the civil war. East African leaders and a top official from continental heavyweight South Africa met in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam to discuss the crisis that has already spilled over into a region with a history of ethnic conflict. |
| Foreign investor group mulls Supreme Court challenge to MAT | |  By Rafael Nam, Himank Sharma and Michelle Price MUMBAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong-based lobby group representing global banks and investors is considering challenging a controversial tax in the Supreme Court, escalating a row that has eroded investor confidence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. The Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) is in discussions with financial firms, lawyers and tax consultants about applying to join an existing legal action on a tax dispute, several sources aware of the talks told Reuters. A spokeswoman for ASIFMA declined to comment. The existing Supreme Court case, filed by Mauritius-based Castleton Investment Ltd, is seen as a test case on the legitimacy of extending the so-called minimum alternate tax (MAT), which was intended to ensure companies inside India paid a minimum tax rate, to foreign investors' gains.
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| Motorcycle gunmen kill 43 in bus attack in Pakistan's Karachi - police | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a bus in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least 43 people, police said, in the latest attack directed against religious minorities this year. They boarded the bus and carried out the shooting," Police Superintendent Najib Khan told Reuters. He said all the passengers were from the Ismaili community, a minority Shi'ite Muslim sect in majority-Sunni Pakistan. A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban called Jundullah claimed responsibility.
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| Asia boatpeople pushed back to sea as U.N. calls for rescue | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will continue to push boats holding thousands of migrants back to sea, a senior Thai official said on Wednesday, despite a U.N. appeal for a rapid rescue operation to avoid a humanitarian crisis. Several thousand migrants, many of them hungry and sick, are adrift in Southeast Asian seas in boats that have been abandoned by smugglers following a Thai government crackdown on human trafficking, the United Nations has said. "Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have decided not to receive boat people, as far as I am aware," Major General Werachon Sukhondhapatipak, spokesman for Thailand's ruling junta, told Reuters. He declined to comment on the UN refugee agency UNHCR's appeal on Tuesday for an international search and rescue operation to rescue the thousands stranded on the seas between Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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| North Korea executes defence chief with an anti-aircraft gun- S.Korea agency | |  By Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea executed its defence chief by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers, the latest in a series of high-level purges since Kim Jong Un took charge in Pyongyang. Hyon Yong Chol, 66, who headed the isolated country's military, was charged with treason, including disobeying Kim and falling asleep during an event at which North Korea's young leader was present, according to South Korean lawmakers briefed in a closed-door meeting with the spy agency on Wednesday. It was not clear how the NIS obtained the information and it is not possible to independently verify such reports from within secretive North Korea.
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| S. Korean soldier's shooting spree kills two, injures 3 - military | | | A soldier in South Korea's reserves went on a shooting spree on Wednesday, killing a fellow soldier and injuring three comrades before shooting himself dead, a military official said. The incident will spur questions over the country's rules on compulsory military service at a time when its military faces criticism of lax discipline in some units, leading to attacks on soldiers by colleagues suffering from psychological problems. The military official said the reservist turned his K-2 assault rifle on fellow soldiers during mandatory training at a reserve forces site in the capital, Seoul. "The army is investigating the incident," said the military official, who declined to be identified because the topic is sensitive. |
| Police torture in China still routine despite reforms - rights group | |  Six years after China took steps to crack down on torture by police, detainees continue to be beaten, hanged by their wrists and shackled to iron chairs, New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The report comes six months before China is due to face scrutiny by a U.N. panel against torture and following a pledge by President Xi Jinping to boost the rule of law. The ruling Communist Party is looking to quell public discontent over several high-profile miscarriages of justice, with China's top court unveiling legal reforms in February to halt the use of torture to gain evidence. "Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture," Human Rights Watch said in its report, however.
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