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| Malaysia finds 139 graves at "cruel" jungle trafficking camps | |  By Praveen Menon WANG KELIAN, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country's police chief said on Monday. The dense jungles of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major route for smugglers bringing people to Southeast Asia by boat from Myanmar, most of them Rohingya Muslims who say they are fleeing persecution, and Bangladesh. "It's a very sad scene... To us even one is serious and we have found 139," Malaysia's Inspector General of Police, Khalid Abu Bakar, told reporters in the northern state of Perlis.
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| One year on, Prime Minister Modi courts India's poor | |  By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi told thousands of supporters his government was devoted to the poor on Monday, directly tackling criticism he has governed for the rich and failed farmers in his first year in office. On the eve of the government's first anniversary Modi travelled south from New Delhi to a region hard hit by crop losses and bad weather to counter opposition jibes that he is losing support of rural areas, home to 70 percent of Indians. Distress among farmers suffering from lower commodity prices and damage caused by early rains has weakened Modi's support in parts of the rural north, including around Mathura where at least two farmer suicides have been blamed on crop losses.
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| Militants kill five, target telecoms in Kashmir attacks | | | By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Militants killed four Indian soldiers and an employee of a mobile phone shop in Jammu & Kashmir on Monday, in a spate of attacks in the disputed region. In Sopore in northern Kashmir, one employee was killed and two wounded when militants fired at a franchise outlet of BSNL, a state-owned telecommunications company, a senior police officer said. In a separate incident, three Indian soldiers were killed and a fourth wounded by a group of six or seven gunmen who crossed into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the disputed border, an army officer said. |
| Tunisian soldier shot dead after killing seven in army base shooting spree | | | By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian soldier opened fire at a military base in the capital on Monday, killing seven colleagues and wounding 10 others before being shot dead himself, according to the army which said the shooter had "family problems". "According to what we know, he had some family problems, this is nothing to do with a terrorist attack." Two military helicopters hovered over the scene as police searched cars on the road to the base. Since its 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has been spared the worst chaos that neighbouring countries experienced after the "Arab Spring". |
| Rights groups slam Myanmar birth law as anti-Muslim | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - A new law that forces some women in Myanmar to have children at least three years apart was on Monday criticised by rights groups who say it will be used to target the country's minority Muslim population. Myanmar's President Thein Sein signed the population control healthcare bill into law last week, state-controlled media announced on Saturday. The legislation is backed by the Buddhist ultra-nationalist group the Committee for the Protection of Nationality and Religion, known as Ma Ba Tha.
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