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| Asia's drifting boatpeople a looming humanitarian crisis - U.N. | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Aubrey Belford LHOKSUKON, Indonesia/LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) - Several thousand migrants, many of them hungry and sick, are adrift in boats in Southeast Asian seas and governments of the region must rescue them quickly to avert a "massive humanitarian crisis", the United Nations said on Tuesday. It appealed to authorities in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia not to push back boats that are packed with refugees who have been abandoned by smugglers following a Thai government crackdown on traffickers. There has been a surge in migrants from impoverished Bangladesh and Myanmar to Malaysia and Indonesia following the clampdown in Thailand, usually the first destination in the region's people-smuggling network.
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| Killings by suspected Ugandan rebels draw protest in eastern Congo | | | Hundreds of people protested in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday after a machete attack by suspected Ugandan rebels in which a local activist said at least six people were killed. Activist Teddy Kataliko told Reuters that seven other people were wounded and two missing after men with machetes and hatchets attacked a village on Monday evening. An army spokesman, Major Victor Masandi, said he know of three deaths. Millions died in eastern Congo in a 1998-2003 war that sucked in more than a half dozen neighbouring countries, and the region remains ravaged by dozens of armed groups who contest its vast reserves of gold, diamonds and tin. |
| India defers GST legislation, spooks investors | |  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, facing strong political opposition, agreed to defer a landmark legislation for a nationwide goods and services tax (GST) on Tuesday in a setback for its reform programme. The decision to send the bill for a parliamentary committee review spooked investors, leading to a more than 2 percent fall in stock markets. With the opposition Congress party creating hurdles for the GST in the Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told lawmakers that a 21-member parliament panel would review the bill. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) enjoys the biggest majority in the Lok Sabha in 30 years but it is dependent on Congress and other parties to pass bills in the upper house.
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| New York's 'cannibal cop' back in spotlight at appeals court | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - The police officer, in lurid online conversations that would earn him the tabloid nickname "cannibal cop," said he had selected his kidnapping victim: Andria, a former college friend who lived in Ohio. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court in New York will consider whether that gruesome imagery was part of an actual criminal plot or simply the dark but harmless fantasies of an extreme fetishist. A jury convicted New York City Police Officer Gilberto Valle in March 2013 of planning to kidnap, cook and eat several women. The office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara will ask the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday to reinstate Valle's conviction.
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| Blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh, third this year | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - A blogger was hacked to death by machete-wielding attackers in Bangladesh on Tuesday, the third killing of a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation in less than three months. Ananta Bijoy Das, a blogger who advocated secularism, was attacked by four masked assailants in the northeastern district of Sylhet on Tuesday morning, senior police official Mohammad Rahamatullah told Reuters. His widow, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, suffered head injuries and lost a finger. According to monitoring service SITE Intelligence Group, Islamist militant group Ansar al-Islam Bangladesh said al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) had claimed responsibility for the attack. |
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