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| No arrests in Ferguson protests for first time in five days - police | |  By Scott Malone FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over last year's police killing of an unarmed black teenager ended peacefully on Wednesday morning, law enforcement officials said, after shots had been fired and shop windows smashed earlier in the week. It was the first night since Friday to end without arrests, said St. Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire. The mainly black St. Louis suburb of 21,000 people has had months of largely peaceful protests punctuated by nights of rioting, arson and gunfire since a white police officer fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, 2014.
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| Islamic State's Egyptian ally says it beheads Croat - SITE | | | By Omar Fahmy and Igor Ilic CAIRO/ZAGREB (Reuters) - An Egyptian group allied to Islamic State has published a photograph it says showed the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service said on Wednesday. Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the picture, which carried a caption that said: "killing of the Croatian hostage, due to his country's participation in the war against Islamic State, after the deadline expired." Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said authorities were examining the image. "I don't know if we will be able to do it in the coming days, but what we see does not look good ... I'm afraid that for the first time, what has happened to the citizens of other countries has happened to a Croatian citizen." The photograph, circulating on Twitter accounts of Sinai Province supporters, shows a man's severed head placed on his body, with a knife driven into sand next to it and the black Islamic State flag in the background. |
| Sweden, Ecuador aim to break deadlock in Assange case | |  Sweden and Ecuador have agreed to hold talks to break a deadlock over questioning Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, but investigations into three of four cases against him are likely to be dropped in the coming days due to statutes of limitation. Assange, 44, has been holed up inside Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual assault and rape. The Australian, who denies any wrongdoing, fears Sweden may extradite him to the United States, where he could face trial over Wikileaks' publication of huge amounts of leaked government documents including classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents in one of the largest leaks in the country's history.
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| India hits Nestle with $99 million lawsuit after Maggi scare | |  Nestle, the first foreign firm in India to face such a damages claim, is suffering its worst public relations crisis in the country to date, after a regulator in Uttar Pradesh found monosodium glutamate (MSG) and excess lead in a sample of its hugely popular noodles. The government's lawsuit, citing unfair trade practices, the sale of defective goods and the sale of a product without approval, has been filed in the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, a quasi-judicial body whose rulings are legally binding. "The department took exception (given) that Maggi was largely consumed by children and Nestle's advertisements aimed at popularising Maggi among children," said a government official at the food ministry.
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| Bahrain to try opposition figure for incitement to topple government | |  A prominent opposition figure who has just been released from jail on a royal pardon will go on trial in Bahrain this month on new charges of urging the overthrow of the government, state news agency BNA said on Wednesday. BNA did not name the accused man but Bahrain's Akhbar al-Khaleej and al-Wasat newspapers said it refered to Ibrahim Sharif, the former head of the secular National Democratic Action Society, or Waad. The Advocate General said public prosecutors had referred him to the High Criminal Court on charges that also included "threats and inciting hatred against the political regime".
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| Pakistan police transferred for negligence in child abuse scandal | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three Pakistani police officers have been transferred to other districts accused of negligence amid a deepening scandal over a paedophile ring alleged to have abused hundreds of children for nearly a decade, officials said on Wednesday. A prominent family in the central Punjabi village of Husain Khan Wala allegedly used guns, knives and axes to force children - some as young as five - to perform sex acts on video, which they sold or used to extort money from the victims' families, villagers said. The officers were removed from their posts "for their negligence on the Kasur sex scandal", Nabeela Ghazanfar, a spokesperson for the provincial police, told Reuters.
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| India Inc pleads with lawmakers as time runs short for tax reform | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Top Indian tycoons on Wednesday begged feuding lawmakers to shed differences and approve a tax shake-up that will create one of the world's largest single markets and drive economic growth, as time ran short in a summer parliament sitting. The chances of approving the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the "monsoon" sitting of parliament faded after opposition politicians yelled slogans and the speaker adjourned proceedings until Thursday, the last day of the session. Supporters of GST say it will add up to 2 percentage points to economic growth by cutting red tape and making it easier to move goods and services around the world's second-most populous country.
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| Canada PM could get election shock when ex-aide appears at trial | |  By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - A former top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper could reveal potentially damaging details about a corruption scandal as he takes the stand on Wednesday at a trial that threatens to eclipse the ruling Conservative's re-election bid. Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, is the highest-profile witness to testify in the months-long trial of Conservative Senator Mike Duffy, who is accused of receiving a bribe and abusing expense claims two years ago. The testimony of Harper's one-time confidant ramps up just as the election campaign swings into its second week, with the prime minister scheduling a trip to Canada's remote Arctic that overlaps with his appearance.
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| Brit lights up Berlin with spies, lies and censorship art | | | By Josie Le Blond BERLIN (Reuters) - British artist and anti-surveillance activist James Bridle is illuminating Germany with artwork exploring the darkest state secrets, cover-ups and information blackouts. Bridle's "The Glomar Response", showing this month at the newly opened Nome gallery in Berlin, resonates in a country where revelations by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden caused widespread outrage. "It symbolises the way military technologies, espionage and surveillance have trickled down to all aspects of everyday life," Bridle told Reuters. |
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