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| China's traffic police on alert after chemical blasts - Xinhua | |  Chinese traffic police are on high alert nationwide for dangerous chemicals, ten days after a warehouse exploded in the country's northeast, state media said on Saturday. Two huge blasts in the warehouse storing dangerous chemicals in Tianjin, the world's 10th-busiest port, killed at least 121 people, including 67 fire fighters, and forced the evacuation of thousands after toxic chemicals were detected in the air. The Public Security Ministry ordered police to increase roadside checks and tighten the approval process for transportation permits, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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| Pol Pot's sister-in-law, indicted for genocide in Cambodia, dies | |  Ieng Thirith, the sister-in-law of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, died on Saturday, nearly five years after she was indicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes court said. The 83-year-old former minister of social action during Pol Pot's 1975-'79 "killing fields" regime, died in the old Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin in western Cambodia, the court said in a statement. Ieng Thirith was married to former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary, who died in 2013.
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| North, South Korea officials to meet at DMZ in bid to ease tension | |  By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea were due to meet at the Panmunjom truce village straddling their border on Saturday, both sides said, raising hopes for an end to a standoff that put the two sides on the brink of armed conflict. The meeting at the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) village, known for its sky-blue huts and grim-faced soldiers, was set for half an hour after North Korea's previously set ultimatum demanding that the South halt its loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts along the border or face military action. Tension on the Korean peninsula has been running high since an exchange of artillery fire on Thursday, prompting calls for calm from the United Nations, the United States and the North's lone major ally, China.
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| Several hurt in riot over refugees in eastern German town | | | German police sprayed tear gas on several hundred demonstrators throwing bottles and stones at busloads of asylum seekers arriving at an eastern German town in the early hours of Saturday in scuffles which left several people hurt, media reported. Initially, several hundred people had held a peaceful demonstration in the town of Heidenau, near Dresden, on Friday evening to object to the expected arrival of 250 refugees who were due to be housed in an empty building there. |
| Myanmar ruling party sends message of unity after vote exposes rift | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling party on Saturday appealed for unity, saying its ousted party chief would stay 'faithful', after a parliamentary vote exposed a rift in the ruling bloc, amid the biggest political shake-up since the end of military rule. President Thein Sein last week sacked his ambitious rival Shwe Mann before party headquarters were sealed off with police trucks in the middle of the night, sparking worries about Myanmar's first free elections in 25 years set for Nov.8. The November election, seen as a crucial test of the country's reforms, is expected to be won by opposition leader Aung Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, but she is banned from becoming president under the military-drafted constitution.
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