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| Myanmar ruling party chief sacked in power struggle with president | | | By Hnin Yadana Zaw NAPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's powerful ruling party chief Shwe Mann has been ousted from his post, party members said on Thursday, apparently after losing a power struggle with President Thein Sein three months before a general election. The feud between the two old rivals became public in a dramatic way late on Wednesday evening, when security forces surrounded the vast headquarters of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in the capital, Naypyitaw. The United States expressed concern about the apparent use of security forces to help resolve the dispute. |
| Five held in connection with deadly Bahrain blast - interior ministry | |  Bahrain has detained five people behind a bomb attack in July that killed two policemen, the interior ministry said on Thursday, and accused them of being linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Sunni-ruled Bahrain, which has long accused Iran of stirring up unrest among its Shi'ite population, recalled its ambassador from Tehran last Saturday after what it said were repeated hostile statements made by Iranian officials. Iran denies the accusations but openly supports opposition groups seeking greater rights for fellow Shi'ites, who are in the majority in the island kingdom.
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| Political blocking leaves Modi's reform schedule in tatters | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reform agenda suffered another major setback on Thursday when lawmakers ended the monsoon session of parliament acrimoniously and without approving a tax reform bill aimed at faster economic growth. Modi's failure to secure parliament's backing for the measure could push back more contentious bills such as labour and land legislation, which businesses and economists say are critical to create millions of jobs. Debate descended into insults that spilled to the streets, where opposition lawmakers marched and Modi's cabinet staged a counter protest under a statue of Mahatma Gandhi.
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| Swedish prosecutor drops three Assange cases, rape case to continue | |  By Simon Johnson and Daniel Dickson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors said on Thursday they would push on with an investigation into an allegation of rape made in 2010 against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after dropping probes into three other allegations as they had run out of time to bring charges. Assange denies the accusations and has been holed up inside Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. Ecuador has granted Assange asylum.
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| Finance minister says government determined to meet GST deadline | |  The government is determined to implement the proposed goods and services tax (GST) from next April, the finance minister said hours after the latest session of parliament ended without approving the reform measure. Arun Jaitley, however, said the government has still kept the option of reconvening the session to pass the bill. The delay in the passage of the GST bill will make it tougher for the government to meet a self-imposed deadline of next April for its launch.
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| Islamic State says in broadcast that it killed Croatian hostage | | | The militant group Islamic State said in an audio broadcast on Thursday that its Egyptian affiliate had killed a Croatian hostage, a day after a photograph of a beheaded corpse purported to be that of the Croat was circulated by the group's supporters. Egypt's Foreign Ministry said security forces still had "no confirmed information" about the beheading. The photograph, circulating on Twitter accounts of supporters of the Sinai Province group, showed a man's severed head placed on his body, with the black Islamic State flag in the background. |
| Islamic State claims huge truck bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City | | | By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 76 people were killed and 212 wounded on Thursday in a blast claimed by Islamic State in Baghdad's Sadr City, police and medical sources said, one of the biggest attacks on the capital since Haider al-Abadi became prime minister a year ago. "Many people were killed and body parts were thrown on top of nearby buildings." A statement circulated online by supporters of Islamic State said the blast had targeted what it called a stronghold of the "charlatan army" and Shi'ite Muslim militias. The market in the Shi'ite neighbourhood is one of the biggest in Baghdad selling wholesale food items. |
| Knife attacker kills woman in prime Beijing shopping complex | | | A lone attacker stabbed a French man and a Chinese woman in a popular Beijing shopping complex on Thursday, killing the woman, the city's public security department said. A 25-year-old suspect, from the northeastern province of Jilin, had been detained after the attack in the shopping centre, known for its international brands, bars and restaurants, the department said via an official microblog. |
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