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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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| Political obstruction scuppers Modi's reform agenda | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reform agenda suffered a major blow on Thursday when lawmakers ended the monsoon parliament session without approving a tax reform bill aimed at boosting economic growth. Modi's failure to secure parliament's backing for the measure could push back politically contentious bills such as labour and land legislation, which businesses and economists say are critical to create jobs for millions entering the workforce.
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| Myanmar ruling party chief sacked in power struggle with president | | | By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski 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 struggle 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. Shwe Mann's ouster from the party follows rare discord within the establishment over the role of the military, which handed power to a semi-civilian government in 2011 but retains an effective veto over the political system. |
| 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. |
| Sri Lanka's torture of Tamils persists despite war's end - charity | | | By Katie Nguyen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The torture of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka by the police and military remains a major problem six years after the end of the civil war with victims beaten, burned and sexually abused, a UK-based charity providing medical care to survivors said. In a report released on Thursday, Freedom from Torture said that in 2014, for the third year in a row, Sri Lanka was the top country of origin of those the charity helped. The report, published ahead of elections next week in which wartime president Mahinda Rajapaksa hopes to reclaim power, was based on medical evidence relating to 148 Sri Lankan torture survivors, 94 percent of them Tamils. |
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