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| Poll victor to build Sri Lankan unity government | |  General election victor Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday called on Sri Lankans to unite as he set about the task of forming a national unity government that will seek to heal the divisions of the past. In his first major statement since his United National Party (UNP) foiled ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa's comeback bid, Wickremesinghe struck a note of reconciliation. "We can achieve unity, progress in this country if we work together." Wickremesinghe, 66, who has led a minority government since President Maithripala Sirisena beat Rajapaksa in a presidential election in January, said he expected to be sworn in as prime minister.
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| Bangladesh arrests three Supreme Court lawyers accused of funding militants | | | Bangladeshi security forces said on Wednesday they had arrested three lawyers practising at the Supreme Court in connection with funding for an Islamist group to buy weapons. In April, several brigade members were arrested in the port city of Chittagong. Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years, while the government has tried to crack down on hardline Islamist groups seeking to make the South Asian nation of 160 million people a sharia-based state. |
| ICC judges ordered to reconsider how Kenya cooperated in Kenyatta case | |  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A panel of appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday said trial judges would have to reconsider whether Kenya cooperated properly with prosecutors in the case of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Prosecutors dropped charges of crimes against humanity against Kenyatta in December, maintaining they were unable to build their case because of obstruction by Kenyan authorities. ...
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| Key Hong Kong pro-democracy students charged after Occupy protests | |  Two key figures in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement have been charged with illegal assembly almost a year after students stormed government headquarters at the height of huge protests against Chinese rule, one of the activists said on Wednesday. Alex Chow, 25, the former leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, one of the main groups leading protests that became known as the Occupy movement, told Reuters he and teenager Joshua Wong had been formally charged. Wong, 18, is leader of the student group Scholarism.
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| Trail goes cold in hunt for Bangkok shrine bomber | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Wednesday they had still not established the nationality or whereabouts of the man they suspect bombed a Bangkok shrine, killing at least 20 people, suggesting the trail had gone cold after he was captured by CCTV at the scene. Authorities said they were keeping watch for the suspect at the country's borders, but police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang told a news conference that it was not clear how many people were involved in the attack or if they were still in the country. "I am confident that there are Thais involved but I am not saying it is just Thais or that there are foreigners." On Tuesday, a day after the bombing at the popular Erawan shrine in the heart of Bangkok, grainy closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage was released showing a young man dumping a backpack at the scene and walking away.
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| Thailand says nationality, whereabouts of bomber still unclear | |  Thai investigators have not been able to establish the nationality of the man suspected of bombing a Bangkok shrine, or whether he is still in the country, police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang said on Wednesday. "I am confident that there are Thais involved but I am not saying it is just Thais or that there are foreigners." He said it was not clear yet if a small second explosion in Bangkok, on Tuesday, was linked to the first.
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| Chelsea Manning found guilty of violating military prison rules | |  Soldier Chelsea Manning, who is serving 35 years in a military prison for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, was found guilty on Tuesday of violating jail rules and given three weeks of recreation curbs, the American Civil Liberties Union said. The former intelligence analyst was convicted in 2013 of providing more than 700,000 documents, videos, diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts to WikiLeaks, in the biggest breach of classified materials in U.S. history. "Chelsea's ridiculous convictions today will not silence her," her attorney Nancy Hollander said on Twitter.
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| Tsipras dominates Greek politics despite crises and U-turn | |  By Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) - Alexis Tsipras has presided over a near-death experience for the Greek financial system and performed a U-turn on resisting austerity. With his ministers openly discussing the possibility of a snap election, Tsipras seems nearly ready to exploit his enduring popularity in Greece and further consolidate his position after seven turbulent months in office. Tsipras's one tangible achievement has been to seal a new bailout deal for Greece, but on terms so onerous that part of his radical left Syriza party is threatening to walk out.
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