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| Under pressure to solve Bangkok bomb attack, police interview driver | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police on Tuesday questioned a taxi driver who may have driven the main suspect away from the area of last week's deadly attack in Bangkok, as forensic experts struggle to unearth vital evidence in Thailand's worst ever bombing. Broken security cameras along the chief suspect's getaway route and a lack of sophisticated equipment has hampered the investigation into the Aug. 17 blast that killed 20 people, more than half of them foreigners. On Monday police said the trail had gone cold in the hunt for the bomber, and they were unsure if the main suspect was still in Thailand.
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| U.N. rights chief urges Maldives to release former president | |  U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein has called on the government of the Maldives to release former president Mohamed Nasheed, whose re-arrest on Sunday constituted "a serious set-back", a spokesman said on Tuesday. Nasheed, the country's first democratically elected leader, was ousted in disputed circumstances in 2012 for ordering the arrest of a judge in a case that has brought widespread international criticism and highlighted political instability in a country known as an island paradise popular with wealthy tourists. "The High Commissioner has expressed his deep concern to the government of the Maldives after former president Mohammad Nasheed was once again sent to prison late on Sunday," his spokesman Rupert Colville told a briefing, adding Nasheed had been taken to a high-security prison on Maafushi Island.
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| Government makes fresh attempt to pass GST bill | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government said it is considering reconvening parliament to make another attempt to pass a major tax reform aimed at boosting economic growth. "The tax reform is crucial for the economy and we are making every effort to build consensus," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu told reporters on Tuesday. Modi's reform agenda suffered a major setback earlier this month when lawmakers in the Rajya Sabha refused to support the the Goods and Service Tax bill. The bill is seen as low-hanging fruit among free-market reforms as it has rare bipartisan support. ...
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| Greece's Syriza projects election confidence despite split | |  By George Georgiopoulos and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's radical left Syriza party can win re-election with an outright majority, a senior member said on Tuesday, governing without support from mainstream forces which also back the country's new international bailout. Panos Skourletis, energy minister in the Syriza-led government which resigned last week, also said the nation must avoid deadlock leading to a second round of elections - a scenario that politicians are already debating even though a first round has yet to be called. "I believe that an absolute majority in parliament for Syriza is achievable," Skourletis told Mega TV.
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| Kansas town laments forced removal of Jesus picture from school | | | Public school officials in the small Kansas town of Chanute are trying to find a new home for a portrait of Jesus Christ after a civil liberties group demanded its removal from the town's middle school. The district's new superintendent ordered it taken down Thursday from Royster Middle School after the Freedom From Religion Foundation notified him that the display in a public school amounted to an "egregious violation of the First Amendment." "I conferred with legal counsel and both of them told me to be in compliance with state and federal law that we had to have it removed," said Chanute Public Schools Superintendent Richard Proffitt. |
| Spain, Morocco arrest 14 suspected of recruiting for Islamic State | | | Spain and Morocco arrested 14 people on Tuesday suspected of recruiting fighters to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, Spain's Interior Ministry said. Suspects were detained in the outskirts of Madrid and in other cities and towns in Morocco, it added. The arrests were linked to "a network ... capturing and sending foreign fighters to join the ranks of the terrorist organisation Daesh (Islamic State) in the Syrian-Iraq region that it controls," the ministry statement said. |
| China lawmakers discuss new pollution bill, coal cap clause expected | |  By David Stanway and Kathy Chen BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese legislators are considering a new air pollution law that could give the state new powers to punish negligent local authorities and industrial enterprises and provide a legal mandate to impose caps on coal consumption. Amendments to China's 15-year old Air Pollution Law are expected to be approved this week by the National People's Congress, the country's parliament, and will make local governments directly responsible for failing to meet air quality targets. China's ruling Communist Party has acknowledged the damage that decades of untrammelled economic growth have done to the country's skies, rivers and soil, and it is now trying to equip its environmental inspection offices with greater powers and more resources to tackle persistent polluters and the local governments that protect them.
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