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| 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. |
| Rajya Sabha ends monsoon session without passing GST bill | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The "monsoon" session of the Rajya Sabha ended before lunch on Thursday without the passage of a major tax reform bill, after opposition protests that prevented the house from functioning every day of the three-week sitting. The proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) is the biggest tax overhaul since independence from Britain in 1947. It will subsume myriads of federal and state tax levies, replacing a chaotic structure that inflates costs. ...
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| Myanmar ruling party chief sacked in power struggle with president | | | By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Aung Hla Tun YANGON (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. Security forces surrounded the headquarters of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in the capital, Naypyitaw, late on Wednesday and prevented members there from leaving. 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. |
| Rare blast in mosque in Kashmir hurts 10 | | | A grenade exploded on Thursday in a mosque in Jammu & Kashmir, wounding 10 people, police said, the first such incident in 14 years in a region where militant violence has spiked recently. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in the southern district of Shopian in the Himalayan region. "People were coming out of the mosque after morning prayers when the blast occurred," a police officer said. |
| Chelsea Manning could face solitary confinement at military prison | |  Chelsea Manning, a soldier imprisoned for leaking classified U.S. information to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks, could face solitary confinement on charges she violated prison rules by having prohibited reading material, her attorney said on Wednesday. Manning 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. The former intelligence analyst, who was born a man but identifies as a woman, is serving a 35-year sentence at an all-male military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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