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| Myanmar bans parties from criticising army in state media | |  Myanmar has banned political parties from criticising the army or the military-dominated constitution in state media during campaigning for elections seen as a test of the country's transition from military rule. The parties standing in the Nov. 8 elections will be allowed to broadcast 15-minute speeches on state television and radio, according to a statement by the Union Election Commission, and publish them in state-owned newspapers. Statements "that can split the Tatmadaw or that can disgrace and damage the dignity of the Tatmadaw," are banned, said the commission, using the term for the Myanmar military.
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| China grants amnesty to mark anniversary of WW2 victory | |  Chinese President Xi Jinping granted an amnesty on Saturday to jailed war veterans and bedridden or disabled elderly prisoners to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, the official Xinhua news agency reported. China will also roll out a host of high-tech weaponry, including ballistic missiles and fighter jets. It was the eighth amnesty granted since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Xinhua said.
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| Chad executes 10 Boko Haram members by firing squad - sources | | | N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad has executed 10 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram by firing squad, a day after they were sentenced on terrorism charges, security sources said on Saturday. "They were shot this morning at the Massaguet firing range," said one of the sources, referring to a city about 60 km (40 miles) northeast of the capital N'Djamena. Among the executed was Mahamat Moustapha, a 30-year-old Cameroonian who was accused of masterminding a series of attacks on N'Djamena. |
| Libya arrests three suspected smugglers over migrant boat disaster | |  By Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan authorities have arrested three people on suspicion of involvement in launching a boat packed with migrants that sank off the country's Mediterranean coast, killing up to 200 people, a security official said on Saturday. Libya has turned into a main transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to make it to Europe. Three Libyan smugglers involved in launching the ill-fated boat and other vessels to take migrants to Italy have been arrested, said a security official, asking not to be named.
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| Thai police arrest foreign man over Bangkok bombing | |  By Pairat Temphairojana and Simon Webb BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said they arrested a foreigner on Saturday who matched the description of a man who left a bag at the site of a Bangkok blast that killed 20 people nearly two weeks ago. Police raided a decaying four-storey apartment block in a suburb of the capital and found "multiple" fake passports and bomb-making materials they said may have been used in the Aug. 17 bombing at a Hindu shrine, the deadliest in the country's history. The suspect was a 28-year-old foreign man who had been in Thailand since January last year.
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| Christian group occupies Philippine highway for second night | |  Thousands of members of a Christian group occupied a busy highway in Manila for a second night on Saturday, protesting against what they say is government intrusion in church affairs. Police said about 1,700 people converged on the highway at around 1200 GMT on Saturday, but officials of the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ), or INC, said the number had reached 8,000.
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| Hungary detains three Bulgarians, one Afghan in migrant lorry deaths | |  By Marton Dunai KECSKEMET, Hungary (Reuters) - Three Bulgarians and an Afghan arrested in Hungary in connection with the deaths of 71 refugees found in a truck in Austria made their first appearance in court on Saturday, where they were given one month's detention to allow for an investigation. The handcuffed suspects were escorted by special police to the court house in the central Hungarian town of Kecskemet and given one month's detention by the court. A prosecution spokesman told journalists the truck had left Kecskemet and picked up the migrants near the southern border with Serbia, before taking them through Hungary to Austria.
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| German court overturns assembly ban on town hit by anti-refugee clashes | |  Germany's highest court on Saturday overturned a weekend ban on assemblies in an eastern town that was the scene a week ago of violent protests against refugees that galvanised the government to fight xenophobia. A regional court had imposed the ban on assemblies in Heidenau, near Dresden, from midday (1000 GMT) on Friday until Monday morning after more than 30 police were injured in clashes in the town last weekend. On Saturday, the Federal Constitution Court lifted the ban.
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