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| Indonesia investigating a Singapore-owned firm for forest fires - Indonesian environment ministry | |  A Singapore-owned firm is under investigation for causing forest fires in Indonesia, an Indonesian environment ministry official said on Tuesday. Thick smoke caused by forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan islands has blanketed the region in recent weeks, pushing pollution levels to unhealthy levels. Over 200 plantation and forestry companies are being investigated, said Muhammad Yunus, director of criminal law at the environment ministry.
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| Gunmen abduct three foreign tourists from southern Philippines resort | | | By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian resort manager and a Filipino woman have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a popular resort island in the southern Philippines, the army said on Tuesday. Philippines army Captain Alberto Caber said the four were taken at gunpoint during a raid late on Monday night on the Oceanview resort on Samal island, near Davao City, the largest city on Mindanao island in the restive southern Philippines. |
| U.S. tells China cyber espionage is more than an irritant, must stop | |  U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice issued a stern warning to China on Monday before President Xi Jinping's visit that state-sponsored cyber espionage must stop, calling it a national security concern and a critical factor in U.S.-China relations. "This isn't a mild irritation, it's an economic and national security concern to the United States," Rice said during remarks at George Washington University.
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| Nearly a quarter of U.S. female undergraduates victims of sexual attacks - survey | | | More than 23 percent of female undergraduate students said they were victims of sexual assault or unwanted kissing and touching, according to one of the largest surveys on sexual violence at U.S. college campuses. About 5.4 percent of male undergraduate students had nonconsensual sexual contact, according to the survey of 150,000 students released on Monday. |
| Rio rattled by gang crime across beaches, neighborhoods | | | By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Residents and public officials in Rio de Janeiro scrambled on Monday to come to terms with a weekend of mass robberies along the city's popular beachfront and upscale neighborhoods nearby. The assaults, carried out by swarms of young bandits combing beaches and crowded sidewalks, pilfering whatever they could, come less than a year before Rio hosts the 2016 Olympics. In neighborhoods like Copacabana, a beach district where sun-seekers from across the economic spectrum famously converge, the assaults prompted a backlash from residents, including revenge attacks on buses carrying passengers back to poor neighborhoods where some assailants are believed to live. |
| Plan to admit more refugees faces stiff opposition in U.S. Congress | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House plans to allow thousands more refugees into the United States face stiff opposition on Monday in the U.S. Congress, where Republican lawmakers demanded the right to review, and reject, the effort, citing fears of terrorism. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday announced an increase of 15,000 per year for the next two years in the number of refugees the country takes in. Under current law, Congress does not have to approve the Democratic administration's plan.
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| China's Communist Party sacks assistant chairman of stock regulator - Xinhua | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Communist Party has sacked the assistant chairman of the country's securities regulator, state media agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday, days after it was announced he was the subject of a graft probe. Zhang Yujun was under investigation for suspected "serious violation of discipline", the country's graft watchdog reported on Sept 16, using the euphemism it employs for corruption. Zhang is the first China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) official to come under investigation amid stock market turmoil, which started in June. ...
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| China's Xi says government does not hack - WSJ | |  China's government does not engage in the theft of commercial secrets and does not support Chinese companies which do this, President Xi Jinping told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Tuesday.
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| Zakia Jafri fights Narendra Modi in 'final' court battle over deadly riots | |  By Rupam Jain Nair AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Zakia Jafri, a frail 76-year-old, has begun what may be the last legal battle to pin blame on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for deadly riots that shook Gujarat when he was chief minister, and claimed her husband's life. Modi denies any involvement in the 2002 unrest, one of the worst outbreaks of religious violence in independent India. In 2013, a panel appointed by the Supreme Court said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him.
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