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| British man charged with Singapore GP track intrusion | | | A British national has appeared in court in Singapore charged with endangering the personal safety of drivers by walking across the track during last weekend's floodlit Formula One Grand Prix. Court documents on Tuesday identified the 27-year-old man as Yogvitam Pravin Dhokia. "He must have had a couple of beers," Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff told reporters afterwards. |
| Indonesia starts legal action against companies linked to SE Asia haze | |  By Bernadette Christina JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has ordered four companies to suspend operations for allegedly causing forest fires that have sent thick smoke across a swathe of Southeast Asia, an environment ministry official said on Tuesday. Indonesia has launched investigations against more than 200 companies as it scrambles to bring the fires on Sumatra and Kalimantan islands under control by the end of November, amid complaints from neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia. "These suspensions will be in effect until the criminal proceedings undertaken by the police are finished," environment ministry secretary general Bambang Hendroyono said.
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| Tycoon Pugachev files $12 billion claim against Russia | | | Sergei Pugachev, a tycoon once dubbed "Putin's banker", has filed a claim against Russia for $12 billion after his business empire was carved up when he fell out of favour with President Vladimir Putin, his lawyers said. "Over the past few years, Russia has pursued a multi-pronged attack against me, my family, and my investments," Pugachev said in a written statement. "I refuse to be intimidated by Russia's tactics." Pugachev's notice of arbitration was delivered to Putin and Russia's ministers of economy, finance, justice and foreign affairs, his lawyers said in a statement. |
| China says investigating U.S. woman suspected of spying | | | An American woman suspected of spying is being investigated, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, as President Xi Jinping left for the United States on an official visit. Sandy Phan-Gillis, from Texas, has been held by Chinese authorities for about six months, according to a statement from her family that was released online this week. The statement said she is suspected of spying and stealing state secrets. |
| Pakistan jail officials unsure how to hang paralysed convict | | | By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani jail authorities postponed executing a prisoner who is in a wheelchair an hour before he was due to be hanged on Tuesday, because prison rules did not make it clear how they should proceed, his lawyers said. Abdul Basit was to have been hanged in the eastern city of Faisalabad in the morning, but authorities were stymied at the last minute because he could not walk to the gallows as required by the jail manual. "When the judicial magistrate came to the hanging, these guys tried to make him (Basit) stand at the gallows ... it wasn't possible, so the magistrate postponed the hanging," said Wassam Waheed, a spokesman for legal aid group Justice Project Pakistan. |
| German police raid suspected Islamists in Berlin | |  German police said they raided eight properties in Berlin early on Tuesday that they believe are being used by suspected Islamists supporting fighting in Syria. "There is no reason to believe that the suspects have prepared attacks in Germany," said Berlin police in a statement.
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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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