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| 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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| 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 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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| 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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