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| Car bomb kills three at hotel housing election judges in Egypt's Sinai | | | A car bomb exploded outside a hotel housing election judges in Egypt's North Sinai on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 14, security and medical sources said. The blasts in the provincial capital of al-Arish came a day after the second round of a parliamentary election closed. Egyptian state television also reported the incident. |
| Rare, 25-carat pink diamond found among Imelda Marcos collection - Christie's | |  By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - A rare 25-carat, barrel-shaped pink diamond has been found among the jewellery collection of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, Christie's said on Tuesday after the government asked the auction house to appraise her collection of rare stones. The Philippine government could decide to auction the collection after Christie's and rival Sotheby's appraise three sets of jewellery confiscated almost three decades ago after the fall of Imelda's husband, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. "We had an extremely exciting find," said David Warren, director of jewellery at London-based Christie's. "We found an old briolette-cut diamond, which is 25 carats.
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| Thai court indicts two men over deadly Bangkok bombing | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai military court has indicted two men accused of carrying out a Bangkok bomb attack that killed 20 people including 14 foreigners, making it the deadliest such incident in Thai history. A lawyer for one of the men said a Bangkok military court brought ten charges against the pair on Tuesday, including premeditated murder, illegal possession of weapons and murder for the bombing in August. The two were named as Bilal Mohammad and Mierali Yusufu.
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| In taking economic war to Islamic State, U.S. developing new tools | |  By Yeganeh Torbati and Brett Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since last month, U.S. warplanes have struck Islamic State's oil infrastructure in Syria in a stepped-up campaign of economic warfare that the United States estimates has cut the group's black-market earnings from oil by about a third. In finding their targets, U.S. military planners have relied in part on an unconventional source of intelligence: access to banking records that provide insight into which refineries and oil pumps are generating cash for the extremist group, current and former officials say. The intent is to choke off the Islamic State's funding by tracking its remaining ties to the global financial system. By identifying money flowing to and from the group, U.S. officials have been able to get a glimpse into how its black-market economy operates, people with knowledge of the effort have said.
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| Australia urges more intelligence sharing in Asia to stop Paris-style attack | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday called for greater intelligence sharing in Southeast Asia to stop a Paris-style attack and ordered local law enforcement officials to test their readiness to handle a mass casualty attack. In a national security address to parliament, Turnbull called for greater intelligence sharing with the leaders of Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore to which Australians are frequent visitors. "From an Australian perspective, we see a real risk that terrorist groups in the region might be inspired by attacks such as we have seen in Ankara, Beirut, Bamako and Paris and we are very mindful of the fact that hundreds of thousands of Australians visit Southeast Asia every year," he said.
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| Senior Chengdu official investigated in China graft crackdown | |  The deputy Communist Party boss in China's southwestern city of Chengdu is being investigated, the Chinese corruption watchdog said on Tuesday, the latest senior official to fall in a sweeping anti-graft campaign. President Xi Jinping has embarked on a campaign to root out deeply ingrained corruption since assuming office three years ago. Chengdu vice party secretary Li Kunxue is "suspected of serious violations of discipline", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a one-line statement on its website.
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| California city to pay $4.9 mln over fatal beating of homeless man | | | By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The city of Fullerton, California, agreed on Monday to pay $4.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the father of a homeless man beaten to death by two then-policemen, an incident that sparked protests in the Los Angeles suburb, the plaintiff's attorney said. The settlement was reached on the same day the trial was scheduled to begin in the wrongful death action filed by Ron Thomas against the city, police department and two ex-officers over the beating of his 37-year-old son, Kelly Thomas, in July 2011. Fullerton City Attorney Richard Jones said in a written statement the final settlement amount was still pending final approval by the city's insurers. |
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