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| Russian court orders arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky over contract killing | |  Russia has issued an international arrest warrant for Kremlin critic and former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky whom police accuse of ordering the killing of the mayor of a Siberian oil town, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. Khodorkovsky, who denies the charges, was arrested in 2003 after falling out with Vladimir Putin and later convicted of tax evasion and fraud in a trial he said was politically-motivated. Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee, said in a statement police had concluded that Khodorkovsky had ordered subordinates to kill Vladimir Petukhov, the mayor of Nefteyugansk, in 1998.
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| Man pulled out alive from China mudslide after three days | |  By Paul Carsten SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - A man was pulled out alive from rubble in a southern Chinese city on Wednesday, more than 60 hours after a waste heap collapsed and buried dozens of buildings in mud and construction debris, state media said. Tian Zeming, who was found at 3:30 a.m. (1930 GMT Tuesday), was in a coherent state but his legs had been crushed in Sunday's landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, a boomtown near Hong Kong. "He told the soldiers who rescued him, there is another survivor close by," state news agency Xinhua said, although it later reported rescuers had found another body rather than a survivor.
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| Chinese labour activists stand accused by state media | | | By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media have accused seven detained labour activists of "inciting workers to go on strike", accepting foreign funding and "disturbing social order", sparking criticism from rights groups. The accusations come amid what rights groups say is the most sweeping clampdown on dissent in two decades in China, whose government has detained hundreds of activists working within the system to press for change. Earlier this month, police in Guangzhou detained Zeng Feiyang, the director of the Guangzhou-based Panyu Migrant Workers Centre, on a charge of "disturbing social order", said Zeng's lawyer, Cheng Zhunqiang. |
| Gunmen kill army colonel and resistance chief in Yemen's Aden | | | Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Yemeni army colonel and a southern resistance leader in Aden on Tuesday night, a local official said, the latest in a string of assassinations in the city often carried out by Islamist militants. The gunmen opened fire on a car containing resistance leader Jalal al-Awbali and the unidentified colonel in the Dar Saad district of northern Aden, killing them both immediately, the official said. Islamist militants from both al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Yemeni wing of the Islamic State group have staged attacks throughout southern parts of Yemen, including in Aden, for years. |
| Australian police arrest two more men over alleged attack plot | | | By Lincoln Feast SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Wednesday they had arrested two more men in Sydney as part of an operation that thwarted a potential attack by home-grown Islamist militants last year on targets that included a navy base. The arrests of the men, aged 24 and 20, brings to 13 the number of people arrested in the operation, New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters. Earlier this month, police charged five people including a 15-year-old boy over the same alleged plot to attack potential targets that included the headquarters of the Australian Federal Police in Sydney and a navy base in the same city. |
| China says in advanced talks with U.S. on five graft suspects | | | The Chinese government is in advanced talks with the United States on repatriating five of China's most wanted corruption suspects and will hand over whatever evidence is needed by its U.S. counterparts, the state-run China Daily said on Wednesday. In April, China published a list of 100 of its most wanted corruption suspects who have been targeted with an Interpol red notice, many living in the United States, Canada and Australia. China's efforts have long been hampered by Western nations that balk at signing extradition deals, partly out of concern about its judicial system. |
| Thai junta reaffirms will hand back power in 2017, entering second phase of reforms | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai prime minister and junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha gave a sweeping year-end speech on Wednesday in which he reiterated that the junta will hand back power in 2017 and that it was entering "phase two" of its reform plan. The junta, or National Council for Peace and Order, seized control in May 2014 and overthrew an elected government, putting an end to protests in Bangkok led by the middle classes and elites who wanted to get rid of the civilian government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Since then, it has busied itself with drafting a new constitution and reforms which critics say are designed to limit the powers of political parties and neutralize those seen as loyal to controversial former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck's brother who was ousted in 2006.
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