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| Four militants detonate suicide bombs on Lake Chad island | | | N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Four militants detonated suicide bombs after being found out by a group of locals on a Lake Chad island, killing three of the attackers but no one else, official and security sources said on Wednesday. The maze of islands and waterways on the shrinking shores of Lake Chad are a favourite hiding place for Islamist Boko Haram fighters who are mostly based in neighbouring Nigeria's northeast but often cross into Chad, Niger and Cameroon. The bombers were part of a group of seven male and female militants headed from Chad's Yogo island to a weekly market in the lakeside town of Bol in a motorised canoe late on Tuesday, the sources said. |
| Re-print of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" unleashes row in Germany | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - For the first time since Hitler's death, Germany is publishing the Nazi leader's political treatise "Mein Kampf", unleashing a highly charged row over whether the text is an inflammatory racist diatribe or a useful educational tool. The 70-year copyright on the text, written by Hitler between 1924-1926 and banned by the Allies at the end of World War Two, expires at the end of the year, opening the way for a critical edition with explanatory sections and some 3,500 annotations. In the book, a mix of personal experience and political ideology, he outlined his strategy.
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| Corrected - Gunmen kill resistance colonel in Yemen's Aden | | | (The gunmen shot dead one person who was a colonel and a resistance leader, not two people) ADEN (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a colonel in Yemen's southern resistance 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 in the Dar Saad district of northern Aden, killing him immediately, the official said. |
| India delays bankruptcy law, fails to break deadlock on tax | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Lawmakers sent a proposed bankruptcy law for review on Wednesday, closing off a raucous parliament session without transacting any major legislative business including a signature reform on state taxes. The bankruptcy law is aimed at unifying and overhauling rules governing the liquidation or revival of ailing companies into a single code and for the first time imposing deadlines. Jayant Sinha, Jaitley's deputy in the finance ministry, told reporters that while the government would have liked to pass the bill, it also wanted it to be foolproof.
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| Czech PM says Germany encouraged illegal immigration, his Twitter account hacked | |  BERLIN/PRAGUE (Reuters) - Germany encouraged illegal immigration to Europe with its humanitarian response to the refugee crisis, the Czech prime minister was cited as saying by a German newspaper on Wednesday. Around 1 million refugees and migrants, many fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, entered the European Union this year, according to the United Nations. The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, through which many refugees have travelled but where very few want to settle, have led in their opposition to compulsory quotas for redistributing asylum seekers across the EU bloc.
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| Austrian right-wing activists stage mock beheading of migrant advocates | | | A far-right Austrian group staged a mock beheading in Vienna's busiest shopping street of two of its members holding "refugees welcome" signs, while several police officers watched the event, saying they were protecting the right of assembly. At least four police officers and dozens of shoppers look on as jihadist chants in English fill the street and other masked men hold a flag sporting Islamic-style Arabic writing. Austria's anti-Islam Freedom Party is ahead of the two ruling centrist parties, according to recent opinion polls, with just over 30 percent support after a boost from worries over immigration in the staunchly Catholic country. |
| Govt says difficult to predict timeline for passage of GST bill | |  The government said it was difficult to predict a timeline for the passage of a bill that seeks to harmonise state taxes after lawmakers failed to vote on the measure in the parliament session that ended on Wednesday. Junior finance minister Jayant Sinha said the rollout of the new tax was contingent on the passage of the bill. "It's very hard to predict how soon that will happen." The proposed goods and services tax (GST) is aimed at launching the biggest revenue shake-up in decades as it seeks to replace a slew of federal and state levies, converting the nation of 1.2 billion people into a customs union.
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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. |
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