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| At least five killed, several hurt in shooting near Pittsburgh - media | | | At least five people were killed and several injured on Wednesday in a shooting near Pittsburgh, with police and paramedics rushing to the scene, media said. Four women and one man were shot and killed in a residential neighborhood in Wilkinsburg, about 8 miles (13 km) east of the city, news station WPXI said, adding that the suspects were at large. "I heard at least 20 shots," a witness, Kayla Alexandra, told WPXI, which reported that at least two gunmen were involved in the shooting. |
| NEWSMAKER: Presidency beckons for Suu Kyi confidant after two months in party | |  By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Until two months ago, Htin Kyaw was not even a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD). Now, he is the favoured presidential candidate of Myanmar's ruling party, on course to become the country's first head of state who is not a former top-ranking member of the military since the 1960s. Htin Kyaw has risen to prominence for one reason: he is among Nobel peace prize laureate Suu Kyi closest friends, and she trusts him to run the country as her proxy.
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| Yazidi teenager escaped Islamic State, appeals for help for sex slaves | | | By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was a "black morning" two years ago when Islamic State militants seized the Yazidi town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq, abducting thousands of civilians including a 15-year-old girl and 27 members of her family. The teenager, Nihad Barakat Shamo Alawsi, was taken to Syria and then to the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq, she told an event in London on Wednesday. "They raped us, they killed our men, they took our babies away from us," Alawsi, now 17, said at the event organised by the UK-based AMAR Foundation, a charity that provides education and healthcare in the Middle East. |
| Myanmar's NLD names Suu Kyi confidant as presidential candidate | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) has proposed a close friend of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as its presidential candidate, ending a four-month wait for the identity of a president expected to rule in her name. The NLD put forward Htin Kyaw, who joined the party just two months ago, as its lower house candidate. The wildly popular Suu Kyi and the NLD won a crushing electoral victory in November, but she is barred from holding the presidency under a junta-drafted 2008 constitution because her children are not Myanmar citizens.
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| Amid "serious" situation, China eyes soil pollution law in 2017 | | | China aims to pass its first soil pollution law next year hoping to tackle a "serious" problem that so far lacks dedicated legislation, a senior Chinese official said on Thursday. China's government declared war on pollution in 2014 in a bid to head off rising public anger over the environmental costs of rapid growth. It is under particular pressure to reduce the risk of contaminated crops entering the food chain, with farming on 3.3 million hectares (8.15 million acres) across China already being banned indefinitely. |
| Two missing booksellers return to China hours after re-appearing in HK - report | |  Two Hong Kong booksellers released from mainland Chinese custody after going missing went straight back to China after returning home to ask police to drop their missing persons cases, a Hong Kong newspaper reported. The two, Cheung Chi Ping and Lui Por, were among five Hong Kong booksellers who have disappeared over the past six months and re-surfaced in mainland Chinese police custody.
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| Myanmar's NLD proposes Suu Kyi confidant as presidential candidate | |  Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) proposed Htin Kyaw, a close friend of party leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, as its presidential candidate for the lower house of parliament on Thursday. Suu Kyi is barred from holding the presidency under a junta-drafted 2008 constitution because her children are not Myanmar citizens. The NLD won a huge parliamentary majority in elections in November, so the candidate it backs for the presidency is likely to take the top job.
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| Austria says closure of Balkan route is 'permanent' - 'Welt' newspaper | | | South-eastern Europe's "Balkan route", the main passage for migrants to reach more affluent countries to the north, will remain closed permanently, Austria's Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told German newspaper "Die Welt" on Thursday. On Wednesday, Macedonia sealed its border with Greece to illegal migrants after Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, which are on the way to Austria, announced tight new restrictions on migrant entry. "My position is clear: the Balkan route remains closed and that permanently," Mikl-Leitner told the newspaper. |
| Brazil prosecutors charge Lula in money laundering probe | |  By Eduardo Simões and Lisandra Paraguassu SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was charged in a money laundering investigation led by Sao Paulo state prosecutors on Wednesday, intensifying scrutiny of the politician questioned in a separate federal graft probe last week. A spokesman for the state prosecutors declined to specify the charges, but state investigators have said they suspect Lula's family owned an undeclared beachfront apartment in the city of Guaruja. Federal investigators echoed those allegations after they detained Lula for questioning in police custody on Friday, fanning a political crisis that has rattled his successor, President Dilma Rousseff.
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