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| China charges four in Kunming station attack | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - China charged four people for a deadly attack at a train station in the southwestern city of Kunming in March, state media said on Monday, a case that prompted a nation-wide crackdown on what officials have called an upsurge in militant violence. The government has said knife-wielding militants from the restive western region of Xinjiang launched the premeditated attack at the Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province in which 29 people were killed and 140 injured. ...
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| Kidnapped Tunisian embassy workers freed in Libya | |  By Tarek Amara and Patrick Markey TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian diplomat and an embassy worker kidnapped earlier this year by unknown gunmen in Libya arrived at dawn on Monday at a Tunis airport after being freed on Sunday. With Libya's government weak and its armed forces still in formation, armed groups have targeted foreign diplomats for abduction this year to pressure for the release of Libyan militants held in jails overseas. The Tunisian diplomat who worked as an advisor to the embassy was kidnapped in Tripoli in April. The other embassy official was taken separately.
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| North Korea says to try two detained U.S. citizens | |  By Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Monday it would put two U.S. tourists on trial for committing crimes against the state, dimming any hopes among their families that they would soon be released. "Their hostile acts were confirmed by evidence and their own testimonies," said the North's official KCNA news agency, referring to Jeffrey Fowle and Matthew Miller who are being held by the isolated country. It was the latest in a flurry of events in the volatile region as Chinese President Xi Jinping visits South Korea this week, and comes a day after Pyongyang fired two short-range ballistic missiles, defying a U.N. ban on such tests. Japan has said it will respond to the missile test in cooperation with the United States and South Korea, but that it would not affect talks it is holding with the North this week on the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped by the reclusive state decades ago.
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| One killed in Los Angeles at unofficial BET awards pre-party | | | (Reuters) - One person was killed and four others wounded in a shooting early on Sunday at an unofficial pre-party in Los Angeles ahead of the Black Entertainment Television Awards show, police said. The gunman fired several rounds at the gathering, which BET said it had not organized, at a restaurant and banquet hall about 3 miles (5 km) west of downtown before fleeing, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The shooting came a day after violence at another unaffiliated pre-party for the BET Awards, which are due to take place Sunday evening in Los Angeles. "The two isolated incidents over the weekend occurred at locations with events that were unauthorized and unaffiliated with the BET Awards, BET Experience at L.A. LIVE or their partners," a BET statement said. |
| China sentences 113 on terror crimes in Xinjiang | |  Courts in China's western Xinjiang region have sentenced 113 people to jail terms ranging from 10 years to life for terrorist activities and other crimes, the Xinjiang government said, the latest in a slew of prosecutions targeting militant separatism. The sentences come after Beijing has vowed to crack down on religious extremists and separatist groups, which it blames for a series of violent attacks in Xinjiang, the traditional home of the Muslim Uighurs, and elsewhere. Exiled Uighur groups and human rights activists say the government's repressive policies in Xinjiang, including controls on Islam, have provoked unrest, a claim Beijing denies. Xinjiang, resource-rich and strategically located on the borders of central Asia, is crucial to China's growing energy needs.
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| Modi eyes first labour overhaul in decades to create jobs | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set in motion the first major revamp in decades of the archaic labour laws, part of a plan to revive the flagging economy, boost manufacturing and create millions of jobs. Successive governments have agreed labour reform is critical to absorb 200 million Indians reaching working age over the next two decades, but fears of an ugly union-led backlash and partisan politics have prevented changes to free up labour markets. Officials at the labour ministry say this is a top priority in the government's first 100 days in office. India has a forest of labour laws, including anachronisms such as providing spittoons in the work place, and are so complex that most firms choose to stay small.
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| Factbox - India's stringent labour laws | |  India has a slew of laws and rules that shape the labour market, regulating the terms of work, hiring and firing, and the working conditions. While the regulations are meant to enhance the welfare of workers, companies say they often have the opposite effect by encouraging them to stay small or hire contract workers to circumvent legal restrictions. Newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set in motion the first major revamp of the archaic labour laws, part of a plan to revive the flagging economy, boost manufacturing and create millions of jobs.
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