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| Man drops sex abuse lawsuit against 'X-Men' director Bryan Singer | |  A 31-year-old man on Wednesday withdrew a high-profile lawsuit accusing "X-Men" director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him when he was an aspiring teen actor. Michael Egan filed a motion for voluntary dismissal of the civil lawsuit brought against Singer in April, according to court documents filed in Hawaii. Egan had also filed three other lawsuits claiming he was sexually abused as a teen by entertainment firm executive Gary Goddard and TV executives David Neuman and Garth Ancier, all of which have been dismissed.
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| China supplier of Samsung, Lenovo denies using child workers | |  BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - A China-based supplier for Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Lenovo Group Ltd said on Thursday it had never hired child labourers, denying allegations by a U.S.-based activist group. Samsung Electronics also said it had found no children or students working on the Samsung production line at the Huizhou-based factory of supplier HEG Technology, which was cited as violating China's labour laws by the New York-based watchdog China Labor Watch. In a statement, China Labor Watch said it had found more than 10 children working at the HEG factory during an investigation that took place in July and August. It also said the probe had found over 100 student workers who were not being paid overtime wages or a night shift subsidy.
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| China's top judge says foreigners to be allowed into Chinese courts | |  China's top judge has said that foreigners will be regularly allowed into courts to listen to cases, state media reported on Thursday, as the government embarks on legal reform at a time of public discontent over many perceived miscarriages of justice. The announcement by Zhou Qiang, president of the Supreme People's Court, could have implications for foreigners and foreign businesses, which have increasingly become embroiled in lawsuits in China and complained about China's secretive judicial system. Chinese courts typically refuse to release rulings, court dates and other details of lawsuits, and foreign reporters are usually blocked from attending human rights trials. Zhou made the announcement to ambassadors and officials from 20 countries and regions at a "court open day", saying the Supreme People's Court "feels it is important to communicate with foreign countries on judicial affairs", the state-run China Daily newspaper said.
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| China urges Japan to break from aggressive past after Abe honours war criminals | |  China called on Japan to break from its aggressive past and win the trust of its Asian neighbours on Thursday, a day after news Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had honoured Japanese World War Two war criminals as "martyrs". Abe sent a message in April to a Buddhist temple in western Japan housing a monument to more than 1,000 "Showa Martyrs", including wartime leaders convicted by Allied tribunals who were executed or died in prison, an official of a group sponsoring the event told Reuters on Wednesday. The term "Showa" refers to the late Emperor Hirohito, in whose name Japanese soldiers fought World War Two. News of Abe's condolence message was expected to further strain ties with China over Japan's war record.
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| U.S. judge signals he may order more Abu Ghraib photos released | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge signaled on Wednesday he may order the U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in New York ruled the U.S. Department of Defense had failed to show why releasing the photographs would endanger the lives of American soldiers and workers abroad. He also said former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apparently had not considered each individual photograph before determining in late 2012 that all of them should remain secret.
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| Sister of accused Boston marathon bombers arrested after bomb threat | | | By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - The sister of the accused Boston Marathon bombers was arrested in New York City for threatening a woman over the phone, saying she could "put a bomb on you," police said on Wednesday. Aliana Tsarnaev, 23, sister of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was facing charges of aggravated harassment, a New York City Police Department spokesman said. Tsarnaev, of North Bergen, New Jersey, was accused of calling a woman in New York City's Harlem neighborhood and telling her "I have people that can go over there and put a bomb on you," the spokesman said. Her brothers are accused of killing three people and wounding more than 260 after detonating pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. |
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