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| U.S. police come under gunfire, arrest 31 in Missouri racial unrest | |  Demonstrations, mostly peaceful but with spasms of violence by smaller groups, have flared since Michael Brown, 18, was shot dead while walking down a residential street on Aug. 9. State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, briefing reporters on Monday's night's violence, said "our officers came under heavy gunfire" in one area. Riot police had confiscated two guns from protesters and what looked like a petrol bomb.
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| Thai military-dominated legislature to appoint PM | |  Thailand's military-dominated legislature will nominate a prime minister this week, members of the national assembly said on Tuesday, a move that looks set to consolidate the army's hold on power almost 100 days since it wrested control of the country. The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) is likely to nominate General Prayuth Chan-ocha, the army chief who led the May 22 coup after months of street protests, assembly members told Reuters. NLA president Pornpetch Wichitcholchai told reporters that an interim prime minister would be appointed on Thursday. Assembly member Air Chief Marshall Arkom Ganchanahirun told Reuters that the NLA would likely nominate junta leader Prayuth.
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| Celebrities in firing line as China steps up drug war | |  China is turning up the heat in a high-profile crackdown on drugs that has ensnared a string of celebrities, including the son of Hong Kong kungfu movie star Jackie Chan, as the government seeks to push forward a wider campaign against extravagance and decadence. Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to go after corruption and excess among the elite, a prime source of public discontent as the gap between the poor and the wealthy continues to grow. Actor and singer Jaycee Chan, 32, was arrested in Beijing after testing positive for marijuana, police said on Tuesday, and police found 100 grams of the drug at his home. Police also arrested Taiwan movie star Ko Chen-tung, 23, after a drug test found he used marijuana, Xinhua news agency said.
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| Rival South Korea parties reach agreement on ferry disaster bill | |  South Korean government and opposition leaders reached agreement on Tuesday on legislation to investigate in more detail the sinking of the Sewol ferry in April that killed over 300 passengers, most of them children. The bill remains subject to approval by commitees and the full parliament, Yonhap News Agency reported.
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| Rights groups say two dead following Tibetan protests | |  Two people have died, including one who committed suicide in protest while in jail, and many are in custody after police opened fire on a demonstration in a Tibetan region of China last week, rights groups said. The protest erupted over the detention of a respected village leader in the Ganzi prefecture of Sichuan province, rights groups say, a flashpoint for Tibetan protests against Chinese rule. The U.S.-based International Campaign for Tibet, citing several Tibetan sources in exile, said late on Monday that of the 10 injured in the demonstrations, two have since died. "This alarming news indicates that the authorities in this area are apparently acting with complete and dangerous impunity," said Matteo Mecacci, president of the International Campaign for Tibet.
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| Sri Lanka president adamant on barring U.N. war crimes investigators | |  By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will deny visas to United Nations' investigators probing accusations of war crimes as it strengthens a domestic panel looking into allegations related to its 26-year war, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Tuesday. Rajapaksa's first direct comments on the topic come a week after UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay said that even though Colombo had refused to cooperate, the U.N. probe could still go ahead as there was a wealth of information outside the country. "We will not allow them into the country," Rajapaksa told the Foreign Correspondents' Association, adding that any cases of people missing, or allegations of misdeeds, had to be investigated through the local panel. Sri Lankan government forces have been accused of widespread human rights violations in the final stages of the war, which ended in May 2009.
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| Dozens more Turkish police detained as wiretapping probe widens | |  Dozens more police officers were detained in Turkey on Tuesday as part of an investigation into alleged spying and the illegal wiretapping of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his inner circle, local media reported. At least 20 police officers were detained in 13 provinces across the country, Turkey's state-run TRT channel reported. Over the last month, around 50 police officers have been remanded in custody pending charges that they formed a criminal organisation and bugged phones, part of what Erdogan describes as a "parallel state" which plotted against him. He has vowed his battle against the Islamic cleric he accuses of masterminding the "parallel state" will intensify once he takes office.
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| Police come under "heavy gunfire" in racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri | |  REUTERS - Police came under "heavy gunfire" and 31 people were arrested, authorities said on Tuesday, in racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman 10 days ago. "Not a single bullet was fired by officers despite coming under heavy attack (on Monday night)," State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson told a news conference, adding that police had confiscated two guns from protesters. ...
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| Saudi court sentences one to death, 13 to jail, for attacks | | | A Saudi Arabian court on Monday sentenced one man to death and 13 others to prison terms of up to 30 years for their part in a series of militant attacks against government and foreign targets last decade, state media reported. The convicted men were part of a group of 50 being tried as a single militant cell and accused of murder and kidnapping, as well as bombing cars, government buildings and foreign residential compounds and plotting to assassinate government officials and attack embassies. Prison terms for those convicted ranged from four years to 30 years. Sentencing of two others from the 50 was delayed to allow the court to hear more evidence, Saudi Press Agency reported late on Monday. |
| Hong Kong Law Society president resigns amid China democracy debate | |  By Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) - The president of Hong Kong's Law Society resigned on Tuesday after a no-confidence vote exposed a growing determination by traditionally conservative lawyers to challenge perceived threats by Beijing to the business hub's judicial independence. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, to protest against what they see as interference by Beijing in the affairs of the city, which returned to China in 1997 under a 'one country, two systems' style of rule. Law Society President Ambrose Lam angered many of the society's 8,000 members by voicing support for controversial statements from Beijing that Hong Kong judges needed to be patriotic, and for praise for the Communist Party of China.
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