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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. |
| 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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| U.S. judge rejects Apple bid for injunction against Samsung | | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 11:28 PM | |
|  Apple won a $120 million jury verdict against Samsung earlier this year over three Apple patents. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, on Wednesday denied Apple's request to stop Samsung from selling infringing features on its smartphones related to those patents. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
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| FIFA and other groups sued in U.S. over concussions | | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:47 PM | |
|  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of parents sued several soccer organizations including the sport's international governing body FIFA, saying they have failed to do more about concussions among children. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in a California federal court, says FIFA and other groups such as the American Youth Soccer Organization have not done enough to reduce preventable injuries from repetitive ball heading. The risks of head injuries in sports has been a recurring concern in the United States. Last month the National Collegiate Athletic Association agreed to settle a head injury lawsuit by creating a $70 million fund for concussion testing.
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| Syria chemical arms team to disband Sept. 30, probe to go on - U.N. | | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:43 PM | |
|  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A joint mission of the United Nations and the global anti-chemical arms watchdog that has overseen the destruction of Syria's toxic gas stocks will shut down on Sept. 30 though a successor unit will continue investigating, the U.N. chief said. Last week the Pentagon said a specially equipped U.S. ship had finished neutralizing all 600 metric tons of the most dangerous of Syria's chemical weapons components surrendered to the international community this year to avert threatened air strikes. With the bulk of the elimination work completed, U.N. ...
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| 'Cops' TV show employee killed by police while recording Omaha robbery | | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:30 PM | |
| | By Katie Knapp Schubert OMAHA Neb. (Reuters) - Omaha police accidentally shot and killed an audio technician for the long-running reality television show "Cops" while he was recording officers responding to an armed robbery, police said on Wednesday. Sound technician Bryce Dion, 38, from the "Cops" crew was wearing a bulletproof vest, but was stuck by a bullet that went through a gap in the protective shielding under his arm, Omaha police spokesman Michael Pecha said. The "Cops" crew travels across the United States documenting the work of law enforcement for its television show. |
| Corrupt Chinese hiding in Western nations elude Beijing's "fox hunt" | | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:04 PM | |
|  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - When Yang Xiuzhu got wind in 2003 that Chinese anti-corruption investigators were looking into her affairs, she boarded a flight to Singapore. China filed an arrest warrant through Interpol for Yang, a senior official who oversaw construction projects in the booming eastern province of Zhejiang. She was eventually detained in Amsterdam in 2005, but nearly a decade on, China has yet to get her back despite protracted negotiations with the Netherlands. Yang's case and others like it underscore the challenge for President Xi Jinping as he expands his already far-reaching anti-corruption campaign to tracking down suspects who have fled abroad, often taking their ill-gotten gains with them.
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