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| Police boss at centre of British child sex scandal quits |
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| LONDON (Reuters) - The elected official in charge of policing in the northern English town of Rotherham quit on Tuesday after weeks of resisting political pressure to stand down over a scandal involving the sexual exploitation of as many as 1,400 children. Shaun Wright was in charge of children's services for the local authority during the time some of the abuse was occurring. An independent report last month revealed the crimes had been going on for 16 years. ... |
| U.N. experts caution powers they must heed 'laws of war' in fighting IS |
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 By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations war crimes investigators for Syria cautioned world powers preparing military action against Islamic State fighters that the 'laws of war' would apply to them and they must do everything possible to protect civilian populations. They said ISIS, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, had commited massacres of religious and ethnic groups and abused women. The government of President Bashar al-Assad, however, remained responsible for the majority of civilian casualties. ...
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| Indonesia anti-terror police question four foreigners |
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| JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian anti-terror police are questioning four foreign nationals in a sign of tightening security in the country with the world's largest Muslim population, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Indonesia grappled with a string of militant attacks during the 2000s, including a bombing at a Bali nightclub that killed 202, with 88 Australians among them. Since then, it has been largely successful in cracking down on homegrown militant cells. ... |
| Ukraine agrees to grant "special status" to rebellious east |
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| KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that will give "special status" to the separatist-minded eastern regions including a degree of self-governance for a three-year period, parliamentary deputies, who attended the closed session, said. A second law that was passed would grant an amnesty to separatists who were involved in recent fighting with government forces, the deputies told Reuters. (Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing By Richard Balmforth, editing by Elizabeth Piper) |
| Vietnam urged to tackle "alarming" rate of police abuse |
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 HANOI (Reuters) - Abuses by Vietnam's powerful police force are occurring at an alarming rate, a rights group said on Tuesday and it urged the government to rein-in offenders and create bodies to investigate complaints of beatings, torture and killings. Tracking four years of alleged abuse of suspects in custody, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Vietnam's Communist government needed to recognise the scale of the problem and urgently initiate police reforms. ...
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| China's envoy to Britain slams "hypocritical" last governor of Hong Kong |
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| HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ambassador to Britain has branded London's last colonial governor of Hong Kong an irresponsible "hypocrite" for his recent criticism of a lack of democracy in the global financial hub. In a letter to the conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper on Tuesday, ambassador Liu Xiaoming said Hong Kong must never be allowed to become an obstacle to improving Sino-British ties, despite the "flawed" arguments of Chris Patten. ... |
| China scholar shackled, refused warm clothes ahead of trial - lawyer |
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 By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - An ethnic Uighur academic in China is being kept in shackles and has been refused warm clothing ahead of his trial in the Xinjiang region, his lawyer said on Tuesday, in a case that has drawn concern over judicial and human rights abuses. Ilham Tohti, an economics professor who championed the rights of Xinjiang's Muslim Uighur people, is due to go on trial on separatism charges on Wednesday in the region's capital of Urumqi. Tohti was detained in January and accused of promoting Xinjiang's independence from China. ...
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