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| China says some victims of land clash burned alive | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese villagers kidnapped construction workers, tied them up, doused them in gasoline and set it ablaze when a land dispute turned violent, the government said on Thursday, providing grisly details of the latest bout of rural unrest. Eight people died in Tuesday's unrest when tension over a new trading and logistics centre boiled over in Jinning, a suburb of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province in China's southwest. Six of the dead were workers and the other two villagers, while 18 people were injured, one of them seriously. ...
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| Pistorius "can't get away with this", Steenkamp's cousin tells court | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius needs to go to jail for the killing of his 29-year-old girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day last year, a cousin of the slain model told a South African court on Thursday. "I feel we need to send a message to society that you can't get away with this," a tear-choked Kim Martins said in her second day of testimony at Pistorius' sentencing hearing. ...
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| Pakistan air strikes kill at least 21, army says | | | PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani fighter jets pounded suspected hideouts of Islamist militants in the country's north-west on Thursday, killing at least 21 insurgents, the army said. Renewed air strikes come against the backdrop of a broader military offensive in the lawless North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, where the Pakistani army has been battling to contain the insurgency since June. ... |
| Hong Kong leader hopes for fresh talks after night of clashes | |  By Clare Baldwin and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying sought to defuse tension with pro-democracy protesters on Thursday, saying he hopes the two sides can talk next week, but anger over police violence and continued street scuffles suggest the students are not about to give up. Leung was speaking after more than two weeks of protests that have paralysed parts of the city and grabbed global headlines amid scenes of violent clashes and tear gas rising between some of the world's most valuable office buildings. ...
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| Australian naval base in lockdown, bomb squad called | | | SYDNEY (Reuters) - A naval base in the Australian state of Victoria went into lockdown and a police bomb squad was sent to the scene to investigate unspecified "hazardous material", security officials said on Thursday. An exclusion zone of 400 metres was declared around a residential apartment at HMAS Cerberus, a naval training base on the Mornington Peninsula, 75 km (45 miles) southeast of Melbourne, Victorian police said. The incident occurred after a routine inspection at the base found the material in the apartment, the Australian Defence Force said in a statement. ... |
| Messi had nothing to do with tax affairs, father insists | |  MADRID (Reuters) - Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi had nothing to do with his own tax affairs and should not be included in an investigation into an alleged fraud, his father Jorge has insisted. Messi and his father, who have denied wrongdoing, have been accused of defrauding the Spanish state of more than 4 million euros (5.13 million US dollars) by filing incomplete returns for the years 2007 to 2009. Income from Messi's image rights was allegedly hidden using a web of shell companies in Uruguay, Belize, Switzerland and Britain. ...
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