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| China asks foreign media to report Hong Kong unrest "objectively" | |  HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese official told foreign media in Hong Kong on Wednesday that China has seen interference in the city's pro-democracy protests from outside forces and called on international journalists to report "objectively". "Since the occurrence of this event, from the statements and the rhetoric and the behaviour of the outside forces of political figures, of some parliamentarians and individual media, I think such a kind of interference certainly exists," the official told reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity. ...
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| Sri Lanka bans foreigners from old war zone amid UN probe | |  By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Wednesday banned foreigners from a former battle zone, the government said, weeks after the United Nations began an investigation into alleged war crimes in the final phase of a 26-year conflict between the army and separatist rebels. President Mahinda Rajapaksa in August rejected entry visas for U.N. officials for the war crime investigation. His administration has said an external investigation is unnecessary and Sri Lanka can conduct its own. ...
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| UN refugee chief says EU should let more Syrian refugees enter legally | |  By Sami Aboudi SHARJAH United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said on Wednesday he had asked the European Union to grant legal entry to more Syrian refugees who are risking their lives trying to reach Europe illegally by sea. Thousands of migrants, including many Syrians fleeing a three-year civil war, have drowned while crossing the Mediterranean on rickety boats operated by human traffickers. ...
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| Bahrain activist detained for seven days - lawyer | |  MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahraini authorities have ordered pro-democracy activist Zainab al-Khawaja to be detained for questioning for seven days after a judge accused her of insulting King Hamad by tearing up his picture, her lawyer said on Wednesday. Zainab, daughter of jailed activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja who is on hunger strike, fell foul of the judge on Tuesday during an appeal hearing into two cases involving her that date back to 2012, her lawyer Mohammed al-Wasti said. "The judge yesterday accused Zainab of insulting the king by tearing up his picture during the trial," Wasti told Reuters. ...
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| World Health Organization backs higher tobacco taxes to cut smoking | |  LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) approved guidelines on Wednesday urging countries to increase cigarette taxes to help discourage smoking. The guidelines, which leave it to individual countries to determine their own tax rates, were adopted by a conference of the parties to the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a treaty signed by 179 countries with the aim of reducing tobacco use and improving global health. ...
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| London mayor edges away from call to ban smoking in parks | |  LONDON (Reuters) - A proposal for London to follow the lead of cities like New York and Hong Kong by banning smoking in parks and open spaces received a cool welcome from Mayor Boris Johnson on Wednesday who called it "taking bossiness too far." The idea was contained in a report, commissioned by Johnson himself, that aims to combat the threats posed by tobacco, alcohol, obesity, lack of exercise and pollution and that bills itself as the biggest public health drive in the world. ...
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| Friend of accused Boston bomber denied dorm visit - FBI agent | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber denied visiting the suspect's college dorm room three days after the deadly attack, but later admitted to the visit, an FBI agent who interviewed the man testified on Wednesday. Robel Phillipos, 21, is on trial on charges he lied to the FBI about a visit to the suspected bomber's college dorm room three days after the attack that killed three people and injured more than 260, as investigators were hunting for the suspect. ...
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| Cleared Charlie Brooks loses bid for court costs | |  LONDON (Reuters) - The husband of Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm who was cleared of phone-hacking offences in June, lost his bid on Wednesday to be reimbursed for legal costs he accrued during his and his wife's lengthy trial. Charlie and Rebekah Brooks were both acquitted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by hiding material from police investigating phone-hacking at Murdoch's now defunct News of the World newspaper. ...
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