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| Bomb hits Somali police car day after deadly cafe attack |
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 MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A bomb tore through a senior policeman's car in Somalia's capital on Monday, a day after suspected Islamist militants shelled an area where the president was due to speak and attacked a city centre cafe, witnesses and officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the assaults which officials said wounded two mechanics working on the car on Monday and killed 13 people at Mogadishu's Oromo Cafe on Sunday. ...
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| China detains scholar, bans books in crackdown on moderate voices |
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| By Sui-Lee Wee and Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - China has detained a prominent scholar who helped blind dissident Chen Guangcheng flee to the United States two years ago and has banned books by eight writers in an escalating crackdown on dissent. Guo Yushan, a founder of the Transition Institute, a think-tank that researches business regulations, reform and civil society, was detained on Thursday, his wife, Pan Haixia, said. More than 10 police officers took him away along with his laptop, wireless router, mobile phone and iPad, she said. ... |
| China says arrested assistant for German paper working illegally |
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| BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday that a Chinese woman who helped with the German weekly Die Zeit's coverage of the protests in Hong Kong was working for the newspaper without permission and has been arrested on suspicion of "causing a disturbance". Germany expressed concern about the arrest of Zhang Miao last week, saying it was "worrying news for the German government". ... |
| Insight - Why Britain is still losing its fight against radicalisation |
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| By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Mizanur Rahman laughs when he recalls the de-radicalisation programme he was sent on in 2008 after he was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops. "I'd go there, I'd sign my name, play pool with some other radicals that I was in prison with and I'd go home," said Rahman, arrested again last month on suspicion of terrorism offences. He denies wrongdoing and has not been charged. ... |
| Policewoman killed in China's Xinjiang - state media |
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| BEIJING (Reuters) - Two "thugs" stabbed to death a policewoman in the Chinese region of Xinjiang where the government says Islamists are using violence to push for a separate state, media reported on Monday. The motorcycle-mounted attackers used sharp weapons to "cruelly attack and kill" the policewoman, China Central Television (CCTV) said on its official microblog on Monday. Media did not specify the ethnicity of the policewoman but judging by her name, she was Uighur, a Muslim minority that calls Xinjiang home. CCTV citied a colleague of the woman as saying she was two months pregnant. ... |
| Insight - Did Israel's 'Hannibal directive' lead to a war crime in Gaza? |
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 By Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi KEREM SHALOM Israel/GAZA (Reuters) - The July-August war in Gaza drew international condemnation for a number of reasons, but one episode proved more deadly than any other: an Israeli air and artillery bombardment on Aug. 1 that killed 150 people in a matter of hours. Six weeks on from the war, with the toll of destruction still being counted, there is deepening unease about what took place that day, especially over whether too much force was used. Some legal experts say a war crime may have been committed. ...
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