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| Malaysian police begin exhuming bodies at jungle camps | |  By Praveen Menon and Andrew R.C. Marshall BUKIT WANG BURMA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysian police forensic teams, digging with hoes and shovels, began the grim task on Tuesday of exhuming the bodies of dozens of suspected victims of human traffickers found buried around jungle camps near the Thai border. Authorities believe at least two of the camps where they have found nearly 140 graves were abandoned in the last two to three weeks, around the time that Thailand launched a crackdown on people smugglers. The dense forests of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major stop-off point for smugglers bringing people to Southeast Asia by boat from Myanmar, most of them Rohingya Muslims who say they are fleeing persecution, and Bangladesh.
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| Around 25 Kenyan police killed in al Shabaab attacks | | | Al Shabaab gunmen killed around 25 Kenyan police on Monday, ambushing some officers in a village in the east of the country after others died when their vehicle hit a landmine planted by the militants, their military spokesman said. The Islamist group also burnt five vehicles in the two incidents, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab said. There were some Kenyan forces that escaped in the course of the ambush fighting," he said. |
| Homicide probe to be launched into B.B. King's death - officials | |  (Reuters) - Nevada officials said on Monday they would conduct a homicide investigation into the death of B.B. King who died this month at age 89, after two of his daughters leveled accusations that the blues great was murdered. The Clark County, Nevada coroner's office said in a posting on Twitter that it had taken jurisdiction over King's body, and that autopsy results would take a minimum of six to eight weeks. "Our coroner takes jurisdiction over #BBKing body, performs autopsy.
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| Myanmar, Bangladesh in pact for return of 200 rescued from boat - paper | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with neighbouring Bangladesh to repatriate 200 Bangladeshis rescued from a boat off the Myanmar coast last week. A migrant crisis has flared up in Southeast Asia as Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar and Bangladeshis trying to escape poverty at home become prey to human traffickers. After Thailand cracked down on the practice, traffickers began abandoning overloaded boats on the open sea rather than trying to smuggle travellers through Thailand.
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| Mexico denies 42 suspected gang members were executed by police | | | By Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's national security spokesman denied on Monday that 42 suspected gang members killed in a gunfight last week, in which government forces suffered just one fatality, were executed after the one-sided death toll raised doubts. The 42 deaths on Friday came less than a year after 22 suspected gang members were killed without loss by security forces in an incident the government originally labeled a shootout. Asked whether the 42 deaths on a ranch near the border of Michoacan and Jalisco states had been an execution, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said the suspected gangsters had been killed in battle with government forces. |
| Asia's migrant domestic workers rally to fight low pay and abuse | |  By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Suay Ing was nine when she was first employed as a domestic worker, cleaning for a family and sleeping in their laundry room in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai for $10 a month. The eldest of four children of migrant construction workers from Myanmar, Ing was 14 when she was trafficked to Bangkok by a broker who promised her a job and abandoned her. Two years ago, she plucked up the courage to leave her abusive boss, turning again to domestic work, but this time, armed with greater knowledge of her rights, she got decent pay, days off and reasonable hours.
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| Filipina maid photographs "modern slavery" in Hong Kong | | | By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Filipina maid in Hong Kong has published stark photographs of burned and beaten domestic workers to highlight the "modern slavery" she says has long been the city's shameful secret. "Hong Kong is a very modern, successful city but people treat their helpers like slaves," said Xyza Cruz Bacani, whose black and white portraits won her a scholarship from the Magnum Foundation to start studying at New York University this month. It's common but no one talks about it, so I want to tell their stories, I want to tell people it's not OK to treat your domestic workers that way." Bacani is one of the 330,000 domestic workers in the former British colony, most of them from the Philippines and Indonesia. |
| Trial of Iranian-U.S. journalist in Tehran to be closed - family | | | The trial in Iran of jailed Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian will be closed to the public when it starts on Tuesday, his brother said on Monday. Rezaian, who is Iranian-American and faces unspecified charges, will be in Revolutionary Court with only his attorney and family members are excluded, his brother Ali Rezaian told Reuters Television. Jason Rezaian, the Post's Tehran bureau chief, has been in Tehran's Evin prison since his arrest in July. |
| Polish opposition cheers presidential vote win, stock market more wary | |  By Pawel Sobczak and Jakub Iglewski WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's main opposition party celebrated its first national election win in a decade on Monday, after its candidate for the presidency unexpectedly defeated incumbent Bronislaw Komorowski. The Warsaw stock market fell, as Andrzej Duda's Law and Justice party is considered less business-friendly and less pro-European Union than the governing Civic Platform. Duda won Sunday's run-off vote by 51.6 percent to 48.4 percent, official voting results showed.
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