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| Syrian army, Hezbollah advance in areas along Lebanon border | | | By Laila Bassam and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army bombing in the mountainous area along the border with Lebanon killed dozens of insurgents and helped regain hilly territory overlooking Hezbollah strongholds, the Lebanese group said on Thursday. For years, hideouts in the Qalamoun mountains have allowed al Qaeda-linked insurgents to attack Syrian soldiers and fighters from Hezbollah, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along miles of borderland in eastern Lebanon. The Syrian military backed by Hezbollah fighters captured the strategically important territory known as Assal al-Ward on the Syrian side of the border, after retaking Qarna Heights, a Hezbollah official told Reuters, both in the 100-km (60-mile) Qalamoun range. |
| German spies curb Internet snooping for U.S. after row - media | |  Germany has halted its Internet surveillance for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in response to a row over the BND intelligence agency's cooperation with Washington, German media reported on Thursday. Allegations that the BND has helped the NSA spy on European officials and firms has put strains on Angela Merkel's governing coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and could damage U.S. relations and even the conservative chancellor's own popularity. The Sueddeutsche daily and WDR and NDR broadcasters reported that the BND's station in Bad Aibling this week stopped sending the NSA information garnered from Internet surveillance.
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| French court endorses Sarkozy phone-tapping in upset for comeback | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French magistrates ruled on Thursday that authorities had acted legally in tapping ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's phone as part of an investigation into allegations of influence peddling, in a potential blow to his hopes to run for president in 2017. Sarkozy allies had been confident the court would declare the taps inadmissible and clear the way for him to seek the conservatives' ticket for the 2017 ballot without that judicial cloud hanging over him. Sarkozy compared the tapping last year to the mass surveillance of the Stasi secret police of former communist East Germany. His lawyers said they would appeal against the decision, but that will not stop resumption of the investigation over allegations of corruption and influence peddling, a judicial source said.
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| Jackie Chan warns Singapore youth on drugs after son's detention | |  Jackie Chan was named Singapore's first celebrity anti-drug ambassador on Thursday and the kung fu movie star sought to warn the city state's youth off illegal substances as he spoke of his son's drug crimes. The Hong Kong actor's son, Jaycee Chan, was released from a Chinese jail in February after serving a six-month sentence on drugs charges. "I was very angry but it made me more determined to be against drugs." Chan, named an anti-drug ambassador by Beijing in 2009, sought to deter youths who had gathered to see him at the Singapore event from involvement with drugs. "Don't ever think you won't get addicted, because not only are you hurting yourself ... your one drug addiction will hurt your family," the actor said.
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| Iran says Maersk ship released, has left its territorial waters - ISNA | | | By Parisa Hafezi and Jonathan Saul ANKARA/LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has released a Marshall-Islands flagged container ship and its crew which were seized last month in one of the world's major oil shipping lanes, the Students News Agency ISNA quoted a foreign ministry official as saying on Thursday. The vessel was diverted on April 28 by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the United States to send vessels to monitor the situation and to accompany U.S.-flagged vessels passing through the strait. "The Maersk container ship was released and it has left Iranian territorial waters," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told ISNA. The Maersk incident coincided with heightened tension between regional arch-rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia over the civil war in Yemen, in which they support opposing sides. |
| North Korea official says report Kim ordered executions 'malicious slander' - CNN | |  A North Korean official denounced a report by South Korea's spy agency that leader Kim Jong Un had ordered the execution of 15 senior officials as "malicious slander" but acknowledged that executions took place. South Korea's National Intelligence Service told a parliamentary committee last week that Kim had ordered the 15 officials, including the vice forestry minister, to be executed for challenging his authority, and said Kim used fear and intimidation to rule the country. "Malicious slander," Pak Yong Chol, a deputy director for the North's Institute for Research into National Reunification, said when asked by CNN about the South Korean spy agency's report on the executions.
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| Over 50 Thai police punished over links to human trafficking | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - More than 50 Thai police officers have been punished over suspected links to human trafficking networks, the country's police chief said on Thursday, after the prime minister ordered a probe into the discovery of trafficking camps near the Malaysian border. Thirty-two bodies, believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been found in shallow graves over the past week in the southern province of Songkhla. Some of the bodies were found at a suspected human trafficking camp hidden deep in the jungle. "We have transferred over 50 police officers over this issue because commanders in local areas know who has been involved in what," Chief of Royal Thai Police General Somyot Poompanmuang told reporters ahead of a meeting in Bangkok to discuss efforts to crack down on the illicit trade.
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| Australian man could face death penalty in China drug trial | |  By James Pomfret GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - An Australian man faced a possible death sentence on Thursday on charges of attempting to smuggle millions of dollars worth of drugs out of China. The trial follows Indonesia's high-profile executions last week of two convicted Australian drug smugglers, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, alongside six others from several countries, despite international criticism of its use of the death penalty. Chinese authorities arrested New Zealand-born Peter Gardner, 26, at the international airport in the southern city of Guangzhou last November, carrying bags of nearly 30 kg (66 lb) of methamphetamine, known as "ice". Customs officials put the market value of the drugs at several million dollars.
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| Red Cross says one dead on Thursday, in latest Burundi protests | | | One civilian was killed and nine others were injured on Thursday in Burundi's capital, the Red Cross said, in demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term which protesters say violates the constitution. Nkurunziza said in an speech on Wednesday that his next term would be his last if elected. "The report we got this morning was that, so far, we have got nine people wounded and one person killed," Burundi Red Cross spokesman Alexis Manirakiza told Reuters. |
| Singapore teen pleads not guilty over blog critical of former premier Lee | |  A Singapore teenager pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of spreading obscene images and offending a religious group, but was not required to enter a plea on a harassment charge for comments he made about late former premier Lee Kuan Yew. Amos Yee, 16, appeared shackled in the Singapore State Courts after his arrest in March for comments he made on social media about Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore, and Christians soon after Lee's death at 91. Yee's case has reignited concerns about censorship and social controls in the Asian financial hub and has drawn criticism from human rights activists. The packed court included his parents, a youth counsellor who has offered to stand bail for him, and Roy Ngerng, another Singapore blogger who is involved in a separate defamation case with Lee's son, current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
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