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| U.S. charges 3 Chinese professors, 3 others with economic espionage | | | By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S government charged three Chinese professors and three other Chinese nationals with economic espionage and stealing trade secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military technologies, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. The three professors from Tianjin University were charged with stealing source code and other proprietary information from Avago Technologies Ltd. and Skyworks Solutions Inc. Avago has headquarters in San Jose, California and Singapore, and Skyworks is based in Woburn, Massachusetts. |
| Thai junta delays polls, raising questions about return to democracy | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta delayed a general election by at least six months on Tuesday, hours after former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was banned from travelling overseas, raising questions about a promised return to democracy. Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, installed after the military seized power in last May's coup, told reporters that the polls would take place in August 2016 at the earliest to allow for a referendum on the new constitution. Since taking power, the junta has come under domestic and international pressure to hold elections, which they say can only take place under a new constitution.
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| Dozens arrested in Italian match-fixing probe | | | MILAN (Reuters) - Fifty people have been arrested and 70 questioned in a nationwide swoop over suspected match-fixing in the third, fourth and fifth tiers of Italian football, the ANSA news agency reported on Tuesday. Those arrested included players and directors from around 30 clubs who were under suspicion of "conspiracy to commit sporting fraud", the report said. The operation, which according to Gazzetta dello Sport is code-named "Dirty Soccer", is being co-ordinated by prosecutors in the southern town of Catanzaro. ... |
| Thai general election to take place august 2016 at the earliest - deputy pm | |  A Thai general election planned for early 2016 will now take place in August 2016 at the earliest, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday, following a decision by Thailand's cabinet to hold a referendum on the country's new constitution. "If we have to do a referendum in January, after that we will need three to four months to amend various laws ... then no more than 90 days after that we will hold an election," deputy prime minister Wissanu Krea-ngam. "At the earliest it will take place around August or in September." The Thai cabinet agreed earlier on Tuesday that a referendum should be held on the constitution and the military's blueprint for restoring democracy.
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| Former Thai PM banned from travelling abroad at start of trial | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was banned from travelling overseas on Tuesday at the start of her trial on negligence charges, the latest in a slew of cases her supporters say are part of an attempt to tighten the junta's grip on power. In a move likely to delay any return to democratic rule, the Thai cabinet agreed on Tuesday that a referendum should be held on a new constitution and the military's blueprint for restoring democracy. Yingluck was forced from office a year ago after Thailand's Constitutional Court found her guilty of abuse of power.
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| UK's Prince Charles to meet Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams for first time | |  Britain's Prince Charles is to meet Gerry Adams in Ireland on Tuesday, the first time the leader of the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has met a senior member of the royal family, his Sinn Fein party said. The meeting is to take place in the west of Ireland city of Galway a day before Charles visits the nearby site where the IRA murdered his uncle Lord Mountbatten in 1979. Charles has long been a figure of hate among Irish nationalists due to his position as Colonel-in-Chief of the British Army's Parachute Regiment, which was involved in a number of shooting of Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland.
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| French attack survivor Luz says he is leaving Charlie Hebdo | |  One of the few cartoonists to survive an Islamist militant attack on France's Charlie Hebdo journal is leaving the publication, saying he can no longer bear the pressure. Renald Luzier, better known simply as Luz, announced his decision in an interview in Liberation, the newspaper that helped Charlie Hebdo publish again in the wake of an attack in which most of his cartoonist colleagues were killed. "Every print-run was torture because the others are no longer there," said Luz, who drew the cover picture on the first post-attack edition of Charlie Hebdo but had recently declared he would no longer draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad because he was fed up with it.
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| Judge sentences 11 Afghan police over lynching of woman in Kabul | | | By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan judge sentenced 11 police on Tuesday to one year in jail for failing to prevent the mob killing of a woman in Kabul who was accused of burning a Koran. Judge Safiullah Mujadidi freed eight other officers accused of failure to carry out their duty for lack of evidence. It prompted rare protests against religious extremism and violence against women in Kabul. |
| YouTube may show 'Innocence of Muslims' film - U.S. court | |  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc should not have to remove an anti-Islamic film from its YouTube website because a woman complained that she was duped into performing in the film that depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a paedophile, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday. In a case widely followed for its potential impact on the entertainment industry, an 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said an injunction prohibiting Google from broadcasting the film should be lifted. A three-judge panel had ordered Google to remove the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims." Billed as a trailer, it triggered anti-American sentiment among Muslims in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in 2012.
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| Egypt security forces step up sexual violence since Mursi's ouster - human rights group | | | By Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces have stepped up sexual violence since the military overthrew the country's first freely elected president in 2013, a human rights group alleged on Tuesday. Victims include members of NGOs, students, women and those perceived as "endangering the moral order," the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said in a report. Spokesmen for Egypt's Interior Ministry and military were not available for comment despite several attempts to reach them. |
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