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| Myanmar to hold general election on Nov. 8 - election commission | | | Myanmar will hold a general election on Nov. 8, a top election commission official said on Wednesday, its first nationwide ballot since the military ended its 49-year direct rule of the country. The Nov. 8 date was confirmed by Nyunt Tin, a director of the Union Election Commission, when contacted by Reuters. Myanmar's last election was held under military rule in November 2010 and was condemned widely by critics as being flawed and rigged to favour a party stacked with retired military officers and remnants of the regime. |
| Srebrenica remains an open wound, 20 years later | | | By Matt Robinson GLOGOVA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Some bodies lay in plain sight on the floor of the forest when Dr Vedo Tuco, a forensic pathologist, entered Srebrenica at the end of the Bosnian war. "Once I started, I never stopped." On Saturday, Bosnia marks the 20th anniversary of Europe's worst mass killing since World War Two - the slaughter of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces during five July days in 1995. Investigators believe at least one more big grave eludes them, while the accused architects - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and military commander Ratko Mladic - are still standing trial at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, fiercely unrepentant. |
| China's draft cybersecurity law could up censorship, irk business | |  By Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) - China's parliament has published a draft cybersecurity law that consolidates Beijing's control over data, with potentially significant consequences for internet service providers and multinational firms doing business in the country. The document, dated Monday but picked up by state media on Wednesday, strengthens user privacy protection from hackers and data resellers but elevates the government's powers obtain records on and block dissemination of private information deemed illegal under Chinese law. Citing the need "to safeguard national cyberspace sovereignty, security and development," the proposed legislation will allow China to bolster its networks against threats to stability and better regulate the flow of information.
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| Gunmen kill 3, wound 1 near Baltimore university - police | | | Three people were killed and one was wounded when gunmen opened fire on a group of people on a street near the University of Maryland, Baltimore, police said on Wednesday. Two gunmen emerged from two separate light-colored vans and began shooting people just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday (0300 GMT Wednesday), campus police said in a statement. |
| Malaysian police raid 1MDB office, Najib considers legal action over report | |  By Trinna Leong and Yantoultra Ngui KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police raided the office of troubled state investment fund 1MDB on Wednesday, following a report that claimed investigators looking into the firm found nearly $700 million had been transferred to Prime Minister Najib Razak's bank account. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported last week that investigators probing 1MDB had traced money from the debt-laden fund to Najib's personal account. Najib has denied taking any money from 1MDB or any other entity for personal gain, and is considering legal action.
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