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| Iraqi court sentences 24 to death over Speicher killings | | | An Iraqi court sentenced 24 people to death on Wednesday over the killing of hundreds of soldiers at a former U.S. military base near Tikrit during an offensive by Islamic State militants, an official said. As many as 1,700 mainly Shi'ite soldiers were killed at Camp Speicher when the hardline Sunni Islamist militants swept through northern Iraq last summer. Video footage of the soldiers being gunned down in their hundreds, posted online by jihadists, came to symbolise Islamic State brutality and may represent the deadliest single act of violence during a decade of periodic sectarian war in Iraq. |
| Malaysian police raid 1MDB office, PM weighs legal options | |  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. Najib has denied taking any money and said the corruption allegations are part of a malicious campaign to force him out of office. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported last week that investigators probing 1MDB had traced funds flowing into Najib's personal account when he was campaigning for a general election over two years ago.
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| Myanmar sets date for election which could define scope of reforms | | | By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Timothy Mclaughlin YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar will hold a general election on Nov. 8, its election commission said on Wednesday, its first nationwide ballot since the end of direct military rule and a vote that could decide the scope of the country's reforms. The election comes at a critical time for Myanmar, which has undergone major changes since shifting to a quasi-civilian system in 2011 but is now seeing tensions between rival forces vying for power after an unprecedented period of reform. The Nov. 8 date was confirmed by Nyunt Tin, a director of the Union Election Commission (UEC), when contacted by Reuters. |
| 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. |
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