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| Egypt's Sisi approves anti-terrorism law creating special courts | | | Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and protects its enforcers in the face of a two-year-old Islamist insurgency that aims to topple his government. The law has come under fire from human rights groups who accuse Sisi, who as military chief deposed a freely elected Islamist president in 2013, of exploiting security threats to roll back political freedoms won in the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Sisi had promised a tougher legal system in July after a car bomb attack in Cairo that killed the chief public prosecutor, the highest ranking state official to be killed in years. |
| Bomb in Thai capital kills 16, wounds 81 in bid "to destroy economy" | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Andrew R.C. Marshall BANGKOK (Reuters) - A bomb planted at one of the Thai capital's most renowned shrines on Monday killed 16 people, including three foreign tourists, and wounded scores in an attack the government called a bid to destroy the economy. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast at the Erawan shrine at a major city-centre intersection. Several media outlets had earlier reported that 27 people were killed but national police chief Somyot Poompanmuang told reporters the death toll was 16 in an attack he said was unprecedented in Thailand.
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| Sri Lankans give election verdict on Rajapaksa comeback bid | |  By Ranga Sirilal and Douglas Busvine COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka held a parliamentary election on Monday in which ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa was trying to stage a political comeback, as the leader who toppled him in January manoeuvred to block his path back to power. The nationalist strongman has set his sights on becoming premier of a government led by his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). Seeking to head off pressure to name Rajapaksa premier should he win an overwhelming mandate, Sirisena fired two dozen members of the SLFP's executive committee who had been loyal to his predecessor.
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| London council becomes first in Britain to ban "hippy crack" laughing gas | | | They have become a common sight in London's gutters after a hard night of partying: small, silver cylinders that contained nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, Britain's most popular "legal high". The popularity of laughing gas is growing, according to a government survey, in which 7.6 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds said they had taken it between 2013 and 2014, behind only cannabis. |
| Boyfriend of Morgan Freeman's granddaughter charged with her murder | | | By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - The live-in boyfriend of actor Morgan Freeman's granddaughter was charged on Monday with her murder, police said. E'Dena Hines, 33, was found fatally stabbed early on Sunday in a street near her apartment in the city's Washington Heights neighborhood, according to the New York Police Department. Lamar Davenport, 30, was taken into custody and transferred to a hospital for mental evaluation, police said. |
| Tsipras likely to call confidence vote after party revolt | |  By George Georgiopoulos and David Stamp ATHENS (Reuters) - The Greek government appears likely to call a confidence vote following a rebellion among lawmakers from the ruling Syriza party over the country's new bailout deal, senior ministers said on Monday. Energy Minister Panos Skourletis described such a parliamentary vote as "self-evident" following Friday's rebellion when almost a third of Syriza deputies abstained or voted against the agreement. With Syriza's left wing showing little sign of returning to the party fold, Skourletis also raised the possibility of early elections should Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras lose a confidence motion.
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| Protesters demand compensation for China blasts amid chemical clean-up | |  By Megha Rajagopalan TIANJIN, China (Reuters) - Hundreds of residents displaced by huge explosions last week in the Chinese port of Tianjin demanded compensation on Monday, as authorities worked to complete a sweep of the blast site for dangerous chemicals. The death toll from the two blasts last on Wednesday rose to 114, officials said. More than 700 people were injured and 70 are missing, most of them fire fighters, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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