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| Rouhani's nuclear dividend to feature in Iranian elections | |  Iran's nuclear deal may be eroding its isolation overseas, but at home it is deepening political infighting within the country's complex power structure before two important elections, officials and analysts say. The agreement - welcomed by Iranians eager for a lifting of sanctions and improved living standards - has increased the popularity of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, alarming hardline allies of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "The president's popularity has already increased since 2013 (when Rouhani won elections) because of the deal.
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| U.N. expects refugees to find new route avoiding Hungary | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Refugees seeking asylum in the European Union may end up seeking a new route as a result of Hungary's crackdown on entry, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday, and one refugee suggested it might be through Croatia and Slovenia. UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said the agency was discussing the likelihood with various countries although she would not name them or suggest any possible route. "We're definitely in touch with different countries on contingencies and UNHCR is ready to move and assist different countries as best we can," Fleming said.
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| Britain says new Northern Ireland body should monitor paramilitaries | |  Britain said on Tuesday that Northern Ireland should look at whether an independent body should monitor paramilitary organisations and organised crime, but Protestant unionists said the statement did not go far enough to allow talks to begin. The British province's devolved administration is on the brink of collapse after a murder linked to former members of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) prompted its first minister, Peter Robinson, to step aside. "The government is clear that paramilitary organisations have no place in a democratic society," Theresa Villiers, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, told parliament.
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| Malaysia's attorney-general says Najib not linked to Mongolian model's murder | |  Malaysia's attorney-general on Tuesday said Prime Minister Najib Razak had no connection to the 2006 murder of a Mongolian woman, following a documentary on the subject broadcast last week by Doha-based network Al Jazeera. Najib is facing the biggest crisis of his political career following media reports of a mysterious transfer of more than $600 million into an account under his name but has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the funds. The model and translator, Altantuya Shaariibuu, was murdered in 2006 and her body was blown up with military grade explosives in a forest on the outskirts of the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
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| Thai bomb revenge for trafficking crackdown, not Uighur expulsion - police | |  By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - The perpetrators of last month's deadly Bangkok bombing were members of a network that trafficked Uighur Muslims and launched the attack in anger with Thailand's crackdown on the trade, police said on Tuesday. No group has claimed responsibility for the Aug. 17 bombing at the Erawan Shrine that killed 20 people, an attack police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang ruled out as revenge for Thailand's forced repatriation in July of 109 Uighurs to China. "It's about a human trafficking network that has been destroyed," he told reporters.
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| China frees activist academic before Xi trip to United States | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities on Tuesday released on bail a prominent activist and academic who helped blind dissident Chen Guangcheng flee to the U.S. embassy three years ago after he had spent 11 months in detention, the scholar's wife said. The release of Guo Yushan, founder of a think-tank that did research on business regulations, reform and civil society, comes days before Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the United States. "Yushan has indeed returned home after being granted bail," his wife, Pan Haixia, told Reuters in a message sent by WeChat, a popular instant-messaging tool in China.
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| China investigates senior labour ministry official for graft | | | A senior official in China's labour ministry is being investigated for suspected corruption, the ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said, the latest person to come under suspicion in a sweeping anti-corruption campaign. Zuo Chunwen, head of the unemployment insurance division of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, is suspected of "serious breaches in discipline", the usual euphemism for graft, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said late on Monday. Zuo, 58, had been appointed to his current position in 2008, according to his official biography. |
| UN voices deep disappointment at lack of EU consensus on migrants | | | The United Nations said on Tuesday it was "deeply disappointed" at the failure of European Union ministers to reach a final consensus on a plan to share the relocation of 120,000 refugees. "Decisive agreement is needed without further delay to address the needs, as is bold action based on solidarity from all member states," the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement. |
| Seven sentenced to death over Kuwaiti mosque bombing - news agency | |  Seven defendants were sentenced to death on Tuesday for the Islamist militant suicide bombing of a mosque in June in Kuwait that killed 27 people, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported. Eight other suspects were given prison sentences ranging from two to 15 years by a Kuwaiti criminal court, KUNA reported. Fourteen other defendants were acquitted.
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| Suspect in fatal shooting at Mississippi campus kills himself | | | A man suspected of gunning down a Mississippi college professor in his campus office and of killing a woman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a day-long manhunt, authorities said on Tuesday. Shannon Lamb, a social science instructor at Delta State University, killed himself after being cornered by Greenville police as they tried to initiate a traffic stop, Cleveland Police Chief Charles "Buster" Bingham told a news conference. Lamb was being sought for the Monday killing of Ethan Schmidt, an assistant professor of American history at Delta State, and the earlier shooting of Amy Prentiss in Gautier, a town 300 miles (480 km) away, authorities have said. |
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