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| Putin seeks parliamentary approval to deploy Russian forces abroad - Kremlin | |  Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, to consider authorising the use of military force abroad, something it will do later on Wednesday, the Kremlin said in a statement. The Kremlin did not say which country the decision would apply to, but Russia is in the process of building up its military presence in Syria where it supports the government forces of President Bashar al-Assad. The last time the Russian parliament granted Putin the right to deploy troops abroad, a technical requirement under Russian law, Moscow seized Crimea from Ukraine last year.
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| China says two Japanese arrested for spying | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - China has arrested two Japanese nationals for spying, China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that China has notified Japan. Japan's Asahi newspaper said two men, both from the private sector, had been in custody for several months. One was taken into custody in China's northeast province of Liaoning near the border with North Korea and the other in the eastern province of Zhejiang near a military facility, the paper said. (Reporting by Megha Rajagopalan; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Nick Macfie) |
| Lawmakers demand president resigns as Afghan battle rages | |  By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan lawmakers called on President Ashraf Ghani to resign on Wednesday over his government's "shameful" handling of the battle for Kunduz, the northern city which has fallen to Taliban insurgents in their biggest victory so far in 14 years of war. The Islamist militants seized control of Kunduz after an audacious assault on the city on Monday, and the promised counter-offensive from Afghan forces has yet to materialise. "It is shameful how they (the government) have dealt with the situation in Kunduz," said Iqbal Safi, a member of parliament from Kapisa province, during a televised session of parliament.
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| India sentences five men to death for 2006 Mumbai train blasts | |  MUMBAI (Reuters) - A court sentenced five men to death and jailed seven for life on Wednesday for planning bomb blasts that ripped through Mumbai commuter trains in 2006, killing more than 180 people and wounding hundreds. The specially convened court convicted 12 of 13 accused earlier this month for their role in the events that led to seven bombs exploding on packed trains during the evening rush hour in Mumbai on July 11, 2006. The bombs targeted an overcrowded suburban network that carries around seven million people a day. ...
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| Turkish PM says workers kidnapped in Iraq have been released | | | ANKARA/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sixteen Turkish workers abducted by armed militants in Iraq have been released and are with embassy officials, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on his Twitter account on Wednesday. The men were snatched on Sept. 2 from a stadium they were building on the outskirts of Baghdad, apparently by an armed group that used a familiar Shi'ite Muslim slogan and threatened to attack Turkish interests in Iraq if its demands were not met. The men had appeared in an online video on Tuesday that promised their release after the United Nations backed a deal to extricate Syrian villagers under siege from rebels supported by Turkey. |
| China charges former regional bank chief with graft | | | The former head of a local lender in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia will be prosecuted for suspected corruption, bribery and embezzlement, the state prosecutor said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of bankers to be targeted for graft. Yang Chenglin, former board chairman of the Bank of Inner Mongolia, defrauded the bank and sought personal profits by embezzling large sums of money from the bank, the prosecutor said. Bank of Inner Mongolia, based in regional capital Hohhot, was set up in 1999 and was renamed in 2009 from Hohhot City Commercial Bank. |
| U.S. state of Georgia executes a woman for the first time in 70 years | |  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - The U.S. state of Georgia executed its only woman on death row on Wednesday, marking the first time in 70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a prison official said. Kelly Gissendaner, 47, died by lethal injection at 12:21 a.m. EDT at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, a prison spokeswoman said. Gissendaner was sentenced to death after being convicted of what is known in the state as malice murder for her role in plotting the killing of her husband, Douglas, in 1997.
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| Across arc of conflict, "Obama Doctrine" shows signs of failure | |  In Iraq, the battle by American-backed government forces against Islamic State is at a stalemate. In Afghanistan, the Taliban seize a provincial capital for the first time since their ouster in 2001. Less than a year and a half after President Barack Obama used a West Point speech to lay out a strategy for relying on local partners instead of large-scale U.S. military deployments abroad, there is mounting evidence that the so-called "Obama Doctrine" may be failing.
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| Brother of disgraced former top China officer sacked | |  A younger brother of a disgraced former senior Chinese military officer, who has been accused of corruption, has been sacked from his position as a senior provincial official, state media said on Wednesday. Guo Boquan has been removed as head of the civil affairs department of the northwestern province of Shaanxi, the official Xinhua news agency said, without providing any details. Chinese media reports have identified him as a younger brother of Guo Boxiong, who was a vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission until he retired in 2012.
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| China holds two Japanese on spying charges - newspaper | | | China is holding two Japanese on espionage charges, a newspaper said on Wednesday, a report that prompted Tokyo to deny spying on China or any other country. The Asahi newspaper said the two men, both from the private sector, had been in custody for several months. One was taken into custody in China's northeast province of Liaoning near the border with North Korea and the other in the eastern province of Zhejiang near a military facility, the paper said. |
| Colombia's FARC leader says all rebels on board for peace | |  All of Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels, from foot soldiers to commanders, are committed to peace talks, its leader said, and while the group will continue to fight government policy, the battle will go ahead without any shots being fired. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will continue to defend its ideology and seek land reform if an end to the five-decade war end is reached in Havana, rebel leader Rodrigo Londono said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday, suggesting changes would come from the ballot box. Rumors have circulated for months that many of the FARC's 8,000 fighters are not on board with the talks and the five-point agenda.
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| Blatter does not rule out staying beyond February, says confidant | |  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter has not ruled out trying to stay on as FIFA's president beyond February's scheduled election, despite facing a criminal investigation and a possible internal ethics probe, a close confidant told Reuters on Tuesday. The scenario where Blatter would try to stay on appears far-fetched, and an ethics investigation could lead to his suspension from the game before the election even begins. The Swiss attorney general's office (OAG) opened criminal proceedings against Blatter on Friday, saying he was suspected of making a "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.04 million) to Michael Platini.
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