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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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| 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 a network that trafficked Uighur Muslims and launched the attack in anger at 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 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. |
| New Australian PM Turnbull says public will vote on same sex marriage | |  New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday the status of same sex marriage will be decided by a public vote after a federal election next year, sticking to a timeline determined by former leader Tony Abbott. Some campaigners had hoped that Turnbull, who has spoken out against the party line in support of gay marriage, would override the earlier decision and call for a free vote in parliament to speed up the process. "The coalition, our government, has decided that the resolution of this matter will be determined by a vote of the people, all the people, via a plebiscite, to be held after the next election," Turnbull told lawmakers in Canberra.
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