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| Myanmar opposition candidate stable after machete attack - party |
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| By Soe Zeya Tun and Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - A member of parliament from Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party was recovering on Friday after being slashed with a machete in the first serious violence in a campaign for historic Nov.8 elections, a party official said. Three men attacked National League for Democracy (NLD) member Naing Ngan Lynn, who in running for a regional assembly seat in the commercial capital of Yangon, and two other people while he was campaigning on Thursday evening. It's important to take effective legal action after investigation," said Nyan Win. |
| China to prosecute former top Tibet security official for graft |
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| A former top Chinese security official in Tibet will be prosecuted for suspected corruption, the ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said on Friday, in a rare example of corruption-busters going into the restive and remote region. Le Dake, who was deputy head of Tibet's regional legislature when an investigation into him began in June, is suspected of abuse of power and bribery, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said. According to his official biography, Le was head of the State Security Department in Tibet from 2004 to 2013. |
| South Sudan rebels free U.N. peacekeepers, but still hold contractors |
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| By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Eighteen United Nations peacekeepers in South Sudan were freed on Thursday after being held for three days by heavily armed rebels, but a dozen U.N. contractors who were operating a fuel barge have not yet been released, the world body said. U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous spoke to opposition leader Riek Machar about the incident on Thursday. The United Nations also said it is "extremely concerned" about the South Sudanese crew of the fuel barge who were still being held. |
| Allen Stanford loses appeal of Ponzi scheme conviction |
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 A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford's bid to overturn his conviction and 110-year prison sentence for running what federal prosecutors called a $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans turned aside 10 arguments raised by Stanford. "We find no evidence that the district court was partial to the government in derogation of Stanford's right to a fair trial under the Constitution," Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement wrote for a three-judge panel.
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| Apologetic Venezuelan prosecutor says country's justice system ruled by fear |
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 By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A Venezuelan state prosecutor who helped put prominent opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez behind bars said he apologised to the jailed man's parents by phone this week after fleeing the country to avoid pressing the government's trumped-up case. In 2012, supreme court magistrate Eladio Aponte fled the country and later accused the government of manipulating the courts for political ends.
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| Mexico to question army again over missing students |
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| By Lizbeth Diaz and Anahi Rama MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican prosecutors will take new testimony from federal security officials to determine what part they played during the disappearance of 43 students training to be teachers last year, which battered the government's image at home and abroad. Families of the victims and an independent experts have pushed to clarify what the army and federal police did on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, when the students clashed with local police in the southwestern city of Iguala before disappearing. "Everything needed to settle the case will be investigated, everything," said Eber Betanzos, deputy attorney general for human rights, who will head a new inquiry into the case. |
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