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| China passes controversial counter-terrorism law |
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 By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China's parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday that requires technology firms to hand over sensitive information such as encryption keys to the government and allows the military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations. Chinese officials say their country faces a growing threat from militants and separatists, especially in its unruly Western region of Xinjiang, where hundreds have died in violence in the past few years. U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he had raised concerns about the law directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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| Thai police defend probe into British tourists' murder after hundreds protest |
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 By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police on Sunday defended their investigation into the 2014 murder of two British tourists after a court sentenced two men from Myanmar to death for the killings, prompting protests in Myanmar and Thailand. Protesters said the two men were used as scapegoats by authorities in an effort to close the high-profile case.
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| Bangladesh police raid militant hideout, explosives found |
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| Police said on Sunday they had detained three suspected members of a banned militant group and found a sniper rifle, ammunition, explosives and military suits in a hideout in southeastern Bangladesh. The raid came days after police busted a militant hideout in the capital Dhaka as security forces stepped up a hunt for Islamist militants behind a spate of recent attacks in the Muslim-majority nation. Police searched an apartment in the port city of Chittagong based on information from the three members of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen organisation who were caught in an earlier raid, Chittagong city police commissioner Mohammad Abdul Jalil Mondal said. |
| Chicago police officer shoots, kills two, one by mistake |
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| By Mary Wisniewski and Justin Madden CHICAGO (Reuters) - In a city troubled by allegations of police misuse of force, a Chicago officer early on Saturday shot and killed a male college student and a mother of five, both black, and the police department later said the woman's death was both accidental and tragic. "Officers were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer's weapon which fatally wounded two individuals," the police department said in a statement. The police department of the nation's third-largest city is under a federal civil rights investigation for its use of deadly force and officer discipline. |
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