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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. |
| China province to probe all waste sites after landslide disaster |
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 China's southern province of Guangdong, one of the country's biggest industrial bases, will check all construction waste sites in the wake of a deadly landslide to ensure none are in dangerous locations or poorly managed, state media said on Sunday. The Dec. 20 landslide in the Guangdong boom town of Shenzhen buried more than 30 buildings in an industrial park and has left around 70 people missing, with only a handful of bodies found so far. The Guangdong government said there were many problems with the management of building waste sites, including safety issues, state news agency Xinhua reported.
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