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| Kenyan president signs anti-doping bill into law | |  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta signed into law an anti-doping bill required to avoid a ban from the Rio Olympics of a nation famed for its runners, the president's office said on Friday. Video from the president's office showed Kenyatta at State House signing the bill, flanked by senior government officials and sportsmen and women. The law, demanded by the World Anti-Doping Agency, will criminalise doping in a country with a history of middle and long-distance running excellence, but which has been tainted by several doping cases in the recent past. ...
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| U.N. rights chief urges Thailand to roll back military's powers | |  The top U.N. human rights official called on Thailand on Friday to suspend "dangerously sweeping" powers handed to the military and he encouraged dialogue on a draft constitution the military hopes will win approval in an August referendum. The military has ruled since a May 2014 coup and has banned political gatherings, censored media and tried dissenters in military courts. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement extending the military's powers was not the answer to "rebuilding Thailand's political landscape".
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| Indonesia defends use of death penalty for drug trafficking | | | By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia on Friday defended its use of the death penalty for drug traffickers, just days after its representative was jeered at a U.N. narcotics conference, citing a steep rise in demand and consumption in Southeast Asia's most populous country. Indonesia has faced widespread international criticism for its use of capital punishment, most recently for the high-profile executions of foreign drug traffickers, despite repeated pleas for mercy from governments and international activists. "Indonesia and like-minded countries ... face diverse challenges in handling drugs and the death penalty is one of the options based on sovereignty of the law in each country," the foreign ministry said in a statement. |
| Australia university ousts Chinese academic amid cries of Beijing interference | | | University of Sydney business school tutor Wei Wu, who gave up his Chinese citizenship to be Australian last year, quit earlier this week ahead of a university investigation into his conduct. Chinese students had complained he used racist language in a heated exchange on social media, prompting the probe. In his argument with students on social media website Weibo, Wu, 26, called Chinese students in Australia "tun" in Mandarin, a word for pig which, according to his supporters, is also slang for rich, young Chinese who flout their devotion to communism abroad. |
| Landless quake victims missing out as Nepal rebuilds, Oxfam says | |  By Matthew Ponsford LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A year after the deadly earthquake in Nepal, thousands of people, especially women, are being deprived of funds to rebuild because they do not own land or cannot prove they owned the land where they lived, Oxfam said on Friday. Nepal's government requires proof of ownership, but many victims have lost documents and others did not formally own the land where they lived, said a report by the international anti-poverty organisation. "Families who are landless and who were living on unregistered land are very much uncertain about the future and support that the government had promised," said Prabin Man Singh, research and policy coordinator for Oxfam, who co-authored the report.
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