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| U.S. says Obama, Putin meeting had "businesslike tone" | |  HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - A meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a G20 summit in China on Monday had a "businesslike tone" and went on longer than anticipated, a senior U.S. administration official said. Obama and Putin discussed core issues on both the Syria and Ukraine crises, the official added. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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| Suu Kyi oversees panel on plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims | |  By Simon Daniel Lewis YANGON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former U.N. chief Kofi Annan on Monday oversaw the first meeting of a panel tasked with bringing peace to a region where violence between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims has cast a pall over the country's democratic transition. The plight of the Rohingya has raised questions about Suu Kyi's commitment to human rights and represents a politically sensitive issue for her National League for Democracy, which won a landslide election victory last year. The commission, whose aim is to stop human rights abuses in the northwestern state of Rakhine, was chaired by Annan.
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| Thai police arrest first suspect in connection with tourist-town bombs | |  Thai police said on Monday they had arrested a suspect linked to Muslim separatists in connection with a wave of bombings in tourist towns last month that killed four people and wounded dozens, including foreigners. The bombs and arson attacks in various towns south of Bangkok including Hua Hin, Surat Thani and on Phuket island, raised fears that a Muslim separatist insurgency, for years largely confined to three deep-south, Muslim-majority provinces, was spreading. Police have issued several warrants in connection with the blasts but the suspect detained on Saturday, identified as Abdul Kadae, was the first person to be arrested.
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| Radical democrats gain foothold in Hong Kong poll likely to rile China | |  By Venus Wu and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Several pro-independence candidates won seats in Hong Kong's legislative election which saw a record turnout in the Chinese-controlled city on Sunday, results likely to further strain ties with Communist Party rulers in Beijing. An initial count on Monday also suggested Hong Kong's pro-democracy opposition might retain its crucial one-third veto bloc in the 70-seat Legislative Council over major legislation and public funding that has helped check China's influence. This was the first major election since the student-led, pro-democracy "Umbrella Revolution" protests in 2014 that blocked roads for 79 days in a turning point in the city's politics, even though Beijing gave no ground.
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| Indonesia environment team threatened with death investigating haze | |  By Bernadette Christina Munthe JAKARTA (Reuters) - Dozens of Indonesian men, suspected of being hired by an oil palm plantation company, threatened to kill environmental investigators checking on fires on Sumatra island, the environment ministry said. The ministry said a group of up to 100 men detained seven investigators for about 12 hours on the weekend and threatened to burn them alive and dump their bodies in a river at an oil palm plantation in Rokan Hulu, Riau province. The team was following up on satellite images showing "hot spots", or suspected fires, in a concession of PT Andika Permata Sawit Lestari (APSL) oil palm plantation company.
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| G20 summit warned of risks to economy as N.Korea test-fires missiles | |  By Vladimir Soldatkin and Kiyoshi Takenaka HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - North Korea fired three ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday in a defiant reminder of the risks to global security, as world leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama gathered at a G20 summit in China for the second day. North Korea has tested missiles at sensitive times in the past to draw attention to its military might. The missile test was also an unwanted distraction for the United States, which has been trying on the sidelines of the summit to finalise a deal with Russia for a ceasefire in Syria.
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| German soccer icon Beckenbauer has bypass surgery - Bild | |  German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer underwent open heart bypass surgery on Saturday in an operation scheduled long before Swiss authorities opened criminal proceedings against him last week, Germany's Bild newspaper reported Monday. The newspaper said Beckenbauer, 70, was still at his home in Salzburg, Austria on when authorities carried out a two-hour search, but traveled to a clinic in southern Germany on Friday to prepare for the long-scheduled surgery. The Swiss Attorney General's office last week launched an investigation into allegations of fraud, criminal mismanagement, money laundering and misappropriation involving Beckenbauer and two former presidents of Germany's football federation (DFB) in connection with its successful bid for the 2006 World Cup.
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| EU finds Volkswagen broke consumer laws in 20 countries - Die Welt | |  The European Commission has found that Volkswagen broke consumer laws in 20 European Union countries by cheating on emissions tests, German daily Die Welt reported, citing Commission sources. The European Commission said Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska has repeatedly invited Volkswagen to consider compensating consumers voluntarily, without an encouraging response, and that it was for national courts to determine whether consumers were legally entitled to compensation. To ensure consumers are treated fairly, a Commission spokeswoman said, Consumer Commissioner Vera Jourova had written to consumer associations across the EU to collect information.
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| South Sudan agrees to more U.N. troops in bid to avoid arms embargo | |  By Michelle Nichols JUBA (Reuters) - The government of South Sudan agreed on Sunday to accept 4,000 extra peacekeepers in a bid to avoid an arms embargo threatened by the United Nations Security Council, but said the details of the deployment were still being discussed. The announcement came after a meeting in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, between President Salva Kiir and the U.N. Security Council, led by U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power. The 15-member council last month authorized the deployment of a 4,000-strong regional protection force as part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission already on the ground, known as UNMISS.
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