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| Philippines cancels visit by U.N. rapporteur on extrajudicial killings | |  The Philippines has cancelled a trip next year by the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings to look into the rising death toll in its war on drugs, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Perfecto Yasay said the United Nations could not pursue its investigation because special rapporteur Agnes Callamard had declined to accept the conditions set by the government of President Rodrigo Duterte.
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| Ex-CIA chief says Trump risks blame for an attack if he skips briefings | |  By Noah Browning DUBAI (Reuters) - Former CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump risked being blamed after any potential attack on the United States if he refused to receive more regular intelligence briefings. U.S. officials told Reuters that Trump is receiving an average of one presidential intelligence briefing a week - far fewer than most of his recent predecessors - but that his deputy Mike Pence gets briefings around six days a week. Panetta, a former Democratic Congressman who served as CIA director and defense secretary in President Barack Obama's first term, told the Arab Strategy Forum, a conference sponsored by the government of Dubai, that Trump's aversion "can't last." "I've seen presidents who have asked questions about whether that intelligence is verifiable, what are the sources for that intelligence, but I have never seen a president who said, 'I don't want that stuff,'" Panetta said.
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| Fugitive former Syrian diplomat held in France on rape charge-Swiss | | | A former Syrian diplomat convicted in absentia of a brutal rape in Switzerland in 2001 has been arrested in Versailles, France, living under a false identity as a refugee, the Geneva prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. The Geneva court cited the "unbearable severity" and perversity of his acts against the woman he had met at a spa. Previously accredited as a Syrian diplomat to the United Nations in Geneva, he had been living in Versailles "under a new identity, with the status of a political refugee" before his arrest on Tuesday, the prosecutor's statement said. |
| Turkey's Syria campaign has killed 1,800 IS and Kurdish militia fighters - Erdogan | |  Turkey's military operations in Syria have killed around 1,800 Islamic State and Kurdish militia fighters since being launched in August, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. Turkey launched "Operation Euphrates Shield" four months ago in a bid to push Islamic State militants away from its border in northern Syria and prevent Kurdish militia groups from seizing territory in their wake.
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| China jails former Nanjing city chief for 12 years for graft | | | A court in eastern China on Wednesday sentenced the former Communist Party chief of the major city of Nanjing to 12-1/2 years in jail, after finding him guilty of corruption. Yang Weize, Nanjing's top official, was put under investigation early last year by the party's internal anti-graft watchdog. The court in Ningbo said Yang accepted bribes, either directly or through his wife, worth 16.4 million yuan ($2.38 million) between 2005 and 2014. |
| Myanmar govt 'following the law' in Rakhine, probe panel says | |  A commission set up by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate attacks on border posts and the army's brutal response on Wednesday said security forces had abided by the law in a Muslim-majority area of northwestern Rakhine State. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate established the body amid growing international pressure to investigate allegations that Myanmar soldiers had killed and raped civilians and burned down their homes, as well as to allow aid agencies to reach the area. On Tuesday, the body wrapped up a three-day visit to Maungdaw, where at least 86 people have been killed since the Oct. 9 attacks and where the military sweep has prompted about 27,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee across the border to Bangladesh.
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| Cancelled meetings expose fraught Myanmar-Bangladesh ties amid Rohingya crisis | |  By Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - As Myanmar's army was stepping up an anti-insurgency operation in the country's northwest in October, senior officers cancelled talks with their Bangladeshi counterparts, straining ties with a key potential ally in dealing with the violence on their border. The cancelled meetings, revealed in documents seen by Reuters, are the latest on a long list of failed initiatives to improve relations between fractious neighbours who both see the largely stateless Muslim Rohingya at the heart of the crisis as the other nation's problem. Bangladeshi diplomats say the abrupt cancellation of the talks, planned for mid-October, reflected Myanmar's reluctance to deepen bilateral ties and press ahead with talks on security cooperation and the establishment of border liaison officers.
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| California police answering gunman report shoot unarmed man dead | | | By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California police officer responding to a report of a man with a gun shot to death an unarmed 73-year-old man who approached the officer without taking his hands out of his pockets, police said on Tuesday. The family of victim Francisco Serna has called the shooting unjustified and told local media he had at least some form of dementia. The shooting early on Monday in Bakersfield, about 100 miles (161 km) north of Los Angeles, follows an intense debate and several protests in the United States against police use of force on minorities and the mentally ill. |
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