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| China billionaire's disappearance from Hong Kong revives autonomy concerns | |  By Venus Wu and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - The uncertain fate of Xiao Jianhua, a China-born billionaire who was last seen at a luxury Hong Kong hotel a week ago, has raised fresh fears about the city's autonomy amid media reports he may have been abducted by Chinese agents. There are conflicting accounts of Xiao's whereabouts, but memories are fresh in Hong Kong of the abduction last year of five staff who worked for a local bookseller that published gossip on China's leaders. Three of the staff were detained while in China, but two with foreign passports were taken there against their will from Thailand and Hong Kong.
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| VW, Robert Bosch agree to pay $1.55 billion to settle U.S. diesel claims | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG has agreed to pay at least $1.22 billion to fix or buy back nearly 80,000 polluting U.S. 3.0 liter diesel-engine vehicles to settle claims it fitted illegal emissions-cheating software to the cars, court documents showed. German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH also agreed to pay $327.5 million to U.S. diesel VW owners, according to the documents filed late Tuesday. Volkswagen could be forced to pay up to $4.04 billion if regulators don't approve fixes for all vehicles.
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| Azeri security forces kill four men suspected of terror plot | | | Azerbaijan's security forces killed four members of a group that had been planning to carry out terror acts in the country, the state security service said on Wednesday. Ex-Soviet Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim country with a population of about 10 million, is a major energy producer in the Caspian Sea region. The group, which was eliminated during a special operation, was "loyal to a number of terrorist organisations operating in foreign countries and had been planning to carry out terrorist acts in Azerbaijan," the security service said in a statement. |
| Tunisian asylum-seeker arrested on suspicion of planning attack in Germany | |  German police arrested a Tunisian asylum-seeker on Wednesday on suspicion of planning an attack, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office said. The 36-year-old is suspected of recruiting for Islamic State in Germany since August 2015 and building up a network of supporters with the aim of carrying out a terrorist attack in the country, it said in a statement. The arrest was part of a major operation in which more than 1,100 German police searched 54 premises including homes, businesses and mosques in Frankfurt and other towns in the western state of Hesse.
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| Shadowy killings persist in Manila after police quit drugs war | |  A loved one rushed to the scene in the dark, rundown Manila neighbourhood and howled in anguish as onlookers huddled behind a police cordon. It's a scene that has been replayed thousands of times in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs over the past seven months. Thousands of users and small-time dealers have also been killed outside of the police anti-drugs missions.
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| Libyan officials criticise U.S. travel ban, doubt over February conference | | | By Aidan Lewis TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's U.N.-backed government has criticised U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary ban on its nationals and those of six other countries entering the United States, which put in question attendance at a high-profile conference on Libya planned in Washington for mid-February. The executive order by Trump comes at a time of uncertainty over U.S. policy in Libya, which remains mired in the chaos that followed the NATO-backed 2011 uprising against long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi. The U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), was strongly supported by former U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, but has struggled to assert its authority in Tripoli and beyond. |
| Philippines police behave like "criminal underworld" in drugs war - Amnesty | |  Police prosecuting the war on drugs in the Philippines have behaved like the criminal underworld they are supposed to be suppressing, taking payments for killings and delivering bodies to funeral homes, according to a report released on Wednesday. Amnesty International's report said the wave of drugs-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte came to power in mid-2016 appeared to be "systematic, planned and organised" by authorities and could constitute crimes against humanity. Responding to the findings, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella defended the Philippine National Police (PNP), saying no extra-judicial killings were state-sponsored and investigations by Senate committees had proved that.
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| Ex-U.N. chief Ban rules out presidential run in South Korea complaining of "fake news" | |  By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, once considered front-runner to be the next South Korean president, ruled out a run for the job on Wednesday, saying he was "disappointed at the selfish ways" of some politicians and complaining of "fake news". Ban told reporters at parliament, after meeting conservative party leaders, that he had been subject to "malign slander akin to character assassination" in the media and had given up his "patriotic" plan to lead political change. "With all kinds of fake news, my intention for political change was nowhere to be seen and all that was left was grave scars to my family and myself, and to the honour of the U.N., where I spent the past 10 years," he said.
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| Philippine ministry asks Duterte to clarify military's role in drug war | |  By Karen Lema and Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine defence ministry asked President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday to issue an order for the military to play a role in his war on drugs, including granting troops powers to arrest "scalawag" police. The ministry asked Duterte to formalise remarks he made in a speech to army generals on Tuesday, when he said he wanted their help in his drugs war, and to detain members of a police force Duterte on Sunday said was "corrupt to the core". Duterte's police chief instructed the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday to suspend their anti-drugs operations after the killing of a South Korean businessman by rogue drug-squad police.
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