Horror of North Korean prison camps exposed at U.N. panel hearing
SEOUL (Reuters) – Public executions and torture are daily occurrences in North Korea’s prisons, according to dramatic testimony from former inmates at a U.N. Commission of Inquiry that opened in South Korea’s capital on Tuesday.
Despite Bo’s trial in China, no redress for victims of his crackdown
BEIJING (Reuters) – The curtain may be about to fall on China’s disgraced leader Bo Xilai, but victims of the harsh brand of justice he handed out in a high-profile crime crackdown are not making any headway in their campaign for redress.
Pakistan’s Musharraf charged with murder of Benazir Bhutto
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) – A court in Pakistan charged former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday with the 2007 murder of Benazir Bhutto in an unprecedented move likely to anger the all-powerful army.
Iraq’s Kurdistan region sets quota for Syrian refugees: aid agencies
GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian refugees continue to stream over the border into northern Iraq, where the Kurdistan regional government has put in place a daily quota of 3,000, aid agencies said on Tuesday.
Iran’s president still undecided on his nuclear negotiator
DUBAI (Reuters) – President Hassan Rouhani is still deciding who will lead talks with world powers on Iran’s nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, more than two months after the moderate cleric was elected.
Divisive trial in China may start early, with secret session
BEIJING (Reuters) – One of the charges against disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai relates to his flouting the authority of central leaders in Beijing, sources said, an allegation so sensitive that his trial could start one day sooner to hear it in s…
Wrecked Fukushima plant springs highly radioactive water leak
TOKYO (Reuters) – Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Muslim Rohingya asylum seekers escape Thai detention center
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A group of Muslim Rohingya asylum-seekers in southern Thailand escaped from an immigration detention center on Tuesday, highlighting the growing desperation of a stateless minority fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar.
Afghan attorney-general retains post despite presidential anger
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan Attorney-General Muhammad Isaaq Aloko has kept his job despite a decision by an angry President Hamid Karzai to sack him over an unauthorized approach to the Taliban, a senior Afghan official said on Tuesday.
U.N. fails to bridge Israeli-Arab divide on nuclear-free region
VIENNA (Reuters) – U.N. atomic agency chief Yukiya Amano has not been able to narrow Israeli-Arab differences on how to move towards a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, but will keep trying, according to a report by his office.
