Wednesday, June 19, 2013
 
 

BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in central China executed a former Communist Party official for raping 11 underage girls, state media said on Wednesday, following an online uproar about the latest case of abuse of power.

Li Xingong, who was the party's deputy head in Yongcheng city in Henan province, was found guilty of assaulting the girls during police interrogations starting from the second half of 2011, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Li appealed against the guilty verdict, but was rejected by the Supreme Court, Xinhua said.

The case was widely discussed on Weibo, China's popular Twitter-like microblogging site, after reports about the rapes naming Li as the perpetrator began circulating online in May las   [READ MORE]
 
 
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A loud explosion was heard near a military site in the Syrian port city of Latakia on Wednesday, an opposition monitoring group said, but the cause of the blast was unclear.

Explosions in Latakia, part of President Bashar al-Assad's stronghold on the Mediterranean co...   [READ MORE]
 
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has decided to suspend talks on a security pact with the United States, accusing Washington of mixed messages regarding peace talks with the Taliban, his spokesman said on Wednesday.

In a special meeting chaired by President Hamid Karzai, th...   [READ MORE]
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A loud explosion was heard near the Somali capital's heavily-fortified international airport on Wednesday followed by bursts of gunfire, a Reuters witness said.

A plume of thick black smoke billowed into the sky above Mogadishu, a city that has been dogged by suic...   [READ MORE]
 
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has decided to suspend talks on a security pact with the United States, accusing Washington of mixed messages regarding peace talks with the Taliban, his spokesman said on Wednesday.

In a special meeting chaired by President Hamid Karzai, th...   [READ MORE]
SANAA (Reuters) - Three people were killed and eight wounded in a town in northern Yemen on Wednesday when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up in a busy market, a security official said.

The attack occurred in Saada, a town near the border with Saudi Arabia and about 130 km...   [READ MORE]
 
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their junior coalition partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), are on course to win enough votes to form a narrow majority, a poll showed on Wednesday, before an election on September 22.

Together with the FDP, Merkel...   [READ MORE]
 
 
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