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Ben Roberts-Smith sued three newspapers over a series of articles

Top Australian soldier loses war crimes defamation case

SYDNEY — Australia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has lost a historic defamation case against three newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan.The outlets were sued over articles alleging he killed unarmed prisoners.The civil trial was the first time a court has assessed accusations of war crimes by Australian forces.A judge said four of the six murder allegations -- all denied by the soldier -- were substantially true.Justice Anthony Besanko found the newspapers had not been able to prove other reports that he assaulted a woman with whom he was having an affair, or that he had threatened to report a junior colleague if he did not falsify field reports. Additional allegations of bullying were found to be true, however.Mr Roberts-Smith, who left the...

June 01, 2023

Top Australian soldier loses war crimes defamation case

Abuduwaili Abudureheman's university colleagues say he is safe in Seoul

Uyghur student not missing in Hong Kong: Amnesty

HONG KONG — Rights group Amnesty International has corrected its report alleging a Uyghur student went missing from Hong Kong airport, saying he is "accounted for"."Abuduwaili Abudureheman... told us he did not travel to Hong Kong, contrary to previous information received," the group's correction read.Abuduwaili is safe in Seoul, his base for the last seven years, his university colleagues say.The Hong Kong government is calling on Amnesty to "apologize"."We will continue to strive to offer support to people who reach out to us when they believe they or their loved ones are at risk," Amnesty said in a correction added to its original report.Amnesty had claimed on Friday that Abuduwaili had boarded a flight from Seoul to Hong Kong on 10 May,...

May 31, 2023

Uyghur student not missing in Hong Kong: Amnesty

Ethnic armed groups have joined forces with anti-coup militias across the country

Myanmar military hit hard by defections, soldiers refusing to fight

BANGKOK — The Myanmar military is suffering defections from its forces and is finding it hard to recruit. In exclusive interviews, newly-defected soldiers tell the BBC that the junta, who seized power in a coup two years ago, is struggling to suppress the armed pro-democracy uprising."No one wants to join the military. People hate their cruelty and unjust practices," says Nay Aung. The first time he tried to leave his base he was badly beaten with a rifle butt and called a "traitor".He managed to escape the second time and flee across the border to Thailand with the support of opposition groups."One of my friends is in the resistance," he says. "I called him and he told people here in Thailand about me. I arrived here with their help."He's now...

May 31, 2023

Myanmar military hit hard by defections, soldiers refusing to fight

China's leader Xi Jinping has made national security a top priority during his decade in power

Xi Jinping tells China’s national security chiefs to prepare for ‘worst case’ scenarios

HONG KONG — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called on his top national security officials to think about “worst case” scenarios and prepare for “stormy seas,” as the ruling Communist Party hardens efforts to counter any perceived internal and external threats.“The complexity and difficulty of the national security issues we now face have increased significantly,” Xi said Tuesday at a meeting of the party’s National Security Commission, state news agency Xinhua reported.“We must adhere to bottom-line thinking and worst-case-scenario thinking, and get ready to undergo the major tests of high winds and rough waves, and even perilous, stormy seas,” he added.The latest stern instructions from Xi, China’s most powerful leader in decades, comes as Beijing faces a host of...

May 31, 2023

Xi Jinping tells China’s national security chiefs to prepare for ‘worst case’ scenarios

Tesla boss on first China trip in over three years

BEIJING — Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is in China, as he makes his first trip to the world's second largest economy in over three years.He arrived in Beijing on Tuesday and is also expected to visit Tesla's huge manufacturing plant in Shanghai.The multi-billionaire met China's foreign minister Qin Gang within hours of arriving in the country.Musk has not yet publicly commented on the trip, which comes amid tensions between the US and China.He also declined to make any comments about his plans for the trip when asked by reporters as he left a hotel in Beijing on Wednesday.Later on Wednesday, Mr Musk met China's industry minister Jin Zhuanglong and discussed the development of electric vehicles.In a statement on Tuesday, China's foreign ministry said that Musk was...

May 31, 2023

Tesla boss on first China trip in over three years

India's top wrestlers had said that they would sink their medals in a river in protest

IOC condemns police action against top Indian wrestlers

MUMBAI — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has condemned the way India's top wrestlers are being treated during their ongoing protest.It has also demanded an investigation into allegations that Indian wrestling chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh sexually harassed female athletes.The wrestlers were temporarily detained by police on Sunday as they tried to march to the new parliament building.They were demanding the resignation and arrest of the federation chief.Mr Singh, who is also an influential MP from the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has denied the allegations and accused the wrestlers of being "politically motivated".On Tuesday, he told reporters that the Delhi police was investigating and that they would arrest him if they found anything against him....

May 31, 2023

IOC condemns police action against top Indian wrestlers

The Kherkatta reservoir in Chhattisgarh, India

India official fined $640 for draining dam to retrieve phone

MUMBAI — An Indian official who made headlines after he drained a dam to retrieve his phone has been fined by the government.Rajesh Vishwas has been ordered to pay 53,092 rupees ($642; £519) for pumping out millions of litres of water without seeking permission from authorities.He had dropped the device while taking a selfie and claimed it needed retrieving as it contained sensitive government data.But he has been accused of misusing his position.The food inspector dropped his Samsung phone, worth about 100,000 rupees, into Kherkatta Dam in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh last week.After local divers couldn't find the phone, he paid for a diesel pump to be brought in, Mr Vishwas said in a video statement quoted in the media. The pump ran for several days, emptying out...

May 31, 2023

India official fined $640 for draining dam to retrieve phone

A South Korean handout picture of wreckage in the sea

North Korea says spy satellite launch failed

SEOUL — North Korea has said an accident happened as it planned to send up its first space satellite, causing it to crash into the sea.Pyongyang announced earlier it planned to launch a satellite by 11 June to monitor US military activities.It now says it will attempt a second launch as soon as possible.The launch sparked a false alarm in the South Korean capital Seoul, while in Japan a warning was issued to residents of Okinawa, in the south.There was chaos and confusion in Seoul as people awoke to the sound of an air raid siren and an emergency message telling them to prepare for an evacuation - only to be told 20 minutes later it had been sent in error.The stakes are high on the Korean Peninsula, where tensions have existed between the two countries for 70 years, and this false alarm...

May 31, 2023

North Korea says spy satellite launch failed

Visuals of the athletes being dragged and carried off in buses went viral

India's protesting wrestlers to sink medals in Ganges

NEW DELHI — India's top wrestlers have said they will throw their medals in the Ganges, the country's holiest river, as part of their ongoing months-long protest.They also plan to go on an indefinite hunger strike at India Gate -- a war memorial in capital Delhi.The wrestlers have been demanding the resignation and arrest of their federation chief who they accuse of sexually harassing female wrestlers for years.He has denied the allegations."These medals are our life and soul...We feel there's no meaning to having these medals around our necks anymore," the wrestlers said in a statement on Tuesday.Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia and two-time World Champion medallist Vinesh Phogat are among the protesters who shared the statement.The wrestlers said...

May 30, 2023

India's protesting wrestlers to sink medals in Ganges

The China-registered bulk carrier detained for anchoring illegally in Malaysia's waters

Malaysia detains Chinese ship suspected of looting British WW2 wrecks

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia has detained a Chinese-registered vessel suspected of looting two British World War Two shipwrecks.The bulk carrier was seized on Sunday for anchoring illegally at the site in the South China Sea.Ammunition believed to be from the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, which were sunk by Japanese forces more than 80 years ago, was then found on board.The UK Ministry of Defence had earlier condemned the alleged raid as a "desecration" of maritime war graves.Old shipwrecks are targeted by scavengers for their rare low-background steel, also known as "pre-war steel". The low radiation in the steel makes it a rare and valuable resource for use in medical and scientific equipment.The British vessels, on the bed of the ocean some 100km (60 miles) off...

May 30, 2023

Malaysia detains Chinese ship suspected of looting British WW2 wrecks

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