News in Brief

'Rebels kill Indian soldier in Kashmir'
Afp, Srinagar

 
Suspected militants shot and killed a paramilitary soldier and critically wounded another yesterday in a busy market in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar, police said.
The rebels, armed with a pistol, shot the soldiers from the Central Industrial Security Force while they were buying vegetables at the market, a senior police officer said. No rebel group immediately claimed responsibility for Monday's attack.

Bo Xilai to appeal life sentence
Afp, Beijing

 
Former senior Chinese politician Bo Xilai has announced he will appeal against his conviction and life sentence for corruption, a source told AFP yesterrday, adding further drama to the high-profile case.
The court in the eastern city of Jinan sentenced Bo on Sunday after a trial that exposed intrigue and wealth at senior levels of the ruling Communist party.

Cambodian opposition boycotts parliament
Afp, Phnom Penh

 
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's long-ruling party pushed ahead with the formation of a government yesterday despite an opposition boycott of parliament and mass protests over its disputed election win.
Anti-riot police were deployed near the National Assembly following weeks of political turmoil that has at times descended into violence in one of the biggest challenges to Hun Sen's nearly three decades in power.

Pussy Riot on hunger strike over 'death threats'
Afp, Moscow

 
Pussy Riot band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova declared a hunger strike yesterday to protest at death threats and what she described as conditions of slave labour at her Russian prison camp.
Tolokonnikova declared her hunger strike after she said she had received a death threat from the camp's deputy head whom she named as "lieutenant-colonel Kupriyanov" and who she said was a self-confessed Stalinist.