Briefly World: Obama eases US sanctions on Myanmar

China tightens grip on online video content

BEIJING: China’s online content providers have been ordered by the country’s Internet and broadcasting authorities to closely monitor videos before making them accessible to users. A circular asking for regulating video content was issued Wednesday,state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

British police arrest two journalists

LONDON: Police investigating corrupt links between police and reporters said they arrested two journalists for questioning Wednesday. Scotland Yard said the men,who are 37 and 34 years old,were detained at their homes in an early-morning raid. Trinity Mirror PLC identified one of those arrested as Justin Penrose,a Sunday Mirror crime reporter.

Haley won’t be running mate for Romney

NEW YORK: South Carolina’s Indian-American governor Nikki Haley has said that she was not in the race to be the running mate of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. “No,I am not,” Haley said when asked if she was being vetted for the post of vice-president.

In historic visit,Clinton reaches out to Laos

VIENTIANE: Hillary Rodham Clinton made a historic visit to Laos,the first by a US secretary of state in more than five decades. Clinton met the communist government’s prime minister and foreign minister. The US dropped more than 2 million tonnes of bombs on the North Vietnamese ally during the war.

Bugti case: Arrest warrant for Musharraf

Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Wednesday issued arrest warrants for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf and several others accused of involvement in the killing of Baluch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti in 2006. The warrants were issued by Judge Muhammad Nawaz Khan of the anti-terrorism court at Sibi in Baluchistan province.