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| Iraq president names new PM but Maliki hangs tough | |  By Michael Georgy and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's president named a new prime minister to replace Nuri al-Maliki on Monday, urging him to form a broad government that can stem communal bloodshed, but it was unclear whether Maliki would bow to U.S. and Iranian pressure to step aside. A Shi'ite Muslim blamed by erstwhile allies in Washington and Tehran as well as Baghdad for driving the alienated Sunni minority into revolt, Maliki deployed loyal militias and special forces in the capital on Monday after making a defiant speech accusing the head of state of abusing the constitution. Militants from the Islamic State, who routed Maliki's army in the north in June, made new gains over Kurdish forces despite three days of U.S. air strikes and Baghdad, long braced for the Sunni fighters to attack the city, was now tensing for possible clashes between Maliki and rivals within the Shi'ite majority.
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| Rioting erupts after shooting death of black teen in Missouri | | | Rioting and looting erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, late on Sunday and spread to neighboring towns as protests over the killing of a black teenager by a police officer turned violent, police said. Crowds broke the windows of cars and stores, set a building alight and looted shops following a day of demonstrations over the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old shot on Saturday by a Ferguson police officer. There is "a lot of unrest up there, and a lot of rioting going on, and looting," Officer Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the St. Louis County Police Department, said early on Monday. About 150 officers in riot gear from throughout St. Louis County had been sent to the area. |
| Turkey's Erdogan seeks strong, but pliant successor as PM | |  By Nick Tattersall and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish president-elect Tayyip Erdogan began the process of picking his successor as prime minister on Monday, a figure he hopes will triumph in next year's general election and secure his goal of forging a powerful presidency. Erdogan's victory in the country's first direct ballot for the head of state on Sunday marks a turning point for Turkey, taking the European Union candidate nation and NATO member a step closer to the presidential system he has long coveted. "Today is a new day, a milestone for Turkey, the birthday of Turkey, of its rebirth from the ashes," Erdogan, 60, told thousands of supporters in a victory speech from the balcony of the AK Party headquarters in Ankara late on Sunday. The AK Party will hold an extraordinary convention on Aug. 27, party spokesman Huseyin Celik said, at which it will agree on a new party leader, a figure Erdogan is then expected to ask to form a new government.
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| China cracking down on Christian groups along N.Korea border - sources | | | By Megha Rajagopalan and James Pearson TUMEN China/SEOUL (Reuters) - China is cracking down on Christian charity groups near its border with North Korea, missionaries and aid groups say, with hundreds of members of the community forced to leave the country and some who remain describing an atmosphere of fear. The sweep along the frontier is believed to be aimed at closing off support to North Koreans who flee persecution and poverty in their homeland and illegally enter China before going on to other nations, usually ending up in South Korea. Beijing has not charged anyone with any crime, but two sources with direct knowledge say a Korean-American man who ran a vocational school in the border town of Tumen was being investigated by Chinese authorities. Earlier this month, China said it was investigating a Canadian couple who ran a coffee shop in Dandong city on suspicion of stealing state secrets. |
| Sheriff: 'All options' open on possible charges against NASCAR's Stewart | |  The sheriff investigating the death of a race car driver in New York state said on Monday that while no criminal charges are pending against NASCAR star Tony Stewart "all options" are open and that authorities are seeking any additional video of the incident. Driver Kevin Ward Jr., 20, was struck and killed by the car driven by Stewart on Saturday night on a dirt track during a low-stakes race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park, about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Rochester, New York. Stewart, 43, is one of the biggest stars in U.S. auto racing. Asked whether he expected charges against Stewart, Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero said in an interview on CNN that he would "not speculate on that at this time" and that "there's much work to be done before we can come to any conclusions." Some video of the incident has surfaced, but Povero said: "We are basically trying to see if there are any other video recordings that may have been made on Saturday night that could help us in the analysis of this crash." Asked whether the death was an accident or a deliberate act, Povero said "accurate data from video" would help investigators "clearly isolate what happened." Stewart's car appeared to have clipped Ward's car and caused it to spin out of the race, video of the incident posted online showed.
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| Norway's closely watched prostitution ban works, study finds | | | Norway's ban on buying sex has reduced human trafficking and has not increased violence against women, as some had feared, a study commissioned by the government said. Following the example of its neighbour Sweden, Norway criminalised buying sex in 2009, but critics said the law would push prostitution underground, making women more vulnerable and increasing the likelihood of violence against them. "The enforcement of the law, in combination with the laws against trafficking and pimping, makes Norway a less attractive country for prostitution-based trafficking than what would have been the case if the law had not been adopted," it said. In Oslo, Norway's largest city, convicted sex buyers face a 25,000 crown ($4,000) fine. |
| Iranian parliament bans vasectomies in bid to boost birth rate | |  By Michelle Moghtader DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's parliament has voted to ban permanent forms of contraception, the state news agency IRNA reported, endorsing the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's call for measures to increase the population. The bill, approved by 143 out of 231 members present in parliament, according to IRNA, also bans the advertising of birth control in a country where condoms had been widely available and family planning considered entirely normal. The law now goes to the Guardian Council - a panel of theologians and jurists appointed by the Supreme Leader who examine whether legislation complies with Islam. It aims to reverse Iran's declining population, but reformists see the law as part of a drive by conservatives keep Iran's highly educated female population in traditional roles as wives and mothers.
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| U.N. Human Rights chief says access not a must for Sri Lanka war crimes probe | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations can conduct an effective investigation into reports of war crimes in Sri Lanka without visiting the country, said U.N. Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay, reacting to a government decision to deny investigators entry. Sri Lankan government forces have been accused of widespread human rights violations in the final stages of a 26-year civil war against ethnic Tamil separatists which ended in May 2009. The United Nations estimated in a 2011 report that about 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final weeks of the war, mostly by the army. Sri Lanka has rejected the allegation.
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| China smartphone maker Xiaomi apologises for unauthorised data access | | | By Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) - Xiaomi Inc said it had upgraded its operating system to ensure users knew it was collecting data from their address books after a report by a computer security firm said the Chinese budget smartphone maker was taking personal data without permission. The privately held company said it had fixed a loophole in its cloud messaging system that had triggered the unauthorised data transfer and that the operating system upgrade had been rolled out on Sunday. Like Apple Inc's iMessage service, Xiaomi lets users avoid SMS charges by routing messages over the Internet rather than through a carrier's network. In a lengthy blogpost on Google Plus, Xiaomi Vice President Hugo Barra apologised for the unauthorised data collection and said the company only collects phone numbers in users' address books to see if the users are online. |
| Kosovo police arrest 40 for fighting in Iraq, Syria | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo police arrested 40 men on Monday on suspicion of having fought with Islamist insurgents in Syria and Iraq, a crackdown aimed at deterring recruitment of volunteer fighters, authorities in the small Balkan state said. Kosovo is an overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian country where the main religion is Islam, although lifestyles are largely secular. The 40 men were being questioned on suspicion of engaging in acts against Kosovo's constitutional order and endangering the safety and security of the state, a police statement said. Local media said an 18-year-old man from eastern Kosovo was killed in fighting in Syria last week, raising the total number of Kosovo Albanians killed in fighting in Iraq and Syria to 16.
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| China says over 150 "economic fugitives" at large in the U.S | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 150 economic fugitives, many of whom are corrupt officials or suspected of graft in China, are at large in the United States, Chinese state media said on Monday, citing a senior official from the public security ministry. The United States "has become the top destination for Chinese fugitives fleeing the law," the China Daily newspaper said, citing Liao Jinrong, director general of the ministry's International Cooperation Bureau. Beijing has long grappled with the issue of so-called "naked officials" - government workers whose husbands, wives or children are all overseas - who use foreign family connections to illegally shift assets out of China or to avoid investigation.
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