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| Islamic State defeats Kurds in town of Jalawla northeast of Baghdad | | | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants captured the town of Jalawla northeast of Baghdad at dawn on Monday after weeks of clashes with Kurdish fighters, police said, extending dramatic gains that have alarmed Iraq's Western allies. The seizure of Jalawla, 115 km (70 miles) from the Iraqi capital, came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 Kurdish fighters there. The militants also took control of two nearby villages. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Human Rights Watch says Egypt gagging dissent as chiefs denied entry | |  By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch accused Egypt's government of trying to silence all criticism, after two of its top staff were held at Cairo airport for 12 hours and then denied entry to the country for "security reasons," the group said on Monday. Executive Director Kenneth Roth and Middle East and North Africa Director Sarah Leah Whitson had flown to Cairo to launch a report on the mass killings of protesters by security forces one year ago, weeks after the army removed elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi from power. Human Rights Watch is one of a number of international and Egyptian rights groups that have expressed alarm over an increasingly broad crackdown on dissent by authorities since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power in July 2013. "We came to Egypt to release a serious report on a serious subject that deserves serious attention from the Egyptian government," Roth said in a statement issued by the group.
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| Iraqi Shi'ite coalition close to nominating prime minister | |  By Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bloc comprising Iraq's biggest Shi'ite parties is close to nominating a prime minister, the deputy speaker of parliament said on Monday, directly challenging Nuri al-Maliki who has refused to give up his bid for a third term. Haider al-Abadi's comments in a tweet came after police sources said special forces and Shi'ite militias personally loyal to Maliki had been deployed in strategic areas of Baghdad after he made a defiant speech on television suggesting he would not cave in to pressure to drop his bid to stay in office following a parliamentary election held in April. Abadi is seen as a possible successor to Maliki, who has been premier since 2006 but has alienated some allies, including the United States, who blame him for failing to forge consensus and so fuelling sectarian violence that is breaking Iraq apart. Maliki accused Iraqi President Fouad Masoum, from the ethnic Kurdish minority, of violating the constitution by missing a deadline for him to ask the biggest political bloc in the new legislature to nominate a prime minister and form a government.
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| China says more than 150 "economic fugitives" at large in the United States | | | More than 150 economic fugitives, many of whom are corrupt officials or suspected of graft in China, remain at large in the United States, state media said on Monday, citing a senior official from the ministry of public security. In a bid to hunt for more Chinese fugitives, China's Ministry of Public Security is trying to set up an annual high-level meeting with U.S. judicial authorities, including the Department of Homeland Security, the China Daily newspaper said, citing Wang Gang, a senior official from the public security ministry's International Cooperation Bureau. |
| Erdogan's presidential win starts race for new Turkish govt | |  By Nick Tattersall and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling party begins deliberations on the shape of the next government on Monday after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan secured his place in history by winning the nation's first direct presidential election. Erdogan's victory in Sunday's vote takes him a step closer to the executive presidency he has long coveted for Turkey. In the coming weeks, Erdogan will for the last time chair meetings of the ruling AK Party he founded and oversee the selection of a new party leader, likely to be a staunch loyalist and his future prime minister. "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.
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| Food and flirting; how firms learn to live with China antitrust raids | |  By Michelle Price and Norihiko Shirouzu HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - In the early afternoon of Monday, Aug. 4, ten men in suits and casual business wear barged into a busy office at Mercedes-Benz's east China sales office, near Shanghai's Hongqiao international airport. "They didn't have the slightest idea they were coming to rip the office apart and question people for data and information for the next 10 hours," he said, adding the men were antitrust investigators from China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Such U.S. and European-style "dawn raids" have become a powerful weapon for China's increasingly aggressive antitrust enforcement agencies, the NDRC and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), allowing them to seize evidence that may aid broader probes into antitrust violations or corruption. Several major foreign companies have been raided in recent months - from car and drugs manufacturers to technology firms such as U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp - as China steps up enforcement of a 2008 anti-monopoly law.
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| China detains man in Xinjiang for rumours about deadly attack | | | China has detained a man in its unruly western Xinjiang region for spreading what it said were Internet rumours about an attack in July in which nearly 100 people were killed, state media said on Monday. Authorities have said 59 "terrorists" were gunned down by security forces in Xinjiang's Shache county and 37 civilians were killed in attacks by masked militants on July 28, one of the worst bouts of unrest in the region in years. Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, has been beset for years by violence that the government blames on Islamist militants or separatists who it says want an independent state called East Turkestan. The official news website of the Xinjiang government said police detained a 22-year-old suspect for circumventing China's online censorship system, known as the Great Firewall, to post a fake account of the incident on overseas websites. |
| Dissident Pakistani cleric to join opposition demonstration | |  By Mubasher Bukhari and Asim Tanveer LAHORE/MULTAN Pakistan (Reuters) - Dissident cleric Tahir ul-Qadri who aims to topple Pakistan's government announced on Sunday that his followers would stage a demonstration in the capital on Thursday, on the same day as an opposition protest led by Imran Khan. Some in the government suspect the protests are backed by individuals within the military as a way of weakening the civilian government and discouraging it from pursuing policies the military disapproves of. "Our revolution march will start on August 14 and will go parallel to the freedom march of Imran Khan," Qadri said in a televised address on Sunday. In Pakistan, police must register a case against someone before charging him with a crime.
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| Australian parents of Thai surrogate twin say they feared losing both babies | |  The Australian biological parents of twins caught up in a surrogacy scandal in Thailand wanted both babies but the surrogate mother threatened to involve the police and they feared she would keep both children, they said on Sunday. David and Wendy Farnell were speaking publicly for the first time since the story broke more than a week ago of 7-month-old baby Gammy, who has Down's syndrome and is being cared for by his surrogate mother in Thailand. The couple told Australian television they felt they had little choice but to leave Thailand with Gammy's healthy sister. "We wanted to bring him with us," David Farnell, 56, told the Nine Network's 60 Minutes program.
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