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| Ex-BBC DJ Travis given suspended jail term for sex attack | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Dave Lee Travis, one of Britain's best-known radio DJs in the 1970s and 1980s whose shows once delighted Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, escaped jail on Friday despite being convicted of a "nasty" indecent assault on a television researcher. Travis, a former BBC Radio 1 DJ, was the latest ageing British celebrity to be convicted of sex crimes following police investigations launched in the wake of revelations that the late Jimmy Savile, one of the BBC's top TV presenters, had sexually abused hundreds of victims over decades. ... |
| British parliament set to approve air strikes against IS in Iraq | |  By Andrew Osborn and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron urged lawmakers on Friday to vote in favour of Britain joining U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq, hours ahead of a crunch parliamentary vote he is expected to win. Approval would mean Britain embarking on its first military campaign since it launched air strikes in 2011 against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya, seeing it join a coalition that includes the United States, France and Middle Eastern allies. ...
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| Thai junta appoints reform council as part of plan for polls next year | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta approved on Friday a 250-member council to draw up political reforms and approve a new constitution, main steps in a military plan for a general election late next year. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the army chief who led a May 22 coup, picked the members of the council himself but declined to release their names, saying they needed royal approval first. ...
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| China's communist party expels senior internet regulator for graft | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese internet regulator has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party on graft charges, China's top anti-graft body said on Friday, as it works to crack down on corruption in media and the internet. Gao Jianyun, an official of the International Communication Office of the party's Central Committee, which is charged with regulating the Internet, including censorship, was placed under investigation in April, state media reported. ... |
| Taliban storm Afghan district southwest of capital, 100 killed | | | By Mustafa Andalib GHAZNI Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a strategic district in an Afghan province not far from the capital, killing dozens of people in five days of fighting and they could capture the area, officials said on Friday. The Ghazni provincial government has lost contact with police in the province's western district of Ajrestan, said Asadullah Safi, deputy police chief of the area. Ghazni is southwest of the capital. ... |
| Spain, Morocco arrest nine militants linked to Islamic State | | | MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish and Moroccan police have arrested nine people suspected of belonging to a militant cell linked to Islamic State, Spain's Interior Ministry said on Friday. The ministry said the nine belonged to a group based in the Spanish enclave of Melilla, on the northern coast of Africa, and neighbouring Nador, Morocco. Spanish media reported that one of those arrested was Spanish and the rest were Moroccan nationals. The Interior Ministry declined to comment, adding the investigation was still underway. ... |
| Four children stabbed to death in southern China - state media | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - A man stabbed four primary school children to death on Friday in the southern Chinese region of Guangxi, state media said, the latest in a series of knife attacks that have unnerved the country. In a separate incident, six people were killed in a stampede in a primary school in Kunming, the capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, state news agency Xinhua said. It did not give details. Police were hunting a middle-aged man after the knife attack, Xinhua said, citing the public security bureau in Lingshan county in Guangxi. Xinhua did not suggest a motive. ... |
| Britain arrests two more men in operation against Islamist militants | | | LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested two men as part of an operation into Islamist-related militancy on Friday as lawmakers prepared to approve Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to join U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq. Britain last month raised its international threat level to the second-highest classification of "severe", meaning an attack is considered highly likely, and Cameron has said Islamic State militants battling for territory in Syria and Iraq pose a grave security risk. ... |
| Modi faces U.S. damages case over Gujarat riots | |  By Andrew MacAskill NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A U.S. court has ordered Prime Minister Narendra Modi to answer allegations that he failed to stop anti-Muslim rioting when he was chief minister of Gujarat, overshadowing his first trip to the United States as his country's leader. The civil case before a New York court seeks compensatory and punitive damages from Modi for crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killings under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victim Protection Act. Modi has 21 days to respond. ...
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