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| 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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| Indonesia's parliament puts an end to direct regional elections | |  By Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament on Friday approved a measure ending direct elections for governors and mayors, a move president-elect Joko Widodo criticised as a "big step back" for democracy in the country. Indonesia introduced direct elections for regional leaders in 2005, allowing the emergence of a new breed of politician free of links to the political elite, with Widodo being the best-known example. ...
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| From jubilation in Tahrir, Egypt returns to Mubarak-era politics | |  By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - In a dusty courtyard in Egypt's Nile Delta, men gather to ask for favours at the home of retired police general Sayyed Azb. Some are seeking jobs, others want certificates proving they are literate or help in securing building licences - a throwback to the patronage politics of Hosni Mubarak that many Egyptians had hoped would disappear when the autocrat fell three years ago. What Azb has to say suggests the chances of a fresh start when Egypt elects a new parliament in the next few months are slim. ...
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| Corrected - Pakistan policeman wounds British man jailed for blasphemy | | | By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - (Corrects to show Christian not killed) A Pakistani policeman on Thursday shot and wounded a 70-year-old British man with a history of mental illness in the jail where he is on death row for blasphemy, his lawyers said. An activist said a Christian pastor accused of the same offence was killed in the attack, but the pastor's sister said on Friday this was not true and that the police had got their facts wrong. ... |
| Syrian, Iraqi and other asylum seekers on rise in West - UNHCR | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Wars in Syria and Iraq, and instability in other hotspots are driving ever more people to seek asylum in wealthy nations, with requests on track to hit a 20-year high in 2014, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Some 330,700 people sought refugee status in 44 industrialised countries in the first half of the year, an almost 24 per cent rise on the same period in 2013, it said. ...
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| Australia defence chief apologises after race-based assault claim withdrawn | | | SYDNEY (Reuters) - The head of Australia's Defence Force apologised on Friday after an officer withdraw allegations he had been attacked by two men "of Middle Eastern appearance", allegations that had fuelled tensions during a crackdown by counter-terrorism authorities. The officer had claimed he was approached on Thursday by two men who assaulted him, causing minor bruising, according to police. But Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin said the 41-year-old officer had withdrawn his claim on Friday, without giving further details. ... |
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