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| UK talking to six banks about settling FX probe-sources | |  By Jamie McGeever and Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial regulator has intensified talks with six major banks over allegations of collusion and manipulation in the foreign exchange market, setting the stage for a group settlement that could cost them close to 2 billion pounds($3.26 billion). Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the lenders are keen to draw a line under a scandal that has cast London, the world's foreign exchange trading hub, in a negative light, ensnared the Bank of England and weighed on banks' share prices. ...
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| 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 southwest of the capital and are on the verge of capturing it after killing dozens of people and beheading some in days of fighting, 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. An army unit reported that fighting was raging late on Friday afternoon, another provincial official said. ... |
| 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. ... |
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