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| 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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| Four children stabbed to death in southern China - state media | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - A man killed four primary school students on Friday in the southern region of Guangxi, state media said, in the latest of a series of knife attacks that have unnerved the country. Police have launched a manhunt for the assailant, a middle-aged man, state news agency Xinhua said, citing the public security bureau in Lingshan county in the Guangxi region. Xinhua did not give details for the man's motive. The man attacked the children as they were on their way to school, Xinhua said. Three of them died at the scene and one died later at a nearby hospital. ... |
| 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. ... |
| Islamic State 'brand' gains ground among Asian militants | |  By Rosemarie Francisco and Stuart Grudgings MANILA (Reuters) - A threat by Philippine militants to kill a German hostage in a show of solidarity with Islamic State is the latest sign that the Middle East group's brand of radicalism is winning recruits in Asia and posing a growing security risk in the region. Over 100 people from Southeast Asia's Muslim majority countries of Indonesia and Malaysia and the southern Philippine region are believed by security officials and analysts to have gone to join Islamic State's fight in Iraq and Syria. ...
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