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| As Britain welcomes 20,000 Syrians, Eritreans say they also deserve to stay | | | By Joseph D'Urso BRADFORD, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two young Eritreans, recent arrivals in northern England after paying smugglers thousands of dollars to take them across the Sahara desert, Mediterranean Sea and English channel, are hoping the British government will let them stay. While Britain has vowed to open its doors to 20,000 Syrians who are fleeing their home country in unprecedented numbers, Eritreans seeking to escape from violence, persecution, and poverty fear their claims for asylum could suffer. In Britain the largest number of asylum applications in the year to June 2015 were from Eritrea - but two thirds of claims, 66 percent, were refused in the second quarter of 2015, a jump from a 14 percent refusal rate in the previous year. |
| Orban mobilises Hungary's troops, prisoners, jobless to fence out migrants | | | By Balazs Koranyi SAROK, Hungary (Reuters) - Built in a matter of weeks by soldiers, prison labourers and cadres of the unemployed, a vast new wall along Balkan frontiers is a monument to the ruthless efficiency with which Prime Minister Viktor Orban has mobilised Hungary against migrants. Orban describes the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants in Europe this year from Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an attack on the continent's Christian welfare model. ... |
| Tainted trio will tarnish new Pakistan league's image - Ramiz | |  Involving the tainted trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir will be "extremely dangerous" for the reputation of the inaugural Pakistan Super League (PSL), former captain Ramiz Raja has said. Former captain Butt and pacemen Asif and Amir were cleared by the International Cricket council (ICC) to return to competitive cricket from Sept. 2 after serving bans for a fixing scandal in 2010.
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| China's Xi says anti-graft fight no "House of Cards" power play | |  By Michael Martina SEATTLE (Reuters) - China's fight against entrenched corruption is not a "House of Cards"-style power struggle, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday as he began his first state visit to the United States, vowing to press on with his campaign. Xi has warned that corruption threatens the ruling Communist Party's survival and his three-year anti-graft campaign has brought down scores of senior officials in the party, the government, the military and state-owned enterprises. There has been repeated speculation at home and abroad - and sources with ties to the leadership have told Reuters - that the graft crackdown is as much about Xi taking down his enemies as it is about cleaning up the Communist Party.
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| As clock ticks, U.S. Senate seeks way to avert shutdown | |  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Plans to avert a U.S. government shutdown began taking shape in the Senate on Tuesday, but it was still far from certain whether a dispute over funding for women's healthcare group Planned Parenthood could be overcome. With only days remaining before an Oct. 1 deadline, Senate leaders said they were pursuing a stop-gap funding bill to extend the present federal budget for about 10 weeks beyond the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, the White House budget office began working with government agencies on shutdown plans.
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| WADA signs agreement with China to tackle drug rings | | | The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with China's sports ministry to crack down on the manufacture and supply of performance-enhancing drugs in the country. WADA has long branded China the world's top producer and exporter of PEDs, which are openly sold on Chinese websites and often shipped by regular mail to countries around the world. WADA and Interpol will exchange information with China's law enforcement agencies to target and dismantle producers and help countries catch drug cheats among their athletes, WADA said in a statement. |
| Justice deal with Colombia rebels will not please everyone - Santos | |  A deal with leftist FARC rebels on how they would be punished under a peace accord for crimes during Colombia's 51-year war will not please everyone, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday, as negotiators finalize talks on the point. Santos has maintained that members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, must pay for human rights violations and other crimes in order for a peace deal to be signed. "Not everyone will be pleased but I am sure that in the long-term this will be better, because it doesn't matter if some are discontented," Santos said.
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