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| Kyrgyzstan set to cling to Russia in face of security threats |
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 By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - Pro-Russian parties look set to retain their dominance when Kyrgyzstan elects a new parliament on Sunday, but the apparent stability masks ethnic tensions and rising Islamist radicalism in the former Soviet republic. The mostly Muslim country of six million people has swung closer to Moscow and further away from the West: under a deadline set by its parliament, the United States last year shut down an airbase in Kyrgzystan that had served U.S. operations in Afghanistan since 2001. Russia retains a military airbase in the Central Asian state, fearing an advance of militant Islam in the region.
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| Volkswagen seeks to boost finances to meet emission scandal costs |
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 By Andreas Cremer BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen is looking at ways to cut costs and boost cash flow and could sell more shares if the price of clearing up a scandal over its rigging of diesel emissions tests puts its credit rating at risk. One source said raising money by selling more shares would become likely if the cash costs of the scandal exceeded a "critical level", without elaborating. Volkswagen declined to comment.
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| Vietnam jails journalist for spying for China |
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| By Martin Petty HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese jounalist has been found guilty of spying for China and sentenced to a six-year jail term by a Hanoi court after a three-hour trial, his lawyer said on Thursday. Ha Huy Hoang, who had worked for a Foreign Ministry-run magazine, was jailed on Wednesday for colluding with a Chinese spy and would appeal, lawyer Ha Huy Son told Reuters. "He was found guilty of supplying information and material about Vietnam's economy and its leaders to the Chinese government," he said. |
| Prominent Turkish journalist attacked in latest sign of pressure on media |
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| A prominent Turkish journalist was hospitalised after an attack by unknown assailants outside his home, his newspaper said on Thursday, in the latest sign of deteriorating conditions for the media under President Tayyip Erdogan. Ahmet Hakan, a columnist for Turkey's leading secular Hurriyet newspaper and a host on broadcaster CNN Turk, was followed home from the television station by four men in a black car late on Wednesday, before being assaulted near his residence, according to Hurriyet Editor-in-Chief Sedat Ergin. "We see that it was an organised, planned attack," Ergin was quoted as saying in Hurriyet Daily News. |
| Miami police charges against Tomic dropped - media |
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| Miami police have dropped charges of trespassing and resisting arrest against tennis player Bernard Tomic, Australian media reported on Thursday. The 22-year-old was arrested and charged in July after police were called to his Miami hotel room where he was hosting a party. Tomic's lawyer told Australian Associated Press that prosecutors had dropped the case over inconsistencies in reports lodged by hotel security and police. |
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