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| Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Sistani calls for the release of Qatari hunters kidnapped in Iraq | |  Iraq's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for the release of a group of Qatari hunters kidnapped in the south of the country, his representative said on Friday. "We demand that all kidnapped people be released no matter who they are," Ahmed al-Safi said in a sermon in the holy Shi'ite city of Karbala, south of Baghdad, broadcast on state TV. "We condemn the kidnappings for political goals, including the recent kidnapping of a number of hunters who entered the country legally," he said.Iraq's foreign minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari denied on Tuesday that his government had anything to do with the kidnapping.
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| Death sentence for Myanmar men prompts protest at "shameless" Thais | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Amy Sawitta Lefevre YANGON/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds called for the release of two Myanmar migrant workers in a protest in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, on Friday, a day after a Thai court sentenced the two to death for the 2014 murders of two young British tourists. The court convicted Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun of the brutal murder of Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao, a case mired in controversy and questions about the police investigation and Thailand's treatment of migrant workers.
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| China probes deputy prosecutor in Xinjiang for graft | | | China's ruling Communist Party said on Friday it had begun a probe into a deputy chief prosecutor in the unruly far western region of Xinjiang for suspected "serious discipline" issues, the usual euphemism for corruption. A brief statement by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection gave no details of the investigation into Shi Shaolin. Shi took up his current job in July 2013, and had previously served as a senior regional prisons official and had worked in the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, deep in Xinjiang's Uighur heartland, according to his résumé. |
| Syrian minister says world powers must stop fighters entering from Turkey and Jordan | |  Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Friday that international efforts to end the conflict in his country should focus on preventing insurgents coming in from neighbouring Turkey and Jordan. Syrian state media, which reported the comments Moualem made after meeting Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi during a visit to Beijing, quoted him as saying he stressed the need to "implement U.N. Security Council resolutions on fighting terror". The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad accuses Turkey of arming hardline Islamist rebels and allowing foreign jihadists into Syria and says U.S.-backed Jordan arms and trains insurgents in southern Syria - allegations vehemently denied by those countries.
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| Third Japanese national arrested in China - Japan top spokesman | | | A third Japanese citizen has been arrested in China, Japan's top government spokesman said on Friday, in addition to two others arrested earlier this year for spying. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference that the woman, who had been taken into custody in Shanghai in June, was formally arrested last month. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the relevant case was being investigated "in accordance with the law". |
| Fugitive ex-Thai PM Thaksin warns on economy | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra told Thais on Friday to have "the strength to pass obstacles" and warned about the economy which has been struggling since a 2014 coup. Thaksin, who lives abroad to avoid a jail sentence handed down for graft in 2008, has kept messages to the public to a minimum since the military toppled the remnants of the government of his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, last year. Since seizing power, the government has struggled to revive Thailand's export-dependent economy, something some analysts say could prove destabilising for the junta, or National Council for Peace and Order.
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| Japan foreign minister arranging Seoul visit to settle "comfort women" row | |  By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Jack Kim TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan's foreign minister will visit Seoul on Monday to meet his South Korean counterpart for talks aimed at an early resolution to a row over comfort women, as those forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels are euphemistically known. South Korea's foreign ministry announced the visit on Friday after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instructed Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida to make the trip to Seoul.
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| Confusion, corruption among Afghan forces hit Helmand defence | |  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - More foreign troops died fighting in Helmand than in any other province in Afghanistan but little more than a year after NATO left, the region risks being overrun by the Taliban because of confusion, corruption and mismanagement in Afghan forces. Sangin is the latest Helmand district to slip into Taliban control, badly denting hopes that Afghan security forces would be able to fight on alone after international forces pulled out last year. Sarwar Jan is the commander of a police battalion that has been heavily engaged in Sangin and Marjah, another district mostly in Taliban hands, and he is scathing about Afghan army units he says left his isolated, under-equipped men to fight alone.
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| China's controversial new anti-terror law to pass on Sunday | |  China is set to pass its controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday, the largely rubber-stamp parliament said on Friday, despite U.S. criticism about its cyber provisions and concerns over human rights. U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he had raised concern about the law directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In a brief statement, China's National People's Congress said it would hold a news briefing on Sunday to talk about the law, following the end of parliament's latest law-making session.
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| Arizona man indicted in 'Draw Mohammed' event hit with new charges | | | An Arizona man already accused of aiding two gunmen in an attack on an event in Texas drawing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed had also inquired about using pipe bombs and explosives during the 2015 Super Bowl in Phoenix, court documents said. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, also known as Decarus Thomas, was charged on Wednesday with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, in addition to his indictment earlier this year on conspiracy and weapons charges in connection with the failed attack on the event in the Dallas suburb of Garland, according to the court papers. |
| Apple asks court to make Samsung pay $180 million more in patent dispute | |  By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just over a week after Samsung paid Apple more than $548 million for infringing the patents and designs of the iPhone, Apple has asked a U.S. court to force its biggest smartphone rival to cough up even more. In court papers filed on Wednesday, Apple Inc said Samsung Electronics Co Ltd owes nearly $180 million in supplemental damages and interest. Representatives for Samsung and Apple could not immediately be reached for comment.
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