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| Al Arabiya TV closes Beirut office amid Saudi tensions with Lebanon |
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| The Saudi-owned television news channel Al Arabiya has shut its offices in Lebanon and dismissed 27 employees, two of its journalists said on Friday, in a sudden move that comes amid political tensions between Riyadh and Beirut. Saudi Arabia has already cut $3 billion in military aid to Lebanon after the Lebanese government failed to condemn an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran in January. The Sunni Gulf monarchy interpreted Lebanon's lack of public solidarity as a sign that it had become beholden to the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, which is backed by Saudi Arabia's main regional ally Iran. |
| Protests as espionage trial of prominent Turkish journalists resumes |
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 By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of people including opposition politicians protested outside the trial of two prominent Turkish journalists facing life in prison on espionage charges on Friday, hours after President Tayyip Erdogan denied curbing press freedoms. Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul are accused of trying to topple the government with the publication last May of a video purporting to show Turkey's state intelligence agency helping to ferry weapons into Syria by truck in 2014.
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| South African opposition says will take necessary action to remove Zuma |
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 South Africa's main opposition will take any steps necessary to remove President Jacob Zuma from his post should parliament fail to do so, it said on Friday, a day after a top court ruled that the embattled leader had flouted the Constitution. In a stinging rebuke, the Constitutional Court said Zuma failed to uphold, defend and respect the constitution by ignoring instructions to pay back some of the $16 million of state money spent upgrading his private home. "We cannot have Jacob Zuma and the Constitution in one parliament.
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| Police detain 15 in Islamic State raids in western Turkey - media |
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| Turkish police detained 15 people in raids early on Friday targeting the Islamic State militant group in the western coastal province of Izmir, the private Dogan news agency reported. Among those detained were people who fought for Islamic State in neighbouring Syria and who trained others to fight for the group, it said. Turkish authorities say a Turkish member of Islamic State was responsible for a suicide bombing in central Istanbul on March 19 that killed three Israelis and an Iranian. |
| China angered at rights award for exiled Xinjiang leader |
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| China expressed anger on Friday about an exiled leader from the violence-prone far western Chinese region of Xinjiang receiving a rights award in the United States, saying he was a wanted criminal. Dolkun Isa, executive chairman of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, the leading ethnic Uighur group which advocates democracy and human rights in Xinjiang, received an award from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington on Wednesday. China put Isa, a former student activist in Xinjiang, on a list of Uighur "terrorists" in 2003. |
| South Korea fishing boats turn back after North "disrupts GPS" |
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| South Korea warned North Korea on Friday to stop disrupting GPS signal reception which it said forced some fishing boats to return to port and vowed to take action if it continued amid heightened tension over the North's nuclear and rocket tests. The South said that it had traced signals that disrupted Global Positioning Satellite reception in the South to four regions in the North close to the rivals' armed border on Thursday and again on Friday. South Korea has been on high alert against possible cyber attacks from the North, after its angry rhetoric threatening war and further weapons tests in response to new sanctions imposed last month by the U.N. Security Council and the South. |
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