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| Duterte, 'the punisher', sworn in as Philippines' president | |  By Neil Jerome Morales and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as the Philippines' 16th president on Thursday, capping the unlikely journey of a provincial city mayor whose brash man-of-the-people style and pledges to crush crime swamped establishment rivals in last month's election. After making his pledge at the presidential palace in Manila, with one hand on the Bible, Duterte delivered a speech in which he promised a "relentless" and "sustained" fight against corruption, criminality and illegal drugs. Duterte tapped into voters' disgust with the Philippines' political elite and the failure of successive governments to tackle poverty and inequality, drawing comparisons with Donald Trump and the rise of assertive populists across the globe.
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| Britain's Gove to run for PM, shakes Conservative leadership race | |  By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Justice Secretary Michael Gove, one of the main campaigners to take Britain out of the EU, said on Thursday he would run to become prime minister, shaking up the contest and hurting the chances of his Brexit ally, ex-London mayor Boris Johnson. Last week's EU referendum vote, when 52 percent of Britons voted to leave the bloc, triggered a political crisis in Britain with Prime Minister David Cameron stepping down. Gove, a close friend of Cameron's, had previously said he would back Johnson, but in a commentary in the Spectator magazine he said he had come "reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead".
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| Pakistan launches crackdown against sectarian militants in southwest | | | By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces killed three militants at the start of a crackdown on sectarian militant group in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, officials said on Thursday, following a spate of attacks targeting security forces. The extremist Sunni Muslim group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), whose roots are in Punjab province, claimed responsibility for gunning down four policemen on Tuesday and four soldiers of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in the city of Quetta on Wednesday. A spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps said the government had decided to launch an armed operation against LeJ at a late night meeting on Wednesday. |
| Vietnam court sentences Australian woman, 73, to death on heroin charges | | | A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced a 73-year-old Vietnam-born Australian woman to death for trafficking heroin hidden in bars of soap, several state-run media outlets reported on Thursday. The Ho Chi Minh City People's Court found Nguyen Thi Huong guilty on Wednesday of possessing 36 bars of soap stuffed with 2.8 kg (6 lb) of heroin in her baggage as she was boarding a flight to Australia in December 2014, the Ho Chi Minh City Police newspaper said. Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was "concerned that an Australian citizen has been sentenced to death in Vietnam" but added that under Vietnamese law the woman can appeal the sentence "so there is still some way to go before this legal process concludes". |
| Korean tutor gets suspended sentence in U.S. exam leak scandal | | | By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court has handed down a suspended prison sentence to a cram school tutor for leaking test answers from the U.S. SAT college entrance exam, a ruling obtained on Thursday showed. The sentence, handed down on Wednesday, was one year in prison with a two-year reprieve, the heaviest punishment in a case against 22 defendants that led to the cancellation of the SAT college entrance exam in South Korea in 2013. The tutor, only identified by her surname Kim, was also found guilty of evading taxes when managing the cram school, according to a court ruling provided by the Seoul Central District Court on Thursday. |
| Australian teenager pleads guilty to planning ANZAC Day terror offence | | | An Australian teenager on Thursday pleaded guilty to planning a terror attack which involved beheading a police officer and attaching explosives to a kangaroo at commemorations of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli during World War One. Sevdet Ramadan Besim, 19, had planned to attack police at the Melbourne ANZAC day parade on April 25, 2015 but his scheme was uncovered by police in Britain who found messages on the phone of a 15-year-old British boy to a man in Australia. The British boy last year pleaded guilty to inciting an attack on an ANZAC day parade in Melbourne, prosecutors said. |
| Kazakhstan says Salafists behind foiled attack plot | | | Salafists, the followers of an ultra-conservative school of Islam, were behind a planned attack foiled by Kazakh security services, the head of national security committee KNB said on Thursday. KNB said on Wednesday it had detained several members of a group which planned "terrorist acts using improvised explosive devices". Speaking to reporters on Thursday, KNB head Vladimir Zhumakanov said the six detainees were Salafists, but added they had no links to those behind a deadly attack in the city of Aktobe earlier this month. |
| Criminal charges end shooter Michael Diamond's Rio bid | |  Twice Olympic champion shooter Michael Diamond will not be allowed to represent Australia at the Rio Games following his arrest on drink driving and firearms offences, Shooting Australia ruled on Thursday. Diamond, who won back-to-back trap gold medals at the Atlanta and Sydney Olympics, had his firearms licence suspended after being arrested in the wake of a domestic dispute in Nelson Bay, New South Wales in late May. The 44-year-old had been hoping to become only the second Australian to compete in seven Summer Games but Shooting Australia ruled him ineligible after an Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) executive hearing on Thursday.
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