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| Britain votes to leave EU, Cameron quits, markets plummet | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has voted to leave the European Union, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and dealing the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War Two. Global financial markets plunged on Friday as results from a referendum showed a near 52-48 percent split for leaving a bloc it joined more than 40 years ago. Britain's big banks took a $130 billion battering, with Lloyds and Barclays falling as much as 30 percent.
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| Indonesia says coal on hold for Philippines after seven sailors abducted | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Manuel Mogato JAKARTA/MANILA (Reuters) - Indonesia said on Friday a halt on coal shipments to the Philippines will remain in place until Manila can secure its waters after seven Indonesian sailors were kidnapped, the latest in a string of abductions. Philippine authorities could not immediately confirm the hostage-taking but said a Filipino woman held since September was freed on Friday by Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist militant group that has amassed tens of millions of dollars from kidnappings for ransom. It was unclear whether the sailors were taken by Abu Sayaff, which has beheaded two Canadian nationals in recent weeks after ransom deadlines passed.
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| Three people killed in shootout in Turkish hospital - media | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire inside a pharmacy in a Turkish university hospital in the capital Ankara on Friday, killing three people and seriously wounding another, the privately-owned Dogan news agency reported. It was not immediately clear why the shooting erupted but the agency said it was a personal dispute among hospital employees, who were also among the victims. Police teams have been dispatched to the scene and security inside the hospital has been tightened, Dogan said. (Writing by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Nick Tattersall) |
| Turkey grants immunity to security forces fighting militants | |  Turkey's parliament has granted immunity from prosecution to members of the armed forces conducting counter-terrorism operations as security forces battle Kurdish militants in fighting that has killed thousands in the past year. The law, passed late on Thursday, gives expansive powers to the military as it tries to stamp out an insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) after last year's collapse of a two-year ceasefire. Before becoming president in 2014, Tayyip Erdogan spent much of his rule as prime minister building up civilian oversight of the military.
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| Factbox: The consequences of the Brexit referendum | |  Britain is expected to submit an application to leave the European Union following Thursday's referendum, after which it would have two years to negotiate an exit. Below are possible consequences for Britain and the EU of a Brexit. ECONOMY Britain would no longer be subject to EU budget rules, which limit a government's budget deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product and public debt to 60 percent of GDP.
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| Cambodia deports 25 Taiwanese fraud suspects to China | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia deported 25 Taiwanese nationals wanted on fraud charges to China on Friday, ignoring attempts by Taiwanese officials to have them returned to Taiwan. A team of 90 Chinese police arrived in Phnom Penh to pick up the 25 Taiwanese nationals and another 14 Chinese nationals detained in Cambodia over suspected involvement in internet and telephone fraud. "Ninety Chinese police came here and picked them up themselves from the airport," Cambodian immigration officer Uk Heisela told Reuters.
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| Senegal ex-president's son jailed for corruption released - govt | |  By Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) - Karim Wade, the son of Senegal's former president, was released from prison after being granted a presidential pardon, a spokesman for President Macky Sall and Wade's lawyer said on Friday. Wade, who served three years in prison, had been convicted on corruption charges, sentenced to six years and ordered to pay a fine of $138 billion ($232.23 million) CFA francs. The presidential decree included pardons for Wade and two others who had been sentenced for "illegal enrichment".
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| Philippines' Duterte says time will come to confront Abu Sayyaf | |  Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Friday the time will come when he will have to confront the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf Islamist militants in the south of the mainly Catholic country. On Friday, Indonesia's foreign minister said a halt on coal shipments to the Philippines will remain until Manila can secure its waters after seven Indonesian sailors were kidnapped, the latest in a string of abductions. "There will be a time that I will have to confront the Abu Sayyaf," Duterte said during after meeting a Filipino woman who was freed after nine months of captivity.
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| South African court blocks appeal by Zuma over corruption charges | |  South African President Jacob Zuma failed on Friday in his appeal against a court ruling that corruption charges against him be reinstated, another setback for the leader who has been facing calls for his resignation. The High Court in Pretoria said Zuma and National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams, who had appealed the earlier ruling alongside the president, had no grounds to do so. The same court had in April ordered a review of a 2009 decision by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to set aside hundreds of charges against Zuma.
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| Bank of England says will take all necessary steps to ensure stability | |  By William Schomberg and Ana Nicolaci da Costa LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England said on Friday it would take all necessary steps to shield Britain's economy from the shock decision by voters to pull the country out of the European Union which caused immediate turmoil on financial markets. "The Bank of England is monitoring developments closely," it said in a statement after the referendum victory of the "Leave" campaign triggered a 10 percent fall in the value of sterling and a slump in government bond yields to a new record low. "It has undertaken extensive contingency planning and is working closely with Her Majesty's Treasury, other domestic authorities and overseas central banks." The BoE has previously said a decision to leave the EU -- which buys nearly half Britain's exports -- could deliver a material blow to the economy.
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| S.Korea issues arrest warrant for VW exec in emissions probe | |  By Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court on Friday issued the first warrant for the arrest of a Volkswagen AG executive in connection with its cheating of vehicle emissions tests, in another blow to the German automaker's efforts to move on from the scandal. The warrant is the first to be levelled against a Volkswagen executive anywhere in the world after the firm in September admitted to using software to falsify pollution tests on some diesel cars, spurring legal action in the United States, Germany, South Korea and elsewhere. The Volkswagen Korea executive, identified by his last name Yun, faced five accusations including fabrication of documents and violation of the Air Quality Preservation Law, Seoul Central District Court spokesman Shin Jae-hwan said.
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| Cameron should stay to implement Brexit decision - Vote Leave chief | |  There is little appetite among the majority of Conservative lawmakers to depose Prime Minister David Cameron who should now prepare to negotiate Britain's exit from the European Union, Vote Leave chief Matthew Elliott told Reuters. "I can detect little appetite among Conservative MPs for the prime minister to go: the vast majority want him to be the one who stays in place and implements this decision," Elliott, who is not a lawmaker, said of Britain's vote to leave the EU.
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| British PM Cameron should stay on for now - senior Conservative lawmaker | |  David Cameron should stay on as prime minister to help reassure voters in Scotland and northern Ireland, and to try to calm markets after Britain voted to leave the European Union, a senior Conservative lawmaker said on Friday. Andrew Bridgen, who had campaigned to leave the European Union, told Reuters: "We need stability now. Yes, he should (stay on)." When asked how long Cameron should stay on, Bridgen said that was a decision for the prime minister.
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| Factbox - What Brexit could mean for the UK economy | |  The vote is expected to deliver at least a short-term hit to growth in Britain and might push it into recession. It could prompt the Bank of England to cut interest rates to zero and test the willingness of creditors to keep on funding Britain's current account deficit. Further ahead, the implications of the vote will depend on what kind of trading relationship Britain can strike with the EU, which accounts for nearly half the country's exports.
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