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| South Africa's Gordhan says complied with police as row widens | |  South Africa's finance minister said on Thursday that he had complied with a police investigation, in a widening dispute which has also pitted government agencies against each other and rattled financial markets. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan last week declined to obey a police summons linked to the probe into whether he had used the unit at the tax service to spy on politicians including President Jacob Zuma, saying he had done nothing wrong. Gordhan's lawyers, Gildenhuys Malatji Inc., reiterated that the finance minister had offered to help police with their inquiries.
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| Swiss launch criminal probe of Beckenbauer over German World Cup bid | |  Authorities in Zurich have opened criminal proceedings against German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer and two former presidents of the country's football federation (DFB) in connection with its successful bid for the 2006 World Cup. The Swiss Attorney General's office (OAG) said the proceedings related to allegations of fraud, criminal mismanagement, money laundering and misappropriation. Raids were carried out simultaneously in eight locations on Thursday with the cooperation of authorities in Germany and Austria, the OAG said.
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| With backing from states, India moves closer to single customs union | |  India moved a step closer on Thursday towards becoming a single customs union after a constitutional amendment secured the approval of half of its state legislatures. The GST is the most significant revamp of the tax system since India's independence in 1947. After Odisha ratified the amendment on Thursday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took to Twitter, declaring the measure had won the requisite support from states and would now go for presidential assent.
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| Independent Irish ministers want review of multinationals tax | |  A group of independent lawmakers in Ireland's government want their coalition partners to commit to reviewing how tax is collected from multinationals before it considers appealing an EU ruling against tax dealings with Apple. Ireland's cabinet failed to agree on Wednesday whether to accept a recommendation by Finance Minister Michael Noonan to appeal the European Commission's order this week that it recover 13 billion euros in back taxes ruled to be illegal state aid. The Independent Alliance, a group of five lawmakers whose support is crucial to the minority government's survival, wanted more time to consult with tax officials and independent experts, and the government said a decision would be made on Friday.
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| Philippine minister says senator investigating drug killings linked to drugs | |  The Philippine government made another attack on Thursday on a senator who is leading an inquiry into a spate of killings unleashed by President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs", saying evidence she was linked to drugs was "overflowing". Senator Leila de Lima has denounced the government's attacks on her as "madness" and she has appealed to Duterte to stop the string of bizarre accusations and insults against her. About 2,400 people have been killed in Duterte's drug war since he came to power two months ago, according to police figures.
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| Gabon opposition leader says two killed, riots engulf capital | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon opposition leader Jean Ping said on Thursday that two people were killed and others were wounded as a second day of violent protests against the re-election of President Ali Bongo engulfed the capital, Libreville. Ping said he won the poll and rejected results announced on Wednesday that handed the incumbent a slim victory, extending the Bongo family's half-century grip on power in the oil producer for another seven years. Riots were raging in at least nine Libreville neighbourhoods Thursday morning, two witnesses and a police source said, a day after angry demonstrators set the parliament building on fire.
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| Swiss open corruption investigation over German 2006 World Cup bid | |  Swiss federal prosecutors are investigating soccer great Franz Beckenbauer and three other German soccer officials for fraud and money laundering in connection with the award of the 2006 World Cup to Germany, authorities said on Thursday. "The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has opened criminal proceedings in connection with the German Football Association (DFB). The suspects were members of the executive board of the organising committee for the 2006 World Cup in Germany," it said in a statement.
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| Venezuelan opposition floods Caracas in anti-Maduro protest | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Daniel Kai CARACAS (Reuters) - Chanting "this government will fall!" Venezuelan opposition supporters descended on Caracas on Thursday to press for a recall referendum this year against unpopular Socialist President Nicolas Maduro. With thousands of protesters arriving from the Amazon jungle to the western Andes, the opposition coalition was hoping for one million people at rallies across the capital to show anger at Maduro and Venezuela's deep economic crisis. Maduro, 53, says the opposition-dubbed 'Takeover of Caracas' disguises a U.S.-fomented coup plan, akin to a short-lived 2002 putsch against his mentor and predecessor, Hugo Chavez.
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| EU ruling on Apple's Irish tax is 'total political crap' - CEO | |  By Conor Humphries and Alastair Macdonald DUBLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Apple's Chief Executive Tim Cook described an EU ruling that it must pay a huge tax bill to Ireland as "total political crap", but France joined Germany on Thursday in backing Brussels as transatlantic tensions grow. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager dismissed Cook's broadside, saying the demand for a 13 billion euro ($14.5 billion) back tax payment was based on the facts. Washington has lined up with the tech giant, accusing the European Union of trying to grab tax revenue that should go to the U.S. government.
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| Obama visits Midway Atoll, a symbol for his climate, Asia legacy | |  By Roberta Rampton HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday is set to visit Midway Atoll, the remote coral reef that serves as a reminder of both modern global climate challenges and the dominance the United States has held in the Pacific since its World War Two victory there. The journey, timed as Obama leaves for his last visit to Asia to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders, will also serve as a reminder of the American victory against Japanese forces on the island during World War Two. "It's a signal, it's a message saying the United States is committed to staying in the Pacific, and not sort of backing away," said naval historian Tom Hone, who has studied the infamous Battle of Midway.
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| Thai government to resume peace talks with Muslim insurgents | |  Thailand's military government said on Thursday peace talks with Muslim separatists operating in the far south of the country would resume in Malaysia, but no agreement would be signed unless the insurgents observed a ceasefire. The separatists from the far-south Muslim-majority provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat have been blamed for an unprecedented string of bombings last month in several tourist towns that killed four people and wounded dozens. A decades-old insurgency in the deep south of predominately Buddhist Thailand flared in 2004 and more than 6,500 people have been killed since then, according to the independent monitoring group Deep South Watch.
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| IOC sanctions 2 Beijing Olympians including Cuba silver medalist | |  The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday it has disqualified two athletes from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, including a Cuban discus silver medalist, after retesting of samples found evidence they had used banned substances. Cuba's Yarelys Barrios, who placed second in the discus in Beijing, tested positive for the masking agent acetazolamide, according to a re-analysis by the IOC. Samuel Adelebari Francis of Qatar, who was sixteenth in the 100 metres event, was disqualified after the IOC's re-analysis resulted in a positive test for the steroid stanozol.
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