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| Kyrgyzstan to downgrade OSCE ties after government critic attends conference | | | The government of Kyrgyzstan plans to downgrade the status of local office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the cabinet said on Friday, after the human rights watchdog invited Bishkek's outspoken opponent to a conference. The move follows the cancellation of a cooperation treaty between Kyrgyzstan and the United States for similar reasons: Washington had given a human rights award to a man convicted and imprisoned in Kyrgyzstan. Kadyrzhan Batyrov, a businessman and an ethnic Uzbek community leader, has lived in Sweden since 2011 and has been sentenced in absentia to a prison term at home on charges of being involved in the 2010 ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan in which hundreds died. |
| Britain's child abuse inquiry denies crisis as top lawyer quits | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's beleaguered national inquiry into child sex abuse, one of its largest and most expensive ever undertaken, has denied it is in crisis after its most senior lawyer became the latest figure to quit. Since then it has suffered numerous setbacks and three figures appointed to lead the investigations have stepped down, the latest being New Zealand High Court Judge Lowell Goddard who resigned in August. In the latest blow, Ben Emmerson, the most senior lawyer appointed to help the inquiry, resigned late on Thursday shortly after he had been suspended because of concerns about "aspects" of his leadership. |
| Philippines' Duterte likens himself to Hitler, wants to kill millions of drug users | |  By Karen Lema and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would "be happy" to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country. Duterte recently insulted President Barack Obama and in a series of remarks he has undermined the previously close relationship between Manila and Washington. In a rambling speech on his arrival in Davao City after a visit to Vietnam, Duterte told reporters that he had been "portrayed to be a cousin of Hitler" by critics.
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| Turkey pulls plug on 20 radio, TV channels in post-coup emergency decree | | | By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has ordered the closure of 20 television and radio stations, including one that airs children's programmes, on charges they spread "terrorist propaganda", adding to fears that emergency rule is being used to stifle the media. President Tayyip Erdogan has said he wants a three-month state of emergency, imposed after a failed coup attempt in July, to be prolonged past October so authorities can eradicate the threat posed by a religious movement blamed for the attempt, as well as Kurdish militants who have waged a 32-year insurgency. The banned channels are owned or operated by Kurds or the Alevi religious minority, according to Hamza Aktan, news editor at IMC TV, a news broadcaster slated for closure. |
| Turkey suspends 1,500 prison personnel and guards in post-coup probe - minister | |  Turkish authorities have suspended 1,500 prison personnel and guards over links with the U.S.-based cleric Turkey accuses of orchestrating the failed July coup, justice minister Bekir Bozdag said. Speaking at an event in the Turkish capital, Bozdag said the prison personnel and guards were temporarily suspended to remove individuals linked to the cleric Fethullah Gulen in Turkish prisons, but could be sacked if concrete links were found.
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| Two major Van Gogh works stolen in 2002 recovered - museum | | | Italian police have recovered two paintings by the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh in Naples, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said on Friday. It said the paintings, stolen from the museum in 2002, had been removed from their frames but appeared largely undamaged. |
| Bomb threat at Malaysia's stock exchange a hoax | | | KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A bomb threat which prompted the evacuation of Malaysia's stock exchange on Friday was a hoax, state news agency Bernama reported, quoting police. The police bomb disposal unit had declared the Bursa Malaysia building safe and no suspicious object had been found, it said. Staff were allowed back in the building about three hours after the threat was received. Bursa had said in a statement earlier that it received a bomb threat shortly after noon. Trading resumed as normal after lunch. (Reporting by Rozanna Latiff; Editing by Nick Macfie) |
| Turkish police raid prisons and courthouses in post-coup investigation | | | Turkish police raided the country's biggest prison and courthouse on Friday after arrest warrants were issued for 162 personnel and prison guards as part of nationwide investigations over a failed coup in July, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. About 100,000 people in the military, civil service, police and judiciary have been sacked or suspended, and some 32,000 people have been arrested for their alleged role in the attempted coup. On Friday, prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 87 courthouse personnel and police raided three Istanbul courthouses, including the Caglayan courthouse where some of Turkey's most important trials are held, CNN Turk said. |
| Three Chinese fishermen killed in confrontation with South Korea coastguard | | | Three Chinese fishermen were killed on Thursday in a fire that broke out on their boat when South Korean coastguard men trying to apprehend them for illegal fishing threw flash grenades into a room they were hiding in, a South Korean official said. Disputes over illegal fishing are an irritant in relations between China and U.S. ally South Korea, even as their economic relations grow close. China's Foreign Ministry said it had lodged a protest with Seoul about the incident. |
| Cyprus court orders extradition of Egyptian hijacker | |  A court in Cyprus on Friday ordered the extradition of an Egyptian who hijacked an aircraft with a fake explosive belt, diverting it to the island in March. Seif Eldin Mustafa, 59, failed to convince the Nicosia district court that he could not get a fair trial in his home country, the semi-official Cyprus News Agency reported. Mustafa commandeered a domestic Alexandria-Cairo flight with 72 passengers and crew on board on March 29, ordering the pilot to divert to Larnaca airport on the Mediterranean island.
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| Saudi foreign ministry condemns passage of U.S. Sept. 11 law | | | Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry condemned the passage of a U.S. law that would allow families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to sue the kingdom for damages, calling it a matter of "great concern" in a statement on Thursday. The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to approve legislation that will allow the families of those killed in the 2001 attacks on the United States to seek damages from the Saudi government. "The erosion of sovereign immunity will have a negative impact on all nations, including the United States," said the Saudi statement, which was carried on state news agency SPA after a day of stony silence from Riyadh. |
| Change offensive 'Black Pete' figure, says Dutch children's advocate | |  By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - "Black Pete", a clownish figure in black face paint that is part of Dutch traditional winter holiday celebrations, leads to discrimination and bullying of black children and must be changed, a national children's rights defender said on Friday. Discussions over "Black Pete" have grown increasingly fierce in the Netherlands in recent years, with opponents saying the figure is a blatantly racist caricature with big red lips and "afro"-style hair, while supporters argue he is a harmless figure of fun. In a position paper published ahead of the Sinterklaas festivities which run from mid-November through December 5, national children's ombudswoman Margriet Kalverboer sided squarely with the opponents.
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