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| Thai junta under scrutiny amid allegations of exorbitant spending, nepotism |
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 By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta came under scrutiny this week after critics filed a petition asking the office of the auditor-general to investigate allegations of extravagant spending on a trip to Hawaii for a defence meeting. It is the latest in a series of allegations against the military government that seized power in May 2014, promising to root out entrenched corruption in state institutions and close Thailand's festering political divide. The government has defended allegations that a 20.9 million baht ($600,000) chartered flight taken by Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan and his entourage to a meeting in Hawaii last week was exorbitant.
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| U.S. watchdog questions money spent on Afghan 'ghost' soldiers |
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| By Josh Smith KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. government watchdog is pressing the Pentagon to explain reports of tens of thousands of "ghost" soldiers and police on the payrolls of the Afghan security forces, which are heavily funded by international donors. The U.S. government has allocated more than $68 billion since 2002 to help support Afghan security forces battling Taliban insurgents and other militants. The United States and its NATO allies pledged earlier this year to provide around $5 billion per year until at least 2020 for the army and police. |
| Turkey orders detention of 166 people in coup-related operation - media |
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| ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities issued detention warrants on Friday for 166 people, including police chiefs, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported, in an operation linked to July's attempted coup, which Ankara blames on followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. The operation was aimed at Istanbul police headquarters staff but spread across 35 provinces, targeting people who used a smartphone messaging app known as ByLock, Anadolu said. Gulen denies involvement in the July 15 failed putsch. (Writing by Daren Butler, editing by Larry King) |
| Turkish police capture PKK militant suspected over Istanbul bombing - Anadolu |
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| Turkish police have captured a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant whom they suspect carried out a "motorbike bomb" attack on Thursday that wounded 10 people near an Istanbul police station, the state-run Anadolu Agency said on Friday. It said a total of six people had been detained in connection with the attack in the Yenibosna neighbourhood, several kilometres from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, Turkey's largest airport. The suspected perpetrator was captured with a fake identity card in the central province of Aksaray, travelling in a car with two other people, Anadolu said. |
| UKIP EU lawmaker in hospital after 'altercation' with colleague |
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 By Gilbert Reilhac and Michael Holden STRASBOURG/LONDON (Reuters) - Steven Woolfe, a candidate to be the new leader of Britain's anti-EU UK Independence Party, was recovering in hospital after suffering seizures on Thursday following an "altercation" with a colleague at a meeting about the party's future. Described as "unseemly behaviour" between "two grown men" by UKIP's leader, the incident took place as the UKIP members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in Strasbourg, sought to clear the air amid factional infighting which has grown since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June. Brexit has shaken all parties across the British political spectrum, leading to Conservative Theresa May replacing David Cameron as prime minister, a leadership election in the opposition Labour Party and deep division in UKIP as to its purpose now it has achieved its goal of securing EU withdrawal.
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