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| Myanmar blames Islamist group for attacks in Rohingya Muslim region | | | By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's government said on Friday a group inspired by Islamist militants was behind attacks on police border posts in its ethnically riven northwest, as officials said they feared a new insurgency by members of the Rohingya Muslim minority. The sudden escalation of violence in Rakhine state poses a serious challenge to the six-month-old government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was swept to power in an election last year but has faced criticism abroad for failing to tackle rights abuses against the Rohingya and other Muslims. A statement from the office of Myanmar's President Htin Kyaw blamed the little-known "Aqa Mul Mujahidin" for recent attacks around Maungdaw Township, a mainly Muslim area near the frontier with Bangladesh. |
| South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan dismisses "frivolous" fraud charge | |  By Ed Cropley CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan dismissed as "frivolous" fraud charges laid against him which have shaken financial markets, saying on Friday he would stay at his post and deliver an interim budget at the end of this month. In a gesture of defiance, Gordhan refused to request a review of the decision to bring the charges, saying he had no confidence in prosecutors' ability to give him a fair hearing. The charges, laid this week, have raised suspicions of a political plot to oust Gordhan, who remains respected on financial markets and has defied friends and allies of President Jacob Zuma over the awarding of lucrative state contracts, political analysts say.
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| Anti-graft watchdog delays report after Zuma court application | |  By Joe Brock PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-graft watchdog has deferred release of a report into allegations of political interference by wealthy friends of Jacob Zuma in a move critics of the president fear could lead to a watering down of its conclusions. A court application by Zuma had obliged Thuli Madonsela, head of the agency that has spearheaded investigation of alleged involvement of an Indian-born family into political affairs, to delay release of the report that had been due on Friday - her last day in office. The court will now hear Zuma's case before the report can be released.
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| Pakistan lifts travel ban for journalist but warns media | | | By Amjad Ali ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Friday lifted a travel ban on a prominent journalist over an article he wrote about an alleged rift between the country's government and powerful military, but sternly warned media against publishing reports against the national interest. The Interior Ministry said Cyril Almeida, a leading columnist and assistant editor of the Dawn newspaper, was being removed from the Exit Control List as a "good-will gesture" but an inquiry into the "inaccurate and fabricated" article would continue. The military's press wing issued a separate statement calling the article a "breach of national security". |
| S.African anti-graft watchdog hands report into Zuma's friends to parliament | | | South Africa's public protector said on Friday a report into allegations of political interference by wealthy friends of President Jacob Zuma has been submitted to parliament for safekeeping pending a court case that delayed its release. "I am not at liberty to discuss any aspect of that report." Zuma on Thursday filed a court aplication to block the release of the report, which was due on Friday. |
| Former Wales striker Evans found not guilty of rape | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Former Wales international striker Ched Evans was found not guilty of rape after a two week long re-trial ended in Cardiff on Friday. Evans, who was released in 2014 after serving half of a five-year sentence for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in 2011, had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal last April. The 27-year-old now plays for League One (third-tier) English club Chesterfield. The jury of seven women and five men took two hours to acquit Evans at Cardiff crown court. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond) |
| 'Stay tuned' for evidence backing Trump vs female accusers - Pence | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence vigorously defended running mate Donald Trump against allegations of sexual misconduct and promised that evidence casting doubt on the claims would come out on Friday. Trump's campaign has been scrambling to recover from the release a week ago of a 2005 video in which he bragged about groping women and making unwanted sexual advances. While Trump said the video was just talk and he had never behaved in this way, multiple women subsequently went public with allegations of sexual misconduct against the New York real estate magnate going back three decades.
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| Thailand's King Bhumibol takes final journey past grieving subjects | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Buddhist monks on Friday chanted prayers over the remains of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the riverside Grand Palace in Bangkok, ahead of a traditional royal cremation that will need months to prepare. The world's longest-reigning monarch, worshipped as a father figure during his 70-year reign, died on Thursday in a Bangkok hospital, where he had been treated for years for illnesses affecting his lungs, kidneys, brain and blood. A royal convoy, which included heir apparent Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, moved slowly through Bangkok's ancient quarter to the Grand Palace, winding past thousands of sombre Thais dressed in black, many of them holding aloft portraits of the king.
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| Nigeria's Buhari vows to keep pressing for release of kidnapped girls | |  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said his government would continue working to free the remaining girls kidnapped by the jihadist group Boko Haram in 2014 after the group on Thursday released 21 girls on Thursday. "About 100 more (girls) are still in the hands of the terrorists," Buhari told reporters in Berlin after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "We hope we'll get some ... intelligence to go about securing the balance." Buhari dismissed criticism voiced by his wife, Aisha Buhari, in a BBC interview published on Friday, saying that he had "superior knowledge" about running the government.
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| South Africa's Gordhan won't seek review of fraud charges - lawyers | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will not ask the state prosecutor to review fraud charges he is facing as it would be "pointless" to do so, his lawyers said on Friday, trimming the rand's rally. "The main reason for his decision is that he does not have any confidence in the NDPP's (National Director of Public Prosecutions) ability or willingness to afford him a fair hearing," the lawyers said in a statement. (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by James Macharia)
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| Refugee who planned airport attack radicalised in Germany not Syria - Spiegel | |  The Syrian refugee suspected of planning to bomb a Berlin airport was radicalised only after arriving in Germany, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, citing the suspect's brother who still lives in Syria. Jaber Albakr committed suicide in prison in Leipzig on Wednesday after two fellow Syrians had handed him over to police. Alaa Albakr, told Spiegel by telephone from Syria that a Muslim preacher in Berlin had radicalised his brother and told him to return to his homeland to fight, which he did, before heading back to Germany once again.
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| Turkey raids top courts to arrest alleged coup plotters - agency | |  Police raided Turkey's top court of appeals on Friday, armed with arrest warrants for 189 judges and prosecutors, and swept on other courthouses as part of a crackdown on state officials following a failed coup, state media reported. The chief prosecutor in Ankara sought the latest arrests of members of the judiciary at the justice ministry and other courthouses, including judges working at the Court of Cassation, the top court of appeals, and the Council of State, the highest administrative court, Anadolu news agency said.
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