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| Afghan opium production increases as eradication collapses, U.N. says | |  Opium production in Afghanistan increased this year to one of the highest levels on record as efforts to eradicate the crop in a country that provides much of the world's heroin collapsed, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports annually on opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the world's biggest producer of opium and heroin, and is due to give its yearly update towards the end of this month. "Unfortunately, preliminary results suggest that illicit cultivation has increased well above 200,000 hectares (494,000 acres)," UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said in the text of a speech prepared for delivery to an international conference on Afghanistan in Brussels.
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| South African watchdog to question Zuma in Gupta inquiry | |  By Joe Brock JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's public protector will question President Jacob Zuma on Thursday over allegations he was influenced by the wealthy Gupta family in making government appointments. The Gupta family became household names in South Africa after Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas said they offered to secure him his boss's job. Zuma says the Guptas are his friends but denies they have influenced political appointments.
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| Belgium investigate police stabbing as possible terror attack | | | By Robert-Jan Bartunek BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two police officers were stabbed in Brussels on Wednesday in what prosecutors said could have been a terrorist attack. Brussels is on high alert after bombings in March killed 32 people at the city's airport and in a subway carriage. The attacker then broke the nose of a third policeman who had arrived on the scene. |
| Turkey dismisses 540 soldiers from naval, air forces over alleged links to failed coup | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey dismissed 540 soldiers from its naval and air forces command over suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and his network, accused by Ankara of orchestrating a failed coup in July, the defence ministry said. In the latest of a stream of removals targeting those suspected of ties to the coup attempt, HSYK, Turkey's highest judiciary board, removed 66 judges and prosecutors from duty. On July 15, a rogue faction within the military staged an attempted coup in which more than 240 people were killed. ...
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| Chicago suspends Wells Fargo from city business for a year | |  The Chicago City Council on Wednesday approved a one-year suspension for Wells Fargo & Co from city business in the wake of its scandal over phony accounts. The ban includes bond underwriting, brokerage, trustee and other services the bank has provided to Chicago. Wells Fargo has earned $19.5 million in fees from Chicago since 2005.
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| U.S. top court leans toward making insider trading prosecutions easier | |  By Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices hearing a closely watched insider trading case indicated on Wednesday they could issue a ruling that would make it easier for prosecutors to pursue such charges against hedge fund managers and other traders. Several justices, during arguments in the case of Illinois man Bassam Salman, appeared critical of his position that he could not be convicted for trading on tips that came from his brother-in-law about deals involving clients of Citigroup Inc, where the brother-in-law worked. Alexandra Shapiro, Salman's lawyer, argued that prosecutors in insider trading cases must prove that an alleged source of corporate secrets, like the brother-in-law, received a tangible benefit such as cash in exchange for any tips.
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| U.S. citizen killed, foreign factories attacked in Ethiopia | | | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen was killed and foreign-owned factories and equipment damaged during a wave of protests over land and political rights in Ethiopia this week. The U.S. Embassy said the American woman was killed on Tuesday when stones were hurled at her vehicle on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, where residents said crowds have attacked other vehicles since a stampede at a weekend protest killed at least 55 people. The weekend crush took place when police fired teargas and shots in the air to disperse anti-government demonstrations during a festival in the Oromiya region, south of the capital. |
| Colombia's Santos to meet rival Uribe in bid to save rebel peace deal | |  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with opposition rival Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday in a bid to resolve differences over a peace deal with FARC rebels that was rejected in a shock vote this week, leaving the country in limbo. The surprise plebiscite result, which confounded pollsters and is a political disaster for Santos, has plunged the country into uncertainty over the future of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, who had been expected to disarm once the deal was passed by voters. Uribe, a former president and current senator, opposed Santos' peace talks from the start and says the final deal, which was reached in August after four years of painstaking negotiations in Havana, gives too many concessions to the rebels.
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| Swiss prosecutors probe suspected $800 million misappropriation from Malaysia's 1MDB | |  Switzerland's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said on Wednesday a Ponzi scheme may have been set up to conceal the alleged fraud, adding it was seeking further help from Malaysia for its investigation. It is the latest development in a number of investigations around the world related to allegations of the misappropriation of funds and money-laundering surrounding 1Malaysia Development Berhad, commonly known as 1MDB. Founded by Prime Minister Najib Razak, who chaired its advisory board, 1MDB is currently the subject of money-laundering investigations in at least six countries including Switzerland, Singapore and the United States.
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| Congo demands deportation of S. Sudan rebels by U.N. mission | | | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo have issued an ultimatum to the country's U.N. peacekeeping mission to deport South Sudanese rebels rescued by U.N. forces, the mission (MONUSCO) said on Wednesday. "There was an official document that was submitted to the Special Representative of the Secretary General setting an ultimatum, in a general manner, for the departure of these troops," spokesman Felix Basse told reporters in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa. |
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