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| Blast rocks southeastern Turkey city after MPs detained | | | An explosion on Friday rocked a central district of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, hours after police detained 11 lawmakers from parliament's pro-Kurdish grouping. The blast took place near a police station where lawmakers apprehended in Diyarbakir were taken, a security source said. The armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's southeast. |
| Philippines steps up security after U.S. warns citizens of kidnap threat | | | Philippine police have stepped up security on the holiday island of Cebu, the president's spokesman said on Friday, after the U.S. embassy warned its citizens that "terrorist" groups could be planning kidnappings there. The travel advisory was issued in response to comments made to media by regional police that said six Abu Sayyaf rebels were in Cebu, an island popular for diving and racy nightlife and far from the Islamist group's stronghold in the south. The warning said it had no specific information of the kidnap threat but advised citizens to be vigilant and avoid travel to certain areas. |
| Beijing to discuss interpretation of Hong Kong's mini constitution amid independence row | |  (Reuters) - Beijing's parliamentary committee will discuss the interpretation of Hong Kong's Basic Law mini-constitution regarding political allegiance, as the city's court deliberates on the status of two newly-elected pro-independence lawmakers. The committee will discuss an article in the Basic Law requiring legislators to "swear allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China", the Hong Kong government said on Friday. The Hong Kong government has asked the courts to review a decision by the legislature's president allowing the lawmakers to re-take their oaths of office.
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| British banker in HK "needed cocaine boost" for courage to torture, kill | |  British banker Rurik Jutting needed the boost of cocaine to rape, torture and kill two Indonesian women in his luxury Hong Kong apartment and cannot shirk responsibility for their murder, prosecutors told a court on Friday in closing arguments. Jutting, 31, a former Bank of America Corp employee, has denied murder in the 2014 killings on grounds of diminished responsibility, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in a case that has caught the attention of the world. "He needed the boost of cocaine to give him the courage to rape, torture and ultimately kill," prosecution lawyer John Reading said, explaining that despite Jutting's disorders his "mental responsibility was not substantially impaired".
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| Toll from Indonesian boat sinking rises to 36, with 24 missing - police | |  The death toll from a boat accident off an Indonesian island rose to 36 on the third day of a search for survivors, police said, with hopes fading on Friday for 24 people still missing. A packed speed boat carrying 98 Indonesian migrant workers, most of them illegal, and three crew sank off Indonesia's Batam island at around dawn on Wednesday, having departed from Malaysia's southern state of Johor. Airlangga, a police spokesman for Riau Islands, which includes Batam, put the latest death toll at 36.
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| South Korea's Park says "hard to forgive myself" for political crisis | |  By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - A tearful and apologetic South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Friday her "heart was breaking" over a political scandal that has engulfed her administration, adding she will cooperate with prosecutors in their investigation.
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| Two Syria-bound Malaysians arrested in Turkey - police | | | Two Malaysians were arrested by Turkish authorities on their way to Syria, where they were planning to join up with the Islamic State militant group, Malaysian police said on Friday. Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said in a statement the two suspects, a factory technician and a welder, had been recruited by Muhammad Wanndy Muhammad Jedi, a known Malaysian Islamic State member in Syria. "Muhammad Wanndy coordinated plans for the two suspects to travel to Syria and contributed funds for their flight," Khalid said. |
| Exclusive - ACT cancels test scores in Asia after leak of essay question | |  By Steve Stecklow LONDON (Reuters) - Students in Asia have been notified that their scores on the writing section of last month's ACT college-entrance exam are being cancelled, in the latest example of how standardised test makers are struggling to contain an international epidemic of cheating. ACT spokesman Ed Colby declined to say how many students were affected by the October score cancellations, which he said involved test centres in Asia and Oceania. Your multiple choice ACT tests—English, mathematics, reading, and science tests—WILL be scored." The message added that ACT will issue each student a $16 refund.
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| Drugmakers under fire for possible U.S. price fixing | | | Two prominent U.S. lawmakers on Thursday called on federal antitrust regulators to probe whether Sanofi SA, Eli Lilly and Co, Merck & Co Inc and Novo Nordisk A/S colluded to set prices for insulin and other diabetes drugs. The request by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Elijah Cummings follows a similar letter they sent last fall calling for an investigation into 14 drug companies over price increases of generic drugs. |
| South Korea president's approval rating falls to 5 percent - Gallup | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea President Park Geun-hye's approval rating has fallen to 5 percent, according to a Gallup poll released on Friday, setting an all-time low for any South Korean president and underscoring the impact of the influence-peddling scandal. Gallup said its survey of 1,005 South Koreans conducted between Nov. 1 to 3 showed that 89 percent of those who participated disapproved of her performance. (Reporting by Ju-min Park and Se Young Lee; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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| Former South Korea presidential aide arrested amid influence scandal - Yonhap | | | SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors have arrested a former aide of President Park Geun-hye considered a central figure to an influence-peddling scandal, Yonhap News Agency said on Friday. Jeong Ho-seong was arrested on Thursday night suspected of leaking confidential documents to Choi Soon-sil, a long-time friend of Park at the centre of the scandal. South Korean prosecutors did not immediately comment on the report. (Reporting by Se Young Lee and Ju-min Park; Editing by Nick Macfie) |
| Turkey's pro-Kurdish party HDP's 11 MPs detained - Interior Ministry | |  By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey detained two co-leaders and nine other lawmakers of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) early on Friday over reluctance to give testimony for crimes linked to "terrorist propaganda." The Turkish Interior Ministry said detention orders for 13 MPs were issued, but only 11 were detained as two lawmakers were abroad. Turkish police raided the Ankara house of co-leader Selahattin Demirtas and the house of co-leader Figen Yuksekdag in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, the party's lawyers told Reuters. "HDP call international community to react against Erdogan Regime's coup," the party said on Twitter, referring to President Tayyip Erdogan.
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