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| Indonesian police quell mass protest by hardline Muslims | |  By Johan Purnomo and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police quelled a mass protest by tens of thousands of hardline Muslims on Friday, firing tear gas and water cannon into crowds demanding the resignation of the Christian governor of Jakarta, who they said had insulted the Koran. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country, but most follow a moderate form of Islam and protests on such a large scale are rare. Critics say the protest was whipped up by an extremist group that latched on to political tension ahead of February's election for the governorship of Jakarta, the country's capital, and was allowed to grow because the government failed to rein it in.
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| Egypt arrests militants, links them to Muslim Brotherhood | | | By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested members of two recently emerged militant groups, along with weapons, explosives and evidence that the organisations had been set up by the Muslim Brotherhood. Police detained five leaders and other members of the Hasam Movement and Louwaa al-Thawra, the Interior Ministry said - both groups that have claimed responsibility for assassination attempts on judges, policemen and military officers. There was no immediate comment from either organisation, or from the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, which says it is a peaceful movement and accuses the government of abuses. |
| U.S. authorities warn of al Qaeda threat to election | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal officials have warned authorities in New York, Texas and Virginia about an unspecific threat of attacks by the al Qaeda militant group around Election Day, putting local law enforcement on alert the weekend before Tuesday's vote, officials said on Friday. A U.S. government source in Washington said some federal agencies sent bulletins to local and state officials flagging the information but that the threat was relatively low level. The New York Police Department and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were alerted to the information, the local agencies said.
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| Second Egyptian general killed in Sinai in as many weeks - sources | | | A senior Egyptian general was shot dead by militants on Friday near his home in North Sinai where an Islamic State insurgency is raging, health and security sources said, the second such incident in as many weeks. Gunmen opened fire on Brigadier General Hesham Mahmoud Abualazm, 47, on the street from a moving car in Arish city, North Sinai's provincial capital, the sources said. Abualazm was on a visit to Arish and does not serve in Sinai, the sources added. |
| Turkey condemned over Kurdish lawmaker arrests, as car bomb kills nine | |  Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish opposition party in a terrorism probe on Friday, drawing European and U.N. condemnation of a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan. Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, co-leaders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), were jailed pending trial after being held in overnight raids, officials said. Ten other HDP lawmakers were also detained, although some were later released.
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| Philippines' Duterte says drugs flow slows, vents at U.S. and Soros | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday his war on drugs had cut back the supply to "very low" levels and thanked China for supporting his crackdown, but swore repeatedly at ally the United States for criticising it. Duterte said his bloody campaign against drugs had successfully reduced the narcotics flow, but conceded there were signs that criminals had now turned to kidnapping, another problem he planned to tackle. On Friday, he got angry again at former colonial power Washington for its concerns about alleged summary killings and contrasted its stance with that of China, which has funded a huge drugs rehabilitation centre.
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| At least two U.S. trainers killed in Jordan shooting - source | | | By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - At least two U.S. military trainers were shot dead in Jordan on Friday when the car they were in failed to stop at the gate of a military base and was fired on by Jordanian security forces, a Jordanian military source said. Another U.S. trainer was injured and a Jordanian army guard was also shot and wounded during the exchange of fire. Another security source said it was not possible to rule out any political motives in an air base that has dozens of U.S. trainers working alongside Jordanians. |
| Hospital staff in Karnataka arrested for stealing babies for illegal adoption | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Six hospital staff in Karnataka have been charged with stealing babies and young children and selling them to childless couples in an illegal adoption racket, police in Karnataka state said on Friday. The three men and three women, who worked as nurses and lab technicians at five private hospitals and a government-run hospital in Mysuru city, were part of a bigger, organised gang involved in trafficking children, investigating officer Ravi Channannavar said. |
| Kurdish PKK militant group vows to intensify struggle against Turkey - video | |  The Kurdish PKK militant group will intensify its struggle against Turkey, one of its top commanders said in a video message on Friday, after police detained lawmakers from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish opposition party. Murat Karayilan, a top PKK commander, said in the video message published on a website close to the PKK that it was "very important" for Kurdish people to react against the detentions of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers.
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| Angry mourners bury victims of air strike in Afghanistan | | | By Sardar Razmal KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of mourners gathered on Friday to bury more than 30 civilians killed in an air strike called in to protect Afghan and U.S. forces during a raid on suspected Taliban militants outside the northern city of Kunduz. There was an angry mood in Buz Kandahari, the village outside Kunduz where the raid took place in the early hours of Thursday, as white-shrouded bodies, many of small children, were laid out for burial. "My brother and three of his children were killed. ... |
| British PM Theresa May confident of Brexit plans, reassures EU leaders | |  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May told European Union leaders on Friday she was confident a court ruling that could delay Britain's departure from the bloc would be overturned and she vowed to stick to her Brexit timetable. May told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker she believed her case that the government - not parliament - should be responsible for triggering Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty to launch the divorce would win in Britain's highest court, a spokesman said.
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| New York authorities advised of potential threat around election | | | New York authorities have been made aware of a potential threat from al Qaeda militants around Election Day, police and other officials said on Friday. Federal authorities alerted the New York Police Department, the department said. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which operates airports, tunnels and bridges around New York City, was also alerted, authority spokesman Steve Coleman told Reuters. |
| Turkey jails leaders of pro-Kurdish opposition pending trial - court officials | | | DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish authorities ordered the co-leaders of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to be formally arrested pending trial on Friday, court officials said, after they were detained in a terrorism-related investigation. The detentions of Figen Yuksekdag, HDP co-chairwoman, and Selahattin Demirtas, the party's other leader, in overnight raids early on Friday drew condemnation from European leaders and rights groups. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Ayla Jean Yackley; Writing by Nick Tattersall) |
| WMA president Ketan Desai attends court hearing in corruption case | |  By Aditya Kalra and Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ketan Desai, an Indian doctor recently installed as president of the World Medical Association (WMA), appeared in a New Delhi courthouse on Friday to attend a hearing in a case where he faces charges of corruption. In the New Delhi case filed in 2010, Desai faces charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy for allegedly being involved in a conspiracy to obtain a bribe of 20 million rupees ($450,000 at the time) from a medical college. Desai denies any wrongdoing, but investigators allege he helped the school get permission from the Medical Council of India to add more students.
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| U.N. says Turkey may be going "beyond what is permissible" on rights | | | Turkey's detention or suspension of more than 110,000 officials since a failed coup in July, including the arrest of pro-Kurdish lawmakers on Friday, may go "beyond what is permissible", the United Nations' human rights office said on Friday. "There needs to be a presumption of innocence when you're going to suspend somebody from their job, when you're going to detain somebody, you need to do this in line with due process," U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a briefing in Geneva. |
| Pakistan to deport "Afghan Girl" from famed National Geographic photo | |  By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani judge on Friday ordered the deportation of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed "Afghan Girl" whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country's wars, after finding her guilty of illegally obtaining a Pakistani identity card. Gula, now in her 40s, was also sentenced to 15 days in jail and fined about 100,000 rupees ($955.11) She had been living in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar for years with her husband and children. Gula is likely to be freed in three days, as she has already spent more than 10 days in prison since her arrest last week, said Afghan consulate official Abdul Hameed Jalili.
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| Harvard cancels men's soccer season over lewd ranking system | | | Harvard University canceled its men's soccer season after discovering that its players had for years maintained lewd rankings of incoming women players. The Ivy League university said an investigation that began when it discovered a 2012 online "scouting report," in which male players ranked female players by attractiveness and suspected sexual preferences, determined that the practice had continued into this year. "The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard's view that both the team's behavior and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community," Drew Faust, the university's president, said in a statement. |
| Somali militants intensify attacks, death count doubles - experts | | | By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Islamist rebels have intensified their attacks in Somalia, detonating larger, more sophisticated devices, bringing in more foreign expertise and doubling the death toll from last year, experts said. The findings, some of them also outlined in a coming U.N. report, reveal the challenge facing Somalia's Western-backed government as it battles militants who want to overthrow it and impose their harsh version of sharia, or Islamic law. Security experts say the plot behind a plane attack in February in particular showed the expanding skillset of al Qaeda-aligned al Shabaab militants and possible links to Islamist insurgencies in the Middle East and other areas. |
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