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| Civilians, police killed in car bomb blast - Turkish justice minister | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Both civilians and police were killed and many people were wounded in a car bomb attack in Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Friday, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said in a speech. The blast, which state authorities blamed on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, came hours after police detained politicians from the mostly Kurdish region's biggest party. (Reporting by Ayla Jean Yackley and Humeyra Pamuk; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by David Dolan) |
| Myanmar's Suu Kyi says situation in Rakhine State being investigated | |  Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday investigations are underway into the situation in Rakhine State, where many members of a Muslim minority live and where human rights workers say conflict has led to civilian abuse by the military. Suu Kyi, speaking on a visit to Tokyo, told a news conference the government had not tried to hide anything and was trying to get to the root of the matter, and would not accuse anyone until the investigation was complete. Suu Kyi has not directly commented on calls from human rights experts urging the government to investigate allegations of abuse, including rapes and killings, or on statements from human rights monitors, although she has urged the military to act with restraint.
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| Car bomb rocks southeast Turkey after pro-Kurdish lawmakers detained | |  A car bomb rocked southeastern Turkey's largest city on Friday, killing one person and injuring more than 40, security sources said, hours after police detained politicians of the mostly Kurdish region's biggest party. Police raided the homes and detained the joint leaders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the second-biggest opposition party in the national parliament, and nine other HDP lawmakers early on Friday after they refused to give testimony for crimes linked to "terrorist propaganda". Southeastern Turkey has been rocked by political turmoil and violence for more than a year after the collapse of a ceasefire with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy.
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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, pledging to cooperate with prosecutors in their investigation. In a brief televised address to journalists, Park said that prosecutors should clarify what happened and that everyone involved should be held accountable, including herself, and take responsibility if found guilty. A prosecution official declined to comment to Reuters when asked if Park would be subject to investigators' questioning, which would be a first for a sitting South Korean president.
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| China to weigh up Hong Kong allegiance rules amid independence row | |  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's top parliamentary panel will discuss Hong Kong's mini-constitution and how it should be interpreted, the Chinese-ruled city government said on Friday, to try to end a crisis over a fledgling independence movement but raising fears among some of legal interference. The Hong Kong government confirmed that the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress would consider provisions of Hong Kong's Basic Law related to political allegiance this weekend. The move comes as the Hong Kong government tries to disqualify two newly elected legislators promoting independence from China, amid growing speculation that Beijing would intervene.
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| Tens of thousands of Muslims march in Indonesia against city governor | |  By Gayatri Suroyo and Johan Purnomo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of hardline Muslim protesters in Indonesia marched on Friday to the presidential palace to demand the resignation of the governor of the capital, Jakarta, who they said had insulted the Koran. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country, where many people follow a moderate form of Islam. The atmosphere in Jakarta was tense and some companies asked employees to work from home, access to business districts was restricted and embassies urged caution.
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| Suicide at Japan's top ad agency puts overtime on the reform agenda | |  By Stanley White and Teppei Kasai TOKYO (Reuters) - In April last year, Matsuri Takahashi, a promising graduate of Japan's top university, landed a job at Dentsu, one of the country's most prestigious advertising agencies, renowned for its hard-driving work culture. Japan's labour ministry last month ruled the 24-year-old's death "karoshi", literally "death by overwork" and raided her employer, Dentsu Inc , to see if overwork abuses were pervasive in the company. For many Japanese, Takahashi's death is the tragic consequence of Article 36 of Japan's labour code, which leaves overtime pay and limits to the discretion of employers and typically benign unions.
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| Thailand's junta and ousted PM Yingluck seek rice farmers' support ahead of 2017 election | |  Thailand's politically powerful rice farmers are becoming the new battleground between the country's junta and ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, with both trying to woo their support amid concerns of a flashpoint ahead of 2017 elections. Yingluck on Friday attacked the military government's recent rescue packages worth at least $1.70 billion aimed at stabilising low rice prices as it tries to maintain stability ahead of the general election. "The military government's latest rice measures are no different from the rice pledging policy (of my government)," Yingluck told reporters outside a Bangkok court on Friday.
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| Turkey blocks access to Twitter, Whatsapp - internet monitoring group | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Access to social media sites Twitter and Whatapp was blocked in Turkey on Friday, an internet monitoring group said, following the detentions of 11 pro-Kurdish lawmakers in the mainly Kurdish southeast overnight. Access was being blocked by throttling, an expert from the monitoring group Turkey Blocks said, a method of slowing certain websites to the point where they are unusable. (Reporting by Can Sezer; Writing by Humeyra Pamuk) |
| 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. |
| 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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| 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. |
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