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| Turkey detains pro-Kurdish lawmakers, car bomb kills at least eight | |  A car bomb killed eight people and wounded more than 100 in southeastern Turkey's largest city on Friday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, hours after police detained the leaders of the mostly Kurdish region's biggest political party. The blast struck near a police station in Diyarbakir where some of the party leaders were being held in a terrorism probe. A spokesman for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), parliament's second-biggest opposition grouping, said the detention of its two leaders and at least nine other lawmakers risked triggering civil war.
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| British PM Theresa May moves to reassure EU over court decision on Brexit | |  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will tell European Union officials on Friday that a court ruling requiring a parliamentary vote will not derail her timetable for Britain to leave the bloc. May's aides say she will appeal the decision by the High Court, which said that the government must get parliamentary approval to trigger Article 50, the formal divorce announcement. They also say she will stick to her timetable to do it by the end of March. ...
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| South Africa prosecutor says probe on Gordhan's role in "spy unit" advanced | |  South Africa's main prosecutor said on Friday investigations into Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's role in setting up a surveillance unit at the tax department that allegedly spied on politicians were at an advanced stage. The rand eased briefly against the dollar, moving to 0.76 percent down on the day 0.61 percent lower before the news, amid concerns the outcome of the probe could shake financial markets. "The status of the rogue unit investigation - I've been advised that investigations are at an advanced stage," National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams told a parliamentary hearing in Cape Town.
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| Tens of thousands of Indonesian Muslims protest against capital's governor | |  By Fergus Jensen and Johan Purnomo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of hardline Muslim protesters in Indonesia rallied outside the presidential palace on Friday 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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| U.S. boosting cyber defenses, but not police presence, for election | |  By Julia Harte and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal and state authorities are beefing up cyber defenses against potential electronic attacks on voting systems ahead of U.S. elections on November 8, but taking few new steps to guard against possible civil unrest or violence. The threat of computer hacking and the potential for violent clashes is darkening an already rancorous presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, amid fears that Russia or other actors could spread political misinformation online or perhaps tamper with voting. To counter the cyber threat, all but two U.S. states have accepted help from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to probe and scan voter registration and election systems for vulnerabilities, a department official told Reuters.
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| Myanmar policeman killed by attackers in Rakhine State - officials | | | Myanmar officials said on Friday a police officer was killed and one wounded in an assault on a guard post in northwestern Rakhine State, in the latest violence in the area. The military has flooded the northern part of the state near the border with Bangladesh since Oct. 9, when militants believed to be Rohingya Muslims attacked police border posts, killing nine officers. Security forces have blocked access to aid workers and most journalists to the area. |
| Congo Republic parties petition government to withdraw from ICC | | | Two parties in Congo Republic's ruling coalition petitioned the government late on Thursday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that threatens to deal a fresh blow to the tribunal in The Hague. African states have long complained of ICC bias against Africans. Last month, South Africa and Burundi became the first countries to officially notify the United Nations of their intention to pull out of the Rome Statute, the 1998 treaty establishing the ICC. |
| Car bomb in Turkey's southeast kills eight, wounds more than 100 - PM | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A car bomb attack by Kurdish militants in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Friday killed eight people and wounded more than 100, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. Yildirim told reporters that one suspected member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was also killed in the blast. (Reporting by Ayla Jean Yackley; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Daren Butler) |
| Turkey's opposition HDP says lawmakers' detention a 'political operation' | | | Turkey's arrest on Friday of a dozen opposition lawmakers mainly representing the country's largely Kurdish, strife-hit southeast in a terror probe lacks any legal basis and is a clear political operation, a party spokesman said. The detentions are aimed at achieving what the ruling party failed to do at the ballot box in two general elections last year, when the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) won more than 5 million votes, HDP spokesman Ayhan Bilgen said. The HDP, which has Kurdish roots and is parliament's third-biggest grouping, will show a "democratic reaction" to the detentions, Bilgen told reporters at a news conference, describing the action as an attempt to provoke a civil war. |
| British banker in HK "needed cocaine boost" for courage to torture, kill | |  By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - Prosecution and defence lawyers used their closing arguments on Friday to try to convince a Hong Kong jury of the extent British banker Rurik Jutting was in control of his actions when he tortured, raped and killed two Indonesian women. Jutting, 31, a former Bank of America Corp employee, has denied murder in the 2014 killings of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
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| Russia says U.N. South Sudan mission 'in ruins' after firing | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday criticized U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon's decision to fire a Kenyan peacekeeping commander in South Sudan as premature, saying the mission there was now "in ruins" after Kenya vowed to withdraw all its troops in response to the move. Ban dismissed Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki after a U.N. inquiry into the response by peacekeepers to several days of violence in the capital Juba in July found a lack of leadership and that U.N. troops failed to protect civilians. Kenya said it would withdraw some 1,000 troops deployed with the 13,000-strong peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where U.N. peacekeepers have been deployed since 2011 when it gained independence from Sudan.
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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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| 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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| 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) |
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