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| Text of Sisi interview with Reuters | |  The challenges present in Egypt are so many. Programmes available in Western countries, the situations are much more stable in all fields compared to the reality in Egypt. I believe that within two years of serious, continuous work we can achieve the type of improvement Egyptians are looking for. Q: Is there a leader in the past in Egypt or anywhere around the world who you are trying to model yourself after?
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| Egypt's Sisi asks for U.S. help in fighting terrorism | |  By STEPHEN ADLER RICHARD MABLY CAIRO (Reuters) - Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who ousted an elected Islamist president and is set to become Egypt's next head of state, called on the United States to help fight jihadi terrorism to avoid the creation of new Afghanistans in the Middle East. In his first interview with an international news organisation in the run-up to the May 26-27 vote, Sisi called for the resumption of U.S. military aid, worth $1.3 billion a year, which was partially frozen after a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Asked what message he has for U.S. President Barack Obama, Sisi said: \"We are fighting a war against terrorism.\" \"The Egyptian army is undertaking major operations in the Sinai so it is not transformed into a base for terrorism that will threaten its neighbours and make Egypt unstable. If Egypt is unstable then the entire region is unstable," said a quietly spoken Sisi, wearing a dark civilian suit.
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| Crime gangs launder $140 billion through sports betting - report | | | Criminals are using betting on sports events to launder $140 billion each year, a report said on Thursday, exposing a lack of effective regulation that allows match-fixing to spread. \"The rapid evolution of the global sports betting market has seen an increased risk of infiltration by organised crime and money laundering,\" said Chris Eaton of the Qatar-based International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS). The report, compiled by the ICSS think-tank and the Sorbonne university in Paris, said that 80 percent of global sports betting was being carried out on illegal markets, placing it beyond the reach of regulators and investigators. |
| Book Talk: Oregon writer finds beauty, redemption on death row | | | By Fiona Ortiz REUTERS - Non-fiction writer Rene Denfeld draws on her work as a death penalty investigator in her first novel, \"The Enchanted\", the story of a prisoner who invents a horrible, liberating beauty deep underground. As a licensed investigator since 2008 Denfeld has interviewed prisoners, on and off death row, and traveled to \"the worst parts of the country and the worst streets and homes\" to find friends, relatives and teachers who might help her clients avoid or overturn a death sentence. \"The Enchanted\" comes after Denfeld's non-fiction books including \"The New Victorians\", about victimism in the women's movement, and female aggression and violence in \"Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall\". I had written non-fiction books and started doing this work as an investigator. |
| More than 20 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam | |  More than 20 people were killed in Vietnam and a huge foreign steel project set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the centre of the country a day after arson and looting in the south, a doctor and company officials said on Thursday. A doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbours fought a brief border war in 1979. More are being sent to the hospital this morning,\" the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters by phone. Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's biggest investor in Vietnam, said its upcoming steel plant in Ha Tinh was set on fire after fighting between its Vietnamese and Chinese workers.
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| Jail, lawsuits cast shadow over Myanmar media freedom | |  By Paul Mooney YANGON (Reuters) - Two years after Myanmar scrapped censorship in one of its boldest reforms, its journalists are again living in fear of jail and are convinced a state-sponsored crackdown is under way to limit press freedom. \"The hardliners in the government think (media freedom) has now gone too far,\" says Thiha Saw, chief editor of the English-language Myanma Freedom. The arrests evoke memories of the country's oppressive past, with detention of members of the media a hallmark of the previous military government, said London-based Amnesty International in a recent statement. Toe Zaw Latt, bureau chief for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), has felt the brunt of the crackdown.
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| Elusive Muscovite with three names takes control of Ukraine rebels | |  In a leaflet distributed this week in the rebel Donetsk region, \"Colonel Igor Strelkov\" assumed command of all rebel forces there and called for Russian army help to ward off what he calls the threat from the Kiev \"junta\" and from NATO. To Kiev and its Western allies, Strelkov is living proof that Moscow is behind the uprising in eastern Ukraine, despite its denials, and trying to replay the scenario that saw it seize the Crimea province in March. Kiev says he is actually an agent of Russia's GRU military intelligence.
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| Japan PM eyes landmark change in limits on military combat abroad | |  By Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Advisers to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Thursday for a landmark change in security policy, urging the government to lift a ban that has kept Japan from fighting abroad since its defeat in World War Two. Citing an increasingly tough security environment, the private advisers called in a report for a change to a long-standing interpretation of the post-war, pacifist constitution that says Japan has the right to defend itself with the minimum force necessary, but that combat abroad exceeds that limit. A lifting of the ban on \"collective self-defence\" would be welcome to Japan's ally the United States, but would draw criticism from China, ties with which have been damaged by a territorial row and the legacy of Japan's past aggression. Previous governments have said Japan has the right of collective self-defence under international law, but that the constitution's pacifist Article 9 prohibited taking such action.
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| Hundreds of Chinese enter Cambodia, fleeing Vietnam violence - police | | | Hundreds of Chinese nationals have fled to Cambodia to escape anti-China riots in Vietnam in which at least 20 people are reported to have been killed, Cambodian police said on Thursday. \"Yesterday more than 600 Chinese people from Vietnam crossed at Bavet international checkpoint into Cambodia,\" National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith told Reuters. \"They are at guest houses and hotels in Phnom Penh, with around 100 people staying in Bavet town,\" he added. \"After the situation calms down, they may go back to Vietnam or to other places.\" Bavet is on a highway stretching from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's commercial centre, to Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh. |
| Thai protesters force PM to flee meeting after three killed in Bangkok | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters seeking to oust Thailand's government broke into the grounds of an air force compound on Thursday where the acting prime minister was meeting the Election Commission to fix a date for new polls, forcing him to flee. The disruption of acting Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongphaisan's efforts to organise an election came hours after gunmen attacked anti-government protesters, killing three. The turmoil comes as the government loyal to ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra squares off with opponents backed by the royalist establishment over who should be prime minister, in the latest phase of nearly a decade of rivalry. Hundreds of protesters converged outside an air force school in north Bangkok after word spread that Niwatthamrong was meeting commission officials there.
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