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| Singapore anti-gambling ad turns into World Cup hot tip | | | By Caroline Ng SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has scored an own goal with its World Cup anti-gambling ad which features a crestfallen boy telling his friends his dad bet his life savings on Germany - who have just reached the finals by thrashing host nation Brazil 7-1. The video, which has run every day of the World Cup, went viral on social media soon after the Brazil game ended and Singapore government ministers were quick with some tongue-in-cheek remarks. "Looks like the boy's father who bet all his savings on Germany will be laughing all the way to the bank!" Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin wrote on his Facebook page. "Germany beat Brazil 7-1! Brazil need to find out what went wrong and I need to find the script-writer for the gambling control advertisement," appropriately named Minister for Trade and Industry Teo Ser Luck said in another post. |
| Modi tightens grip on BJP, names close aide Amit Shah as party chief | |  By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's closest political associate was named the president of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday as the leader tightened his grip on the party he carried to its biggest election victory this summer. Amit Shah is a controversial former minister from Modi's home state of Gujarat. "The spectacular success that he achieved in Uttar Pradesh has never been done before," the outgoing party chief, Rajnath Singh, told a news conference. The BJP now rules just eight of India's 29 states.
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| Kidnapped Israelis shot 10 times with silenced gun - U.S. lab | | | By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Three Israeli teenagers who were abducted by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month were shot at least 10 times with a silenced gun in what appeared to be premeditated killings, a U.S. official involved in the investigation said. One of them, 16-year-old Naftali Fraenkel, also held American citizenship. Israeli police believe the killings led far-right Jews to kidnap and burn to death a Palestinian youth in revenge, and the incident also contributed to an eruption of three weeks of clashes between Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli military. Israel blamed Hamas for their deaths but the Palestinian Islamist group has neither confirmed nor denied the allegation. |
| Australian PM says won't bow to "moral blackmail" over asylum seekers | |  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday vowed not to bow to "moral blackmail" following reports of suicide bids by female asylum seekers at a detention centre on Christmas Island. Opposition Greens lawmaker Sarah Hanson-Young, whose party is one of the strongest critics of the government's "Operation Sovereign Borders" immigration policy, said she had spoken to people inside the centre who reported that almost ten mothers were on suicide watch this week. Fairfax media reported the women had tried to kill themselves after deciding their children would have a better chance of making it to Australia without them. "This is not going to be a government which has our policy driven by people who are attempting to hold us over a moral barrel - we won't be driven by that." Government minister Eric Abetz later told parliament there had been a small number of "minor self-harm incidents" at the facility on Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island but declined to provide any further detail, citing the detainees' rights to privacy.
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| Afghan war inflicting devastating toll on civilians - U.N. | |  By Maria Golovnina KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's war is inflicting an increasingly devastating toll on the civilian population, with the number of casualties rising by almost a quarter in the first half of this year, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday. U.S.-led forces are gradually withdrawing from military bases scattered across Afghanistan after 12 years of war against Taliban insurgents, contributing to deteriorating security, with civilians bearing the brunt of the violence. The U.N. report comes out as a political crisis unfolds in Afghanistan, threatening civil unrest on top of the insurgency as supporters of the two presidential candidates go head-to-head over the result of a presidential run-off. Preliminary results announced on Monday gave Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank official, 56.44 percent in the run-off on June 14, but his rival Abdullah Abdullah immediately rejected the outcome, saying the vote had been marred by widespread fraud.
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| Rape and murder of 13-year-old spark debate in junta-ruled Thailand | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - The rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl on an overnight train in Thailand have prompted a nationwide call for stricter enforcement of rape laws and a weekend rally that will defy military restrictions on public gatherings. Growing public outrage over the case is akin to reaction to the high profile gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a New Delhi bus in 2012 which sent shockwaves across urban India. A group calling itself the "We want to change the rape law to make it death penalty only" movement said it plans a weekend rally at Bangkok's Siam Paragon shopping centre. Thailand's military took power in a coup in May after six months of sometimes violent street protests. |
| Combative Sterling says NBA's Clippers worth more than $2 billion | |  By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling on Tuesday sparred with his estranged wife's attorney at a trial over the $2 billion sale of the NBA franchise, interrupting and shouting during testimony and saying he wants to keep the team for financial reasons. The 80-year-old real estate billionaire, who has been deemed by physicians to have Alzheimer's disease and is unable to handle business affairs, said he was blocking the sale brokered by his wife to former Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer because he believed the team's value could be more than double. It is the first time Sterling has spoken publicly since a televised interview in May shortly after he was banned from the NBA for life for taped racist remarks that were made public. "It showed you the enormous hypocrisy of this guy, who will spout all these things about how he loves his wife, but he's suing her." Shelly Sterling, 79, has asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas to confirm her as the sole trustee of the family trust that owns the Clippers and to back the NBA-record deal.
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