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| Rise of Turkish Islamic schooling upsets secular parents | |  By Dasha Afanasieva and Can Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms that President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defence against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation. Almost a million students are enrolled in "imam hatip" schools this year, up from just 65,000 in 2002 when Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party first came to power, he told the opening of one of the schools in Ankara last month. ...
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| Lebanon detains wife of Islamic State leader | |  By Laila Bassam and Sylvia Westall BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese army detained a wife and daughter of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as they crossed from Syria nine days ago, security officials said on Tuesday, in a move seen as likely to put pressure on the Islamist chief. The woman was identified as Saja al-Dulaimi, an Iraqi, by a Lebanese security official and a senior political source. The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported she had been detained in coordination with "foreign intelligence". ...
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| Kenyan president changes security officials after al Shabaab kill 36 | | | By Edmund Blair and Edith Honan NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab Islamist militants killed 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry in northeast Kenya on Tuesday, prompting the president to change his top security officials to tackle a relentless wave of violence. Kenyans have grown increasingly critical of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his government for failing to do more to defend the nation from the incessant militant attacks, which have killed well over 200 people since 2013. ... |
| In Zimbabwe, the route to power is called Mugabe | |  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is - quite literally - paving the way for his wife's ascent to power. In another sign of the First Lady's growing clout, Harare residents awoke on Tuesday to a new street, Dr Grace Mugabe Way, leading to the conference centre where Africa's oldest leader may this week anoint his chosen political successor. ...
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| Kenyan court sentences U.S. man to 50 years for child pornography | | | NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Tuesday sentenced a 59-year-old U.S. man to 50 years in jail for circulating pornographic images of children on the Internet. Terry Ray Krieger, who initially pleaded not guilty but then changed his plea to guilty, was convicted by Nairobi's senior principal magistrate Joseph Karanja. Krieger had been charged with circulating obscene depictions of children on social media sites between May 2013 and October 2014. Karanja said Krieger had faced similar charges in Michigan in the United States in the past. He did not give further details about that case. ... |
| Egypt's public prosecutor appeals Mubarak verdict, cites flaws | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor ordered an appeal on Tuesday against a court decision to drop charges against former president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides over the killing of protesters in a 2011 uprising. Mubarak, now 86, was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring to murder 239 demonstrators during an 18-day revolt that ended his 30-year rule, but an appeals court ordered a retrial. On Saturday, the court dropped its case against Mubarak, igniting protests in Cairo in which two people were killed. ...
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| Iran hackers target airlines, energy, defense companies - researchers | | | By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Iranian hackers have infiltrated major airlines, energy companies, and defense firms around the globe over the past two years in a campaign that could eventually cause physical damage, according to U.S. cyber security firm Cylance. The report comes as governments scramble to better understand the extent of Iran's cyber capabilities, which researchers say have grown rapidly as Tehran seeks to retaliate for Western cyber attacks on its nuclear program. ... |
| Three turn themselves in as probe involving Thai princess's kin widens | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two Thai army officers and a civilian have answered a police summons, police said, in a widening corruption investigation that has also led to the arrest of high-ranking policemen and relatives of Princess Srirasmi, the wife of the Crown Prince. The investigation comes at a time of heightened sensitivity surrounding the palace months after the military launched a coup. The revered but ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 86, was admitted to hospital in October and underwent an operation to remove his gallbladder. ... |
| Israel appears headed toward early national election | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel appeared to be headed on Tuesday toward an early election after right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his major centrist coalition partner failed to patch up differences. Netanyahu's government, which is dominated by the right and came to power early last year, has been unraveling over a range of issues including the 2015 budget. He said on Monday he would go to the polls unless rebellious ministers stopped attacking government policies. ...
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