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| Tunisia hunts group fleeing to Islamic State in Libya - locals | | | By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian authorities on Friday were investigating the disappearance of 33 residents from the same town after families reported they had left overnight to join Islamic State militants in Libya, locals said. Tunisian militants make up one of the largest groups of foreign fighters in Islamic State ranks, but the departure of such a large number from the same town illustrates the struggle the government faces in controlling jihadist recruiters. The interior ministry said it was investigating the disappearance on Tuesday of the group, from Remada, a small central town of 11,000 near the border with Libya. |
| Sexually abused girls face pipeline to prison in U.S. - report | | | By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - What landed Mia Paz in jail was the sexual abuse she had suffered as a child. One contributing factor to the higher arrest rate could be that lower income families cannot afford mental health counselling for sexual abuse, and African Americans generally are poorer than whites, it said. |
| China anti-graft chief calls for stricter punishments - Xinhua | | | The chief of China's anti-graft watchdog called for more severe punishments and stronger discipline for ruling Communist Party members, state media reported on Friday, as President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive enters its third year. "The ruling Party's discipline and regulations must be harsher than the law," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Wang Qishan as saying. Wang heads the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, through which the country's leadership has conducted its sweeping efforts to stamp out corruption in the Communist Party and government ranks. |
| Malaysian investigators say looking into PM's wife bank account | | | Malaysian investigators are looking into bank transactions by the prime minister's wife, a statement by a special task force said on Friday, following media reports that large sums of cash were deposited into her account. "The task force knew about this (transactions into Rosmah Mansor's bank account) before the (media) expose and an investigation is being conducted," said the task force probing allegations of misappropriation of funds from state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). Activist website Sarawak Report said in a story on Thursday that 2 million ringgit ($523,000) in cash had been deposited into Rosmah's account in Affin Bank Bhd earlier this year. |
| Turkey detains 21 on suspicion of belonging to Islamic State | | | Police staged raids across Turkey on Friday, detaining 21 people, most suspected of belonging to Islamic State, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Three of the detainees were foreigners, and authorities believe they were planning to enter Syria to fight for Islamic State, which is battling both President Bashar al-Assad's forces and opposition groups backed by Turkey's Western allies. Under pressure from NATO members, Turkey has stepped up efforts to prevent foreign fighters crossing into neighbouring Syria to join Islamic State, which espouses a fundamentalist Islamic ideology. |
| Two dead in shooting in southern Germany - police | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are chasing a man suspected of shooting dead two people from his car near to the southern town of Leutershausen, a local police spokesman said. The spokesman said the man killed one woman and later shot dead a cyclist. (Reporting by Hans-Edzard Busemann; Writing by Caroline Copley; Editing by Victoria Bryan) |
| China military to prosecute another senior officer for graft | |  China's military will prosecute another former senior officer for corruption, the Defence Ministry said on Friday, part of a sweeping campaign against graft which has already felled dozens of top people, including high ranking military personnel. Weeding out corruption in the military is a top goal of President Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission, which controls China's 2.3 million-strong armed forces. In a brief statement, the ministry said that Deng Ruihui, former political commissar for the Joint Logistics Department in the Lanzhou military region, is suspected of serious "breaches of discipline", the usual euphemism for corruption.
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| Turkmenistan leader purges cabinet for corruption, slow reform | |  Turkmenistan's leader Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has sacked several senior government officials, citing pervasive corruption and slow reforms in key sectors of the economy, state television reported on Friday. Berdymukhamedov, a 58-year-old former-dentist who became president in late 2006, sacked Deputy Prime Minister Annamukhamed Gochyev "for serious drawbacks in his work" just after the latter reported to a government meeting on continued growth in the gas-fuelled economy.
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| For Gazans, fence with Israel is a leap into the unknown | | | By Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER (Reuters) - From his spartan room in the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, 18-year-old Abdalla al-Haddad could glimpse a narrow chance at a better life: it was less than a mile and a 3-1/2-metre fence away. "Ten minutes after we jumped, illumination rounds were fired, there was a lot of gunfire and we were surrounded by Israeli army forces, who arrested us," he said. "I was desperate because there is no work in Gaza," he explained, describing his daily life as sleeping and playing football, with little prospect of finding a job. |
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