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| At least four reported killed in Mogadishu hotel attack | | | A suicide car bomb struck a hotel in the middle of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday before gunmen entered and started shooting, police said. Al Shabaab Islamist militants claimed responsibility for the attack on the Wehliya Hotel and said they had also laid siege to another hotel in the city. Another police officer Omar Ali, said security forces had arrived at Wehliya and were engaging the attackers on the perimeter. |
| FIFA official in Switzerland agrees to U.S. extradition | | | One of seven FIFA officials detained in Switzerland in a corruption probe has agreed to be extradited to the United States, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said on Friday. The seven were arrested in May in a dawn raid by Swiss police at a luxury hotel in Zurich, on corruption charges filed by U.S. prosecutors in New York. The FOJ did not name the official or give any details on when he might be sent to the United States, but said in a statement it would take place within 10 days. |
| Shun gangs, have hope, Pope tells inmates at violent Bolivian jail | |  By Sarah Marsh and Philip Pullella SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Saying he too had made mistakes and sinned, Pope Francis on Friday urged inmates at one of Latin America's most violent prisons to shun gang violence and exhorted guards to treat them with dignity. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins," the pope told hundreds of prisoners and their children on a visit to a place one long-time inmate likened to "Sodom and Gomorrah". It is Jesus Christ, the mercy of the Father," he said as two children wandered up to the stage and sat before him.
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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. |
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