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| 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. |
| Thailand, under fire, says rejected China request to deport all Uighur Muslims | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand sought on Friday to defuse international criticism of its decision to deport nearly 100 Uighur Muslims back to China, saying it had rejected a request from Beijing to return all the Uighur migrants held in its detention camps. The deportations have drawn condemnation from the United States and human rights groups and sparked sometimes violent protests in Turkey, home to a large Uighur diaspora. China accused "some foreign governments and forces" of trying to exploit the Uighur issue for their own ends and said it was "cooperating normally" with Thailand to curb illegal immigration.
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| Greek PM says does not have mandate to exit eurozone | |  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appealed to his Syriza lawmakers on Friday to back a fiscal plan in return for aid from creditors, a government official said, in a last-ditch attempt to stave off financial meltdown. Tsipras is seeking approval from Syriza for a government blueprint of reforms in return for new aid from international creditors. "We are confronted with crucial decisions," a government official quoted Tspiras telling lawmakers.
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| Boxer Pacquiao prays with Philippine death row inmate in Indonesia | |  YOGYAKARTA/JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao on Friday held a prayer session in an Indonesian prison with a Philippine woman on death row for drug trafficking, in hopes of drawing attention to her plight and getting her sentence commuted. Mary Jane Veloso won a last-minute reprieve from execution in April, after officials in Manila asked Indonesian President Joko Widodo to let her give evidence in an investigation into the network accused of recruiting her. Pacquiao, one of many celebrities campaigning to save Veloso, prayed with her in the Yogyakarta prison where she has been jailed while testifying against a couple alleged to have recruited her to smuggle 2.6 kg of heroin into Indonesia.
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| Exclusive - Miami company described in U.S. soccer case as agreeing to pay bribe-sources | | | By Mica Rosenberg and David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Miami-based affiliate of Spanish media giant Imagina group is one of the unidentified sports marketing companies alleged in a U.S. indictment to have agreed to pay a bribe in a global soccer corruption scandal, sources told Reuters. The company is Media World, a subsidiary of Imagina US, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The indictment does not say that the company - identified only as "Sports Marketing Company C" - paid a bribe, but says it had agreed to do so and was looking for a way to make the payment to a high-ranking soccer official in the Americas. Media World, which buys and sells the media rights to soccer leagues and has operated TV channels aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market, has not been charged with wrongdoing. |
| PM Modi chooses silence as opposition attacks | |  By Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a skilled orator and prolific on social media, so his studied silence about allegations of corruption and influence trafficking affecting his party has set other tongues wagging. At rowdy election rallies last year, Modi used Hindi to deride his reserved predecessor Manmohan Singh as Maun-mohan, or Silent-mohan, when the then leader slipped from the public eye as his government was engulfed by scandal.
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