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| UK says last British resident released from Guantanamo Bay | |  Shaker Aamer, the last British resident to be held at the U.S. prison camp in the Guantanamo Bay navy station in Cuba, has been freed after 13 years in detention, Britain said on Friday. Last month Britain said Aamer was due to be released but no date was specified. "I can confirm that he is on his way back to the UK now and he will arrive in Britain later today," Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.
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| Turkey's critical media fear deeper crackdown if election bolsters Erdogan | |  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In almost half a century as a reporter, columnist and editor of two national newspapers, Hasan Cemal has seen coups, military rule and government crises shake Turkish democracy. Broadly-defined anti-terrorism laws have been used to prosecute dozens of journalists in recent years. Some opposition journalists who have avoided court have instead been fired by what they say are pliant media bosses seeking to avoid Erdogan's ire, or say they have been shut out of official events.
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| Once a month, Modi steps in to revive stalled projects | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Paritosh Bansal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi is personally taking on India's notorious red tape to clear tens of billions of dollars worth of stalled public projects, hoping that his hands-on intervention can bend a vast, dysfunctional bureaucracy. Once a month, Modi holds a meeting with top state and central bureaucrats to check why projects have not got off the ground. Modi has won plaudits for the initiative that has chipped away at a $150 billion backlog of planned roads, ports, railways, power stations and other projects.
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| Exclusive - India eyes bankruptcy reform to ease decades of gridlock | |  By Clara Ferreira-Marques and Devidutta Tripathy MUMBAI (Reuters) - A group of government-appointed advisors has recommended sweeping changes to India's outdated and overburdened bankruptcy system, aiming to modernise a process that takes several years and costs investors and taxpayers billions. The changes would be the most ambitious overhaul to date of rules governing the liquidation or revival of companies in India, a country with no single bankruptcy code and where competing laws, unclear jurisdictions and inadequate resources can leave cases languishing for decades. The proposals, to be handed to the Finance Ministry as early as Monday, will impose deadlines for the first time and establish a network of insolvency professionals to lighten courts' workload and tackle delays, T.K. Viswanathan, chairman of the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee, told Reuters.
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| Crisis deepens as Cambodian opposition leader loses parliament post | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's ruling party ousted the opposition leader from his post of deputy parliament president on Friday after a controversial house vote that could nudge the Southeast Asian country closer to political conflict. All 68 Cambodian People's Party (CPP) parliamentarians voted to remove Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Kem Sokha for breaking the terms of a political deal in which the CNRP had agreed not to disparage the ruling party. CNRP boycotted the vote, calling it unconstitutional.
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| Myanmar opposition candidate stable after machete attack - party | | | By Soe Zeya Tun and Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - A member of parliament from Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party was recovering on Friday after being slashed with a machete in the first serious violence in a campaign for historic Nov.8 elections, a party official said. Three men attacked National League for Democracy (NLD) member Naing Ngan Lynn, who in running for a regional assembly seat in the commercial capital of Yangon, and two other people while he was campaigning on Thursday evening. It's important to take effective legal action after investigation," said Nyan Win. |
| China to prosecute former top Tibet security official for graft | | | A former top Chinese security official in Tibet will be prosecuted for suspected corruption, the ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said on Friday, in a rare example of corruption-busters going into the restive and remote region. Le Dake, who was deputy head of Tibet's regional legislature when an investigation into him began in June, is suspected of abuse of power and bribery, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said. According to his official biography, Le was head of the State Security Department in Tibet from 2004 to 2013. |
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