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| Japanese citizen shot dead in Bangladesh, 2nd foreigner killed this week |
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| By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Police in Bangladesh said they have detained four people in connection with the shooting death on Saturday of a Japanese citizen, the second foreign national killed in the South Asian nation within a week. Kunio Hoshi, 65, a Japanese citizen but born in Bangladesh, was attacked by unidentified assailants in Kownia in Rangpur district, 335 km (210 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka, and died on the way to hospital, police said. The killing bore some similarities to the shooting death of an Italian working in Bangladesh, Cesare Tavella. |
| Platini called French sports ministry to insist he's clean |
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 UEFA president Michel Platini, freshly embroiled in the FIFA scandal over a 1.8-million euro payment he received from president Sepp Blatter, called the French sports ministry to insist he had done nothing wrong. "He has the feeling he is clean and he wanted to say it to me again," Secretary of State Thierry Braillard told French sports daily L'Equipe on Saturday. Blatter is under criminal investigation by Swiss authorities but remains in office ahead of a scheduled February election.
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| Nine dead at Afghan hospital after U.S. air strike |
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| By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Saturday acknowledged it may have bombed a hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz in an air strike that killed at least nine people and wounded 37. The incident could renew concerns about the use of U.S. air power in Afghanistan, a controversial issue in America's longest war. Former President Hamid Karzai fell out with his backers in Washington over the number of civilians killed by bombs. |
| MSF says gave location of bombed-out hospital to Afghan, U.S. forces |
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| NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres on Saturday said it gave the coordinates of the Afghan hospital hit by an airstrike that killed at least nine people to Afghan and U.S. forces several times, to avoid being caught in crossfire."Precise location of our Kunduz hospital communicated to all parties on multiple occasions over past months," as well as earlier this week, the group said in a message on social media website Twitter. (Reporting by Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) |
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