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| Turkish police detain businessmen in Gulen-linked probe - Dogan news agency | |  Turkish police detained prominent businessmen on Friday over allegations of financing the group of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally turned foe of President Tayyip Erdogan, the Dogan news agency reported. It said that the police detained Memduh Boydak, chief executive of furniture-to-cables conglomerate Boydak Holding, as well as the group's chairman Haci Boydak and two board members, and that the police were continuing searches of the company. Erdogan has led a crackdown against once influential followers of preacher Gulen, his former ally, after police and prosecutors seen as sympathetic to the cleric opened a corruption investigation into Erdogan's inner circle in 2013.
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| "Social curse" of huge personal debt raises worries in wealthy Qatar | |  Generous government salaries and free healthcare, funded by vast natural gas reserves in a country with only about 300,000 citizens, do not always translate into healthy bank balances for ordinary Qataris. Instead, they can come under intense social pressure to live way beyond their means, spending lavishly on everything from the latest smart phones and designer fashions to family weddings. Many are borrowing enormous sums from local banks to finance lifestyles they cannot afford, according to a study by Qatar University.
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| China defends foreign NGO law, says still being revised | |  By James Pomfret BEIJING (Reuters) - China needs more time to revise a draft law governing foreign non-government organisations, the parliamentary spokeswoman said on Friday, defending the need for such legislation despite widespread international criticism. The law comes amid a crackdown on dissent by President Xi Jinping's administration which has detained and jailed activists and blamed "foreign forces", including foreign NGOs, for the pro-democracy protests that rocked Hong Kong in late 2014. Speaking ahead of the opening of the annual session of parliament, spokeswoman Fu Ying defended China's justification for the law.
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| U.S. tech companies unite behind Apple ahead of iPhone encryption ruling | |  Tech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed legal briefs on Thursday asking a judge to support Apple Inc in its encryption battle with the U.S. government. The rare display of unity and support from Apple's sometime-rivals showed the breadth of Silicon Valley's opposition to the government's anti-encryption effort. Apple's battle became public last month when the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained a court order requiring the company to write new software to disable passcode protection and allow access to an iPhone used by one of the shooters in the December killings in San Bernardino, California.
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| The fur flies! Ralph Lauren teddy bears spark lawsuit | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan designer of stuffed animals on Thursday sued Ralph Lauren Corp, accusing it of creating an illegal market for stuffed teddy bears resembling her own. Samantha Goldberg said Ralph Lauren since 2001 has been selling teddy bears handmade from imported Scottish cashmere by her company, Alvin & Sparky LLC. She said her "Big Teddy" retails for $195, while "Little Teddy" sells for $170. Goldberg, who said her stuffed animals are also sold by Harrods of London, said she never gave permission for Manhattan-based Ralph Lauren to copy her designs.
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| Clinton ex-employee tells FBI no sign email server was hacked - NYT | |  The technician who helped manage Hillary Clinton's private email server for her work as secretary of state has given security logs to investigators that he said show no signs of foreign hacking, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Bryan Pagliano is cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's criminal inquiry into the email setup in exchange for limited immunity by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to the Times, citing unnamed people who know about the investigation. The investigation has overshadowed Hillary Clinton's campaign to become the Democratic Party's candidate in the November presidential election.
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