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| Kenyan president signs anti-doping bill into law | |  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta signed into law an anti-doping bill required to avoid a ban from the Rio Olympics of a nation famed for its runners, the president's office said on Wednesday. Video from the president's office showed Kenyatta at State House signing the bill, flanked by senior government officials and sportsmen and women. The law, demanded by the World Anti-Doping Agency, will criminalise doping in a country with a history of middle and long-distance running excellence, but which has been tainted by several doping cases in the recent past. ...
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| Australia university ousts Chinese academic amid cries of Beijing interference | | | University of Sydney business school tutor Wei Wu, who gave up his Chinese citizenship to be Australian last year, quit earlier this week ahead of a university investigation into his conduct. Chinese students had complained he used racist language in a heated exchange on social media, prompting the probe. In his argument with students on social media website Weibo, Wu, 26, called Chinese students in Australia "tun" in Mandarin, a word for pig which, according to his supporters, is also slang for rich, young Chinese who flout their devotion to communism abroad. |
| Landless quake victims missing out as Nepal rebuilds, Oxfam says | |  By Matthew Ponsford LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A year after the deadly earthquake in Nepal, thousands of people, especially women, are being deprived of funds to rebuild because they do not own land or cannot prove they owned the land where they lived, Oxfam said on Friday. Nepal's government requires proof of ownership, but many victims have lost documents and others did not formally own the land where they lived, said a report by the international anti-poverty organisation. "Families who are landless and who were living on unregistered land are very much uncertain about the future and support that the government had promised," said Prabin Man Singh, research and policy coordinator for Oxfam, who co-authored the report.
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| Jailed businessman Nadir moved to Turkish prison - media | |  Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir, who was jailed in Britain for stealing millions from his business empire, has been transferred to a prison in Turkey, state-run Anadolu Agency said on Friday. Nadir was flown from London to Istanbul on Thursday evening after British authorities accepted his request to serve the rest of his sentence in Turkey, the agency said. The 74-year-old was jailed for 10 years in 2012 for stealing 29 million pounds from Polly Peck, an ailing textiles company which he transformed into one of the most successful British firms of the 1980s.
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| Turkish court remands executive in custody over Gulen links - media | | | A Turkish court remanded seven people in custody pending trial, including an executive of a major construction company, accused of funding the movement of President Tayyip Erdogan's foe, Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, state media said on Friday. The suspects were among more than 100 detained by police on Monday, the latest operations targeting thousands of supporters of the U.S.-based cleric, accused of leading a "Gulenist Terror Group" trying to unseat Erdogan. Gulen denies the accusations. |
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