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| Clinton announces plan to address 'unjustified' price hikes on life-saving drugs | |  By Amanda Becker and Ransdell Pierson WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton said on Friday that if elected to the White House she would create an oversight panel to protect U.S. consumers from price hikes on long-available drugs and import alternative treatments if necessary, adding to her pledges to rein in drug prices. Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, would seek to give the panel an "aggressive new set of enforcement tools," including the ability to levy fines and impose penalties on manufacturers when there has been an "unjustified, outlier price increase" on a long-available or generic drug, her campaign said.
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| Ireland to join Apple in fight against EU tax ruling | |  Ireland's cabinet agreed on Friday to join Apple in appealing against a multi-billion-euro back tax demand that the European Commission has imposed on the iPhone maker, despite misgivings among independents who back the fragile coalition. The Commission's ruling this week that the U.S. tech giant must pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) to Dublin has angered Washington, which accuses the EU of trying to grab tax revenue that should go to the U.S. government. With transatlantic tensions rising, the White House said President Barack Obama would raise the issue of tax avoidance by some multinational corporations at a summit of the G20 leading economies in China this weekend.
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| WIDER IMAGE - Triple murder shakes colony of deaf people in rural Haiti | |  By Andrez Martinez Casares LEVEQUE, Haiti (Reuters) - A triple murder has shaken the village of Leveque in rural Haiti, testing the community and sense of security nurtured by its large population of deaf families who were relocated there after the devastating earthquake six years ago. The murders of three deaf women, Vanessa Previl, Monique Vincent and Jesula Gelin as they tried to get home from the capital Port-au-Prince in March seemed a chilling reminder of the prejudices and superstition that many in the village grew up with, even in their own homes. Built after the earthquake by Mission of Hope, a U.S. religious charity, and housing a high proportion of deaf families among its 615 households, Leveque's modest tin-roofed homes and unpaved streets have become a place of tolerance in an often hostile outside world.
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| Photos show South Sudan rebel leader in apparent good health | | | By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - Supporters of South Sudanese opposition leader Riek Machar have released pictures showing him in apparent good health, more than a month after he fled fierce fighting in the capital, Juba, in which he was reported to have been wounded. Hundreds of people were killed in the battles that broke out in the world's youngest nation in July as troops loyal to Machar and President Salva Kiir, his long-time political foe, fought each other using tanks, artillery and helicopters. After withdrawing from the capital, Machar's whereabouts and condition remained unknown for several weeks until the United Nations said it had picked him up in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo with a leg injury. |
| Foreign-owned flower farms attacked in Ethiopia unrest - growers | | | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least seven foreign-owned flower farms in Ethiopia's Amhara region have been burnt to the ground or partially damaged in political violence afflicting the country over the past two months, producers said on Friday. Anti-government protests over disputed provincial boundaries and allegations of human rights violations have spread in the north-central province, the second region to be riven by turmoil this year alongside Oromiya province in central Ethiopia. In June, Human Rights Watch said security forces killed at least 400 people in Oromiya protesting at government plans to incorporate some parts of the region within the city limits of the capital Addis Ababa. |
| South African cabinet urges inquiry on banks' treatment of Zuma friends | |  By James Macharia JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The South African cabinet has asked President Jacob Zuma to launch a judicial inquiry into why the country's top banks cut ties with a company owned by the wealthy Gupta family, who have been accused of holding undue political sway over Zuma. The prominent business family is accused by the opposition of being behind Zuma's abrupt sacking of former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene in December, a move that rattled investor confidence and triggered calls for the president's resignation. The Guptas, whose businesses stretch from media to mining, have denied using their friendship with Zuma to influence his decisions, including cabinet appointments, or advance their business interests.
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| Explosion in Philippine president's home city kills 10 - president spokesman | | | An explosion at a market in the home city of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte killed at least 10 people on Friday and wounded dozens more, his spokesman said, adding the cause of the blast was unknown. Duterte was in Davao on Friday, but was safe and at a police station after the explosion, his son Paolo Duterte, who is vice mayor of the city, told Reuters. The incident took place at a street market outside the high-end Marco Polo hotel in Davao, in the southern Philippines, a military spokesman told reporters by phone. |
| Member of UK armed forces charged with Northern Ireland-related terrorism offences | | | A serving member of the British armed forces was charged with terrorism offences on Friday in connection with Northern Ireland, London's Metropolitan Police said. Ciaran Maxwell, 30, was arrested in Somerset, southwest England, last month. Police said related property searches in Exminster were now complete but those at a wooded area in Devon would continue into next week. |
| EU ministers tone down rhetoric on Turkey but rights concerns persist | |  By Gabriela Baczynska and Sabine Siebold BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers toned down their sometimes harsh views on Turkey as they gathered in Slovakia on Friday, although concerns about a crackdown following a failed coup were still running high. Turkey has accused the EU of being slow and half-hearted in its condemnation of the attempted coup, while hurrying to criticise President Tayyip Erdogan for the ensuing purge of officials from the police and army to journalists and academics. The bloc wants to keep Turkish cooperation in cutting the influx of refugees from conflict zones such as Syria and the souring of relations has triggered worries that Ankara could walk away from the deal.
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| Gabon residents, troops take to streets of capital after post-election riots | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Soldiers were deployed in the Gabonese capital Libreville on Friday as residents ventured back onto the streets, buying provisions and surveying damage after two days of riots sparked by a disputed presidential election. Clashes across the city led to three deaths and up to 1,100 arrests by Thursday afternoon, the interior minister said, as supporters of defeated challenger Jean Ping - who claimed the ballot was fixed - faced off against state security forces. Some shops in the city centre were open on Friday but there was little traffic, and locals expressed concern that the violence - which former colonial power France and others in the West had condemned while calling for greater transparency over the election result - might return.
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| South Africa's cabinet seeks inquiry on banks' treatment of Zuma friends | |  By James Macharia JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The South African cabinet has asked President Jacob Zuma to launch a judicial inquiry into why the country's top banks cut ties with a company owned by the wealthy Gupta family, who have been accused of holding undue political sway over Zuma. The prominent business family is accused by the opposition of being behind Zuma's abrupt sacking of former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene in December, a move that rattled investor confidence and triggered calls for the president's resignation. The Guptas, whose businesses stretch from media to mining, have denied using their friendship with Zuma to influence his decisions, including cabinet appointments, or advance their business interests.
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| Britain committed to European foreign policy, security - Johnson | |  Britain is committed to European foreign and security cooperation even though it is preparing to leave the European Union, its foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said on Friday as he arrived for talks with other EU ministers. Johnson, a former mayor of London and a colourful politician with a long record of gaffes and scandals, was a high-profile "Leave" campaigner in Britain's June referendum which resulted in a vote to quit the EU bloc. As Britain and the other 27 EU states gear up for painful divorce talks, Johnson reiterated that Britain "may be leaving the European Union but we are not leaving Europe." "The British government, under Theresa May, is absolutely committed to participation in European foreign policy cooperation and European defence and security co-operation," he said.
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| Turkish police use tear gas on protesters near Syrian border - security sources | | | ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkish security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse a group of protesters along the Syrian border on Friday, Turkish military sources said, but denied suggestions that they opened fire and killed at least one civilian. The protesters were demonstrating against Turkey building a wall on the Syrian border near the Kurdish Syrian town of Kobani, the security sources said. An official from the Kobani town council, Anwar Musallim, told Reuters that Turkish forces used live ammunition as well as tear gas. |
| Mother Teresa borne to sainthood by complex, mysterious process | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The canonisation of Mother Teresa of Calcutta on Sunday will be the culmination of a process - sometimes called "the saint-making machine" - that is long, complex, expensive, opaque and often contentious. The Catholic Church posthumously confers sainthood on people considered so holy during their lives that they are now believed to be with God and can intercede with him to perform miracles. Mother Teresa died in 1997 and the late Pope John Paul, who met her often, bent Vatican rules to grant a dispensation allowing the procedure to establish her case for sainthood to be launched two years after her death instead of the usual five.
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| Colombians would approve peace accord in plebiscite - report | |  Colombians would vote in favor of a peace deal between the government and Marxist FARC rebels even as the nation remains deeply divided over the agreement, local media reported on Friday, citing a poll. After almost four years of complicated talks in Havana, the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) agreed last week to end a five-decade war that has killed more than 220,000 and displaced millions. A poll by Cifras y Conceptos, the first since the agreement was reached, showed that 62 percent of Colombians who decide to participate in the plebiscite would vote in favor of the deal, local radio station Caracol reported on Friday.
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| Ex-Stanford swimmer released after three months in jail for sex assault | |  By Jane Lanhee Lee SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - A former Stanford University swimmer was released from jail on Friday after serving just half of a six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, a sentence widely criticized as too lenient. Brock Turner, 20, left the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose shortly after 6 a.m. PDT (1300 GMT), just three months after he began serving a sentence for assault with intent to commit rape, penetration of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person. Sheriff's deputies stood nearby as Turner, carrying a paper bag filled with his belongings, walked silently from the jail to a white sports utility vehicle waiting at the curb.
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