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| Sturgeon launches new Scottish independence drive after 'seismic' Brexit vote | |  By Elisabeth O'Leary STIRLING, Scotland (Reuters) - The Scottish National Party is to send out thousands of its faithful to measure the appetite for independence, leader Nicola Sturgeon announced on Friday, raising the political stakes further as Britain decides how it will leave the European Union. The first minister of the devolved Scottish government said Britain's June vote to leave the EU, dragging Scotland with it, had shifted the debate dramatically just two years after Scots voted by 10 percentage points to reject independence. "Do we control our own destiny as a country or will we always be at the mercy of decisions taken elsewhere?" Sturgeon asked her Scottish National Party (SNP) lawmakers in Stirling, the site of a historic Scots battle over the English in 1297.
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| Judge in French Riviera's Nice deals further blow to burkini foes | |  Attempts to ban burkini-clad women from the beaches of France's Riviera coast suffered a further setback when a judge in the city of Nice declared the prohibition of the body-hiding swimwear to be illegal there. The verdict delivered on Thursday was the latest of several rulings against bans imposed by local authorities in dozens of southeastern beach resorts in the peak holiday month of August - bans that sparked intense controversy inside and outside France. Nice, where 86 people died in an Islamic State militant attack in July, was one of some 30 towns in the largely right-wing part of the country to ban the burkini on the grounds that it presented a threat to public order.
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| Cannabis booths torn down in Danish free town Christiania | |  By Annabella PultzNielsen and Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Residents of the 'free town' of Christiania in Copenhagen began tearing down cannabis-selling booths on its main street on Friday, two days after a shooting incident rocked one of Denmark's favourite tourist attractions. Known to Danes as "the town", Christiania was founded on abandoned military grounds by squatters in 1971 and is known for its rainbow-coloured hippie houses and its cannabis trade, which generates approximately 1 billion Danish crowns ($150 million) a year, according to police. Free town residents decided at a gathering on Thursday night to start demolishing the booths, concerned that Christiania's liberal drugs culture has been taken over by organised crime.
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| U.N. chief urges Sri Lanka to redress wrongs of war | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged Sri Lanka to do more to redress wrongs committed during 26 years of war with Tamil rebels, including returning land and restoring the accountability of the judiciary and security services. Ban, on a three-day official visit, praised the efforts of President Maithripala Sirisena's administration since coming to power last year to address some rights abuses committed during the war. "Sri Lanka is still in the early stages of regaining its rightful position in the region and the international community." Dozens of Sri Lankan nationalists, who back ousted president Mahinda Rajapaksa, on Thursday protested against Ban's visit, demanding he leave the island and stop an investigation into alleged abuses at the end of the civil war.
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| Brazil's Temer says decision for Rousseff to keep political rights a "small" embarrassment | |  By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Brazil's newly installed president Michel Temer said the Senate's decision to allow former president Dilma Rousseff to maintain her political rights was a "small" embarrassment, and played down its significance to the stability of his government. Temer was speaking on the sidelines of a business summit in Shanghai, after arriving in China on Friday to attend a G20 leaders' meeting in Hangzhou, his first global event after this week's impeachment of his predecessor, Rousseff. "From the beginning I have always said I would wait respectfully for the Senate decision.
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| Bombs kill at least 12, wound dozens at Pakistan court | |  By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two bombs killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens outside a court complex in northwest Pakistan on Friday, a rescue official said, hours after militants killed two people in a Christian neighbourhood in the same region. Both attacks were claimed by Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a breakaway Pakistani Taliban faction believed to be behind some of the past year's deadliest attacks, including last month's bombing of lawyers in the city of Quetta that killed 74 people. The bodies of policemen, lawyers and other civilians were recovered, said Haris Habib, chief rescue officer in the city of Mardan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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| Putin says he doesn't know who hacked U.S. Democratic Party - Bloomberg | |  By Jack Stubbs MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said he did not know who was behind the hacking of U.S. Democratic Party organizations but the information uncovered was important, Bloomberg news agency reported on Friday. In an interview two days before a G20 meeting in China with U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders, Putin said it might be impossible to establish who engineered the release of sensitive Democratic Party emails but it was not done by the Russian government. "Does it even matter who hacked this data?" Putin said.
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| South Africa's cabinet asks Zuma for inquiry on Gupta account closures | |  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 have denied using their friendship with Zuma to influence his decisions, including cabinet appointments, or advance their business interests.
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| Islamic State's military retreat raises risk of attacks in France - prosecutor | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Islamic State's military pullback in Iraq and Syria increases the risk of Islamist attacks in France like the ones the country suffered this year and last, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins was quoted saying on Friday. "We see clearly in the history of terrorism that when terrorist organisations are in difficulty on their own turf they look for an opportunity to attack abroad," he said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper, adding that the military pressure IS faces could result in more French jihadis and their families returning home. ... |
| Turkey frees about 34,000 prisoners, making space after coup round up | | | Turkish authorities have so far released 33,838 prisoners, the justice minister said on Friday, after Turkey said it was releasing 38,000 inmates from prisons to make space for tens of thousands detained over suspected links to a July coup attempt. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag made the comments in a news conference. Turkey has said it would release a total of 38,000 prisoners as part of its penal reforms in the wake of the July coup that tried to topple President Tayyip Erdogan's government. |
| Insight: Directed from Raqqa, Islamic State cell 'wages war' in Turkey | |  By Humeyra Pamuk GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - As U.S.-led coalition jets from a Turkish air base began to pound Islamic State targets in Syria in the summer of 2015, Ilhami Bali passed on what appeared to be an order from the militant group's leadership in Raqqa: unleash war on Turkey. Bali, identified by Turkish prosecutors as the most senior Islamic State figure in Turkey, asked a fellow militant in the border city of Gaziantep to draw up a list of potential targets. Cash, suicide bombers and equipment would be sent from Syria, he said.
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| China launches anti-trust probe into Comcast, DreamWorks deal | |  China's commerce ministry will launch an anti-monopoly probe into Comcast Corp's planned purchase of DreamWorks Animation after receiving unspecified complaints that the U.S. media deal could hurt competition in the Chinese market. The investigation comes as China's anti-trust watchdog has hardened its stance on companies striking deals without seeking its clearance, with the body naming, shaming and fining almost a dozen firms over the past year for "gun-jumping". Comcast, owner of NBCUniversal, said in April it would pay $3.8 billion to buy DreamWorks, the producer of the "Kung Fu Panda" and "Shrek" franchises, which was also one of the first Hollywood names to open a production studio in China.
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| China sets spy trial date for U.S. woman ahead of Obama visit | | | By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - China has set a trial date for this month for a U.S. businesswoman accused of spying, charges her husband in Texas said on Thursday were false, and the U.S. State Department said it was concerned about her welfare. Sandy Phan-Gillis, who was born in Vietnam and has Chinese ancestry, was arrested on suspicion of spying by Chinese authorities in March 2015 while visiting the country as part of a trade delegation from Houston. In a statement on Thursday, her husband, Jeff Gillis, accused Chinese authorities of suppressing evidence that would weaken the case against her. |
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