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| Post-election riots rage in Gabon capital, several dead | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's capital Libreville erupted into a second day of violent protests on Thursday sparked by a disputed election, with at least three dead and hundreds arrested after the challenger rejected results that gave President Ali Bongo a narrow victory. Riots raged in at least nine Libreville neighbourhoods on Thursday morning, two witnesses and a police source said. Interior Minister Pacome Moubelet Boubeya said three people had been killed and up to 1,100 arrested across the West African country of 1.8 million, one of the continent's top oil producers.
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| Kosovo postpones contested border vote after lawmakers stay away | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's government dropped plans for a parliamentary vote on a bitterly contested law on establishing its definitive border with Montenegro on Thursday after coalition allies stayed away from the session. "We are taking this vote off the agenda for today," Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said after 11 lawmakers from his ethnic Serb coalition ally scuppered the law by not showing up. Mustafa's announcement was greeted with cheers from about 1,000 opposition supporters who had been facing off against police in riot gear defending the parliament building with armoured vehicles.
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| Congo opposition supporters clash before election talks | | | By Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) - Violence broke out on Thursday between supporters of rival Congolese opposition parties, exposing deep divisions among President Joseph Kabila's adversaries over whether to engage in talks about a delayed presidential election. Kabila's opponents accuse him of stalling the vote to hang onto power, a charge he denies. Most of the main opposition parties are boycotting the talks but some prominent figures have agreed to participate, saying they will use the forum to insist on his departure this year. |
| Venezuelan opposition floods Caracas in anti-Maduro protest | |  By Diego Oré and Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - Dressed in white and chanting "this government will fall," opposition supporters flooded Venezuela's capital on Thursday to press for a recall referendum this year against unpopular Socialist President Nicolas Maduro. With protesters in from the Amazon jungle to the western Andes, the opposition coalition was aiming for at least one million people at rallies across the capital to show anger at Maduro and Venezuela's deep economic crisis. "We are going to bring down Maduro!" said Naty Gutierrez, 53, whose 75-mile (120 km) drive from Maracay into Caracas took three times longer than usual due to soldiers' roadblocks.
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| EU ruling on Apple's Irish tax is 'total political crap' - CEO | |  By Conor Humphries and Alastair Macdonald DUBLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Apple's Chief Executive Tim Cook described an EU ruling that it must pay a huge tax bill to Ireland as "total political crap", but France joined Germany on Thursday in backing Brussels as transatlantic tensions grow. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager dismissed Cook's broadside, saying the demand for a 13 billion euro ($14.5 billion) back tax payment was based on the facts. Washington has lined up with the tech giant, accusing the European Union of trying to grab tax revenue that should go to the U.S. government.
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| IOC sanctions 2 Beijing Olympians including Cuba silver medalist | |  The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday it has disqualified two athletes from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, including a Cuban discus silver medalist, after retesting of samples found evidence they had used banned substances. Cuba's Yarelys Barrios, who placed second in the discus in Beijing, tested positive for the masking agent acetazolamide, according to a re-analysis by the IOC. Samuel Adelebari Francis of Qatar, who was sixteenth in the 100 metres event, was disqualified after the IOC's re-analysis resulted in a positive test for the steroid stanozol.
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| Swiss launch criminal probe of Beckenbauer over German World Cup bid | |  (Corrects to show OAG is in Bern) ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss authorities have opened criminal proceedings against German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer and two former presidents of Germany's football federation (DFB) in connection with its successful bid for the 2006 World Cup. The Attorney General's office (OAG) in Bern said the proceedings related to allegations of fraud, criminal mismanagement, money laundering and misappropriation. Raids were carried out simultaneously in eight locations on Thursday with the cooperation of authorities in Germany and Austria, the OAG said.
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| South Africa's Gordhan says complied with police as row widens | |  South Africa's finance minister said on Thursday that he had complied with a police investigation, in a widening dispute which has also pitted government agencies against each other and rattled financial markets. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan last week declined to obey a police summons linked to the probe into whether he had used the unit at the tax service to spy on politicians including President Jacob Zuma, saying he had done nothing wrong. Gordhan's lawyers, Gildenhuys Malatji Inc., reiterated that the finance minister had offered to help police with their inquiries.
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| With backing from states, India moves closer to single customs union | |  India moved a step closer on Thursday towards becoming a single customs union after a constitutional amendment secured the approval of half of its state legislatures. The GST is the most significant revamp of the tax system since India's independence in 1947. After Odisha ratified the amendment on Thursday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took to Twitter, declaring the measure had won the requisite support from states and would now go for presidential assent.
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| Independent Irish ministers want review of multinationals tax | |  A group of independent lawmakers in Ireland's government want their coalition partners to commit to reviewing how tax is collected from multinationals before it considers appealing an EU ruling against tax dealings with Apple. Ireland's cabinet failed to agree on Wednesday whether to accept a recommendation by Finance Minister Michael Noonan to appeal the European Commission's order this week that it recover 13 billion euros in back taxes ruled to be illegal state aid. The Independent Alliance, a group of five lawmakers whose support is crucial to the minority government's survival, wanted more time to consult with tax officials and independent experts, and the government said a decision would be made on Friday.
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| Philippine minister says senator investigating drug killings linked to drugs | |  The Philippine government made another attack on Thursday on a senator who is leading an inquiry into a spate of killings unleashed by President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs", saying evidence she was linked to drugs was "overflowing". Senator Leila de Lima has denounced the government's attacks on her as "madness" and she has appealed to Duterte to stop the string of bizarre accusations and insults against her. About 2,400 people have been killed in Duterte's drug war since he came to power two months ago, according to police figures.
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| Swiss open corruption investigation over German 2006 World Cup bid | |  Swiss federal prosecutors are investigating soccer great Franz Beckenbauer and three other German soccer officials for fraud and money laundering in connection with the award of the 2006 World Cup to Germany, authorities said on Thursday. "The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has opened criminal proceedings in connection with the German Football Association (DFB). The suspects were members of the executive board of the organising committee for the 2006 World Cup in Germany," it said in a statement.
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