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| Corrected - Indonesia wages war on drugs but cuts funding for rehabilitation | |  (Corrects budget for national counter-narcotics agency in para 14) By Kanupriya Kapoor PURBALINGGA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Rizki Mulyadi sits half-submerged in a steaming herbal bath, hands folded in his lap and head down. Mulyadi hopes the concoction he is bathing in - and the Islamic teacher who makes it - will help him overcome a six-year addiction to the drug of choice for many in Indonesia: crystal methamphetamine, or "meth". The traditional rehabilitation centre in Purbalingga village on Java island says it has treated hundreds of addicts like Mulyadi, 26, with herbal teas and baths, prayer and counselling.
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| G20 a success for China, but hard issues kicked down the road | |  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China is lauding its successful hosting of the G20 summit in scenic Hangzhou, with open confrontation largely avoided and broad consensus reached over the fragile state of the global economy and the need for a wide range of policies to fix it. There was even a joint announcement by China and United States that they would ratify the Paris climate change agreement, a significant step for the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. Chinese state media, while largely basking in the glory of a summit that happened without being too overshadowed by disputes such as the South China Sea, also let slip Beijing's frustrations at what it sees as Western efforts to stymie its economic ambitions.
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| Afghan police battle holdout gunman after suicide attacks hit Kabul | |  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces sealed off the centre of Kabul on Tuesday as they battled gunmen who barricaded themselves inside the offices of an international aid group after a car bomb attack on Monday night. The attack in a prosperous business and residential area of the capital took place just hours after a Taliban suicide attack near the Defence Ministry killed at least 24 people, including a number of senior security officials. Fraidoon Obaidi, chief of the Kabul police Criminal Investigation Department, said one of the two gunmen who had entered an office of Care International in Kabul had been killed but another was holding out.
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| China says has netted one-third of top overseas graft suspects | | | China has bought back to the country one-third of those on its top 100 list of most wanted corruption suspects who have fled overseas, the ruling Communist Party's top graft buster said on Tuesday. China issued the list in 2014 of people subject to an Interpol "red notice" - the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant. Since then, 33 of those people have been caught, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a short statement. |
| Bomb kills father and daughter at school in Thailand's troubled south | | | A motorcycle bomb killed a father and daughter in front of a Thai elementary school as parents were dropping off their children on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the troubled south. The bomb went off in Narathiwat province, one of three Muslim-majority provinces in predominantly Buddhist Thailand where a separatist insurgency has been raging since 2004. The blast killed a man and his five year-old daughter, the army's Internal Security Operations Command said. |
| Exclusive: Brazil's Taurus sold arms to trafficker for Yemen war, prosecutors allege | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's Forjas Taurus SA, the largest weapons manufacturer in Latin America, sold guns to a known Yemeni arms trafficker who funneled them into his nation's civil war in violation of international sanctions, according to charges in court documents reviewed by Reuters. Federal prosecutors in southern Brazil charged two former executives of Forjas Taurus in May with shipping 8,000 handguns in 2013 to Fares Mohammed Hassan Mana'a, an arms smuggler active around the Horn of Africa for over a decade according to the United Nations. The handguns were allegedly shipped by Taurus to Djibouti and redirected to Yemen by Mana'a, according to court documents.
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| Lebanon dialogue suspended as Christian party pulls out | |  The speaker of the Lebanese parliament on Monday suspended a national dialogue of rival politicians after one of the main Christian parties walked out, deepening the country's political crisis. Speaker Nabih Berri took the decision after the withdrawal of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) which criticised the dialogue as pointless and condemned what it called contraventions of a national pact on sectarian power-sharing among the Lebanese. "There is no benefit from the dialogue and its continuation, therefore we announced this position in cabinet, and we announced it now at the dialogue table," FPM leader Gebran Bassil said in a statement reported by the National News Agency.
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| Brazil police ready formal accusation in Irish ticket scandal | |  Brazilian police said on Monday they have "overwhelming" proof the former head of the Olympic Council of Ireland led an illegal ticketing ring at the Rio Games and are preparing to make a formal accusation later in the week. Patrick Hickey will be accused, along with Kevin Mallon, a director of international sports hospitality company THG Sports, with scalping, ambush marketing and criminal association, said Rio de Janeiro police chief Ricardo Barbosa.
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| Sweden fires board of institution handing out medicine Nobel after scandal | | | The Swedish government has dismissed the board of the Karolinska Institute after an investigation showed it was negligent when hiring surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and letting him operate on patients. The hiring of Italian surgeon Macchiarini had already led to the resignation of the secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Institute as well as the then chancellor in February and to the Institute chairman last week. Macchiarini was fired in March when Karolinska said he had supplied false information on his resume and was guilty of scientific negligence after two of his patients died. |
| Journalist charged in Venezuela after anti-Maduro protest | | | By Girish Gupta CARACAS (Reuters) - A prominent journalist and lawyer jailed on Venezuela's Margarita island was charged on Monday with money laundering, according to family and a rights group, following his arrest after publicizing a protest against President Nicolas Maduro. The incident came as the opposition has been stepping up its campaign for a referendum to recall Maduro, who says a coup is being planned against him. All those held in Margarita were released after a few hours except Braulio Jatar, 58, who was picked up on Saturday morning on his way to host his regular morning radio show, according to his family. |
| Clinton voices concern about Russian interference in election | |  By Jeff Mason HAMPTON, Ill. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday expressed concern about "credible reports" of Russian interference in the U.S. election and accused Donald Trump of being fixated on dictators including Russia's Vladimir Putin. Taking questions from reporters for more than 20 minutes on her campaign plane, Clinton said both Democrats and Republicans should be concerned about Russia's behavior. "The fact that our intelligence professionals are now studying this and taking it seriously raises some grave questions about potential Russian interference with our electoral process," Clinton said.
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