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| Dozens of Afghan civilians, two US service members killed in clashes in north | |  By Sardar Razmal KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Dozens of Afghan civilians were killed on Thursday in air strikes called in when U.S. and local troops came under heavy fire during an operation in the north of the country in which two American service members also died. Afghan officials said there was heavy fighting overnight in the village of Buz Kandahari, about 5 km (3 miles) from the centre of the city of Kunduz, which Afghan Taliban fighters succeeded in entering as recently as last month. Air strikes called in to protect U.S. and Afghan special forces conducting the operation caused heavy casualties.
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| Jacob Zuma, South Africa's $50 billion burden? | |  By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - It is the question on the lips of many South Africans: how much is Jacob Zuma's crisis-ridden leadership costing them? When Zuma, whose seven years in office have been marked by scandal and economic stagnation, withdrew a last-ditch court bid this week to block a watchdog report on alleged influence-peddling, the currency jumped 1 percent against the dollar. It gained further when the Pretoria High Court ordered the report by the constitutionally mandated Public Protector to be released by close of business - before retreating again when its contents failed to deliver a killer blow to Zuma.
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| South Africa's Zuma faces no-confidence vote in corruption crisis | |  By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Jacob Zuma faces a no-confidence vote in parliament next week with his presidency mired in crisis, after investigators documented allegations of government corruption and thousands of people took to the streets to demand he resign. The vote was called by the main opposition on Thursday following a report by the country's anti-corruption watchdog calling for a judicial inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling in the ANC government. Police used stun grenades and water cannon to disperse protesters in Pretoria carrying "Zuma must go" placards.
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| Turkish academics, students protest against post-coup purges | |  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Several hundred academics, students and union members staged a protest under the watchful gaze of Turkish riot police on Thursday against a purge of thousands of educational staff since an attempted military coup in July. Turkey accuses U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the July 15 putsch and has dismissed or suspended more than 110,000 civil servants, academics, judges, police and others over suspected links to the preacher. "Shoulder-to-shoulder against fascism", "we will win by resisting", the crowd chanted in front of Istanbul University as dozens of police wearing gas masks looked on.
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| Notorious apartheid killer dies in Pretoria hospital | |  South African right-wing politician Clive Derby-Lewis, who tried to trigger a race-war in the dying days of apartheid with the assassination of communist party leader Chris Hani, died on Thursday, his lawyer said. Sentenced to life behind bars for masterminding the 1993 shooting of Hani, Derby-Lewis was freed on medical parole last year after being diagnosed with cancer. The murder of Hani, the charismatic leader of the South African Communist Party (SAPC), triggered nationwide riots and almost derailed the 1994 transition to multi-racial democracy after decades of white-minority apartheid rule.
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| U.S. deputy U.N. envoy to head Clooney Foundation for Justice | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations David Pressman is set to become executive director of the new Clooney Foundation for Justice, set up by George and Amal Clooney, as well as a partner at the Boies, Schiller & Flexner law firm. After some two years as deputy to U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, Pressman said he would leave on Friday and start his new roles on Monday. |
| Swiss attorney general halts Iran talks political espionage case | |  Switzerland's attorney general has halted an investigation into suspected political espionage at a Geneva hotel, which was opened a month after talks on Iran's nuclear plans took place. There was a lack of evidence about the people behind the spying, the Office of the Attorney (OAG, said. It opened criminal proceedings in May 2015 after malware was discovered on computers in the hotel.
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| Turkey's Erdogan says Germany has become "haven for terrorists" | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Germany had become a haven for terrorists and would be "judged by history", accusing it of failing to root out supporters of a U.S.-based cleric Ankara blames for July's failed military coup. Erdogan said Germany had long harboured militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy, and far-leftists from the DHKP-C, which has carried out armed attacks in Turkey. "We are concerned that Germany, which has protected the PKK and DHKP-C for years, has become the backyard of the Gulenist terror organisation," Erdogan said, referring to the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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| Kyrgyz leader's party forges new parliamentary coalition | | | Kyrgyzstan Social Democratic party formed a new governing coalition, it said on Thursday, comprising lawmakers who a day earlier voted for constitutional reforms that opponents say are aimed at extending President Almazbek Atambayev's rule. |
| Scotland's Sturgeon: Art.50 ruling underlines UK govt Brexit confusion | |  England's High Court ruling that parliamentary approval is needed to trigger the process of Britain leaving the European Union underlines "chaos" at the heart of the British government over the vote to leave, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday. "(The ruling) is hugely significant and underlines the chaos and confusion at the heart of the UK government," Sturgeon told the devolved Scottish parliament. "We should remember that their refusal to allow a vote in the House of Commons is not because of some matter of high constitutional principle, it is because they don't have a coherent position and they know that if they take their case to the (chamber) that will be exposed," she said.
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| UK court says parliament must have Brexit say, dealing blow to govt | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - England's High Court ruled on Thursday that the British government requires parliamentary approval to trigger the process of exiting the European Union, upsetting Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans. The government said it would appeal against the decision and a spokeswoman for May said the prime minister would press ahead with the planned timetable of launching talks on the terms of Brexit by the end of March. Many investors took the view that lawmakers would temper the government's policies and make an economically disruptive "hard Brexit" less likely.
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| Protests at fishmonger's death test Moroccan monarchy's nerves | |  Five years after pro-democracy protests shook Morocco, this week's unrest is a reminder of pent-up frustrations the monarchy has managed to tame in the past with limited constitutional reforms, heavy welfare spending and tough security. With a rallying cry against the Makhzen - a term used to describe the royal establishment - protesters have vowed to stage more demonstrations over Mouhcine Fikri's death in the northern city of Al-Hoceima, which was captured on video by witnesses and widely shared on social media. The political and social stability of Morocco is closely watched by Western governments as it is the only country in North Africa where jihadist groups have failed to gain a foothold, and is an important partner against Islamist militancy in terms of intelligence-sharing.
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| Court ruling does not derail Brexit timetable, says UK PM May's spokeswoman | |  The British government still plans to trigger formal divorce talks with the European Union by the end of March and does not believe a court ruling demanding parliamentary approval will derail that, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokeswoman said. England's High Court ruled on Thursday that the British government requires parliamentary approval to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty which starts up to two years of talks for Britain's departure from the bloc. "Our plan remains to invoke Article 50 by the end of March, we believe the legal timetable should allow for that," the spokeswoman told reporters.
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| New law in Russia criminalises inducement to doping - RIA Novosti | |  Russia, whose track and field athletes were banned from the Rio Olympics after disclosures of a state-sponsored doping scandal, has brought in a law which makes inducement to doping a criminal offence, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Coaches and specialists in sports medicine and training who induce athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs now face heavy punishment, including imprisonment, according to the law which was approved by Russia's lower house of parliament. "This once again points out that our government's policies will absolutely not tolerate doping and especially those coaches who are trying to pressure underage sportsmen to take banned substances," Alexander Zhukov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee, told TASS in an interview.
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| Indonesia president, VP urge calm ahead of hardline Islamic protest | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his vice president called for peace as tensions rose on Thursday ahead of a protest planned by hardline Muslim groups against the Jakarta governor, a Christian and the first ethnic Chinese in the job. The groups claim that Governor Basuki Tjahja Purnama, popularly known as "Ahok", had insulted the Koran and was guilty of blasphemy. Security has been tightened in Jakarta, a sprawling city of 10 million, and police have deployed armoured vehicles and armed personnel as the plan stoked religious and ethnic tensions in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.
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| Keeping kosher: it may be bad for your economic health | |  By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Behind Israel's food and tourism industries thrives a parallel economy run by rabbis and a legion of inspectors whose business it is to make sure everything is kosher. It described frequent tax avoidance and even cases of suspected money laundering.
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