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| Hong Kong can handle politicians' legal case without Beijing - lawyer | |  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong can handle an unprecedented city government legal attempt to bar two newly elected legislators promoting independence from China, a government lawyer said on Thursday, amid growing speculation Beijing would intervene in the case. The case of the pro-independence politicians who won seats in the city legislature in a September election has highlighted worries about Beijing's intervention in the former British colony despite promises of autonomy. The two politicians - Yau Wai-ching, 25, and Baggio Leung, 30 - displayed a "Hong Kong is not China" banner and used a derogatory word for China during a swearing in ceremony as Legislative Council members last month.
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| Suu Kyi says "delicate" Myanmar conflict handled by rule of law | |  By Minami Funakoshi KYOTO, Japan (Reuters) - The Myanmar government is responding to conflict in the troubled north of Rakhine state, which has suffered its worst violence since 2012, based on rule of law, leader Aung San Suu Kyi was quoted as saying on Thursday. Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi has faced mounting criticism abroad for her government's handling of a crisis in the Muslim-majority region, where soldiers have blocked access for aid workers and are accused of raping and killing civilians. In Japan on a five-day visit that included a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Suu Kyi met Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, who said violence could not be permitted in dealing with the crisis, a Foreign Ministry statement said.
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| South Africa's Guptas to challenge influence-peddling report at inquiry | |  South Africa's wealthy Gupta family, which has been accused of holding undue political sway over President Jacob Zuma, said on Thursday it would defend itself at a judicial inquiry demanded by an anti-corruption watchdog. The carefully worded Public Protector report into alleged influence-peddling stopped short of saying crimes had been committed but said a judge must probe a scandal that has rattled markets in Africa's most industrialised economy and increased the risk of ratings downgrades. Titled "State of Capture", the 355-page report by the constitutionally mandated watchdog listed several allegations against Zuma, the Guptas, two cabinet ministers and executives at state-owned firms.
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| Indonesia police brace for hardline Islamic protest | | | By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police deployed armoured vehicles and armed personnel in the capital Jakarta ahead of a Friday protest planned by hardline Muslims groups against the governor, a Christian and the first ethnic Chinese in the job, over claims he insulted the Koran. Police said dozens of social media accounts had been found "publishing provocative statements and images" and urging people to take violent action in the name of Islam against Governor Basuki Tjahja Purnama, better known by his nickname "Ahok", including calls to kill him. "We have seen racially and ethnically divisive statements being spread online and there are indications many of them are anti-Chinese," said Jakarta police spokesman Awi Setiyono. |
| Turkey removes 1,218 gendarmerie from duty - interior ministry official | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey suspended 1,218 gendarmerie personnel on Thursday, an official from the interior ministry overseeing the force said, as part of investigations into a failed coup in July. Turkey has already sacked or suspended more than 110,000 civil servants, judges, prosecutors, soldiers and others over suspected links with the network of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based cleric blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup. (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker; Writing by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Nick Tattersall) |
| In a West Bank refugee camp, political struggle turns to violence | |  By Luke Baker BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (Reuters) - Hundreds of bullet holes scar the concrete walls, shop fronts and trash-strewn alleys of Balata, the West Bank's largest refugee camp, the result of furious clashes earlier this week between Palestinian security forces and local gunmen. "Balata is a fortress," 31-year-old Khattam Abu Rezak told Reuters, dragging on a cigarette as he sat in the sparsely furnished front room of a friend's rundown house, the curtains firmly drawn, a fading portrait of Yasser Arafat on the wall. "We don't let the Palestinian Authority in because they will take us, torture us," he said, referring to the administration run by President Mahmoud Abbas that has limited self-rule in the Israeli occupied West Bank.
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| South Korean PM nominee says president can be subject to investigation | | | South Korea's new prime minister nominee said on Thursday it is his view that the country's president can be subject to prosecutors' ongoing investigation into an influence peddling scandal. No sitting South Korean president has been subject to an investigation by prosecutors. Some opposition lawmakers have said the ongoing investigation should extend to President Park Geun-hye. |
| Australian police arrest two linked to Syria militants | | | Australian police on Thursday arrested a man believed to have fought with Syrian militants and a youth who was stopped at the border allegedly planning to join Islamic State in Syria. The pair were detained in early morning raids in Sydney, underscoring Australia's tough stance on dealing with so called "foreign fighters" heading overseas to join in conflicts in countries including Syria and Iraq. Australia has imposed some of the harshest penalties in the world on foreign fighters returning home as the country leads a push for the United Nations to adopt international standards to curb the threat they pose. |
| Amid peace and prosperity, Myanmar farmers fall prey to land seizures | | | By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land conflicts in Myanmar have escalated in recent years, with military and armed groups driving people from their land, and new laws failing to protect farmers, a rights watchdog said on Thursday. Land disputes are a longstanding problem in Myanmar, but researchers from New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented rising discontent over displacement for agriculture, mining and infrastructure projects. Land confiscation and reprisals against protesters are particularly acute in resource-rich Kayin state, which borders wealthier Thailand and is seen as attractive for investment in tourism, mining and agriculture, HRW said in a report. |
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