Turkey’s Gul orders auditors to assess capacity to fight corruption
ANKARA (Reuters) – President Abdullah Gul ordered state auditors on Tuesday to assess Turkey’s ability to combat corruption, including in the construction sector, amid a graft investigation that has implicated senior elected officials.
Delhi women’s hotline at risk from cash woes, political turmoil
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A 24-hour hotline for women in India’s capital, launched shortly after a fatal gang rape sparked nationwide protests in December 2012, is at risk of closing due to a lack of funds and political upheaval, its head said on Tuesday.
Thailand may extend state of emergency despite scaled-back protest
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A state of emergency in Bangkok could be extended until anti-government protests end completely, Thailand’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, adding that he feared more violence even though calm has returned to the capital in the pa…
China paper in rare mention of former security chief, hints at graft case
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A state-run Chinese newspaper has for the first time identified former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang as the father of a businessman who is being investigated for graft and implied that Zhou himself is also under investigati…
Rebels ambush U.N vehicle in eastern Congo
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Five U.N. peacekeepers were injured when rebels ambushed their vehicle in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, the U.N. mission in the country said.
Estonian PM submits resignation: president’s spokesman
TALLINN (Reuters) – Estonia’s three-term Prime Minister Andrus Ansip submitted his resignation on Tuesday in a long-planned move to pave the way for his successor to lead a new government into a general election next year.
Jailed opposition leader calls for more Venezuela protests
CARACAS (Reuters) – Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez urged sympathizers on Monday to maintain street protests against President Nicolas Maduro as the country’s foreign minister prepared to meet the United Nations Secretary General.
Italy PM Renzi loses government member over censorship claims
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi lost the first member of his government after an undersecretary resigned following allegations he had pressured a local newspaper not to publish a damaging story about his son.
Exiled Uighur leader urges calm after China attack
BEIJING (Reuters) – A prominent exiled Uighur leader has urged China’s government to respond calmly to a knife attack in the country’s southwest and not “demonize” ethnic Uighurs after Beijing blamed the mass killings on extremists from the far western…
‘Ethical gold’ aims to curb mining’s toll in South America
RELAVE, Peru (Reuters) – Tucked between two desert ridges in southern Peru, Relave looks like any of the hundreds of ramshackle mining towns that blight the landscape in the world’s sixth-largest gold exporter.
