Turkey to disband presidential guard unit following coup attempt
Updated 0744 GMT (1544 HKT) July 24, 2016
Turkey is disbanding its elite presidential guard unit following an attempted coup that left hundreds dead this month, the Prime Minister said.
Some of the soldiers who seized state broadcaster TRT during the attempted coup came from the presidential guard unit, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told Anadolu state news agency.
"We decided that there won't be a guards unit in this compound anymore," he said.
Since the attempted coup on July 15, Turkey has cracked down on various agencies and individuals suspected of having ties to it, including journalists, judges and professors.
Thailand: police charge eight-year-olds with obstruction in run-up to referendum
Children who tore down voter lists because they liked the pink paper charged by authorities as tensions mounts in weeks before controversial vote
Two eight-year-old girls have been charged in Thailand for tearing down voter lists for a controversial upcoming referendum, as the ruling junta goes to increasingly bizarre lengths to muzzle dissent.
The junta is determined to see its draft constitution passed in the referendum on 7 August and has outlawed critical discussion of the document with a 10-year prison sentence.
Campaigning of any kind is also banned and authorities have already arrested or warned scores of people for handing out critical leaflets or wearing Vote No t-shirts.
The battle for Sirte: Photojournalist captures Libyan forces' struggle to reclaim Isis stronghold
Goran Tomasevic has been shooting unrest in Libya since the 2011 revolution
“When everyone shouts 'Allahu Akbar' (God is Great) I know that a tank or a cannon will fire.”
So says Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic, who has been travelling to Libya since the 2011 revolution, seeking to capture the pain and politics of a country at war with itself.
His latest photographs, from the coastal city of Sirte, can be seen in this article.
Since early May, Libyan fighters have been waging a stop-start battle to recapture Sirte from Isis.
Via Snapchat, Indian women break the silence on rape
In India, most victims of rape don't dare discuss their ordeal or go to the authorities, fearing reprisals or worrying they will dishonour their families. To allow them to speak without fear, an Indian journalist recorded their accounts using Snapchat, a mobile application that includes filters to hide a user's face.
Yusuf Omar, mobile editions editor at the daily Hindustan Times, collected the stories of female rape victims at an event organised by the international NGOClimb Against Sexual Abuse in Mysore, in the southern state of Karnataka, in late June. He recently published some of these accounts on the paper's Facebook page.
Yusuf Omar, mobile editions editor at the daily Hindustan Times, collected the stories of female rape victims at an event organised by the international NGOClimb Against Sexual Abuse in Mysore, in the southern state of Karnataka, in late June. He recently published some of these accounts on the paper's Facebook page.
Argentina's former leader Kirchner 'not afraid of jail'
Kirchner says she does not fear going to jail if it is the political price she must pay for her progressive policies.
Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said she doesn't fear the prospect of going to jail, describing her growing legal troubles as part of a "persecution" of progressive Latin American leaders that has boosted the right in the region.
Speaking to foreign media on Saturday, Kirchner compared her situation to that of Brazil's suspended center-left President Dilma Rousseff, now subjected to an impeachment trial in the Senate.
"In the case of Brazil, the intervention of a partisan judiciary is very clear, and you're seeing it here as well," Kirchner said, describing parallel efforts by media to smear progressive leaders.
KARACHI: Top leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party flew to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday evening to hold discussions with PPP-P president Asif Zardari on two crucial issues concerning Sindh — another extension in Rangers’ special powers for Karachi and, more importantly, whether the paramilitary force be allowed to exercise the same policing powers in the rest of the province.
Four days have passed since the Rangers’ raid-and-arrest powers expired as the last extension, which was given by the provincial government for 77 days and only for the Karachi division, ended on July 19.
The PPP-led Sindh government fears that the Rangers will target its cadre if it widens the scope of their special policing powers to the whole of Sindh.
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