Turkey HDP: Blast after pro-Kurdish leaders Demirtas and Yuksekdag detained
The two co-leaders of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party, People's Democracy (HDP), have been detained along with at least nine other MPs.
Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag were detained at their respective homes as part of a counter-terrorism inquiry, security sources told Turkish media.
Hours after the arrest of Mr Demirtas in Diyarbakir, a suspected car bomb exploded there, injuring 20 people.
Diyarbakir, in the south-east, is Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city.
Ambulances could be seen rushing to the scene amid reports of at least one death as a result of the explosion, close to a police building.
Ms Yuksekdag was detained in the capital, Ankara.
China could ban lawmakers from Hong Kong parliament as crisis escalates
China’s National People’s Congress will interpret city’s ‘Basic Law’ to decide if two young pro-democracy lawmakers can be sworn into legislature
China could ban two young pro-democracy lawmakers from taking up their places in Hong Kong’s parliament, a move seen as deeply unpopular by the city’s legal community and opposition politicians.
The mainland’s National People’s Congress will interpret an article of the Basic Law, the city’s mini-constitution, that says legislators must swear allegiance to “the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China”, the Hong Kong government was told late Thursday night.
Recent weeks have seen the semi-autonomous city thrust on the path to a potential constitutional crisis, as a younger generation of activists faces off against Beijing loyalists.
Hardline Muslims call for arrest of Christian governor of Jakarta for alleged blasphemy
'We are here because we want to defend the verses of God that have been abused'
Thousands of hard-line Muslims have converged on the center of the Indonesian capital to demand the arrest of its governor for alleged blasphemy.
Fearing violence, police deployed 16,000 officers along with 2,000 soldiers and the same number of city public order officers to Jakarta's streets, where embassies and some shops closed, and normally traffic-clogged streets were nearly empty of cars.
The predominantly male demonstrators, most wearing white shirts and skull caps, massed at the Istiqlal Mosque for the protest following weekly Friday prayers and marched on the nearby presidential palace. Protests were also taking place in other cities including Medan on Sumatra, Makassar in Sulawesi and Malang in East Java.
Southeastern Turkey hit by blast after HDP crackdown
At least one person was killed and 30 were wounded in an explosion outside a police building in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir. The blast came hours after authorities detained the leaders of pro-Kurdish opposition.
A large explosion killed at least one person and wounded 30 in the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeastern region on Friday, multiple news outlets reported. Television footage showed people walking amid broken glass and other debris from a building used by police; windows were blown out from the apparent explosion that witnesses said could be heard several kilometers away.
Diyarbakir's governor's office blamed the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and said the explosion was caused by a car bomb placed near a police building. The attack - which authorities said killed both police officers and civilians - comes just hours after police rounded up more than a dozen lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on charges of aiding the outlawed PKK, which has fought a decades-long insurgency for political and cultural rights for Turkey's ethnic Kurds.
10-year-old tribal girl pregnant after serial abuse in Maharashtra school
- Faisal Malik, Hindustan Times, Mumbai |
- Updated: Nov 04, 2016 13:39 IST
Eleven staff members of a boarding school for tribal children in Maharashtra were arrested Thursday night for allegedly raping a 10-year-old student amid suspicions that the accused might have sexually abused 10 other girls for weeks.
The headmaster of the school in the state’s Buldhana district is among those arrested under India’s anti-child sexual abuse law as it is alleged he didn’t act after the victim complained to him.
Police said the alleged crime came to light after the tribal girl went home for Diwali and complained of stomach pain – which was confirmed as a pregnancy by the authorities.
“The headmaster has been arrested as under the law, he should have reported the matter to the police after the victim informed him,” Buldhana superintendent of police Sanjaykumar Baviskar told HT.
China cyberpolice crack down on live-streaming industry
Chinese authorities have formalized controversial rules on the country's live-streaming video industry, placing tough surveillance on firms
NOVEMBER 4, 2016 4:40 PM
Chinese internet authorities have formalized controversial rules regulating the country’s fast-growing live-streaming video industry, in a move that strips out smaller competitors and places hard-line surveillance measures on leading firms.
In an announcement posted on their website on Friday, the Cyberspace Administration of China grouped a handful of earlier restrictions under a final 24-point regulation that will come into effect on December 1.
The rules require streaming services to log user data and content for 60 days, and work with regulators to provide information on users who stream content that the government deems threatening to national security or social order. Both users and providers are punishable under the regulations.
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