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BBC:UN warns South Sudan rivals to honour ceasefire
UN warns South Sudan rivals to honour ceasefire
The UN Security Council has warned the warring sides in South Sudan they face an arms embargo and other sanctions if they do not implement a peace deal due to come into force on Saturday.
In a unanimous statement, the council called on both parties "to adhere to the permanent ceasefire immediately".
President Salva Kiir signed the agreement on Wednesday but expressed reservations about it.
Rebel leader Riek Machar signed the deal a week earlier.
BBC:HSBC processes '99%' of delayed payments
HSBC processes '99%' of delayed payments
HSBC says it has processed "99%" of payments affected by an IT glitch, with the remainder due to be completed overnight.
Earlier, the bank said 275,000 payments were hit by the problem, meaning many people were not paid on time ahead of this weekend's bank holiday.
HSBC apologised for the inconvenience caused to customers.
It said it was "committed to ensuring that no one loses out as a result of today's unacceptable problems".
BBC:Malaysia braces for major protests against PM Najib Razak
Malaysia braces for major protests against PM Najib Razak
Thousands of Malaysians are set to protest in the capital Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere, calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down over a financial scandal.
He has faced public anger over a $700m (£455m) payment made to his bank account from unnamed foreign donors.
It was discovered last month during a probe into alleged mismanagement at the debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Mr Najib has denied any wrongdoing.
BBC:India celebrates 'victory' in 1965 war with Pakistan
India celebrates 'victory' in 1965 war with Pakistan
India has begun more than three weeks of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of what it claims was victory in the 1965 war with Pakistan.
President Pranab Mukherjee laid a wreath at the martyr's memorial at Delhi's India Gate monument on Friday.
Meanwhile, eight civilians have been reportedly killed as India and Pakistan exchanged fire in the Kashmir region.
Kashmir, claimed by both countries in its entirety, has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years.
BBC:Dominica badly hit by Tropical Storm Erika
Dominica badly hit by Tropical Storm Erika
Helicopter rescue teams in Dominica are flying to the aid of hillside villagers still trapped in their homes after the Caribbean island was hit by Tropical Storm Erika.
Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 12 people, said Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
Road bridges were swept out to sea, and flood debris, including a wrecked aircraft, blocked the main airport.
Other Caribbean nations have issued tropical storm warnings.
BBC:3D cameras plan to save monuments from IS threat
3D cameras plan to save monuments from IS threat
Cameras capable of taking 3D images are to be given out across the Middle East in a bid to preserve ancient sites from destruction by Islamic State group.
Thousands of residents will be asked to capture images as part of a project by Oxford and Harvard archaeologists.
The photos should allow academics to use 3D printers to build replicas of damaged buildings and artefacts.
There is said to be a renewed urgency after the city of Palmyra in Syria was destroyed by IS militants this month.
Reuters:Japan ruling party sets date for leadership vote PM bound to win
Japan ruling party sets date for leadership vote PM bound to win
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Friday set a date for a party leadership election that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is bound to win, effectively assuring him of staying leader of the world's third-largest economy.
All seven factions within the party supported Abe and there were no signs he would face a contender in the Sept. 20 vote, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's major daily, said.
Abe's once-mighty public support started sliding after scholars told a parliamentary panel in June that legislation ending a ban on the military fighting overseas to defend a friendly country would violate Japan's pacifist constitution.
But his ratings bounced following a statement this month to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in which he expressed "utmost grief" for the suffering Japan caused.
Reuters:China to parade high-tech weaponry in signal of strength, and shop window
China to parade high-tech weaponry in signal of strength, and shop window
From ballistic missiles to fighter jets, China has rolled out a host of high-tech weaponry ahead of a parade next week commemorating victory over Japan in World War Two, in a signal of Beijing's growing confidence in its military might.
China has poured capital into developing its home-grown weapons industry with an eye toward export markets as it projects greater military power in disputed waters in the South and East China Seas.
Qu Rui, a military official and deputy director of the office organizing the parade, says all the weapons and equipment on show would be Chinese-made, 84 percent shown for the first time. "They represent the new development, new achievements and new images of the building of the Chinese armed forces," he said at a recent briefing.
Chinese officials have repeatedly said the military parade is not directed at any other country, but diplomats and experts say countries with which Beijing has territorial disputes, including Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei, may react with uneasiness to the broad display of military power.
Reuters:Mexico foreign minister takes new post, may augur presidency bid
Mexico foreign minister takes new post, may augur presidency bid
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday shifted Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade into a key ministry in a cabinet reshuffle that could provide Meade with a platform to mount a presidential bid in 2018.
Meade, 46, served as finance and energy minister in the previous government and could be an alternative candidate to the man currently expected to lead the ruling party's campaign to replace Peña Nieto in 2018, Manlio Fabio Beltrones.
Meade moves to the Social Development Ministry, an arm of government seen by political insiders as a useful springboard for presidential tilts. The ministry handles welfare spending across Mexico, where about half the population lives in poverty.
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He will be replaced as foreign minister by Claudia Ruiz Massieu, previously the tourism minister.
Reuters:Greece's Syriza to win election but face setback, polls show
Greece's Syriza to win election but face setback, polls show
Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' leftist Syriza will emerge as the biggest party in next month's election but without the majority it was hoping for, the first opinion polls since he resigned last week showed on Friday.
One found that almost two thirds of voters felt Tsipras should not have sought a fresh mandate, while three surveys showed that his favored coalition ally, the Independent Greeks party, would not make it into parliament.
The polls suggested his gamble to call early elections scheduled for Sept. 20 to consolidate his power base could backfire, though in one of the polls over a quarter of voters remained undecided, making the final outcome far from clear.
Syriza was supported by 23 percent of those polled by ProRata for Friday's Efimerida Ton Syntakton newspaper, with the conservative opposition New Democracy party second on 19.5 percent. The previous ProRata poll in early July showed a wider gap in Syriza's favor, putting the party on 26 percent compared with 15 percent for New Democracy.
Reuters:New Turkish cabinet includes opposition, but little policy change seen
New Turkish cabinet includes opposition, but little policy change seen
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu appointed nationalist and pro-Kurdish opposition politicians to an interim power-sharing cabinet on Friday, but left his finance and economy ministers unchanged in a team dominated by ruling party loyalists.
Davutoglu was forced to form the temporary cabinet after his AK Party failed to find a junior coalition partner following the loss of its parliamentary majority in a June election which ended more than a decade of single-party rule.
The uncertainty has unnerved investors in Turkey's $870 billion economy and comes as it battles Kurdish militants at home and Islamic State fighters on its borders, helping send the lira currency to a series of record lows.
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The interim cabinet will now lead the NATO member and aspiring European Union candidate to a new election on Nov. 1.
Reuters:Fed says rate hike next month hinges on market volatility
Fed says rate hike next month hinges on market volatility
The Federal Reserve on Friday left the door open to a September interest rate hike even while several U.S. central bank officials acknowledged that turmoil in financial markets, if prolonged, could delay the first policy tightening in nearly a decade.
Some top policymakers, including Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, said recent volatility in global markets could quickly ease and possibly pave the way for the U.S. rate hike, for which investors, governments and central banks around the world are bracing.
With a key policy meeting set for Sept. 16-17, at least five Fed officials spoke publicly in what amounted to a jockeying for position on whether increasing the Fed's benchmark overnight lending rate was too risky amid an economic slowdown in China, a rising U.S. dollar .DXY and falling commodity prices XAU= CMCU3.
"It's early to tell," Fischer told CNBC on the sidelines of the annual central banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "We're still watching how it unfolds." He, along with other Fed officials, acknowledged that the global equities sell-off that began last week would influence the timing of a rate hike, which until only a couple of weeks ago seemed increasingly likely to occur in September.
LA Times:Uber Hires Two Hackers to Work on Self-Driving Cars’ Defenses
Uber Hires Two Hackers to Work on Self-Driving Cars’ Defenses
Uber Technologies Inc. wants to make self-driving cars and naturally, it doesn’t want people to hack them.
The ride-hailing company confirmed on Friday that it had hired two well-known car hackers to help devise its own defenses. Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek will work for the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh.
The center, launched this past winter, is working on maps and automation technology with a cadre of former Carnegie Mellon University robotics experts.