News of the day from across the globe, Aug. 3
Turkey’s justice minister sent a document to the United States on Tuesday seeking the arrest of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and whom Ankara accuses of instigating an attempted coup on July 15.
Iraq’s prime minister issued a travel ban on Tuesday for some sitting lawmakers and politicians amid corruption allegations that surfaced during the questioning in parliament of the country’s defense minister.
Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi told lawmakers this week that parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri and other government officials and businessmen had tried to persuade him to secure specific contracts and to reinstate employees fired due to corruption.
Iran arrest: A British-Iranian woman held in Iran for months over accusations she planned the “soft toppling” of the government while visiting relatives with her young daughter has appeared in court for the first time, her family said Tuesday.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the news agency, will be tried by Judge Abolghassem Salavati in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, her husband said.
Britain’s state-funded health service is responsible for paying for an HIV-prevention drug that has been called a “game changer” in the fight against AIDS, a court ruled Tuesday.
The health service said it would appeal, which means the drug — which advocates say can prevent infection in people at high risk of contracting HIV — is still some way from becoming widely available in Britain.
The National AIDS Trust charity argued that health authorities have an ethical duty to fund pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a daily treatment that greatly reduces the risk of becoming infected.