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| Egypt postpones verdict in case against ex-president Mubarak |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court postponed to Nov. 29 its verdict on whether former president Hosni Mubarak ordered the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his three-decade rule. Before adjourning the hearing on Saturday, the judge said he and members of the prosecution team had not finished reviewing all the evidence in the case, which amounted to 160,000 pages. A TV screen in the courtroom showed thousands of documents related to the case piled up in folders and bound with string. ...
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| Catalonia leader calls referendum on independence from Spain |
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 By Elena Gyldenkerne BARCELONA Spain (Reuters) - The president of Spain's Catalonia region signed a decree on Saturday calling an independence referendum on Nov. 9, putting him on a collision course with the central government which says such a vote is illegal. The wealthy north-eastern region, which accounts for around a fifth of Spain's economy, has its own language and distinct culture and has long fought for self-rule. A large majority of Catalans want to hold a referendum on independence, polls show. ...
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| Somali militants stone woman to death |
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| By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab militants stoned a woman to death in the southern town of Barawe on Friday after a court they had set up declared her guilty of adultery, the militants and witnesses said. The group, which pledges loyalty to al Qaeda, has waged an armed campaign to impose its strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. Forced out of many areas of the east African country by African Union forces and the Somali army, al Shabaab is keen to show it has authority over areas it still controls. ... |
| Japan swimmer charged with camera theft at Asiad |
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 By Peter Rutherford INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - A Japanese swimmer has been kicked out of the Asian Games and will have to pay his own way back home after being charged by police for stealing a camera from a South Korean journalist. Naoya Tomita, a gold medallist from Guangzhou in 2010 but outside the medals in Incheon, had been captured by video surveillance putting the 8 million won ($7,600) camera into his bag at the Games swimming venue on Friday. Japan delegation chief Tsuyoshi Aoki apologised for Tomita's behaviour on behalf of the team at a news conference on Saturday. ...
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| China charges state-owned shipyard ex-head with taking bribes |
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| SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The former chairman of Chinese state-run shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has been charged with taking bribes, prosecutors said on Friday, the latest official to be swept up in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption crackdown. The Supreme People's Procuratorate said in a notice on its website that Gu Tiquan, former board chairman of the Shanghai-based shipyard, would be prosecuted. It did not give details. Hudong-Zhonghua is a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp , one of the largest shipbuilding conglomerates in the country. ... |
| Indonesia's Aceh introduces whipping as punishment for gay sex |
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| BANDA ACEH Indonesia (Reuters) - The Indonesian province of Aceh on Saturday approved an anti-homosexuality law that can punish anyone caught having gay sex with 100 lashes, a lawmaker said. After a three-decade-old separatist movement, a peace agreement signed in 2005 granted special autonomy to Aceh, at the northern tip of Sumatra, on condition that it remained part of the sprawling archipelago. As part of that deal, Aceh won the right to be the only Indonesian province to use Islamic sharia law as its legal code. ... |
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