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| Suicide bomb kills 6 in Nigeria's northern city of Kano - police | | Saturday, November 15, 2014 2:58 AM | |
| | ABUJA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed six people, including three policemen, in Nigeria's northern city of Kano on Friday, a police spokesman told Reuters by telephone. "Yes, three policemen and three civilians were killed by a suicide bomber in a Toyota this evening at Hotoro, Kano metropolis," said Magaji Musa, spokesman for Kano State police command. Five other people were injured. Kano has been the target of several bombings by Boko Haram militants in their five-year-old campaign to carve out an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria's north. ... |
| Egypt militant group posts video of attack on army checkpoint | | Saturday, November 15, 2014 2:48 AM | |
| | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's most dangerous militant group on Friday posted its first video message since pledging allegiance to Islamic State, with footage purporting to show that the group was behind one of the most deadly attacks on Egyptian security forces in years. The nearly 30-minute video, whose authenticity could not immediately be verified, was posted on the Twitter feed claiming to represent Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis. The group this week pledged loyalty to the al Qaeda offshoot now facing U.S. air strikes in Syria and Iraq. ... |
| Beijing police bust "underground banks" that funnelled $23 billion overseas | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing police have shut down more than 10 "underground banks" responsible for illegally funnelling more than $22.6 billion out of China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. Police arrested 59 suspects, froze 264 bank accounts and seized more than 800 bank cards after raiding locations in central Beijing, according to the report. Police said suspects operating out of their private homes had borrowed, rented or purchased bank accounts to buy $50,000 in foreign exchange with each account. ... |
| Canadian gunman toured Parliament weeks before attack | |  By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - The man who shot and killed a Canadian soldier in October and then stormed the country's Parliament with a rifle before being shot down himself, had taken a tour of the building less than three weeks earlier, a parliamentary spokeswoman said on Friday. The information suggests that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Muslim convert who struggled with drug addiction, may have planned the Oct. 22 attack well in advance. ...
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| Islamic State commanders liable for mass war crimes - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic State commanders are liable for war crimes on a "massive scale" in northeast Syria, where they spread terror by beheading, stoning and shooting civilians and captured fighters, U.N. investigators said on Friday. Their report, based on over 300 interviews with witnesses and victims, called on world powers to bring the commanders before the International Criminal Court for both war crimes and crimes against humanity. ...
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| Former N.Y. lawmaker faces sex harassment suits | | | By Daniel Wiessner ALBANY N.Y.(Reuters) - Six women who worked for a former New York state lawmaker are suing him and the state for millions of dollars, claiming they were victims of pervasive sexual harassment, the latest in a spate of such claims against legislators. The women filed their suits Thursday in state court against Dennis Gabryszak, saying they were subjected to groping, sexual jokes and comments during their time in his office. The lawmaker also talked about and showed them pornography, according to the suits. ... |
| Chad security agents face first trial over 1980s killings, torture | |  By Madjiasra Nako and Emma Farge N'DJAMENA/DAKAR (Reuters) - More than 20 Chadian security agents appeared in a special court charged with murder and torture on Friday, at the start of the country's first trial linked to abuses during the rule of ousted strongman Hissene Habre in the 1980s. Scores of people who said they had suffered at the hands Habre's secret police packed into the courtroom, some holding signs saying "No to Impunity" and "24 years of waiting". ...
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| Author Michael Lewis prevails in 'Big Short' libel appeal | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The author Michael Lewis did not libel a money manager in his 2010 best-seller "The Big Short," a divided federal appeals court ruled on Friday. By a 2-1 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected an appeal by Wing Chau and his firm Harding Advisory LLC over 26 alleged defamatory statements. ...
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| Sterilisation deaths expose India's struggle with faulty drugs | |  By Aditya Kalra BILASPUR(Reuters) - The recent deaths of 15 people linked to a small pharmaceutical factory in Raipur have highlighted how easily adulterated drugs can enter India's huge healthcare system. Experts say the government is underestimating the scale of the problem, hampering efforts to rein in abuses in one of the world's biggest markets for counterfeit and substandard drugs. Stuffed in glossy packaging and sometimes labelled with the names of legitimate companies, fake drugs are commonly passed off to consumers as genuine and sold in developing nations around the world. ...
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| Ukraine rebels hinder border monitors as new armed columns appear | |  By Thomas Grove and Anton Zverev DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - International monitors deployed along the Russian border in eastern Ukraine say their drones were shot at and jammed days before new columns of unmarked soldiers and weapons, said by the West to be Russian, were seen in the rebel-held territory this week. The reports by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is seen as a neutral party in the conflict that has killed more than 4,000 people, come as Kiev and Moscow trade accusations of violating a fragile ceasefire. ...
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| Reviews of U.S. nuclear forces call for changes | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reviews of the U.S. nuclear arsenal show significant changes are needed to ensure the security and effectiveness of the force, a Defense Department report said on Friday. The reviews, which Secretary OF Defense Chuck Hagel ordered after a series of incidents involving nuclear personnel, included more than 100 recommendations to improve the nuclear forces. Hagel told a Pentagon news conference the reviews found systematic problems that could "undermine the safety, security and effectiveness" of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. ...
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| Mexican police play havoc with president's security pledge | |  By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Restoring order to a country torn apart by drug violence was Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's first promise when he took power two years ago, but corruption and police brutality have handed him the biggest crisis of his rule. Local police abducted 43 trainee teachers in the southwestern city of Iguala on Sept. 26 and handed them over to a drug gang. The gang almost certainly murdered them and torched their bodies, the government says. ...
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| EU mulls conferring binding powers on body of data privacy regulators | | | By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A new body of European data protection authorities could have the power to adopt legally binding decisions in cross-border disputes over a company's misuse of personal data, according to a draft document seen by Reuters. Under a mechanism originally proposed in reforms of Europe's data protection laws, businesses operating across the 28-nation European Union would have to deal only with the data protection authority in the country where they are headquartered - even if alleged mishandling of data affects citizens in another country. ... |
| Botswana gay rights group wins legal recognition | | | GABORONE (Reuters) - A Botswana judge overturned a government ban on a gay rights lobbying group on Friday, a rare victory for African gay rights campaigners on a continent where homosexuality remains highly contentious. Justice Terrence Rannoane ruled that the Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO) would be allowed to register and campaign for changes to anti-gay legislation but reiterated that it was still illegal to engage in homosexual acts. ... |
| China anti-graft watchdog finds gold, cash in official's home | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - China's anti-graft watchdog has discovered 37 kg (82 lbs) of gold, documents for 68 houses and 120 million yuan ($19.6 million) in cash in the home of a Communist Party official who is being investigated for corruption, state media said. The amount seized in the home of Ma Chaoqun, the former manager of the Beidaihe Water Supply Corporation, was so large that state news agency Xinhua called it "shocking". ... |
| Zimbabwe ruling party suspends officials seen as Mugabe critics | |  By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party suspended several senior officials aligned to Vice-President Joice Mujuru on Friday, weakening her position in an fierce battle to succeed ageing President Robert Mugabe. A ZANU-PF politburo meeting, chaired by Mugabe, suspended National party spokesman Rugare Gumbo, expelled war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda and endorsed the suspension of half the party's provincial chairmen, citing "disciplinary issues". ...
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| Troops clash with Muslim militants in Philippines, 15 dead | |  By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops clashed on Friday with Islamist militants on a remote southern island and 14 people were killed in the first major encounter since the army launched an offensive almost a month ago, military officials said. Militants from the Abu Sayyaf group had been avoiding contact with government forces on the island of Jolo since the release of the two German captives last month after ransom was reportedly paid. ...
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