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| Protests in Ferguson dwindle, mass arrests at California rallies | |  By Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Tensions eased in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson on Thursday after two nights of violence and looting sparked by racially charged anger over a grand jury's decision to clear a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager. Protests also dwindled elsewhere in the United States as the Thanksgiving Day holiday and wintry weather kept many indoors. But in California, more than 250 people were arrested in rallies over the past two days that shut highways in major cites. ...
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| Dinner with Suu Kyi? - No thanks, say Myanmar military | |  By Aung Hla Tun and Jared Ferrie YANGON, November 27 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military turned down a dinner invitation from opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, lawmakers said on Thursday, after the Nobel laureate sought a meeting to build ties ahead of a proposed summit on changing the constitution. Suu Kyi is barred from becoming president under the existing constitution, which cannot be changed without the support of at least one military lawmaker. ...
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| EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google | |  By Foo Yun Chee and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a motion on Thursday urging anti-trust regulators to break up Google, the latest setback for the world's most popular Internet search engine. Google has been in the EU's regulatory sights since 2010, and is also grappling with privacy issues, requests to scrub search results to comply with a court ruling, copyright concerns and tax controversies. The non-binding resolution in the European Parliament is the strongest public signal yet of Europe's concern with the growing power of U.S. ...
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| CBI says girls found hanging from tree in Badaun killed themselves | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two teenage girls found hanged in May took their own lives and were not raped or murdered, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigators told media on Thursday, fuelling further criticism of their handling of a case that sparked global outrage. Initial inquiries suggested the cousins, aged 14 and 15, from a low-caste community, were raped before being hanged from a mango tree in Badaun district in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. ...
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| Brandao sentenced to a month in jail for headbutt | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Bastia forward Brandao has been sentenced to one month in prison for headbutting Paris St Germain midfielder Thiago Motta, a French tribunal said on Thursday. The sentence, however, is expected to be turned into community service. Brazilian Brandao, already suspended by the football authorities for six months, was also handed a fine of 20,000 euros ($24,966). "It is extremely harsh. We used to say that footballers are not above the law but they should not be below the law either," his lawyer Olivier Martin told BFMTV. ... |
| UK edges towards federalism with Scotland powers deal | |  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain agreed to further dismantle its highly centralised system of government on Thursday, striking a political deal to grant Scotland new tax-raising powers in a move critics fear could trigger the beginning of the end of the United Kingdom. The deal, unveiled on Thursday after an agreement between all the Scottish chapters of Britain's main political parties, will trigger the biggest transfer of powers to Scotland from the United Kingdom since 1999 when a Scots parliament was set up and will be implemented after a UK-wide election next year. ...
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| Ten dead in Kashmir's worst militant attack in more than a year | |  By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing army uniforms on Thursday attacked an Indian army base near the border with Pakistan, leaving ten people dead in the worst militant violence in in more than a year. The incident came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif had a brief meeting at a summit of South Asian leaders in Nepal that clinched a deal to create a regional electricity grid. ...
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| Hong Kong student leaders banned from Mong Kok protest site | |  By Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) - Two Hong Kong student leaders were banned from a large area in Mong Kok as a condition of bail on Thursday after they were arrested during scuffles as police cleared one of the largest protest sites that have choked the city for weeks. Joshua Wong, Lester Shum and activist lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, who was also banned from Mong Kok, were charged with obstructing court bailiffs and did not enter a plea. They are due to appear again in court on Jan. 14. Wong, Shum and Leung were among more than 100 people arrested in Mong Kok over the past two days. ...
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| Ridesharing firm Uber suspends operations in Nevada | |  (Reuters) - Ridesharing company Uber suspended its operations in the U.S. state of Nevada late on Wednesday in a setback that it said would cost nearly 1,000 jobs. Companies such as Uber allow passengers to summon cars using apps on their smartphones, rather than calling a taxi company, and have gained popularity in dozens of U.S. cities over the past few years. ...
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| UK strikes deal to grant Scotland more powers to counter separatists | | | By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main political parties struck what they said was a historic deal to grant Scotland tax-raising powers and greater autonomy to try to satisfy disappointed separatists who lost an independence vote two months ago. The deal, which was unveiled on Thursday but will not be implemented until after a UK-wide parliamentary election next year, amounts to the biggest transfer of powers to Scotland from the United Kingdom since 1999 when a Scots parliament was set up. ... |
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