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| Cosby declines to answer questions about sex assault accusations | | Sunday, November 16, 2014 2:41 AM | |
|  By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Comedian Bill Cosby, in an interview that aired on Saturday, declined to answer questions by a National Public Radio journalist about accusations of sexual assault that resurfaced in recent weeks. Cosby, 77, responded by shaking his head to signal "No" at least twice when NPR's Scott Simon asked him to respond to the sexual assault accusations, including those made by former aspiring actress Barbara Bowman in an op-ed in the Washington Post earlier in the week. ...
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| Scion of Pakistan's dynasty struggles to shake off father's legacy | | Sunday, November 16, 2014 2:38 AM | |
|  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik NAUDERO Pakistan (Reuters) - He was a 19-year-old Oxford undergraduate when his family named him chairman of Pakistan's oldest dynastic party. In the years that followed, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, now 26, has been groomed to take over the dynasty and bring his family's political party back to power. The young Bhutto officially launched his political career last month, telling hundreds of thousands of supporters at a rally in the city of Karachi he would fight for the revival of the Pakistan People's Party. ...
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| UK looking into reports IS beheading suspect wounded | | Sunday, November 16, 2014 2:35 AM | |
| | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Saturday it was investigating reports that a man believed to be a British national suspected of carrying out beheadings in videos released by Islamic State (IS) had been wounded in a U.S.-led air strike last week. The man, dubbed "Jihadi John" by the British media, was believed to have been injured in an air attack on a summit of IS leaders in an Iraqi town close to the Syrian border last Saturday, Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. The group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was also said to have been wounded in the attack, the paper added. ... |
| France detains suspect in 1980 Paris synagogue bombing | |  PARIS (Reuters) - A Lebanese-Canadian who is the main suspect in a 1980 bombing that killed four people outside a Paris synagogue was placed under formal investigation on Saturday, his lawyer told Reuters. Hassan Diab arrived in Paris from Canada on Saturday after the country's highest court on Thursday refused to rule on his appeal against extradition to France. He will be detained until the start of his trial. "My client has always said he is innocent, and will continue to do so," Diab's lawyer Stephane Bonifassi told Reuters. ...
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| Police arrest 60 at Dutch "Black Pete" festival | | | AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police arrested 60 people on Saturday as protesters clashed at a traditional Dutch festival for children which critics say is racist, but that many locals defend as harmless fun in the run up to Christmas. The event re-enacts the arrival of Saint Nicholas, bringing presents for children and helped by his sidekick Black Pete, who is invariably played by a white person with a blackened face. The celebration is increasingly seen as racist in a country that has become more diverse and multi ethnic since World War Two. ... |
| Rome's anti-migrant protests highlight resentment among poor | | | By James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Protests over a migrant centre in a run-down suburb of Rome this week have exposed a crisis in poor areas of the Italian capital suffering after years of neglect and mismanagement of infrastructure compounded by Italy's deep economic crisis. Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino was greeted on Friday by an angry crowd in Tor Sapienza, a struggling area on the eastern outskirts of the city where residents accuse migrants in the reception centre of drug trafficking and street harassment. ... |
| Serbian nationalist, released from war crimes court, rallies thousands | |  By Ivana Sekularac BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian nationalist leader rallied thousands of supporters on Saturday in scenes that threaten to embarrass a U.N. war crimes court that released him on grounds of ill-health before reaching a verdict in his trial. Vojislav Seselj's barn-storming return to Serbia has angered victims of the hardline nationalism he propagated during Yugoslavia's bloody breakup in the 1990s. ...
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| Malaysian air bag victim was in final week of pregnancy | | | By Trinna Leong SIBU Malaysia (Reuters) - The death of a heavily pregnant Malaysian woman in a car crash on Borneo island in July opens a new front in a widening U.S. investigation into defective air bags that has triggered one of the biggest safety recalls in automotive history. Law Suk Leh, 43, was driving her 11-year-old Honda City car in twilight on Sunday, July 27 when it collided with another vehicle making a turn across her lane at an intersection in a quiet industrial zone on the outskirts of Sibu, a town in the Malaysian-ruled northwest of Borneo. ... |
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