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| Guardsman killed in protests as Ukraine MPs back more autonomy for rebel regions | |  By Richard Balmforth and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - A national guardsman was killed and nearly 90 others protecting Ukraine's parliament were wounded by grenades hurled from a crowd of nationalist protesters on Monday as lawmakers backed reforms to give more autonomy to rebel-held areas. The violence, which Interior Minister Arsen Avakov blamed on the main nationalist party, and division in the pro-Western camp in parliament suggested President Petro Poroshenko faces an uphill battle to push through key parts of a faltering peace agreement reached in February for eastern Ukraine. Poroshenko himself was set to address the nation later on Monday following the clashes outside parliament, where deputies loyal to him managed to push through a first reading of a "decentralisation" draft law - but only in the face of strong criticism from some of his political allies.
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| Train with migrants allowed into Austria after lengthy border checks | |  By Karin Strohecker and Marton Dunai VIENNA/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A train carrying hundreds of migrants headed to Vienna on Monday after being held for hours at Austria's border with Hungary amid a security clampdown on trafficking gangs and efforts to apply fraying European rules intended to manage the flow of refugees. Austrian Railways had cited "overcrowding" on the train and a police spokesman in Vienna said Austria wanted to check whether any of the migrants had already asked for asylum in Hungary. A second train from Budapest remained stuck at the border.
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| Nearly 90 police, national guard, hurt in blasts at Ukraine parliament - minister | | | KIEV (Reuters) - Nearly 90 people were wounded and several of them were in a serious condition on Monday after several explosive devices were thrown from crowds in front of the Ukrainian parliament building in Kiev, the interior minister said in a Tweet. Putting the blame squarely on Ukrainian nationalists, the minister, Arsen Avakov, addressed himself to Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Svoboda (Freedom) party, saying: "Tell me, how does Svoboda differ from the bastards who shoot at our national guard at the front?" (Writing by Richard Balmforth; Editing by Alison Williams) |
| Afghan police investigate gas poisoning at girls' school | | | More than 100 girls were taken to hospital from their school in western Afghanistan on Monday after breathing in toxic gas, officials said, and police were investigating whether the incident was deliberate. Elements of Afghanistan's ultra-conservative society oppose education for girls and schools have periodically come under attack. As many as 124 girls were hospitalised in Herat province, officials said. |
| Merkel: Quarrel over migrants could call Schengen into question | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that if Europe was not able to agree to a fair distribution of refugees, the passport-free Schengen zone would be called into question. "If we don't succeed in fairly distributing refugees then of course the Schengen question will be on the agenda for many," she said at a news conference in Berlin. (Reporting by Noah Barkin and Josie Le Blond; Writing by Michelle Martin and Caroline Copley)
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| Thousands sign petition to stop rape of low-caste sisters in Uttar Pradesh | | | By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An online petition seeking protection and justice for two low-caste sisters allegedly threatened with rape by a village council in Uttar Pradesh has gathered over 175,000 signatures in a week, Amnesty International India said on Monday. The human rights group began the petition last week after 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumari, her 15-year-old sister and their family were forced to flee their village in May after their brother eloped with a higher caste, married woman. An un-elected village council, dominated by upper caste "Jat" men, in Uttar Pradesh on July 30 allegedly ordered the two "Dalit" sisters be raped and paraded naked with their faces blackened as punishment for their brother's actions. |
| Tunnel found in East Jerusalem woman's yard may have been for heist | | | A tunnel discovered in an elderly woman's yard in a Palestinian neighbourhood of East Jerusalem on Monday may have been part of a criminal gang's plan for a heist at a nearby museum or bank, police said. The 30 metre-deep hole had been dug in recent months by men posing as municipal workers sent to repair a water leak, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. The woman's yard abuts the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, home to antiquities including a 9,000-year-old statue from Jericho and Bronze Age gold jewellery, as well as a bank that was scheduled to open soon. |
| Six elite soldiers killed in eastern Congo ambush | | | Unidentified gunmen killed six elite presidential guard soldiers on Monday in an ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, military and local sources said, a region still plagued by violence more than a decade after years of civil war ended. A military source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said members of the Republican Guard, responsible for protecting the president and strategic posts, were on their way to collect rations when their jeep came under heavy arms fire on a main road 40 km (25 miles) north of the North Kivu capital of Goma. "The elements of the Republican Guard fell into an ambush that killed six, and the assailants burned the jeep," the source said. |
| Thai police hunt two bombing suspects after weekend raids | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police probing Thailand's deadliest bombing issued arrest warrants on Monday for two suspects after a second weekend raid on a suburban apartment block uncovered possible bomb-making materials. Police were looking for a 26-year-old Thai woman and a foreign man in his 40s after expanding their search to a property in the city's Min Buri district.
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| Greek coastguard rescues 2,500 migrants over three days | |  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's coastguard has rescued about 2,500 migrants and refugees off the country's eastern islands over the past three days, authorities said on Monday, as the flow of people trying to cross into Europe continued unabated. After a hiatus of a few days last week, Greek authorities resumed ferrying Syrian refugees to the mainland by ship on Saturday and the latest group of 2,500 refugees arrived at the port of Piraeus earlier on Monday. (Writing by Deepa Babington; Editing by Alison Williams)
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| Myanmar's president signs off on law seen as targeting Muslims | |  Myanmar, which will hold its first democratic national poll in more than two decades on Nov. 8, has seen a flowering of anti-Muslim hate speech since the military gave up full power and opened up politics and the economy in 2011. President Thein Sein signed the Monogamy Bill after it was passed by parliament on August 21, Zaw Htay, a senior official at the president's office, told Reuters. The president also signed two other laws, which restrict religious conversion and interfaith marriage, on August 26, Zaw Htay said.
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