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| President Aliyev's party seen easily winning election in Azerbaijan | | Sunday, November 01, 2015 2:48 AM | |
|  By Nailia Bagirova BAKU (Reuters) - President Ilham Aliyev's ruling party is poised to sweep the board in a parliamentary election in Azerbaijan on Sunday, a vote the mainstream opposition and international monitors are shunning. Aliyev has consolidated his power since succeeding his father and long-serving leader Heydar in 2003, presiding over a period when officials say revenues from rising oil and gas exports have delivered better living standards. The government denies wrongdoing, and Western governments, who are courting Azerbaijan as an alternative source of oil and gas to Russia, balance their criticism over human rights with strategic considerations.
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| Seven arrested after Maldives boat blast probe leads to weapons find | | Sunday, November 01, 2015 2:46 AM | |
|  By Daniel Bosley MALE (Reuters) - Maldives police arrested seven people after an investigation into a boat explosion that targeted President Abdulla Yameen led to the discovery of weapons hidden on the sea bed, officials said on Saturday. Ali Ihusaan, a Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) official said the investigation into the Sept. 28 boat blast had led to the discovery of the weapons, some of which could be used to make improvised explosive devices (IEDs). A police official said seven suspects were arrested after the find, which came a day after Malaysia deported a man to the Maldives who was suspected of involvement in the attempted assassination of Yameen last month.
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| Guinea's constitutional court validates Conde's re-election | | Sunday, November 01, 2015 2:44 AM | |
|  Guinea's constitutional court on Saturday validated President Alpha Conde's victory in an Oct. 11 election that handed him a second five-year term with a clear majority. The election's results were announced on Oct. 17, but the nine-member court had to weigh complaints from opposition candidates before certifying them. "The Constitutional Court declares Mr Alpha Conde ... with 57.84 percent, elected President of the Republic," the body's president Kelefa Sall said.
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| Shooter kills three in Colorado Springs, dies in confrontation with police | | Sunday, November 01, 2015 2:42 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - A suspect killed three people in a series of shootings in downtown Colorado Springs on Saturday before dying in an exchange of gunfire with police, authorities said. Colorado Springs police responding to an emergency call tracked down the suspect and returned fire after being shot at, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. "It's going to take quite a few hours for us to work that," said Colorado Springs police spokeswoman Lt. Catherine Buckley. |
| Insight: Myanmar's radical monks shaping historic election | | Sunday, November 01, 2015 2:41 AM | |
|  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - A powerful Buddhist ultranationalist group is helping Myanmar's ruling party win votes in next Sunday's election after the government pushed through laws seen as anti-Muslim, the co-founder of the group told Reuters. Known by its Burmese initials Ma Ba Tha, the Buddhist nationalist group is not running a single candidate in the Nov. 8 election - monks are barred by law from running for office. For the first time, a Ma Ba Tha co-founder, a monk named Parmaukkha, disclosed some of the details about closed-door discussions between the group and the government on securing the passage of the bills.
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| Divided Turkey holds snap election as security, economic fears weigh | | Sunday, November 01, 2015 2:41 AM | |
|  By Jonny Hogg ANKARA (Reuters) - Turks go to the polls on Sunday amid worsening security and economic worries, in a snap parliamentary election that could profoundly impact the divided country's trajectory and that of President Tayyip Erdogan. This is the second parliamentary poll in five months, after the ruling AK Party founded by Erdogan failed to retain its single-party majority in June. Since then, a ceasefire with Kurdish militants has collapsed into bloodshed, the Syria crisis has worsened, and NATO-member Turkey has been hit by two Islamic State-linked suicide bomb attacks, killing more than 130.
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| A lone Muslim campaigns in Myanmar's stronghold of radical Buddhism | | Sunday, November 01, 2015 2:30 AM | |
|  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Andrew R.C. Marshall MANDALAY, Myanmar (Reuters) - The city of Mandalay in northern Myanmar is a Buddhist religious centre so crowded with temples, monasteries and monks that they can sometimes seem innumerable. Much easier to count is the number of Mandalay Muslims standing in Myanmar's historic general election on Nov. 8. Khin Maung Thein hails from an obscure little party and runs his campaign from a cluttered, two-story home that doubles as the family printing business.
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| U.N. and ICRC chide states for "paralysis" in face of conflict | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer made what they called an "unprecedented joint warning" on Saturday for states to stop conflicts, respect international law and aid refugees. "This flouts the very raison d'etre of the United Nations." They also called for states to rein in armed groups and hold them accountable for abuses, and to stop the use of heavy weapons in populated areas. The United Nations is struggling with an unprecedented array of conflicts and crises, with 60 million people made homeless, record demand for humanitarian aid, and little sign of peace talks bringing a swift end to wars in Libya, Syria or Yemen.
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| Don't let issue of Assad's fate hold up Syrian peace - U.N.'s Ban | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Disagreements over the fate of President Bashar al-Assad should not hold up a humanitarian ceasefire or a wider deal to end the war in Syria, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday. Ban spoke after issuing a call with the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, for states to stand up for international law and stop wars. "I believe that the future of Syria, or the future of all these peace talks, the Syrian-led negotiation, should not be held up by an issue of the future of one man," Ban told a news conference in Geneva.
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| Palestinian wielding knife shot dead -Israeli police | |  Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, police said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating. An Israeli police spokeswoman said that at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank a Palestinian holding a knife ran toward a security officer who called on him to stop. A growing number of visits by religious Jews to the al-Aqsa plaza - Islam's holiest site outside Saudi Arabia and revered in Judaism as the location of two destroyed biblical temples - have stirred Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a "status quo" under which non-Muslim prayer there is banned.
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| Publisher of slain blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - A publisher of a slain online critic of religious militancy was hacked to death on Saturday in the Bangladesh capital, police said, hours after similar attacks on two secular writers and another publisher in the majority-Muslim country. Faysal Arefin published books by Avijit Roy, a U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi origin who was killed by Islamists militants in the same way in February. Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years, as the government has cracked down on Islamist groups seeking to turn the South Asian nation of 160 million people into a sharia-based state. |
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