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| Italy's Renzi mimics Berlusconi in bid to inherit his voters | |  By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - A recent front-page cartoon in Italy's mainstream newspaper Corriere della Sera depicted elderly former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi affectionately holding the hand of his little ice-cream licking "son" Matteo Renzi, the current premier. The sketch summed up a growing perception in Italy that 40-year-old Renzi, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), has moved so far to the right that he has become the political heir to 79-year-old conservative leader. The cartoon followed an announcement by Renzi that he was relaxing a limit on the use of cash, which had been introduced by a previous government to curb rampant tax evasion.
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| Azerbaijan arrests seven security ministry officials before election | | | Police in Azerbaijan arrested seven former national security officials on Tuesday on suspicion of exceeding their authority and illegal interference in businesses, days after Azeri President Ilham Aliyev fired his national security minister. Eldar Mahmudov was fired on Saturday in a surprise move two weeks ahead of a parliamentary election in the oil-rich nation. The Prosecutor General's office said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case and created an investigative group "in connection with acts of abuse of official powers and other offences committed by different officials at the national security ministry." "Investigative operations have raised suspicions about a group of ministry officials abusing service powers, illegally intervening in the activities of entrepreneurs in violation of the law on entrepreneurship, and violating the judicially and legally protected interests of different individuals," the Prosecutor General's office said in a statement. |
| FIFA confirms congress, presidential election for February | |  By Brian Homewood Zurich (Reuters) - Soccer's governing body FIFA said on Tuesday its presidential election would go ahead as planned on Feb. 26 and promised it would do more to open up internal investigations into complaints and scandals. The announcement was a blow for UEFA president Michel Platini - a delay in the election mooted by some officials would have given him more time to appeal against a ban from the game and then stand to replace departing leader Sepp Blatter. Both Blatter and Platini were suspended by FIFA's Ethics Committee this month, engulfed by a deepening corruption scandal as their sport faces criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States.
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| Pistorius freed on parole after 1 year behind bars for killing girlfriend | |  By TJ Strydom PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's double-amputee "Blade Runner", was released on parole late on Monday, just short of a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. The disgraced Paralympic gold medallist must serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest but still faces an appeal on Nov. 3 by prosecutors who argue that he should have been convicted of murder, not culpable homicide. Pistorius, 28, who was found guilty of the lesser charge when he fired four shots through a locked bathroom door and hit Steenkamp, will be confined to his uncle Arnold's home in a wealthy suburb of the capital, Pretoria.
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| Malaysian opposition move against PM delayed to next parliament session - speaker | |  A no-confidence motion planned by Malaysia's opposition alliance against embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak will not be heard by the current session of parliament, the speaker of the house said on Tuesday. The leader of the newly formed opposition alliance Pakatan Harapan, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the wife of jailed opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim, on Monday announced plans to submit a no-confidence motion this week. Opposition leaders are seeking Najib's removal following public anger over alleged graft and financial mismanagement at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), which has debts of more than $11 billion.
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| Slovenian army to help control migrants at border, thousands held up in Balkans | |  By Marja Novak and Aleksandar Vasovic LJUBLJANA/BERKASOVO, Serbia (Reuters) - Slovenia said on Tuesday it would deploy the army to guard its border and appealed for help from the European Union as migrants streamed through the tiny country and many thousands more spent another cold night outside in the Balkans. Attempts by Slovenia to ration the flow of migrants since Hungary sealed its border with Croatia at midnight on Friday have triggered a knock-on effect through the Balkans, with thousands held up at border crossings. At least 12,100 migrants were currently in Serbia, the prime minister said on Tuesday, and the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) reported at least 2,500 migrants stranded in no man's land between Croatia and Serbia.
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| Pistorius' early release makes no difference to slain girlfriend's family - lawyer | | | South African Paralympic Oscar Pistorius' release into house arrest slightly less than a year into his five-year jail term for killing his girlfriend makes no difference to her family, a family lawyer said on Tuesday. "To them it doesn't matter whether he was released yesterday a few hours earlier or a few hours later," Tania Koen, a lawyer for slain model Reeva Steenkamp's family said on Talk Radio 702. |
| Turkish police detain Kurdish lawyer who said PKK are not terrorists | | | By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Police arrested a senior Kurdish lawyer in southeast Turkey before dawn on Tuesday on a charge of terrorist propaganda after he said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was not a terrorist group. Supporters, including lawyers and local politicians, gathered at Tahir Elci's office in the region's largest city Diyarbakir, chanting "pressure will not intimidate us", before he was flown to Istanbul. Elci, head of Diyarbakir province's bar association, made his assertion on CNN Turk TV last week, at a time when fighting is raging between PKK militants and government security forces, and tensions are mounting before Nov. 1 elections. |
| China calls Uighur leader's comments "absurd", says Xinjiang at peace | |  China on Tuesday condemned a top exiled Uighur leader for her "absurd" comments about Britain's lavish reception for President Xi Jinping, adding that its far western region of Xinjiang was at peace. The red carpet Britain is rolling out this week to welcome Xi is stained with the blood of Uighurs, Tibetans and dissidents, Rebiya Kadeer, the president of the World Uyghur Congress, said in Tokyo on Monday. China's repressive policies had turned Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, "almost into a war zone", Kadeer added.
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| Pistorius family "happy" athlete is home | | | PRETORIA (Reuters) - The family of Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's "Blade Runner", said on Tuesday they were "happy" that he was home from prison and that the athlete would strictly adhere to his parole conditions. The disgraced Paralympic gold medallist was released into house arrest on Monday evening, just short of a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (Reporting by TJ Strydom; Writing by James Macharia; Editing by Ed Cropley) |
| Delhi court convicts former Uber driver of rape | |  A court on Tuesday convicted a former driver of U.S.-based ride-hailing company Uber Technologies of raping a woman passenger in New Delhi last December, a lawyer involved in the case said. The attack, in which the woman reported being raped and beaten after hailing a ride with then Uber driver Shiv Kumar Yadav, sparked a nationwide debate around women's safety in the country. Authorities in New Delhi banned Uber after the incident last year, saying the company violated rules and failed to run proper background checks on its drivers.
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| Nobel winners urge British PM to press China's Xi on dissidents | |  (Reuters) - Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to call publicly for the release of their fellow laureate, Liu Xiaobo, and his wife Liu Xia during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to London this week. The laureates, led by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, wrote to Cameron on Sept. 2 to urge him to press the couple's case, U.S. advocacy group Freedom Now said. "We believe that unless leaders like you take urgent action, both publicly and privately, that China will continue to believe it can act with impunity and without consequence for its behavior," a text of the letter released by Freedom Now said.
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