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| 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 freed on parole after one 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 evening, just short of a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. 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. Pistorius had been expected to leave prison on Tuesday, and his early release took media by surprise.
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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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| China arrests three fake graft busters for kidnap | | | Police in northeastern China have arrested three people and are looking for a fourth who built a fake interrogation centre and pretended to be graft inspectors, kidnapping a local official and his wife to extort money, state media said. Since President Xi Jinping began his crackdown on deep-rooted graft three years ago, there has been a series of cases of criminals passing themselves off as anti-corruption officials to get people to hand over their supposedly ill-gotten gains. The official, named as Zhang Wei, and his wife were driven to a building in which there was a room set up to look like an interrogation room, including a government seal on the wall, media said. |
| Two California men plead not guilty to financial fraud in Islamic State case | | | By Victoria Cavaliere LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two Southern California men accused of conspiring to travel to the Middle East to join the Islamic State pleaded not guilty on Monday to financial fraud charges connected with their alleged attempts to support the militant group, federal officials said. Muhanad Badawi and Nader Elhuzayel, residents of Anaheim, appeared in federal court in Santa Ana to face additional charges of bank and financial aid fraud that had been added to charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State, designated a terrorist group by the U.S. government. Badawi, 24, is accused of using federal financial aid intended for his studies to buy Elhuzayel a plane ticket to Turkey, where he could move on to Syria and link up with Islamic State. |
| Saudi prince will not face felony charge in Beverly Hills sex assault case | | | A Saudi prince accused of trying to sexually assault a worker at a Beverly Hills estate will not face a felony charge in the case, the Los Angeles County prosecutor's office said on Monday, though he still could face misdemeanor criminal charges. Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud was arrested on Sept. 23 at a gated mansion in Beverly Hills and booked on suspicion of trying to force an employee to perform oral sex, police said. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said on Monday they had declined to bring felony charges and referred the case to the Los Angeles City Attorney for consideration of possible misdemeanor charges, a spokeswoman said. |
| Slovenia to use army to help guard border in migrant crisis | |  By Marja Novak LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia's parliament is expected to approve changes to its laws later on Tuesday to enable the army to help police guard the border, as thousands of migrants flooded into the country from Croatia after Hungary sealed off its border. "This is not about enforcing an extraordinary condition, it is about strengthening control on the border," Prime Minister Miro Cerar told the national radio Radio Slovenia. The government has not given details of the proposed changes to the law, but issued a statement stressing Slovenia's lack of capacity to deal with the influx and calling on fellow EU countries to help.
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| Accused mobster, 80, pulled off 'Goodfellas' heist - U.S. prosecutors | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - An alleged top member of New York's Bonanno crime family went on trial on Monday for what federal prosecutors said was his role in the famous 1978 airport heist that inspired the mob movie "Goodfellas." Vincent Asaro, 80, was one of several armed men that stole $6 million in cash and jewelry in December 1978 from a Lufthansa Airlines cargo building at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, "truly the score of all scores," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lindsay Gerdes told a federal jury in Brooklyn.
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| Canada's Trudeau topples PM Harper in stunning election win | |  By Randall Palmer and Rod Nickel MONTREAL/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late campaign surge to a stunning election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa. Trudeau, 43, the photogenic son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, pledged to run a C$10 billion annual budget deficit for three years to invest in infrastructure and help stimulate Canada's anemic economic growth. Trudeau has said he will repair Canada's cool relations with the Obama administration, withdraw Canada from the combat mission against Islamic State militants in favor of humanitarian aid and training, and tackle climate change.
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