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| China tees off against golf, gluttony in anti-graft drive | | Friday, October 23, 2015 12:47 AM | |
| | BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has listed golf and gluttony as violations for the first time as it tightens its rules to stop officials from engaging in corrupt practices, while also turning an even sterner eye on sexual impropriety. Chinese President Xi Jinping has been driving a sweeping crackdown on deep-rooted graft since taking over the party's leadership in late 2012. Tales of corruption and officials' high living, including extravagant banquets and expensive rounds on golf courses, have stirred widespread public anger because bureaucrats are meant to live on modest sums and lead morally exemplary lives. |
| Army surrounds home of Congo Republic opposition leader | | Friday, October 23, 2015 12:30 AM | |
|  By Emma Farge DAKAR (Reuters) - A Congo Republic opposition leader said late on Thursday that forces from leader Denis Sassou Nguesso's presidential guard were surrounding his house, detaining him and three allies opposed to a vote on extending term limits. A referendum on Sunday will determine whether 71-year-old Sassou Nguesso can legally stand for a third consecutive term in next year's election. As in other African countries like Burkina Faso and Burundi where veteran presidents have sought to prolong their grip on power, mass protests broke out in Congo Republic, an oil-rich, former French colony, this week.
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| Clinton defends her Benghazi record in face of Republican criticism | | Friday, October 23, 2015 12:18 AM | |
|  By Jonathan Allen and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton deflected harsh Republican criticism of her handling of the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, at a testy hearing in Congress on Thursday that seemed unlikely to put a dent in the front-runner's campaign. At a sometimes bitter day-long hearing, the former secretary of state shrugged off Republican accusations that she ignored requests for security upgrades in Libya and misinformed the public about the cause of the attack by suspected Islamist militants that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi. Clinton, 67, avoided the fray during several heated exchanges between Republicans and her Democratic allies, and stayed composed under aggressive questioning from Republican lawmakers.
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| The lord and the gangster: new light on a 1960s London sex scandal | |  An old scandal from the 1960s re-emerges in lurid new detail from declassified British intelligence files featuring prominent politician Lord Boothby, his mistress, who was the wife of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and notorious racketeer Ronnie Kray. Boothby, a Conservative, was elected to parliament in the 1920s, resigned from a ministerial job in the 1940s over his role in a financial scandal, but continued in politics and was elevated to the House of Lords in 1958. It was an open secret among London's chattering classes that he was the long-term lover of Lady Dorothy Macmillan, whose husband Harold was Conservative prime minister from 1957 to 1963.
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| After Netanyahu talks, Kerry says Israeli-Palestinian strife may ease | |  By Arshad Mohammed BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday voiced cautious hope there may be a way to defuse Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed nearly 60 people this month. Speaking to reporters after about four hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kerry said he thought there were steps that could reduce the violence and said they needed to be discussed with Jordanian and Palestinian officials. "I would characterise that conversation as one that gave me a cautious measure of optimism that there may be ... a way to defuse the situation and begin to find a way forward," Kerry told reporters after he met Netanyahu at a Berlin hotel. At a United Nations Security Council meeting on Thursday, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon said peace could only be achieved through direct talks between the parties.
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| Ex-U.N. diplomat, others plead not guilty in U.S. bribery case | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former U.N. General Assembly president, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and three others accused by U.S. authorities of engaging in a wide-ranging bribery scheme pleaded not guilty on Thursday. John Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda and onetime General Assembly president accused of taking more than $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to tax fraud charges. Ng Lap Seng, a developer from the Chinese territory Macau who has a $1.8 billion net worth and who prosecutors say paid $500,000 in bribes to Ashe, pleaded not guilty to charges including bribery and money laundering.
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| Mexico police bust U.S. border tunnel of drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman | |  Mexican police busted a smuggling tunnel run by the drug gang of fugitive kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on the U.S. border stashed with about 10 tons of suspected marijuana, officials said on Thursday. The tunnel, which ran under the border from the Mexican city of Tijuana, was some 800 meters (2,625 feet) long, the National Security Commission (CNS) said in a statement.
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| Former Guinea-Bissau army chief indicted over alleged plot | | | Guinea-Bissau's state prosecutor has charged a former army chief with terrorism, homicide and trying to subvert the country's constitutional order, one of his lawyers said on Thursday. Rear-Admiral Jose Zamora Induta, who headed the army in 2009-2010, is suspected of involvement in an abortive plot to kill President Jose Mario Vaz amid a political crisis in August. Induta is also accused of involvement in a 2012 coup attempt in which several people were killed. |
| 12,000 migrants arrive in Slovenia; authorities ask EU for help | |  By Marja Novak and Maja Zuvela LJUBLJANA/RIGONCE, Slovenia (Reuters) - More than 12,000 migrants have crossed into Slovenia in the past 24 hours and thousands more are expected, prompting authorities to ask the rest of the European Union for help dealing with the flood of people. Slovenia has asked the EU for police to help regulate the flow coming from Croatia, Interior Minister Vesna Gyorkos Znidar told TV Slovenia. EU officials said Austria, Germany, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland offered to send police reinforcements.
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| Kyrgyz police kill suspected Islamist escapee from prison in shootout | | | Kyrgyz police killed a suspected Islamist militant escapee from prison on Thursday in a shootout in which a policeman and two civilians also died on the outskirts of the capital Bishkek, the Interior Ministry said. The incident followed two similar gunbattles between police and militants in July, a sign of deteriorating security in the Central Asian nation that hosts a Russian military air base. A ministry spokesman said police had killed Altynbek Itibayev, who had been convicted of murder and faced more charges, after he barricaded himself inside an apartment on the top floor of a three-storey building and shot at policemen. |
| U.S. commando killed in raid to free hostages of ISIS in Iraq | | | By Phil Stewart and Isabel Coles WASHINGTON/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - One member of a U.S. special operations force was killed during an overnight mission to rescue hostages held by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, the first American to die in ground combat with the militant group, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Sixty-nine hostages were rescued in the action, which targeted an Islamic State prison around 7 kilometres north of the town of Hawija, according to the security council of the Kurdistan region, whose counterterrorism forces took part. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said at a news briefing the operation did not mark a change in U.S. tactics in the war on Islamic State militants, who pose the biggest security threat to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. |
| Georgian PM blasts main opposition party over sexual abuse video | |  By Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Garibashvili on Thursday branded the main opposition party a "criminal organisation" after the leaking of a video purporting to show sexual abuse of detainees by law enforcement officers that took place when it was in power. The video, depicting the sexual abuse of two detainees in 2011, was aired on a Ukraine-based video sharing website last week and has triggered protests by pro-government groups targeting the offices of the opposition party, the United National Movement (UNM), which lost power in 2012.
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| German police warn of racist attacks on pro-refugee politicians | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - German police warned on Thursday of a growing risk of racially motivated attacks on politicians by right-wing radicals angry about an influx of migrants and said crimes directed at refugee shelters were rising dramatically. The warning came five days after the stabbing of Henriette Reker, a mayoral candidate in the western city of Cologne. Germany is struggling to cope with the arrival of an expected 800,000 to 1 million migrants this year, many from war zones in the Middle East, and politicians are openly worrying about a potential rise in right-wing radicalism.
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| Turkey's Erdogan sees signs of new wave of migrants from Syria's Aleppo | |  A new wave of migration might be starting following an increase in fighting in the Syrian province of Aleppo, where Syrian government and Russian warplanes are attacking opposition-held areas, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. Some 350,000 people live in opposition-held areas in the province and two thousand of those have so far moved towards the border with Turkey though they have not yet crossed, Izzet Sahin, international relations coordinator at the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said. Sahin of IHH, which established 19 internally displaced persons camps inside Syria, said around 80,000 people had fled Hama city because of air strikes, and were living in the open air in the countryside.
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