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| Brawls erupt as Turkish police storm media group linked to Erdogan foe | | | Turkish police on Wednesday stormed the offices of an opposition media company, days before an election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a U.S.-based cleric and foe of President Tayyip Erdogan, live footage showed. Brawls broke out and police sprayed water cannon to disperse dozens of people in front of the offices of Kanalturk and Bugun TV in Istanbul, a live broadcast on Bugun's website showed. The media groups are owned by Koza Ipek Holding, which has links to Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. |
| Meghalaya CM pushes for coal mining; critics say he's helping wife | |  By Krishna N. Das SUTNGA, India (Reuters) - Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has been lobbying New Delhi to lift a ban on dangerous, small-scale coal mining operations in his state, without disclosing that his wife owns several mines there, according to documents seen by Reuters. At its peak the state produced coal worth $4 billion a year, or about a tenth of India's total production, nearly all from this form of small-scale mining. In half a dozen letters to the central government, Sangma's administration has asked for help to revoke the ban imposed on rat-hole mining in the state by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), India's environment court.
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| Company running Australian camps in Pacific denies abuse | | | By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - The company running Australia's offshore immigration detention camps rejected on Wednesday suggestions its staff were involved in rights abuses on isolated Pacific islands as the United Nations stepped up criticism of the facilities. About 100 protesters disrupted the annual general meeting of Transfield Services Ltd as company chairwoman Diane Smith-Gander said they only provided support services for the camps that were set up and paid for by Australia's government. Immigration is a sensitive issue in Australia and two years ago the government re-introduced a policy of intercepting refugee boats and processing applications for visas on Nauru and Papua New Guinea. |
| Exclusive: Fearing more jailbreaks, Afghanistan rushed inmates out of Helmand | | | By Krista Mahr and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan authorities rushed 150 "dangerous" inmates from a prison in the insurgency-racked southern province of Helmand to the capital Kabul at the weekend, officials said, after Taliban militants orchestrated two major jailbreaks in recent weeks. Government forces clashed with Taliban fighters on Wednesday on the outskirts of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, where fighting has been going on for most of the past week. Since mid-September, Taliban fighters have broken out hundreds of inmates, many of them fellow militants, from two prisons amid mounting insecurity across Afghanistan. |
| Iraqi Kurdish PM appoints new ministers after expulsions | | | The prime minister of Iraq's Kurdistan region has appointed ministers to replace four who were unilaterally expelled from the cabinet by his party during the worst political crisis in years. The dominant Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) suspended the four ministers from their posts earlier this month after accusing the Gorran movement to which they belong of instigating violent unrest for political gain. The expelled ministers were replaced on Tuesday with KDP politicians in what senior Gorran official Mohammed Tofiq described as an "illegal and illegitimate" move. |
| Ivory Coast's Ouattara secures second term in landslide poll win | |  By Loucoumane Coulibaly and Joe Bavier ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara won a blowout poll victory and a second five-year term in a weekend vote intended to draw a line under years of turmoil and a 2011 civil war, the elections commission announced on Wednesday. Ouattara won a total of 2,118,229 votes, or 83.66 percent of ballots cast, President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) Youssouf Bakayoko announced at a media conference. The former International Monetary Fund official, whose leadership has helped the West African nation re-emerge as a rising economic star after the 2011 civil war, faced a deeply divided opposition.
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