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| Five arrests after trouble before City v Sevilla match | |  (Reuters) - Greater Manchester Police (GMP) arrested five people, three of them Polish football fans, when a brawl broke out in the city centre before Manchester City played Sevilla in a Champions League group match on Wednesday. One man was treated for a head injury and GMP confirmed the arrests in a statement on its Twitter feed. It is unclear what sparked the violence, although reports in Spain suggested fans of Polish club Slask Wroclaw sparked the trouble following violence when Slask and Sevilla met in the Europa League in 2013.
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| China's Xi seals nuclear power deal as part of $62 billion splurge in Britain | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to finance nuclear power stations in Britain, crowning a visit that Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will unleash a wave of investment from the world's second largest economy. After a day of pomp, Communist Party General Secretary Xi on Wednesday turned from pageantry to discussion of 40 billion pounds' ($62 billion) worth of deals with Cameron in his Downing Street residence, where the landmark nuclear deal was signed. In the first major Chinese investment in a Western nuclear facility, China's General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) will take a one-third stake in the planned 18 billion-pound ($28 billion) Hinkley Point nuclear plant controlled by France's EDF .
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| Army disperses anti-government protesters in Congo Republic | | | Security forces in Congo Republic's capital fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters, a day after police killed four opposition supporters. Protests began in early October against a referendum that critics say is a ploy by President Denis Sassou Nguesso to prolong his grip on power, much as protests have broken out in Burundi, Burkina Faso and other African counties where leaders tried to remain in power. Sunday's vote in Congo Republic will decide whether to amend the constitution to raise the age limit and number of terms a president can serve. |
| Bahrain charges 24 with trying to set up Islamic State branch in kingdom | | | Twenty-four people face trial in Bahrain for trying to set up a branch of the Islamic State militant group and promoting the overthrow of the Gulf Arab state's monarchy, the public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. Bahrain was swept by protests during the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprisings in which the Shi'ite majority demanded political reforms from the Sunni Muslim ruling family. The new case was the first time Bahrain named the Sunni Islamic State in connection with alleged militancy inside the island kingdom, which hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet as a bulwark against Shi'ite Iran across the Gulf. |
| Egypt loyalists win all 60 list seats in first round of election | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - A political alliance loyal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has scooped up all 60 list seats up for grabs in the first round of a parliamentary election, results from the country's high election committee showed on Wednesday. The election was held on Sunday and Monday amid low turnout. All but four of the 226 individual seats up for grabs in round one will be contested in run-offs between leading candidates to take place on Oct. 26-27 after none of those running clinched more than 50 percent of the vote. (Reporting by Omar Fahmy; Editing by Alison Williams)
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| Factbox: Officials under investigation by FIFA ethics committee | | | Here are background details of the current and former football officials named as being under investigation by FIFA's ethics committee on Wednesday: Franz Beckenbauer: One of the finest players to grace the game, he captained West Germany to World Cup victory in 1974 and coached them to the title 16 years later. After moving away from the pitch, he headed the organising committee for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Beckenbauer was on the FIFA executive committee in 2010 when it voted to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively, decisions which have come under scrutiny from the ethics committee. |
| Merkel says Israeli settlements "counterproductive" | |  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said following talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the building of Jewish settlements was counterproductive and urged Israel and the Palestinians to calm the situation after weeks of violence.
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| Beckenbauer and Villar named in FIFA ethics probe | |  By Simon Evans and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - The FIFA scandal swept up one of the greatest soccer players of all time on Wednesday, when Franz Beckenbauer's name appeared on a new list of individuals facing possible sanction from the scandal-hit body's ethics committee. FIFA and UEFA vice-president Angel Maria Villar of Spain and other former FIFA executive committee members were also named on Wednesday. Earlier this month FIFA suspended president Sepp Blatter for 90 days along with European soccer head Michel Platini - like Beckenbauer, once a legendary international player.
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| Bad weather, border closures add to plight of migrants in Balkans | |  By Maja Zuvela RIGONCI, Slovenia (Reuters) - Refugees from Asian wars crossed into Slovenia from Croatia on Wednesday as border closures elsewhere forced them to find new routes to rich European countries and concern grew over the plight of those stranded in wet, freezing weather. On the Croatian-Serbian border, thousands of migrants spent the night camped out at the Berkasovo-Bapska crossing after Croatia closed the gates. With many now trapped in deteriorating conditions in the Balkans, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called an extraordinary meeting of several European leaders to take place on Sunday.
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| Bahrain sentences activist to year in prison for ripping king's photo | | | A Bahraini court sentenced a political activist to one year in prison for ripping up a photo of the king in court in 2014, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. The Bahraini Court of Appeals confirmed the conviction of Zainab al-Khawaja on charges of insulting the king and reduced her sentence from three years in prison to one, London-based Amnesty reported. It also imposed a fine of 3,000 Bahraini dinars ($7,953.34). |
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