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| Germany took in more than 200,000 migrants last month | |  Germany took in more than 200,000 migrants in September, politicians said on Thursday, a new record which is likely to fuel the debate about how many newcomers Europe's most populous country can absorb. Germany's mainstream parties initially backed Chancellor Angela Merkel's warm welcome for refugees but the mood has turned more critical, with practical worries about how to feed and house so many people setting the tone. "In September alone, we registered more refugees than for the whole of last year," Stephan Mayer, a lawmaker from the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) party, told parliament, putting the figure at over 200,000.
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| India's offshore tax amnesty recovers just $575 mln - government | | | By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India recovered a meagre $575 million of unreported funds under a tax amnesty scheme that offered a chance to citizens to disclose overseas assets by paying tax and a penalty, raising doubts over a campaign against tax offenders. Only 638 people declared assets under the tax amnesty that closed on Tuesday. Tax authorities had expected many more disclosures. |
| U.N. calls on Sri Lanka to pursue war crimes with credible process | |  The United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday called on Sri Lanka to establish a credible justice process, including foreign judges and prosecutors, to investigate alleged war crimes committed during the long conflict that ended in 2009. The 47 member state Geneva forum adopted a resolution, without a vote, that was led by the United States and Britain, and backed by Sri Lanka itself. Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels "most likely" committed war crimes including mass killings of civilians during their 26-year war that should be prosecuted by a special court with international judges, the U.N. said in a landmark report issued last month that formed the basis of the resolution.
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| Kyrgyzstan set to cling to Russia in face of security threats | |  By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - Pro-Russian parties look set to retain their dominance when Kyrgyzstan elects a new parliament on Sunday, but the apparent stability masks ethnic tensions and rising Islamist radicalism in the former Soviet republic. The mostly Muslim country of six million people has swung closer to Moscow and further away from the West: under a deadline set by its parliament, the United States last year shut down an airbase in Kyrgzystan that had served U.S. operations in Afghanistan since 2001. Russia retains a military airbase in the Central Asian state, fearing an advance of militant Islam in the region.
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| Volkswagen seeks to boost finances to meet emission scandal costs | |  By Andreas Cremer BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen is looking at ways to cut costs and boost cash flow and could sell more shares if the price of clearing up a scandal over its rigging of diesel emissions tests puts its credit rating at risk. One source said raising money by selling more shares would become likely if the cash costs of the scandal exceeded a "critical level", without elaborating. Volkswagen declined to comment.
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| Vietnam jails journalist for spying for China | | | By Martin Petty HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese jounalist has been found guilty of spying for China and sentenced to a six-year jail term by a Hanoi court after a three-hour trial, his lawyer said on Thursday. Ha Huy Hoang, who had worked for a Foreign Ministry-run magazine, was jailed on Wednesday for colluding with a Chinese spy and would appeal, lawyer Ha Huy Son told Reuters. "He was found guilty of supplying information and material about Vietnam's economy and its leaders to the Chinese government," he said. |
| Prominent Turkish journalist attacked in latest sign of pressure on media | | | A prominent Turkish journalist was hospitalised after an attack by unknown assailants outside his home, his newspaper said on Thursday, in the latest sign of deteriorating conditions for the media under President Tayyip Erdogan. Ahmet Hakan, a columnist for Turkey's leading secular Hurriyet newspaper and a host on broadcaster CNN Turk, was followed home from the television station by four men in a black car late on Wednesday, before being assaulted near his residence, according to Hurriyet Editor-in-Chief Sedat Ergin. "We see that it was an organised, planned attack," Ergin was quoted as saying in Hurriyet Daily News. |
| Miami police charges against Tomic dropped - media | | | Miami police have dropped charges of trespassing and resisting arrest against tennis player Bernard Tomic, Australian media reported on Thursday. The 22-year-old was arrested and charged in July after police were called to his Miami hotel room where he was hosting a party. Tomic's lawyer told Australian Associated Press that prosecutors had dropped the case over inconsistencies in reports lodged by hotel security and police. |
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