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| Egypt promotes Sharm airport chief after Russian plane crash | |  By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has promoted the airport chief at Sharm al-Sheikh days after a Russian plane that took off from the Red Sea resort crashed in a disaster that killed all aboard and was claimed by Islamist militants. Britain said on Thursday there was a significant possibility that a group affiliated with Islamic State, which operates in the Sinai Peninsula where the plane went down, was behind a suspected bomb attack that killed 224 people. The comments have focused attention on security at the airport in Sharm al-Sheikh, a resort popular with British, Russian and other European holidaymakers seeking winter sun.
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| Thai junta launches crackdown on "influential figures" stoking crime | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta launched on Thursday a crackdown on organised crime, its latest effort to clean up the country and improve the image of the military government as it struggles to get a sluggish economy on track. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, ushered in a "clean up Thailand" campaign shortly after he, as army chief, took power from an elected government in a 2014 coup, promising to root out vice and corruption in government and society in general. |
| Major mafia trial opens in Rome over case that rattled Italy | | | A one-eyed former neo-fascist gangster and 45 other defendants went on trial on Thursday accused of running a mafia crime ring in Rome that skimmed millions of euros off city hall contracts. Prosecutors say their year-long investigation has laid bare systematic corruption within Rome as politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen hooked up with mobsters to rig public tenders on everything from creating refugees centres to rubbish collection. Massimo Carminati, a one-time member of Rome's notorious far-right Magliana Gang, and his sidekick Salvatore Buzzi, a convicted murderer, are accused of running the crime ring, which prosecutors say represented a new type of mafia in Italy. |
| Romania's president appoints education minister as interim PM | |  BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday said it appointed Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu as interim prime minister to replace Victor Ponta who resigned the previous day after mass street protests. "Sorin Cimpeanu will take over as interim," Iohannis, who will hold consultations over the new premier with political parties and the civil society over the next two days said. (Reporting by Radu Marinas)
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| Myanmar's Suu Kyi says will be above president in new government | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Timothy Mclaughlin YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday she would be "above the president" if her party wins a historic election on Nov. 8, defying a constitutional ban on becoming president herself. Suu Kyi's remarks could complicate her already fraught relations with Myanmar's military, which drafted the 2008 constitution to preserve its power and effectively exclude her from leading the country. "If we win, and the NLD forms a government, I will be above the president.
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| India-born former soldier sworn in as Canada's new defence minister | |  By Leah Schnurr OTTAWA (Reuters) - Harjit Sajjan, a former police officer and veteran of three military deployments to Afghanistan, was named Canada's new minister of defence on Wednesday, bringing first-hand expertise to one of the country's top cabinet positions. Sajjan will oversee an anticipated change in Canada's military involvement in the battle against militants in Syria and Iraq. Newly sworn-in Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already said he wants to end Canada's air strikes in the region in favour of providing humanitarian help.
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| U.S., rights groups call on Maldives to lift state of emergency | | | The United States, the Commonwealth group of countries and rights groups have called on the Maldives to lift a state of emergency declared this week and end a crackdown on dissidents, as authorities stepped up security in the tropical archipelago. President Abdulla Yameen declared the state of emergency on Wednesday, citing threats to national security after an explosive device was discovered near his official residence in the capital, Male, as well as stashes of weapons. The decree, which came two days before a protest planned by the main opposition party, has deepened turmoil engulfing the Indian Ocean island nation following a Sept. 28 blast on Yameen's speedboat, which the government said was an assassination attempt. |
| Bosnian imam jailed for 7 years for recruiting Islamic State fighters | | | A Bosnian Muslim cleric was jailed for seven years on Wednesday for recruiting fighters for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, under a new law aimed at stopping people joining militants in the Middle East. Husein Bosnic, known as an unofficial leader of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement in Bosnia, was arrested last year and was among 17 others on trial in Bosnia for suspected links with militant groups in Syria and Iraq. |
| Pacific trading partners release trade pact details | | | If ratified, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will be a legacy-defining achievement for U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration's pivot to Asia, aimed at countering China's rising economic and political influence. China has responded with its own Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a proposed 16-nation free-trade area including India that would be the world's biggest such bloc, encompassing 3.4 billion people. It is opposed by labor unions and many of Obama's fellow Democrats, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who backed the developing trade pact when she was secretary of state during Obama's first term. |
| Exclusive: Myanmar's ousted ruling party head to work with Suu Kyi | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski PHYU, Myanmar (Reuters) - One of Myanmar's most powerful politicians, ousted as leader of the ruling party in August, said Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party was the most popular in the country and he would work with the Nobel laureate in parliament after an historic election. Shwe Mann leads a sizeable parliamentary faction of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). If Suu Kyi fails to win a majority, support from one of the former top generals in the junta could help her form a government.
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| Chinese paper says Reuters radio report "confusing" | |  A Reuters investigation into a web of private radio stations across the world controlled by state-run China Radio International is "confusing and incomprehensible", a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Thursday. "CRI has no control over the U.S. local radio station, which only airs CRI-made programs," the Global Times, an influential tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, said in a commentary in its English-language edition. "Such cooperation is taking place across the world countless times every day." The commentary came after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice announced on Monday they are investigating a California firm whose U.S. radio broadcasts are backed by CRI.
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