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| Bangladesh writers stage freedom rally despite fear of attack | |  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - About 1,000 Bangladeshi authors and teachers marched through the streets of the capital on Tuesday, asserting their right to free speech days after a suspected Islamist group attacked writers and publishers critical of religious militancy. Bangladesh is in the throes of a violent struggle between hardline groups bent on turning the Muslim-majority nation into a sharia-based theocracy on the one hand, and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina determined to root out extremism on the other. On Saturday, a publisher was hacked to death in his office in Dhaka by men wielding sharp weapons, hours after similar attacks on two writers and another publisher.
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| Fourteen kidnapped aid workers released in eastern Congo | | | Fourteen aid workers kidnapped two days ago by unidentified assailants in the eastern Rutshuru region of Democratic Republic of Congo have been released, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Dozens of people have been kidnapped in Rutshuru this year by armed militias and criminal gangs. "We are very happy to learn that the 14 aid workers kidnapped on Sunday have been released," the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Congo said on its Twitter feed. |
| Prosecutors seek murder conviction for South Africa's Pistorius | |  By Stella Mapenzauswa BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - Prosecutors called on Tuesday for South Africa's "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder and sent back to jail for shooting his girlfriend, challenging a court's decision to sentence him for a lesser offence. The Paralympic gold medallist was freed on parole last month after less than a year of the five-year sentence given to him for the "culpable homicide" of Reeva Steenkamp, who he killed on Valentine's Day 2013. Pistorius himself did not attend the one-day Supreme Court hearing into his highly-charged case, which has prompted a fierce debate in South Africa, and accusations from some rights groups that the white track star got preferential treatment.
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| Uber driver gets life sentence for rape in Delhi | |  By Suchitra Mohanty and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Delhi court on Tuesday jailed a driver of U.S.-based ride-hailing company Uber for life for raping a passenger, in a case that highlighted the dangers faced by women from violent sex attackers. Driver Shiv Kumar Yadav received the maximum sentence after he was found guilty last month of the rape, kidnapping and criminal intimidation of the woman, who had hailed a ride home from a party in Delhi last December. Yadav got his job with Uber with fake references, enabling him to hide his criminal record.
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| Turkey targets supporters of Erdogan foe in police raids | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained dozens of people including senior police officers and bureaucrats allegedly linked to President Tayyip Erdogan's foe Fethullah Gulen on Tuesday, widening a campaign against the exiled Muslim cleric after Sunday's election. The prosecutor's office in the western city of Izmir said it ordered the arrest of 57 people believed to be members of the "Gulenist terror group", on allegations they sought a purge of the army by engineering a 2012 espionage trial. Gulen was the "number one" suspect in the latest investigation, according to the Dogan news agency.
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| Police raid German soccer HQ over 2006 World Cup payment | | | By Andreas Kröner FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Police raided the Frankfurt headquarters of Germany's football association (DFB) on Tuesday and searched the homes of officials to investigate claims of tax evasion linked to the awarding of the 2006 World Cup, prosecutors said. The raids, which deployed more than 50 officials, focused on 6.7 million euros ($7.4 million) the DFB transferred to world soccer's governing body FIFA in 2005. Prosecutors said they suspected senior officials at the association of failing to register the payment properly in tax returns. |
| South African judges to give ruling on Pistorius appeal at a later date | | | BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - South African Supreme Court judges hearing arguments from state lawyers that a high court judge had made legal errors when she decided not to convict "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius of murder, said they would issue their decision at a later date. The Paralympic gold medallist was freed on parole last month after serving a fifth of the prison term given to him for the "culpable homicide" of Reeva Steenkamp, who he killed on Valentine's Day 2013. ... |
| Soccer sponsor Daimler demands clarity on DFB allegations | | | "We are monitoring the developments closely and expect a complete clarification," Daimler said in a statement on Tuesday. German police raided the Frankfurt headquarters of the DFB on Tuesday and searched the private homes of officials on suspicion of tax evasion linked to the awarding of the 2006 World Cup, prosecutors said. Daimler's Mercedes Benz passenger car unit has been sponsoring the DFB since 1990. |
| Zimbabwe arrests editor, reporters over elephant poaching story | | | Zimbabwean police said on Tuesday they had arrested an editor and two reporters from a state-owned newspaper for publishing falsehoods after reporting that a police commissioner and junior officer were involved in a spate of elephant killings. Poachers have used cyanide to kill 60 elephants in the Hwange national park in the west and the northern part of the country since late September. Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa and reporters Tinashe Farawo and Brian Chitemba were arrested on Monday and were held at a Harare police station, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokeswoman Charity Charamba told a news conference. |
| British journalists jailed for Indonesia visa violations, could be freed immediately | |  An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced two British journalists to two months and 15 days in jail after they were convicted of violating immigration laws by working without appropriate visas. Neil Bonner and Rebecca Prosser were arrested in May in Indonesia's western island of Batam, where they were filming a documentary about piracy in the Malacca Straits for the London-based production company Wall to Wall, with funding from National Geographic TV. Foreign journalists must have a work visa to report in Indonesia.
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| Austria drafts law to deter most Afghan migrants | |  Austria's cabinet proposed a bill on Tuesday to deter Afghan migrants from coming to the country located along a major migration route across Europe and facing record numbers of asylum requests this year. The move follows the German interior minister's call for Afghans, who make up a large proportion of the hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking refuge in Europe, to stay in their home country. Austria's new law would force most Afghans to wait for three years, rather than one year under current rules, to bring their families to Austria as well as to prove they have an independent source of income, health insurance and a flat.
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| Indonesia to deport Chhota Rajan to India | |  Indonesia will deport one of India's most wanted men on Tuesday to face charges in more than two dozen murder cases at home. Rajendra Nikalje, widely known as Chhota Rajan, was arrested by police on Indonesia's resort island of Bali last week, ending a two-decade-long international manhunt. Rajan has been on Interpol's wanted list since 1995 suspected of running a crime syndicate that engaged in extortion, arms struggling and contract killing.
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| UK govt denies dropping plans for vote on Syria air strikes | |  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron has not dropped plans to seek parliamentary support to bomb Islamist militants in Syria, a source in his office said after reports that he had done so. Cameron has said he wants to do more to tackle IS. Keen to avoid a repeat of his 2013 defeat over air strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, he has been trying to build cross-party support for extending strikes to Syria from Iraq.
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| China's ruling Communist Party says to accelerate military reform | |  China's ruling Communist Party will seek to build the capability to win an "informationized war" by 2020 as part of accelerated reform of the armed forces, state media reported on Tuesday. China will make significant progress toward realising "mechanization and informatization" by 2020, and build a system capable of "winning an informationized war and effectively fulfilling the mandated mission of building modern military strength with Chinese characteristics", the Xinhua news agency reported. The reform pledge was contained in a communique issued nearly a week after the Party's Central Committee held a high-level policy meeting to set a 13th Five-Year Plan.
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| South Africa prosecutors start arguments in appeal court to convict Pistorius of murder | |  BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - South African state prosecutors began their appeal to have paralympian Oscar Pistorius' conviction scaled up to murder from culpable homicide for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. Pistorius was released from prison into house arrest last month after serving a fifth of his five-year prison term. During the trial, the state failed to convince judge Thokozile Masipa of Pistorius' intent to kill when he fired, leading to his conviction for negligent killing or culpable homicide. (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by James Macharia)
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