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| Romanian PM Ponta quits after street protests, paves way for new cabinet | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas and Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta quit on Wednesday in a surprise move that will probably produce a new cabinet led by a technocrat, after street protesters demanded resignations over a deadly fire in a Bucharest nightclub. Ponta is facing trial for corruption and he was already under pressure to quit from the opposition and President Klaus Iohannis, who defeated him in last November's presidential election. "Last night, Romanians' outrage became true revolt," Iohannis said, referring to the more than 20,000 people who took to the streets in the capital on Tuesday, as well as protests elsewhere.
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| Obama not taking anything off table on closing Guantanamo - White House | |  The White House is considering all options in the effort to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, spokesman Josh Earnest said on Wednesday when asked whether the Obama administration would act without congressional approval. Earnest said the White House still hopes to close the prison "in a timely manner." President Barack Obama had vowed to close Guantanamo, which holds 112 inmates suspected of terrorism, by the time he left office in 2017 but members of Congress have blocked the move.
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| New charges in 'Sopranos' star's ex-husband's $300 million fraud case | | | U.S. authorities on Wednesday announced a new indictment against the former husband of "The Sopranos" star Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and three additional arrests over allegations they ran a $300 million stock manipulation scheme. Sigler has not been charged or accused of wrongdoing. |
| France ends law banning blood donation from homosexual men | | | France has decided to end a more than 30-year old law that banned homosexual men from donating blood, a measure originally put in place to stop the spread of diseases such as HIV. Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Wednesday discrimination against potential blood donors on the basis of sexual orientation was unacceptable because it presumed that homosexual men all had HIV. After a review of the measure since 2012, Touraine opted to lift the exclusion that has been in place since 1983 and was subsequently reinforced three times. |
| 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. |
| Woman who accused ex-climate chief of harassment quits think-tank | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A woman who accused climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri of sexual harassment quit her job at a leading green think-tank on Wednesday, saying the organisation treated her in the "worst possible manner" after she complained about his behaviour. The 29-year-old researcher, who filed charges against the former chief of a U.N. climate panel in February, said The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) - where Pachauri was Director General - had discriminated against her. "TERI failed to uphold my interests as an employee, let alone protect them," the woman wrote in an email sent to Dinesh Varma, head of TERI's human resource department, and circulated to the media.
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| Bahrain says foils plans for attack by Iran-linked terrorist group | | | Bahrain said on Wednesday it had arrested 47 members of a group believed to have links to "terrorist elements in Iran" who it said were planning to carry out attacks in the coming days. An interior ministry statement carried by Bahrain's state news agency BNA said a large number of explosives and weapons had been found in secret caches in residential areas of several villages. "The results of the inquiry and investigation indicate that the group has close links to Iranian elements and terrorist elements residing in Iran," the statement said. |
| German police bust people smuggling ring | | | German police on Wednesday broke up an international ring of people smugglers whose members used falsified documents to bring foreigners into Germany, mainly by air, for a fee of up to 10,000 euros ($10,859.00) per person. A police statement said that 17 suspected members of the ring had been arrested in raids in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg. The ring provided foreign nationals, mostly Syrians and Lebanese, with falsified documents such as residency permits and travel documents. |
| Former IAAF head Diack targeted in corruption inquiry | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics, has been placed under formal investigation in France on suspicion of corruption and money laundering following a complaint from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). There is a large-scale corruption investigation at soccer's FIFA while athletics is fighting a desperate public relations rearguard battle in the face of continual doping issues. According to French news channel iTELE, the investigation is focused on suspicions that payments were made in return for not revealing widespread doping of Russian athletes.
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| Sisi says Muslim Brotherhood can play role in Egypt before UK visit | |  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suggested the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood could again play a role in public life if Egyptians wanted a return of the grouping he currently classifies as terrorist. Sisi, who launched the toughest crackdown on Islamists in Egypt's modern history after toppling President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood, was due in London on Wednesday on a visit to Britain criticised by rights campaigners. The visit has drawn criticism from rights campaigners and some politicians, with the leader of Britain's main opposition party saying it showed "contempt for human and democratic rights".
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| Palestinian driver shot dead after ramming Israeli officer - Israeli police | |  Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian driver in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday after he rammed into an Israeli border policeman, critically wounding him, police said. "A border policeman was critically wounded in a ramming attack near (the city of) Hebron," police said in a statement. At least 68 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces, including 41 who Israel says were attackers.
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| One of two black boxes from Russian plane damaged - Egyptian ministry | |  Investigators have extracted and validated the contents of the flight data recorder, one of two so-called black boxes recovered from the Russian airplane that crashed in Egypt, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said the second black box which contains the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) was partially damaged and much work was required to extract data from it. Earlier, Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate dismissed in an audio message doubts that it had downed the Russian passenger plane over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all aboard, and said it would tell the world how it did so in its own time.
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| U.S. diplomat says seeing 'some pullback' of weapons from eastern Ukraine | | | A top U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday that there have been signs that Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine are pulling back some of their weapons. "We are now starting to see for the first time some pullback of Russian and separatist weapons," Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives. NATO has called on Russia to withdraw heavy weapons which the alliance accuses it of providing in support of militant separatist groups in eastern Ukraine. |
| Hundreds march in Central African Republic in support of army | | | By Serge Leger Kokpakpa BANGUI (Reuters) - Hundreds of people marched through the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday in a growing campaign to rearm the army, which was sidelined when mainly Muslim rebels from the Seleka alliance took power in 2013. Marchers included members of the transitional council, backing interim President Catherine Samba-Panza who appealed to the United Nations on Monday to restore the army's weapons. "We need our defence and security forces if we are going to make the country safe," Alexandre Ferdinand Nguedet, president of the transitional council, told the marchers. |
| As Chile's reforms gather pace, Bachelet's approval ratings rise | |  By Rosalba O'Brien SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Approval levels for Chilean President Michelle Bachelet have begun to rebound as the socialist leader puts scandals behind her and her program of reforms gathers momentum. A monthly poll by GfK Adimark on Wednesday showed her approval rating at 29 percent, up 4 percentage points from a month ago to the highest since May. Chile is one of Latin America's most prosperous and stable economies but there are also big inequalities in income and education. Bachelet, who returned to power for a second term in March 2014, was elected on promises that she would tax and spend in order to close the gap.
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| French police question Benzema in soccer sex tape inquiry | | | French police questioned Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema on Wednesday in connection with an inquiry into an alleged attempt to blackmail fellow-France soccer international Mathieu Valbuena, a police source said. Investigators are looking into allegations of attempts to blackmail Valbuena using sex video footage and they took several others, including former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse, in for questioning in mid-October Benzema's name came up during phone taps in relation to the inquiry opened last July, said the police source, speaking on condition of anonymity as is standard practice in France for police officers without official communications roles. |
| Maldives declares state of emergency as turmoil deepens | | | By Daniel Bosley MALE (Reuters) - The Maldives declared a state of emergency for 30 days on Wednesday citing a threat to national security, as President Abdulla Yameen sought to shore up his power over the Indian Ocean island nation following a suspected assassination attempt. The authorities acted after discovering explosive devices near Yameen's official residence and the main mosque in the capital Male, as well as stashes of weapons believed to have been stolen from army stores. "Because these would be a threat to the public and the nation, the National Security Council advised taking immediate steps to protect the people of Maldives," Attorney General Mohamed Anil said in a live televised address. |
| Islamic State affiliate in Egypt insists it brought down Russian plane | |  Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate dismissed in an audio message on Wednesday doubts that it had downed a Russian passenger plane over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all aboard, and said it would tell the world how it did so in its own time. Sinai Province, an Egyptian group loyal to Islamic State, said in a statement the same day that it had brought down the airliner "in response to Russian air strikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land". The claim was dismissed by Russian and Egyptian officials.
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| Tunisian lawmakers suspend membership in ruling party, threatening split | |  By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Thirty lawmakers from Tunisia's ruling party suspended their membership on Wednesday and threatened to resign in protest over what they called attempts by President Beji Caid Essebsi's son to control the party. It is a further sign of infighting between two camps within Nidaa Tounes party, which is at risk of splitting up and losing its strong position in the North African state's parliament to Islamist party rival Ennahda. Any unravelling within Nidaa Tounes could bring instability to Tunisia, which launched the Arab Spring revolts in 2011 and has since won praise for its largely peaceful transition to democracy after the overthrow of autocrat Zine Abidine Ben Ali.
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