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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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| Former IAAF chief suspected of receiving bribes - prosecutor | |  By Chine Labbé and Dmitriy Rogovitskiy PARIS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The former head of world athletics is suspected of receiving just over 1 million euros ($1.09 million) in bribes in 2011 to cover up positive doping tests of Russian athletes, the office of France's financial prosecutor said on Thursday. Lamine Diack's family dismissed what it called the "excessive and insignificant accusations" and the acting head of the Russian athletics federation said Russia had nothing to fear from the latest scandal to rock world athletics. Diack, the former head of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), was placed under formal investigation in France earlier this week on suspicion of corruption and money laundering, prosecutors said.
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| Unions, lawmakers promise closer scrutiny of Pacific trade pact | | | By Krista Hughes and Matt Siegel WASHINGTON/SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. unions, lawmakers and interest groups questioned the long-awaited text of a landmark U.S.-backed Pacific trade deal on Thursday, setting up a potentially long and difficult path to ratification by the United States, the biggest of the 12 partners. Arguments over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, aimed at cutting taxes and tariffs on commerce in 40 percent of the world's economy, are set to focus on transparency and how the pact affects workers and businesses. "It's worse than we thought," Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, told reporters on a conference call after examining the full text of the pact, which was unveiled early on Thursday. |
| Finnish PM says government could collapse on Friday | |  By Jussi Rosendahl HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila said his centre-right coalition government could collapse on Friday if it fails to reach agreement on healthcare reforms that envisage spending cuts of up to 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion). The reforms are a key part of the government's plan to balance the public finances over the long term in Finland, a eurozone member country now mired in recession. "It is very likely that I will go to meet the president tomorrow," Sipila told a news conference, meaning the resignation of the three-party government.
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| MSF says planes may have attacked staff fleeing Kunduz hospital | |  Medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Thursday it was hard to believe a U.S. strike on an Afghan hospital last month was a mistake, as it had reports of fleeing people being shot from an aircraft. "All the information that we've provided so far shows that a mistake is quite hard to understand and believe at this stage," MSF General Director Christopher Stokes told reporters while presenting the group's internal report on the incident. The report said many staff described "seeing people being shot, most likely from the plane" as they tried to flee the main hospital building, which was under attack by U.S. military aircraft.
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| Israeli troops kill Palestinian assailant in West Bank - army | | | Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after he ignored calls to halt and attempted to attack one of the soldiers at a crowded bus stop, the military said. The incident took place near the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion south of Jerusalem, on the main road to Hebron, which has become the focal point of recent violent unrest that began more than a month ago. "(Soldiers) thwarted an attack at a crowded bus stop at Gush Etzion junction when a Palestinian armed with a knife attempted to stab them. |
| Afghan asylum seekers overtake Syrians on Arctic route to Europe | | | By Alister Doyle and Camilla Knudsen OSLO (Reuters) - Afghans have overtaken Syrians as the biggest group of asylum seekers crossing Norway's remote Arctic frontier from Russia, even though many risk being sent back to Kabul, Norway's top immigration official said on Thursday. Many other European nations have also seen a surge in arrivals from Afghanistan, adding to Europe's biggest migrant crisis since World War Two. "It worries us that there are so many from Afghanistan ... They should think twice," Frode Forfang, head of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, told reporters. |
| Benzema put under formal inquiry over French sex tape | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was placed under formal judicial investigation on Thursday in connection with an alleged attempt to blackmail fellow French soccer international Mathieu Valbuena using a sex video. Cormier added that the nub of the affair was a conversation in which Benzema offered Valbuena a bit of friendly "judicious advice" and what was said had nothing to do with blackmail. The prosecutor's move, which in France's justice system does not necessarily mean he will end up being tried, but does mean investigators believe they have serious grounds for pursuing the matter with him, exposes Benzema to a period of doubt ahead of a European nations soccer contest, which France hosts next year.
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| Egypt promotes Sharm airport chief after Russian plane crash | |  By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has promoted the Sharm al-Sheikh airport chief days after a plane crash that was claimed by Islamist militants and raised questions about plane security at the tourist gateway. Britain said on Thursday that a bomb planted by a group affiliated with Islamic State, which operates in the Sinai Peninsula, may have been the cause of the incident which killed 224 people on the plane that was flying to Russia. Egypt has said there was no evidence a blast brought down the plane and promoted airport chief Captain Abdul Wahhab Ali to take on extra duties at the national airport operator despite the security questions at Sharm, a resort popular with British, Russian and other European holidaymakers seeking winter sun.
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