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| 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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| 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. |
| Myanmar's Suu Kyi says will be above president in new government | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Andrew R.C. Marshall 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 head of state herself. The general election is the first since a quasi-civilian government took power in 2011 after nearly 50 years of a military dictatorship, and is widely regarded as a referendum on Myanmar's reform process. "I will be above the president," a relaxed and smiling Suu Kyi told reporters in the country's largest city Yangon, in the Nobel laureate's final press conference ahead of the vote.
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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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| Canada PM Trudeau sworn in, reveals diverse gender-equal Cabinet | |  By Randall Palmer and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Liberal leader Justin Trudeau named a young, ethnically diverse and gender-equal Cabinet on Wednesday as he was sworn into office as Canada's 23rd prime minister, marking the end of nearly a decade of Conservative rule. Trudeau, 43, kicked off his majority government with some controversy with his decision to name an equal number of men and women to a slimmed-down Cabinet, the first time gender parity has been achieved in Canada's team of ministers. The Cabinet, 30 ministers plus Trudeau, included rookie politician and corporate executive Bill Morneau as finance minister and former Liberal leader Stephane Dion as foreign minister, a split between the old and the new reflected throughout the team.
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| Mistrial for Alabama police officer who threw Indian man | | | (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday declared a second mistrial when a jury deadlocked again in the case of an Alabama police officer accused of throwing an Indian man to the ground, according to federal prosecutors. Eric Parker, 27, was retried on accusations that he used unreasonable force while working as a Madison, Alabama, police officer. During his first trial in September, another jury in Huntsville, Alabama, federal court also deadlocked, resulting in the first mistrial. |
| Insight: India takes tough line on trafficking victims who get special U.S. visas | |  By Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Ajay Ahir agreed to come to the United States, he had no idea the recruiter promising a high-wage welding job and legal residency in America was lying. After that visa expired and Eagle went out of business, the U.S. government recognised Ahir as a victim of human trafficking in July 2013, granting him a rare "T visa" that allows victims of forced labour to return home, collect family and re-settle in the United States.
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| New Pennsylvania prosecutor could be first to charge Cosby - experts | |  A newly elected suburban Pennsylvania prosecutor could be positioned to bring the first criminal charges of sex assault against comedian Bill Cosby, though the clock is ticking, legal experts said on Wednesday. Kevin Steele, a Democrat, on Tuesday defeated opponent Bruce Castor, a Republican, in the race for district attorney in Montgomery County, where Cosby's first named accuser filed a 2005 complaint against the actor. The statue of limitations runs out in January on that case, in which the woman claimed Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in his mansion in 2004.
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