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| Modi, facing tight election, hits back at "intolerance" criticism | |  By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi, battling to win power in the big heartland state of Bihar and push his stalled economic reforms, hit back at his critics on Monday for trying to paint a picture of intolerance in the country. Rivals say the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is whipping up religious tensions to win the election in Bihar, the country's third most populous state and critical to Modi's plans to improve his party's strength in the upper house of parliament. Modi's administration has faced a rising tide of criticism for failing to rein in hardline Hindu groups that are campaigning for issues such as cow worship in a multi-faith country.
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| Rebels free kidnapped workers in South Sudan, no sign of stolen fuel | | | South Sudanese rebels have released 13 contractors a week after kidnapping them and seizing the fuel barge they were taking to a U.N. base in South Sudan, the United Nations said. The U.N. mission in the world's youngest country said it sent helicopters to pick up the South Sudanese workers on Sunday, and recovered the barge - but not the 55,000 litres of fuel it was carrying. "This (release) was the result of a week-long dialogue... with members of the opposition at all levels," Shantal Persaud, a spokeswoman for the U.N. mission, said on Monday. |
| Iran arrests prominent journalist on propaganda charges - family | | | Iranian authorities arrested prominent journalist Isa Saharkhiz on Monday for "insulting the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) and propaganda against the regime", his family said on social media. A post on Saharkhiz's Facebook page reporting his detention included what it said was a picture of a search warrant for his home. An Iranian journalist who knows Saharkhiz told Reuters the page was under the control of a family member. |
| Sri Lanka deports Maldivian teen wanted in president's boat blast probe | |  Sri Lanka on Monday deported a Maldivian teenager wanted in an investigation into an explosion on a boat carrying Maldives President Abdulla Yameen, government and high commission officials said. The deportation comes after the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had found no conclusive evidence that the Sept. 28 explosion was caused by a bomb. Yameen, 56, was unhurt in the blast as his presidential boat approached the capital Male while he was returning from Saudi Arabia after the Haj pilgrimage, but his wife and two aides were injured.
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| Iraq parliament bars Abadi government from passing reforms unilaterally | | | By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament voted unanimously on Monday to bar the government from passing important reforms without its approval in an effort to curb Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi amid discontent over his leadership style, lawmakers said. The chamber acted after Abadi unilaterally enacted reforms in August that it deemed a violation of the constitution including his dismissal of the vice presidents and deputy prime ministers and cuts to salaries of government employees. "Under this resolution no more absolute authorities for the prime minister," one member of parliament, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters. |
| Nepali police kill Indian protester at border blockade | |  By Ross Adkin and Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali police shot and killed an Indian citizen at a border checkpoint on Monday as they tried to clear protesters whose blockade has strangled Nepal's fuel supplies and badly damaged relations between the neighbours. Nepal has faced an acute fuel crisis for more than a month since protesters in the lowland south, angered that a new constitution fails to reflect their interests, prevented supply trucks from entering from India. Many in Nepal see India's hand in the protests although it denies any role.
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| Erdogan, eyeing greater powers, says Turks voted for stability | |  By Nick Tattersall and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - A jubilant President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday cast the return of Turkey's Islamist-rooted AK Party to single-party rule as a vote for stability that the world must respect, but opponents fear it heralds growing authoritarianism and deeper polarisation. The AKP defied pollsters and even the expectations of its own strategists in a general election on Sunday, consolidating support from the right to claw back a parliamentary majority that will bolster Erdogan's grip on power. The result handed the AKP 317 of the 550 seats in parliament, only 13 short of the number Erdogan would need for a national referendum on constitutional changes he wants to forge a presidential system granting him full executive powers.
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| Crashed Russian jet not hit from outside, no distress call made - investigator source | |  The Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt on Saturday was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analysing the black box recorders said. A civil aviation ministry source said earlier that the analysis of the flight recorders was ongoing.
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| Italian chief in hot water over discriminatory remarks | |  Italian soccer federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio is in trouble again, this time for apparently making disparaging comments about Jews and gays, which have led to fresh calls for his resignation. An Italian newspaper published extracts at the weekend of an interview Tavecchio had given to sports website SoccerLife.it last June, shortly before he became head of the FIGC. Tavecchio said the interview was taped without his knowledge and questioned whether the recording had been manipulated.
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| Six suspected members of Basque group ETA go on trial in France | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - Six suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA go on trial in France on Monday over the killing of a policeman in a shootout in the eastern suburbs of Paris in March 2010, a judiciary source said. Sergeant Jean-Serge Nerin was killed when shooting broke out between police and ETA members after the armed group tried to steal cars from a used car store and locked up the salesman. It was the last killing attributed to ETA before it called a unilateral ceasefire in 2011 and pledged to turn in its weapons.
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| Israeli forces shoot and kill Palestinian attacker - police | | | Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man who tried to stab a soldier in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the police and army said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating. Troops approached two Palestinians at a petrol station near a checkpoint between Israel and the West Bank, then one of the men tried to stab one of the soldiers, the military said. Police said he died of his wounds and the other Palestinian was arrested. |
| China prosecutor approves detention of former work safety chief | | | China's state prosecutor said on Monday that it has approved the detention of the former head of the work safety regulator, sacked after blasts that killed more than 160 people in August in the northern port city of Tianjin. Yang Dongliang was removed as director of the State Administration of Work Safety shortly after the massive August explosions in a warehouse in Tianjin, a city that lies not far from the capital, Beijing. In a brief statement, the prosecutor said that it had approved the taking of "coercive measures" against Yang, a term that generally denotes detention and marks the next step in the legal process before a court case. |
| China says one-child policy stays in effect for now | |  China must continue to enforce its one-child policy until new rules allowing all couples to have two children go into effect, the top family planning body said. The ruling Communist Party said last week that Beijing would loosen its decades-old one-child policy. The online statement by the National Health and Family Planning Commission contradicts a remark by a family planning official in the southern province of Hunan, who said last week that couples currently pregnant with a second child will not be punished, according to the Hunan Daily newspaper.
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| China to prosecute former Xinjiang editor who queried party line | | | By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China will prosecute the former editor-in-chief of the official Communist Party publication in the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang on charges of corruption after he queried ethnic and security policies, the paper said on Monday. Hundreds of people have died in the last few years in Xinjiang unrest blamed by the government on Islamist militants. China denies any such repression takes place. |
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