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| 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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| 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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| San Diego gunman in custody; flight diversions at airport end | | | San Diego police took into custody a gunman who fired at officers responding to a domestic violence report on Wednesday after an extended standoff that prompted the nearby international airport to temporarily divert inbound flights. There were no reports of injuries, but all arrivals into San Diego International Airport were put on hold during the incident at an apartment complex in the city's Bankers Hill neighbourhood, at the eastern end of its runways. Police named the suspect as Titus Colbert, 33, and said he will be charged with attempting to murder a police officer. |
| Hundreds march in Central African Republic in support of army | | Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:17 PM | |
| | By Serge Leger Kokpakpa BANGUI (Reuters) - Hundreds of people marched through the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, part of a growing campaign seeking to rearm an army that many distrust and which has been sidelined since rebels seized power in 2013. Marchers, including members of the transitional parliament, demanded that the army be given weapons to combat militia violence and inter-religious reprisal attacks that have killed an estimated 90 people in Bangui since late September. Highlighting the escalating violence in Bangui, the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MINUSCA) said a convoy it was escorting through the city was repeatedly attacked by Christian "anti-balaka" militia fighters. |
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