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| Kidnapped Arizona baby goat reunited with his mother | | | By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - A weeks-old pygmy baby goat that was believed stolen from a petting zoo at the Arizona State Fair was found safe and sound on Thursday and has been reunited with his crying mother, officials said. GusGus, who had been missing for some 20 hours, was reunited with his mom at the state fairgrounds in Phoenix after an unidentified man dropped him off at a pet store in the west of the city, officials said. "GusGus is fine. |
| Turkish colonel, men cleared of killing 21 during Kurdish war | | | By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A former Turkish colonel and seven other members of the security forces were cleared on Thursday of involvement in the deaths of 21 Kurdish people two decades ago, in a court case European officials and activists had said was a test of rights reforms. Judges found there was insufficient evidence to convict Cemal Temizoz, 57, who served as a gendarmes commander in the town of Cizre during fighting near the Syrian border between 1993 and 1995, media and rights campaigners in court said. About 15 relatives of the victims had travelled the 1,000 km (650 miles) from Cizre to the court in the northwest town of Eskisehir for the final hearing. |
| Egyptian airport security under scrutiny as bomb suspicions mount | |  By Lin Noueihed and Mark Hosenball CAIRO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Egypt insisted on Thursday its airports were secured to international standards, despite growing concerns that its screening procedures may be flawed and that Islamist militants may have downed a Russian plane by smuggling a bomb on board. Earlier Britain said a bomb planted by an Islamic State affiliate active in the Sinai Peninsula may have caused the jet to crash on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board. It halted flights to Sharm al-Sheikh - from where the doomed plane flew - pending security checks, a move quickly followed by Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands.
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| Romania's leftists want wide backing for new PM, opposition eyes snap polls | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling leftists will stop short of proposing a new prime minister to replace Victor Ponta, the party's leader said, and wants any nominees to have wide political backing while the centrist opposition eyes an early election. Ponta, on trial in a landmark corruption case, quit on Wednesday in a surprise move, after tens of thousands of protesters across the country demanded resignations over a deadly fire in a Bucharest nightclub that killed 32. Further peaceful protests involving up to 20,000 mostly young people, some carrying the country's national red, yellow and blue flags, took place in downtown Bucharest in the University square in the evening.
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| Police baffled as medals found dumped in Australian trash | | | Olympic medals dumped in a pile of rubbish outside a house in Melbourne remain unclaimed five months after they were handed in to police, Australian media reported. A bronze medal from the 1952 Helsinki Games and a participation medal from the 1948 London Olympics were handed in to police in June after they were found in trash outside a house in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. Police had been unable to link them to any burglaries and no-one had come forward to claim them. |
| Greece approves reform bill, eyes bailout tranche | | Thursday, November 05, 2015 11:30 PM | |
|  Greece's parliament approved early Friday a bill with reforms prescribed by the country's international lenders, ahead of a euro zone finance ministers meeting in three days which will decide if Athens qualifies for fresh bailout funds. Greece needs to legislate a series of reforms to pass the first review of a new bailout worth up to 86 billion euros (£61.45 billion) it signed up to earlier this year. It must also revamp its banking system by the end of the year to start talks on much-needed debt relief which Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has made a priority.
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