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| U.S. unions, lawmakers vow 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 Pacific trade deal on Thursday, setting up a potentially 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. |
| Ex-Goldman employee pleads guilty over N.Y. Fed leaks | |  By Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc employee pleaded guilty on Thursday to illegally obtaining confidential information from a former colleague at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Rohit Bansal, a former associate at Goldman Sachs, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour charge of theft of government property, days after Goldman Sachs reached a related $50 million settlement with the New York Department of Financial Services. "I accept full responsibility for my actions and am deeply sorry for what I've done," a visibly emotional Bansal said at the plea hearing.
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| Romania's president appoints education minister as interim PM | |  Romanian President Klaus Iohannis appointed outgoing Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu to be interim prime minister on Thursday, replacing Victor Ponta, who resigned the previous day amid protests across the country. An estimated 25,000 people marched in Bucharest on Wednesday evening and thousands more poured onto the streets of cities throughout Romania, demanding resignations after a fire killed 32 and injured hundreds in a Bucharest nightclub at the weekend. Ponta's resignation is expected to produce a new cabinet, probably led by a technocrat.
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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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| 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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