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| MSF says hard to believe U.S. strike on Afghan hospital a mistake | |  Medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on 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. At least 30 people were killed when the hospital in Kunduz was hit by the strike on Oct. 3 while Afghan government forces were battling to regain control of the northern city from Taliban forces who had seized it days earlier. The United States has said the hospital was hit by accident and two separate investigations by the U.S. and NATO are underway but the circumstances of the incident, one of the worst of its kind during the 14-year conflict, are still unclear.
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| Valbuena, Benzema omitted by France amid sextape scnadal | |  By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Mathieu Valbuena and Karim Benzema, embroiled in a sextape scandal, were omitted from France's squad on Thursday for the games with Germany and England later this month while Hatem Ben Arfa was recalled. Real Madrid striker Benzema was put under formal judicial investigation earlier on Thursday in connection with an alleged attempt to blackmail Olympique Lyonnais forward Valbuena with the use of a sex video. France coach Didier Deschamps told a news conference he would not answer "questions not related to football".
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| Russian federation distances itself from corruption probe | |  (Reuters) - Russia has nothing to fear from the latest scandal to rock world athletics, the acting head of the country's federation said on Thursday, after French media reported a corruption investigation involved alleged Russian drugs cheats. Lamine Diack, the former head of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was placed under formal investigation in France on Wednesday on suspicion of corruption and money laundering, prosecutors said. French TV news channel iTELE reported that the investigation was focused on suspicions that payments were made in return for not revealing widespread doping of Russian athletes, although the prosecutor's office did not confirm that.
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| Tired of gunbattles, some Turkish Kurds hope ruling party victory brings peace | |  By Humeyra Pamuk DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Tired of trenches in the streets and daily gun battles, shopkeeper Berzani Akdogan is hoping the return of single-party rule might bring stability to Turkey's southeast, even though a heavier military crackdown looks likely in the short term. Akdogan, whose toy store in the region's biggest city Diyarbakir has repeatedly been shuttered by violence, turned his back on the pro-Kurdish opposition in Sunday's general election, voting instead for the ruling AK Party, despite a campaign built on pledges to maintain a hardline against Kurdish militants. The party's founder, President Tayyip Erdogan, vowed on Wednesday to "liquidate" Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas in a defiant speech that gave no quarter to those hoping for conciliation.
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| Benzema put under formal inquiry over French sex tape | |  French Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was placed under formal judicial investigation on Thursday in connection with an alleged attempt to blackmail fellow-France soccer international Mathieu Valbuena with the use of a sex video. Cormier added that the nub of the affair was a conversation in which Benzema offered Valbuena a bit of friendly "judicious advice" and what was said had nothing to do with blackmail. The prosecutor's move, which in France's justice system does not necessarily mean he will end up being tried, but does mean investigators believe they have serious grounds for pursuing the matter with him, exposes Benzema to a period of doubt ahead of a European nations soccer contest that France hosts next year.
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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. "The TPP means that America will write the rules of the road in the 21st century," Obama said in post online. |
| Modi neck-and-neck with opposition in pivotal Bihar vote | |  By Andrew MacAskill and Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalists and opposition parties were running neck-and-neck in elections in Bihar on Thursday, according to exit polls. The vote is being viewed as a referendum on Modi's premiership after he addressed at least 30 campaign rallies, a departure from tradition in state elections, which usually centre on local issues and leaders. "His reputation is really on the line," said N. Bhaskara Rao, an analyst at the Centre for Media Studies in New Delhi.
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| Bahrain jails five for Iran-linked militancy, strips their citizenship | | | Five Bahrainis were convicted of conspiring with Iran to carry out attacks inside Bahrain, sentenced to life imprisonment and stripped of their citizenship, Bahrain's Public Prosecutor was cited as saying by state news agency BNA reported. The Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdom says Shi'ite neighbour Iran is trying to foment unrest among its majority Shi'ite population. On Wednesday, the interior ministry said it had arrested 47 members of a group it said had ties to "terror elements in Iran" and was also plotting attacks. |
| Maldives impeaches vice president as emergency law deepens turmoil | | | The parliament in the Maldives impeached the vice president on Thursday over his alleged role in a blast on the president's speedboat, a day after the government declared a state of emergency that was condemned by the international community. The decree has deepened turmoil engulfing the Indian Ocean archipelago following the blast on President Abdulla Yameen's speedboat, which the government said was an assassination attempt. Ahmed Adeeb, who was detained in connection with the Sept. 28 explosion, was impeached after 61 members of the 85-member parliament voted in favour. |
| Niger air force bombs Boko Haram base, arrests 20 militants | | | Niger's air force bombed a Boko Haram base in the country's southeast and arrested more than 20 militants, security sources said on Thursday, in its biggest counter-attack in eight months. Members of the Islamist militant group based mostly in northeastern Nigeria have repeatedly attacked the Lake Chad area, including Niger's southern border region of Diffa. Government forces tracked the militants after a soldier was killed when a military vehicle was blown up by remote control by the group near Lake Chad on Monday, the sources said. |
| Egypt says UK suspended flights without consultation | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said on Thursday Britain suspended flights from Sharm al-Sheikh airport without consultation, despite close contacts between the two countries and tighter security measures. "The British decision was taken unilaterally and there were no consultations with Egypt over it despite the high-level contacts that took place between the two countries hours before," the foreign ministry said in a statement on state news agency MENA. ... |
| Bosnian imam jailed for recruiting Islamic State fighters | | | By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian Muslim cleric was sentenced to seven years in jail on Thursday for recruiting fighters to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, under a new law aimed at stopping people becoming militants in the Middle East. Husein Bosnic, known as an unofficial leader of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement in Bosnia, was arrested last year and was among 17 others on trial in Bosnia for suspected links with militant groups in Syria and Iraq. Bosnic, sporting a long beard but not dressed in his trademark Salafi robes, showed no emotion as the verdict was read in court. |
| British man arrested by Singapore police over WTA Finals | | | By Rujun Shen SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A British man has been arrested in connection with an illegal betting case at last week's WTA Finals tennis tournament in Singapore. "A man in his 20s was arrested in relation to the case," a police spokesman told Reuters on Thursday. The police did not give the nationality of the individual but a spokesman for the British High Commission in Singapore told Reuters they were "aware of the arrest and had provided consular support". |
| Early signs of VW impact in slowing European car sales growth | |  By Laurence Frost PARIS (Reuters) - Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal began to hit vehicle sales in October, a leading automotive consultancy said on Friday, with the German group losing ground in Western Europe, where overall market growth slowed to 2.7 percent. Registrations rose to 1.06 million cars last month from 1.03 million the previous October, based on published national data and smaller market estimates compiled by LMC Automotive. VW Group sales were down 2. ...
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| Egypt promotes Sharm airport chief after Russian plane crash | |  By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has promoted the airport chief at Sharm al-Sheikh days after a Russian plane that took off from the Red Sea resort crashed in a disaster that killed all aboard and was claimed by Islamist militants. Britain said on Thursday there was a significant possibility that a group affiliated with Islamic State, which operates in the Sinai Peninsula where the plane went down, was behind a suspected bomb attack that killed 224 people. The comments have focused attention on security at the airport in Sharm al-Sheikh, a resort popular with British, Russian and other European holidaymakers seeking winter sun.
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| Thai junta launches crackdown on "influential figures" stoking crime | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta launched on Thursday a crackdown on organised crime, its latest effort to clean up the country and improve the image of the military government as it struggles to get a sluggish economy on track. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, ushered in a "clean up Thailand" campaign shortly after he, as army chief, took power from an elected government in a 2014 coup, promising to root out vice and corruption in government and society in general. |
| Major mafia trial opens in Rome over case that rattled Italy | | | A one-eyed former neo-fascist gangster and 45 other defendants went on trial on Thursday accused of running a mafia crime ring in Rome that skimmed millions of euros off city hall contracts. Prosecutors say their year-long investigation has laid bare systematic corruption within Rome as politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen hooked up with mobsters to rig public tenders on everything from creating refugees centres to rubbish collection. Massimo Carminati, a one-time member of Rome's notorious far-right Magliana Gang, and his sidekick Salvatore Buzzi, a convicted murderer, are accused of running the crime ring, which prosecutors say represented a new type of mafia in Italy. |
| Romania's president appoints education minister as interim PM | |  BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday said it appointed Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu as interim prime minister to replace Victor Ponta who resigned the previous day after mass street protests. "Sorin Cimpeanu will take over as interim," Iohannis, who will hold consultations over the new premier with political parties and the civil society over the next two days said. (Reporting by Radu Marinas)
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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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| 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.
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