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| Unions, lawmakers promise closer 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 U.S.-backed Pacific trade deal on Thursday, setting up a potentially long and difficult path to ratification by the United States, the biggest of the 12 partners. Arguments over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, aimed at freeing up 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. |
| Israeli troops kill Palestinian assailant in West Bank - army | | | Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after he ignored calls to halt and attempted to attack one of the soldiers at a crowded bus stop, the military said. The incident took place near the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion south of Jerusalem, on the main road to Hebron, which has become the focal point of recent violent unrest that began more than a month ago. "(Soldiers) thwarted an attack at a crowded bus stop at Gush Etzion junction when a Palestinian armed with a knife attempted to stab them. |
| Afghan asylum seekers overtake Syrians on Arctic route to Europe | | | By Alister Doyle and Camilla Knudsen OSLO (Reuters) - Afghans have overtaken Syrians as the biggest group of asylum seekers crossing Norway's remote Arctic frontier from Russia, even though many risk being sent back to Kabul, Norway's top immigration official said on Thursday. Many other European nations have also seen a surge in arrivals from Afghanistan, adding to Europe's biggest migrant crisis since World War Two. "It worries us that there are so many from Afghanistan ... They should think twice," Frode Forfang, head of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, told reporters. |
| Benzema put under formal inquiry over French sex tape | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was placed under formal judicial investigation on Thursday in connection with an alleged attempt to blackmail fellow French soccer international Mathieu Valbuena using 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, which France hosts next year.
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| Egypt promotes Sharm airport chief after Russian plane crash | |  By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has promoted the Sharm al-Sheikh airport chief days after a plane crash that was claimed by Islamist militants and raised questions about plane security at the tourist gateway. Britain said on Thursday that a bomb planted by a group affiliated with Islamic State, which operates in the Sinai Peninsula, may have been the cause of the incident which killed 224 people on the plane that was flying to Russia. Egypt has said there was no evidence a blast brought down the plane and promoted airport chief Captain Abdul Wahhab Ali to take on extra duties at the national airport operator despite the security questions at Sharm, a resort popular with British, Russian and other European holidaymakers seeking winter sun.
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| Maldives impeaches vice president as emergency law deepens crackdown | | | Parliament in the Maldives impeached the vice president on Thursday over his alleged role in an explosion on the president's speedboat, a day after the government declared a state of emergency that was internationally condemned. The decree has deepened turmoil engulfing the Indian Ocean archipelago following the blast on President Abdulla Yameen's boat, 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. |
| 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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| 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. |
| 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. |
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