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| Myanmar military questions Suu Kyi picks ahead of presidential vote | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's powerful military questioned Aung San Suu Kyi's picks for president and vice president on Monday as tension simmered between the two sides a day before parliament votes on who should get the top job. Relations between the armed forces and Suu Kyi will define the success or otherwise of Myanmar's most significant break from military rule since the army seized power in 1962, even though the constitution bars her from taking the presidency. The democracy leader says she will run the country whoever becomes president, and her choice looks certain to be confirmed by parliament as her National League for Democracy (NLD) holds a sizeable majority after winning a landslide victory in a general election in November.
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| Ivory Coast soldiers patrol beaches after Qaeda attack kills 18 | |  By Joe Bavier GRAND BASSAM, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Ivory Coast soldiers armed with assault rifles patrolled the deserted beaches of a resort town on Monday, a day after gunmen from al Qaeda's North African branch killed 18 people, the third major al Qaeda attack in West Africa in four months. President Alassane Ouattara declared three days of mourning for the country, which has never before been hit by al Qaeda. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it was responsible for storming the beach hotels in Grand Bassam, a weekend retreat popular with Ivorians and westerners about 40 km (25 miles) east of the commercial capital Abidjan.
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| Soccer-Three former S.African officials banned over 2010 | |  By Brian Homewood LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Three more former South African Football Association (SAFA) officials have been banned in relation to friendlies played by the national side in 2010, soccer's governing body FIFA said on Monday. Leslie Sedibe, a former SAFA chief executive, was suspended for five years and fined 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,250) by FIFA's Ethics Committee. Steve Goddard and Adeel Carelse, former heads of SAFA's refereeing department, were banned for two years, soccer's ruling body announced in a statement.
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| U.N. rights envoy urges prosecution of North Korean leader | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' human rights investigator for North Korea called on Monday for its leader Kim Jong Un and senior officials to be prosecuted for committing crimes against humanity. Marzuki Darusman told the U.N. Human Rights Council that North Korea was devoting huge resources to developing nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction while many of its citizens went hungry and others worked in "slave-like conditions". "We are closing in on the North Koreans, and the nature of the regime is such that with total, complete control of the system nothing happens anywhere in that country without the say-so of the highest, supreme leader, chairman of that country, Mr Kim Jong-un," Darusman told a news briefing.
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| FDA investigating graphic video linked to Kellogg factory | | | Breakfast cereals maker Kellogg Co said federal regulators are conducting a criminal investigation of a video that surfaced on Friday showing a man filming himself urinating on one of its factory assembly lines. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigation is leading the probe into the video, which was recorded in 2014, company spokeswoman Kris Charles told Reuters in an email on Monday. The video, uploaded on the website World Star Hip Hop on Friday, shows the man urinating on an assembly line and then panning to a sign with the company's logo. |
| Delhi High Court grants Pfizer temporary relief on cough syrup ban | |  By Zeba Siddiqui and Aditya Kalra MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Delhi High Court granted U.S. drugmaker Pfizer an interim injunction on a ban on its popular cough syrup Corex, days after the government ordered it to be prohibited citing a potential risk to humans. India's health ministry banned the combination of chlorpheniramine maleate and codeine syrup, which Pfizer sells as the cough syrup Corex, in a notice over the weekend. Pfizer's Indian subsidiary appealed the ban through a writ petition in the New Delhi High Court, which granted the company a stay on Monday, pending the next court hearing, Pfizer said in a statement.
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| Knife attack on Tamil Nadu student an "honour killing", say activists | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A daylight attack on a newly married couple near a bus stop in the southern India, in which the husband was killed, was an "honour killing" carried out because the groom was from a lower caste, said activists, demanding swift police action. On Sunday, 22-year-old engineering student V. Shankar and his wife Kousalya were attacked by three men armed with sickles as the couple waited to board a bus in the textile town of Tirupur in the state of Tamil Nadu, police said. Kousalya was undergoing treatment for her injuries, deputy superintendent of police N. Vivekanandan said. |
| Death toll in Ivory Coast militant attack rises to 18 - govt | | | ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The casualty toll in an attack by Islamist militants on a beach resort in Ivory Coast rose to 15 civilians and three members of the country's special forces killed and 33 people wounded, Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko said. Three Islamist militants who stormed the resort in the town of Grand Bassam east of the commercial capital Abidjan were also killed, he said at the end of a cabinet meeting. (Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Toby Chopra) |
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