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| South Korean prosecutors arrest woman at centre of political crisis - onhap | |  The woman at the centre of a political scandal that has cast the South Korean presidency into crisis was detained late on Monday, Yonhap News Agency reported, hours after she had arrived at the office of local prosecutors to answer questions. Prosecutors are investigating allegations that Choi Soon-sil used her friendship with President Park Geun-hye to influence state affairs by gaining access to classified documents and benefited personally through non-profit foundations, a prosecution official said earlier. Worried that Choi may be a flight risk and could destroy evidence, prosecutors placed her under emergency detention without a warrant, Yonhap reported, citing a prosecution official.
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| U.S. judge drops part of lawsuit over debunked Rolling Stone rape story | | | (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Monday dismissed part of a $7.9 million defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine filed by a University of Virginia administrator over a debunked gang rape story. District Judge Glen Conrad ruled that the November 2014 Rolling Stone story "A Rape on Campus" did not defame administrator Nicole Eramo by its overall implications. Rolling Stone retracted the story after inconsistencies in her account surfaced and police found no evidence of an assault. |
| Uproar over whether FBI chief broke law by raising new Clinton emails | | | By Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whether FBI Director James Comey broke the law may hinge on whether he had political motivations or was merely doing his job by reviving Democrat Hillary Clinton's email controversy just days before the Nov. 8 presidential election. Richard Painter, a chief White House ethics lawyer to former Republican President George W. Bush, on Saturday accused Comey of violating the 1939 Hatch Act when the FBI chief wrote Congress on Friday that more of the candidate's emails would be scrutinized. |
| Bahrain activist's trial postponed to Dec. 15 - rights group | |  Bahrain on Monday postponed until Dec. 15 the trial of prominent democracy activist Nabeel Rajab to permit more investigation of a Twitter account he is accused of using to publish criticism of the government, the government and his human rights group said. Rajab's Bahrain Centre for Human Rights said the High Criminal Court postponed the trial for a fourth time to enable it to hire a cyber crime expert to verify that the Twitter handle in question was managed by him.
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| Democrats sue Trump for alleged voter intimidation in four states | |  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Party officials sued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in four battleground states on Monday, seeking to shut down a poll-watching effort they said was designed to harass minority voters in the Nov. 8 election. In lawsuits filed in federal courts in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Ohio, Democrats argued that Trump and Republican Party officials were mounting a "campaign of vigilante voter intimidation" that violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act and an 1871 law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. "Trump has sought to advance his campaign's goal of 'voter suppression' by using the loudest microphone in the nation to implore his supporters to engage in unlawful intimidation," the Ohio Democratic Party wrote in a legal filing.
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| Exclusive - U.S. stopped Philippines rifle sale that senator opposed: sources | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department halted the planned sale of some 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippines' national police after Senator Ben Cardin said he would oppose it, Senate aides told Reuters on Monday. Aides said Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was reluctant for the United States to provide the weapons given concerns about human rights violations in the Philippines.
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| Erdogan rides patriotic wave with crackdown at home, combative policy abroad | |  By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In the three and half months since a failed military coup, Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 110,000 people, launched a military incursion into Syria, and repeatedly threatened to do the same in Iraq. To cheers from his supporters, President Tayyip Erdogan, evoking the glories of Turkey's Ottoman past, has vowed to root out enemies at home and abroad, from followers of the cleric he blames for the coup attempt, to Kurdish militants and Islamic State jihadists. In the latest purge, police on Monday detained the editor and senior staff of the Cumhuriyet newspaper - one of few outlets still critical of Erdogan - over its alleged support for the July putsch.
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| Trump raises specter of crisis with Clinton in White House | |  By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton GRAND RAPIDS, Mich./KENT, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hammered his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Monday as a threat to the country, saying that electing her while the FBI was investigating material possibly related to her email set-up could throw the country into crisis. The trial will probably start," Trump told a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Trump, a wealthy New York businessman, said electing Clinton on Nov. 8 would leave the country "in a constitutional crisis that we cannot afford.
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| Turkey detains editor, top staff at opposition newspaper | |  By Humeyra Pamuk and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained the editor and a dozen senior staff from the main secularist opposition newspaper on Monday, a day after 10,000 more civil servants were sacked over suspected links to a failed July coup. Turkey's crackdown since rogue soldiers tried to seize power on July 15 has alarmed Western allies and rights groups, who fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup attempt to crush dissent. The Istanbul prosecutor's office said the staff from the Cumhuriyet daily, one of few media outlets still critical of Erdogan, were suspected of committing crimes on behalf of Kurdish militants and the network of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based cleric.
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| Oil dips on OPEC output-cut concerns, stocks shaky | |  By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell sharply on Monday to touch a one-month low on doubts about OPEC's ability to implement its planned production cut, while global equity prices were shaky as Wall Street struggled to build on a sentiment boost from a string of M&A deals. Oil prices dropped more than $1 a barrel after officials from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-member producers met in Vienna on Saturday but failed to make any specific commitment to join OPEC countries in limiting output to support prices. "Unless OPEC can circle the wagons and get everyone on the same page, the market's going to be sceptical." Brent crude settled down $1.41, or 2.84 percent, at $48.30 a barrel, while U.S. crude settled down $1.84, or 3.78 percent, at $46.86.
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| Ukrainians shocked as politicians declare vast wealth | |  By Alessandra Prentice KIEV (Reuters) - An anti-corruption reform requiring senior Ukrainian officials to declare their wealth online has exposed a vast difference between the fortunes of politicians and those they represent. Others said they owned fleets of luxury cars, expensive Swiss watches, diamond jewellery and large tracts of land - revelations that could further hit public confidence in the authorities in Ukraine, where the average salary is just over $200 per month. Officials had until Sunday to upload details of their assets and income in 2015 to a publicly searchable database, part of an International Monetary Fund-backed drive to boost transparency and modernise Ukraine's recession-hit economy.
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| Czech human-trafficking gang members sentenced to jail in Britain | | | By Umberto Bacchi LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five members of a gang that trafficked people from eastern Europe to Britain and forced them to live in inhumane conditions while working to pay off fictional debts were sentenced by a British court on Monday. Czech nationals Ruzena Tancosova, Petr Tancos, Nela Dzurkova, Martin Tancos and Katerina Kerujova were found guilty of human trafficking and slavery offences at Plymouth Crown Court on Oct. 24. The victims lived in squalid conditions and were forced to work in a car wash and at a meat packing factory to pay off debts their traffickers claimed they owed, according to prosecutors. |
| U.S. concerned about press freedom in Turkey after arrests - State Dept. | | | The United States said it was "deeply concerned" about Turkey's continuing pressure on opposition news media on Monday after Turkish police detained the editor and a dozen senior staff from the main secularist opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the United States supported Turkey's efforts to locate those responsible for an attempted coup in July, but he said the shuttering of more news outlets and the detention of additional journalists over the weekend was worrying. "The United States is deeply concerned by what appears to be an increase in official pressure on opposition media outlets in Turkey," Kirby said, including the arrest on Monday of the editor in chief of one of turkey's most respected newspapers. |
| Clinton says 'there is no case here' in FBI email investigation | |  KENT, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Monday that she welcomed the FBI to look at the emails in the latest twist in the controversy over her use of a private server while she was secretary of state. "There is no case here," Clinton said at a rally at Kent State University, telling supporters she was confident the FBI would reach the same conclusion as it did in a year-long investigation - that there were no grounds for any charges. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| Yemenis held hostage to 'personal, reckless' decisions - U.N. envoy | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The people of Yemen are being held hostage to "personal and reckless political decisions," the United Nations special envoy said on Monday as he appealed for the U.N. Security Council to back a peace plan that both parties have unofficially rejected. U.N. mediator Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the council that the dismissal of the plan "demonstrates that the political elite in Yemen remains unable to overcome their differences and prioritise national, public interest over personal interests." A Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, since March 2015 to try to restore to power internationally recognised President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
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| Danish PM puts off long-term plan to stay in power | |  Denmark's prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, will postpone tough negotiations on a broad 10-year financial reform plan and instead focus on reaching consensus on the yearly budget, he told local broadcaster DR on Monday. The ruling liberal party, Venstre, last August presented a comprehensive 10-year plan for Denmark involving tax, property and pensions reforms as well as plans for a new energy subsidy scheme. "We put a lot on the table... But people have been busy focussing on what they didn't like ... With the time pressure we have, we can't make it across the finish line," Rasmussen told DR.
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