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| U.N. appoints Wonder Woman as honorary ambassador amid outcry | |  By Sebastien Malo UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations named comic-book superhero Wonder Woman as an honorary ambassador to fight for gender equality on Friday, amid criticism that the scantily clad fictional character was an inappropriate choice. U.N. officials at a ceremony formalising the appointment said Wonder Woman is known for her commitment to justice, peace and equality. "Wonder Woman is an icon," said U.N. Under-Secretary-General Cristina Gallach.
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| London City airport declared safe after 'chemical incident' | | | By Stephen Addison LONDON (Reuters) - London City airport was declared safe on Friday after hundreds of passengers had to be evacuated and two were taken to hospital with breathing difficulties in a suspected chemical incident. The airport was briefly closed as police and firefighters in protective equipment swept the terminal building of the airport with chemical detectors after several people were taken ill, some of them coughing violently. "Two complete sweeps of the airport building were carried out jointly by firefighters and police officers ..," the fire brigade said. |
| Venezuela on edge after anti-Maduro referendum blocked | |  By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Outraged opposition leaders vowed peaceful protests on Friday after a failed drive to remove socialist leader President Nicolas Maduro who warned his foes not to "go crazy." The election board's suspension of the recall referendum leaves Hugo Chavez's successor on track to complete his term, which ends in early 2019, despite the OPEC nation's crushing economic crisis and his own personal unpopularity. It also deals a massive blow to the opposition coalition, which was buoyed by winning legislative elections at the end of last year but has then seen its all-consuming effort for a vote to recall Maduro this year come to nothing. "Our response will not be submission or violence, but a fight ... based on the principles of peaceful resistance," said coalition head Jesus Torrealba, drawing a parallel with Polish leader Lech Walesa's battle against communism in the 1980s.
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| London firefighters leading response to airport incident - police | | | London's fire brigade is leading the emergency response to an incident at London City airport on Friday which led to hundreds of passengers being evacuated and two taken to hospital with breathing difficulties, police said. "At this stage we are there in support of the London Fire Brigade," a police spokesman said. |
| Student in debunked Rolling Stone rape story got tattoo to mark attack | | | By Gary Robertson CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) - The University of Virginia student who fabricated a gang rape story published in Rolling Stone got a tattoo to commemorate the supposed assault and her ability to overcome it, the story's reporter testified on Friday. News of the tattoo came to light as former Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely testified for the third day in a $7.9 million federal defamation suit filed against the magazine by former University of Virginia Associate Dean Nicole Eramo. After a recorded interview that Erdely had with the woman was played for the jury, Erdely said that the woman had lifted up her dress to show the tattoo, a female symbol with a fist on a rose. |
| Banks warn share tax hike threatens Paris' post-Brexit appeal | |  A proposed increase in France's share tax flies in the face of efforts by the government and the financial industry to lure banking jobs from London, financial sector lobbies have warned. "This is also a bad signal that we are sending in the context of Brexit as for the attractiveness of the Paris financial centre," Philippe Brassac, head of the French banking federation and chief executive of France's third-biggest listed lender Credit Agricole, told Reuters. Although the Socialist-led government had not included the increase in the original bill, it backed lawmakers' amendments to introduce the increase.
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| Muslims pray at Colosseum, protesting against Rome mosque closures | |  Hundreds of Muslims prayed next to Rome's Colosseum on Friday to protest against the closure of makeshift mosques, calling on city authorities to protect their religious rights. At least 1.6 million Muslims live in Italy but there are only a handful of mosques officially registered as such with the government. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said in August that "mini mosques in garages" should not be allowed.
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| Burkina Faso foiled coup attempt in early October, minister says | | | Security forces in Burkina Faso foiled a coup attempt planned for earlier this month by about 30 ex-members of the elite presidential guard, known as the RSP, Interior Minister Simon Compaore said on Friday. Security forces initially clashed with the coup leaders on Oct. 8, when four former RSP members were stopped by police as they returned from a "neighbouring country". Nineteen people have been arrested for trying to overthrow President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and his government. |
| Trump seeks to bar personal conduct claims from Trump University trial | |  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Donald Trump's attorneys asked a U.S. judge to bar accusations about his personal conduct that have arisen during the presidential election campaign, which would include allegations of sexual misconduct, from the upcoming civil trial over Trump University. Students at Trump University claim they were defrauded by its real estate seminars. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has faced allegations from women that he inappropriately touched them.
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| U.N. says to pursue perpetrators of war crimes in Aleppo | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council said on Friday it would identify the perpetrators of war crimes in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo and launched a special inquiry into the use of starvation and air strikes there, as well as increased "terrorist" attacks. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, had earlier called for major powers to put aside their differences and refer the situation in eastern Aleppo to the International Criminal Court. Zeid did not name Russia or the Syrian air force, whose jets have attacked the rebel-held districts of Aleppo for weeks, but his reference was clear.
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| South Africa graft agency will not oppose Zuma bid to delay Gupta report - eNCA TV | |  South Africa's new anti-graft watchdog will not oppose President Jacob Zuma's court bid to delay the release of a report into allegations of political interference by the wealthy Gupta brothers, eNCA TV said, citing court documents. Indian-born businessmen Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta are the subject of an official investigation into allegations that they have had undue influence over Zuma. The report, by the outgoing Public Protector, a constitutionally-mandated anti-graft official, was prevented from being made public last Friday by Zuma's application to the High Court to delay its release.
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| Congo security forces killed dozens of anti-government protesters - U.N. | | | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese security services shot, burned, beat and hacked to death at least 48 civilians and reportedly hired thugs to attack protests last month against the extension of President Joseph Kabila's mandate, the United Nations said on Friday. The death toll came from two days of violence in the capital Kinshasa and included four police officers killed by protesters and one other civilian. It was higher than during the 2011 electoral process, the U.N. Joint Human Rights Office in Congo (UNJHRO) said in a report. |
| South Africa to quit troubled U.N. war crimes court | | | By Joe Brock PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa said on Friday it was quitting the International Criminal Court (ICC) because membership conflicted with diplomatic immunity laws, dealing a new blow to the struggling court and angering the political opposition. Pretoria last year announced its intention to leave after the ICC criticised it for disregarding an ICC order to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is accused of genocide and war crimes, when he visited South Africa. Bashir has denied the accusations. |
| Residents say civilians among dead in Myanmar army lockdown | | | By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone YANGON (Reuters) - Muslim residents and rights activists say a military operation in northwestern Myanmar has killed more people than official reports have acknowledged, as a fresh bout of ethnic unrest threatens to undermine the country's fledgling peace process. The government, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, has said the army and police in Rakhine State are fighting a group of at least 400 insurgents, drawn from the Rohingya Muslim minority, with links to Islamist militants overseas. While officials say the army has been conducting carefully targeted sweeps against the group behind attacks on police border posts on Oct. 9, residents who spoke to Reuters accused security forces of killing non-combatants and burning homes. |
| Syrian refugee in Germany tried to make a bomb before suicide - report | | | A Syrian refugee who committed suicide in prison after being arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on a Berlin airport experimented with chemicals in August in an attempt to make a bomb, a magazine reported on Friday. Der Spiegel said Jaber Albakr, detained earlier this month after police discovered about 1.5 kg (3 lb) of explosives in his flat in the eastern city of Chemnitz, caused 6,000 euros ($6,525) of damage in a serviced apartment. Pictures of the kitchen taken by the owner of the property in nearby Leipzig showed acid and other stains, Spiegel said, giving no source for its report. |
| U.N. confirms South Africa withdrawal from war crimes court | | | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations confirmed on Friday receipt of South Africa's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, which will take effect one year from Oct. 19, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. The instrument of withdrawal document, seen by Reuters on Thursday, has been assessed by the United Nations as bona fide and is being processed, Dujarric said. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) |
| U.N. rights body sets up special inquiry on Aleppo crimes | |  The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to launch an "independent special inquiry" into events in the Syrian city of Aleppo, where the top U.N. rights official said air strikes constituted war crimes. The Council asked the existing U.N. commission of inquiry to "conduct a comprehensive independent special inquiry into the events in Aleppo" to identify those responsible for alleged violations and to ensure that perpetrators are held accountable.
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| UK PM May's Conservatives see majority cut in Cameron's constituency | | | British Prime Minister Theresa May's ruling Conservative Party held the parliamentary constituency vacated by David Cameron but saw its majority cut significantly as thousands of voters flocked to a pro-European Union opposition party. Just weeks after Britons backed Brexit, former Prime Minister Cameron said he would resign as a lawmaker from the southern English seat of Witney, which bucked the national trend by voting to remain in the European Union. On Friday, the Conservatives retained the constituency, garnering 17,313 votes, but saw their share of their vote fall from 60 percent to 45 percent compared to the General election result last year. |
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