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| UK lawmaker from PM May's party resigns after Heathrow decision | | | Conservative lawmaker Zac Goldsmith, a vocal opponent of the expansion of Heathrow Airport, on Tuesday notified the government of his decision to resign from parliament, the finance ministry said in a statement. Goldsmith, who represents a constituency near the airport, had previously pledged to quit if Heathrow was given the go ahead to expand -- something which happened earlier on Tuesday. Goldsmith, who unsuccessfully ran for London mayor earlier this year, is expected to run as an independent candidate. |
| Britain, France want U.N. sanctions over Syria toxic gas attacks | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Britain and France pushed on Tuesday for the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Syrian government forces blamed for three gas attacks by an international inquiry as Syrian ally Russia said it was still studying the findings. The fourth report from the year-long inquiry by the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a text of which was seen by Reuters on Friday, blamed Syrian government forces for a third chlorine gas attack. |
| U.S. judge approves $14.7 billion settlement over VW diesel vehicles | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday approved Volkswagen AG's record-setting $14.7 billion settlement with regulators and owners of 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles, and the German automaker said it would begin buying back the vehicles in mid-November. The action by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco marked the latest development in a scandal that has rocked VW since it admitted in September 2015 using secret software in its diesel cars to cheat exhaust emissions tests and make them appear cleaner than they really were. Under the settlement first announced in June, Volkswagen agreed to spend up to $10.033 billion on the buybacks and owner compensation and $4.7 billion on programs to offset excess emissions and boost zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and other clean vehicle projects.
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| Nurse charged with killing eight in Canadian old-age homes | | | A Canadian nurse was charged on Tuesday with using drugs to murder eight elderly patients at two long-term care facilities in the province of Ontario, police said. Elizabeth Wettlaufer, 49, is accused of killing five women and three men in the towns of Woodstock and London between 2007 and 2014. Wettlaufer appeared in court on Tuesday and was remanded in custody. |
| Airport staff involved in Total CEO plane crash had been drinking - regulator | | | By Andrew Osborn and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two Moscow airport workers involved in a plane crash in which Christophe de Margerie, the CEO of Total, was killed had been drinking alcohol, Russia's aviation regulator said on Tuesday, saying the accident could have been avoided altogether. The French energy group's chief executive was killed along with his jet's three-person crew in October 2014 at Moscow's Vnukovo airport when they tried to take off for Paris but collided with a snow plough that had strayed onto the runway. De Margerie oversaw multi-billion-dollar Total investments in Russia and was killed just as the conflict in Ukraine raised tensions with the West to levels not seen since the Cold War and brought down Western sanctions on Russia. |
| U.N. concerned about 'collective punishment' of Arabs in Kirkuk | | | By Samia Nakhoul and Michael Georgy ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The United Nations voiced concern on Tuesday that Kurdish authorities had forced 250 Sunni Arab families to leave Kirkuk after an Islamic State attack on the Kurdish-controlled city, saying the move could be seen as collective punishment. Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, also said that the United Nations expects a mass exodus from Mosul - perhaps within the next few days - as Iraqi army prepares to storm the northern Iraqi city which is still home to over a million people. In the worst case scenario, Grande said it was also possible that Islamic State fighters who have controlled Mosul for more than two years could resort to "rudimentary chemical weapons" to hold back the impending assault. |
| South Africa's Gordhan faces tough balancing act in budget speech | | | By Mfuneko Toyana JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan faces a tough balancing act on Wednesday when he announces a midterm budget meant to boost the sickly economy and show his fraud case is not distracting him. Gordhan has said he plans to reduce government spending, raise taxes and cut the budget deficit to 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 2016/17 fiscal year, from 3.9 percent in the previous year. "There is currently no space to loosen fiscal policy, or do much expenditure switching, ahead of 2019 national election," said Maya Senussi, senior emerging markets analyst at Roubini Global Economics. |
| Islamic State claims attack on Pakistan police academy, 59 dead | |  By Gul Yusufzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militant group Islamic State said on Tuesday that fighters loyal to its movement attacked a police training college in Quetta in southwest Pakistan in a raid that officials said killed 59 people and wounded more than 100. Pakistani authorities have blamed another militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), for the late-Monday siege, though the Islamic State claim included photographs of three alleged attackers.
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| British banker's torture video stuns jury in Hong Kong murder trial | |  By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - Filming himself torturing and killing a young Indonesian woman, British investment banker Rurik Jutting veered between boasting, remorse and describing the pleasure he derived from sexually brutalising the first of two victims. Footage taken from four hours of recordings on Jutting's mobile phone formed the core of the prosecution opening on the second day of a murder trial in Hong Kong that has grabbed global attention. The 31-year-old Cambridge University graduate has admitted killing Sumarti Ningsih, a 23-year-old single mother, and another Indonesian woman, Seneng Mujiasih, in his luxury high-rise apartment two years ago.
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| Spain's Socialists will not approve new Rajoy-led government's budgets | | | Spain's Socialists will not approve any budgets proposed by an incoming centre-right government, the party's interim head said on Tuesday, highlighting how a policy deadlock could persist with a new administration. Spain's parliament will vote on acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy´s bid for a second term this week to avoid a third election being triggered by an Oct. 31 deadline. Although the Socialists agreed last Sunday to enable a new Rajoy-led minority government and end 10 months of political limbo by abstaining in a confidence vote, they have said they will not give it a free hand to pass legislation. |
| As Calais 'Jungle' closes, women migrants in smaller camps fear influx | |  By Lin Taylor and Sally Hayden NORRENT-FONTES, France (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At a small, muddy makeshift migrant camp in the quiet countryside of Norrent-Fontes, some 70 kilometres (43 miles) from Calais in northern France, Ethiopian and Eritrean women prepare to cook injera, a type of flatbread, for their lunch. Inside a wooden shack lined with mattresses and belongings hanging in plastic bags overhead, Ethiopian migrant Sara, 26, stirs carrots, lentils and potatoes into a stew she is cooking for the 60 women in the camp. The security Sara feels in Norrent-Fontes contrasts with her experience of the "Jungle" camp outside Calais which the French authorities began clearing on Monday, ahead of its demolition.
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| Romanian parliament scraps over 100 taxes, including radio/TV fees | | | Romania's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to scrap over 100 small taxes, at an annual cost to the budget estimated at 1.6 billion lei ($387.42 million), in the latest fiscal easing measure ahead of a December 11 election. Both the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund have repeatedly warned Romania's budget gap will overshoot the European Union's 3 percent of gross domestic product ceiling next year. The bill, introduced by the leftist Social Democrat Party (PSD), eliminates a slew of small levies such as taxes for the commerce registry, for securing copies of fiscal records, fees for the issuance of temporary passports, fishing and sports fees, and environment fees for car registration. |
| Irked Philippine police boss tells subordinates - talk to me, not media | |  The Philippines' police chief on Tuesday reprimanded officers and some senior generals for raising concerns with journalists about the country's war on drugs, telling subordinates to talk to him instead - if they were brave enough. Asked to comment on a Reuters Special Report published on Monday that highlighted widespread discrepancies in statistics related to President Rodrigo Duterte's drugs crackdown, Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa appeared irked at police and took a swipe at journalists for what he called "unfair" reporting. "Tell our men, the officers who had said this, if they had balls, they should talk to me." Dela Rosa, whose nickname means "rock", said officers with grievances should tell their commanders or go to a panel dedicated to hearing internal complaints.
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| South Africa's Zuma says Gordhan charges a concern for all | | | CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday that fraud charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan were a concern for "all of us" and that he had never discussed the case with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). Zuma was responding to questions in the upper house of parliament about the charges against Gordhan, which analysts and the finance minister's supporters have said appear to be a ploy to remove him from office. The NPA has said the charges are not politically motivated. ... |
| Irish parliament could decide on abortion referendum by end-2017 | | | DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's parliament could be in a position to decide on whether to hold a referendum to repeal restrictive abortion laws by the end of next year if a citizens' assembly recommends a vote should be held to widen access. Regulations in the once stridently Catholic Ireland are among the strictest in the world and Prime Minister Enda Kenny this month called together 99 members of the public to advise government on the politically-divisive issue. ... |
| German police carry out raids on suspected terrorist financiers | | | German police on Tuesday stormed an accommodation facility for refugees and 12 homes around the country that were believed to house people suspected of financing terrorism. Police searched residences in the eastern states of Thuringia and Saxony as well as in Bavaria, the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in Hamburg, police in Thuringia said in a statement. No one was arrested during the raids, a police spokeswoman eastern state of Thuringia said. |
| No arrests in German police raids on suspected terrorist financiers - police | | | No one has been arrested during police raids on the homes of people suspected of financing terrorism on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for police in the eastern German state of Thuringia said. Police stormed an accommodation facility for refugees and 12 homes in the eastern states of Thuringia and Saxony as well as in Bavaria, the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in Hamburg, police in Thuringia said earlier on Tuesday. |
| Watford face inquiry over "forged" letter | | | Watford are being investigated by English football authorities over allegations that the club falsified financial information before its current owner completed his takeover. The Football League announced an inquiry into claims that a banking letter, allegedly forged to appear to be written by HSBC, was submitted when the Italian businessman Gino Pozzo took full control of the club from his father Giampaolo in 2014. The letter was reportedly submitted to the Football League, which oversees clubs outside the Premier League, when Watford were a second-tier club in the Championship. |
| From a shack to parliament, Kenya's slum MP pushes pro-poor agenda | | | By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With human waste from a burst sewer oozing down the main street of Kenya's largest slum, annoyed residents have been bombarding the Facebook page of Kibera constituency's first parliamentarian, Kenneth Okoth, with insults. "It's just been: 'Ken Okoth is good for nothing. Okoth has phoned and sent photographs of the filth to Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company and Nairobi's governor, who is in charge of sewerage services, without response. |
| U.N. gets reports of massacres by Islamic State around Mosul | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have reportedly massacred scores of people around its Iraq stronghold of Mosul in the past week, U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said on Tuesday, citing preliminary information from sources in the area. On Sunday, IS reportedly killed 50 former police officers being held in a building outside Mosul, and last Thursday Iraqi security forces discovered the bodies of 70 civilians in houses in Tuloul Naser village south of Mosul, Colville said. In Safina village, about 45 km (30 miles) south of Mosul, 15 civilians were killed and their bodies thrown into the river in an attempt to spread fear, and six men, apparently relatives of a tribal leader fighting against IS, were tied to a vehicle and dragged around the village.
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