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| Polish parliament rejects near-total abortion ban after protests | |  By Pawel Sobczak and Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) - Following protests by tens of thousands of women, Polish lawmakers on Thursday rejected plans for a near-total ban on abortion, in a hastily arranged vote that marks the first major domestic setback for the conservative government. The ruling Law and Justice party (PIS) unexpectedly withdrew its support for draft proposals drawn up by an independent anti-abortion campaign group after an unscheduled parliamentary committee meeting late on Wednesday. "PiS continues to back the protection of life," party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a devout Catholic, told parliament.
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| 'Motorbike bomb' blast in Istanbul wounds five - governor | |  A bomb attached to a motorbike exploded near a police station in southwest Istanbul on Thursday, wounding five people, one of them seriously, local officials said. "Five of our citizens have been wounded, one of them seriously, as a result of a motorbike with a bomb being detonated," Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin wrote on Twitter. There have been a number of bomb attacks in Turkey in recent months, some blamed on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group and some on Islamic State.
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| France plans prison expansion to tackle overcrowding and Islamist radicalisation | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - France unveiled plans on Thursday to build 33 new jails and renovate older ones in a bid to ease chronic overcrowding that justice officials say breeds conditions for Islamist radicalisation of prisoners. France's prisons rank third in Europe for overcrowding according to the International Centre for Prison Studies, with official figures showing there are 68,253 people incarcerated but places for only 58,587. A further estimated 1,400 members of the prison population have been won over to fight for radical causes by Islamist militant recruiters.
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| Pakistan cracks down on TV airing Indian content as tension escalates | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's media regulator has launched a crackdown on companies airing Indian television channels and content, officials said on Thursday, after an escalation of violence in the disputed Kashmir region between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Tension between the old rivals has been high since an Indian security force crackdown on protests in Indian-controlled Kashmir began in July, following the killing of a young Muslim separatist leader by security forces. Relations worsened in September when militants killed 18 soldiers in a raid on an Indian army base, an attack India blamed on Pakistan.
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| Myanmar court jails Dutchman for three months for disrupting Buddhist sermon | | | By Aung Hla Tun Yangon (Reuters) - A Myanmar court on Thursday sentenced a Dutch tourist to three months in prison and a fine after he unplugged a public address system that was relaying a Buddhist sermon, his lawyer said. Klaas Haytema, 30, was arrested after he entered a community hall in the central city of Mandalay on Sept. 23 and disrupted a recitation by Buddhist laymen. Haytema told a court hearing on Tuesday he was unaware a religious ceremony was in progress, but disconnected the hall's loudspeakers because they were disturbing his sleep, said Hla Ko, a Myanmar lawyer who volunteered to represent the Dutchman. |
| Turkey holds 20 alleged members of coup 'sleeper cell' - agency | | | Twenty suspects including Turkish soldiers and a deputy governor were jailed pending trial on Thursday, accused of belonging to a "sleeper cell" to be activated if a July military coup attempt had been successful, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Turkey enforced emergency rule and began dismissing, suspending and arresting state officials after the coup attempt in which rogue troops commandeered warplanes to bomb parliament and used tanks to kill 240 people, many of whom were civilians. It says followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen staged the coup to overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan and seize control of the country. |
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