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| Colonial-era housing policy divides expanding Hong Kong | | Tuesday, October 11, 2016 1:08 AM | |
| | By Astrid Zweynert HONG KONG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Newly-elected Hong Kong lawmaker Eddie Chu is determined to shake up what he sees as an unfair use of land in the mushrooming metropolis despite having faced deaths threats because of his crusade. Chu says he wants to break a "vicious cycle of collusion" between rural community leaders and property developers eager to scoop up land in the New Territories, the city's lush rural frontier with mainland China. At the heart of the problem is an outdated, colonial-era housing policy, he says, which needs urgent reform because it has become subject to a roaring black market trade in property rights. |
| Singapore directs Falcon Bank to stop operations in Singapore | | Tuesday, October 11, 2016 1:03 AM | |
|  The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has asked Swiss wealth manager Falcon Private Bank Ltd to cease operations in the city state over lapses related to handling fund flows with scandal-hit Malaysian sovereign fund 1MDB. The move comes after MAS - Singapore's central bank - in May ordered the shutdown of Swiss private bank BSI and subsequently charged people in connection with the probe and froze assets linked to 1MDB. It also imposed financial penalties on DBS Bank and the Singapore branch of UBS AG for breaches of AML requirements.
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| Top U.S. Republican Ryan distances himself from Trump White House bid | | Tuesday, October 11, 2016 12:54 AM | |
|  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Ryan, the top Republican in the U.S. Congress, took the extraordinary step on Monday of distancing himself from Donald Trump, stirring a backlash from some lawmakers and deepening a crisis over his party's struggling presidential nominee. In a conference call with congressional Republicans, Ryan all but conceded that Democrat Hillary Clinton was likely to win the White House on Nov. 8 and said he would put his full energy into preserving Republican majorities in Congress so as not to give her a "blank check." Ryan, the speaker of the House of Representatives, said he would not defend Trump or campaign for him after the uproar over the New York businessman's sexually aggressive comments that surfaced on Friday.
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| Colombia's Uribe presents proposals for peace accord changes | | Tuesday, October 11, 2016 12:52 AM | |
|  Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe on Monday proposed that leaders of the Marxist FARC rebel group lose their freedom for at least five years and they would be banned from elected office as part of changes to a peace deal between the government and the insurgents. Uribe, now a popular opposition senator, led the group of Colombians that narrowly rejected a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in a plebiscite last week, throwing a long negotiation to end the 52-year war into limbo. Representatives of those who voted "No" presented the government with the first in a series of changes they want implemented in the accord which was signed on Sept. 26 by President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Rodrigo Londono, better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko.
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| Clinton weighed reinstating Glass-Steagall, Wikileaks emails show | | Tuesday, October 11, 2016 12:40 AM | |
|  A longtime political adviser to Hillary Clinton last year urged her presidential campaign to support a new version of a law that separated commercial and investment banking to avoid antagonizing the Democratic Party's progressive wing, according to emails published by Wikileaks on Monday. Mandy Grunwald, an outside adviser to Clinton, urged Clinton's policy team in October 2015, just days before a Wall Street policy rollout, to consider endorsing a new version of the Glass-Steagall Act, according to an email reviewed by Reuters.
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| Shooting deaths, school closures worsen Rio crime wave | | | Police killed at least two suspected drug traffickers on Monday during a day-long shootout in the hills overlooking one of Rio de Janeiro's wealthiest districts, the latest in a wave of violent clashes that elsewhere in the city caused 8,000 children to miss school. The shootout, in the Pavão-Pavãozinho slum above the beachside neighbourhoods of Ipanema and Copacabana, highlighted what many Rio residents fear is a sharp decline in security just two months after the city hosted the Olympics and as public security budgets have been slashed because of Brazil's worst recession in nearly a century. After several weeks of confrontations between police and suspected criminals, the neighbourhood erupted early on Monday in shooting that lasted until late afternoon. |
| One girl under 15 married every seven seconds, says Save the Children | | | By Temesghen Debesai LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One girl under 15 is married every seven seconds, according to a report by Save the Children released on Tuesday, with girls as young as 10 married off - often to much older men - in countries including Afghanistan, Yemen, India and Somalia. Early marriage not only deprives girls of education and opportunities but increases the risk of death or childbirth injuries if they have babies before their bodies are ready. "Child marriage starts a cycle of disadvantage that denies girls the most basic rights to learn, develop and be children," said Save the Children International CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt. |
| Most Afghan women serve sentences in elders' homes, not prisons | |  By Mohammadullah Himatyar SHARANA, Afghanistan (Reuters) - When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail. "I was treated like an animal and kept like a slave," Fawzia told Reuters in Sharana, the provincial capital of Paktika. Fawzia is a familiar name by which she is known to relatives and close friends.
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| Actress Emma Watson condemns child marriage during Malawi trip | |  By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British actress Emma Watson condemned child marriage during a visit to Malawi on Monday, calling on authorities across Africa to end the practice that can put young lives as risk as well as stopping girls get an education and a better future. Watson, 26, a goodwill ambassador for UN Women, was visiting the southeastern African nation a day ahead of the International Day of the Girl Child. In 2015, Malawi passed a law to raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 with UN Women working with traditional chiefs to change local practices.
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| German spy chief says Syrian suspect targeted Berlin airports | |  The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said a Syrian suspect arrested on Monday was building a bomb and probably planned to attack one of the airports in Berlin. Hans-Georg Maassen told public broadcaster ARD that intelligence leads had suggested in early September that militant group Islamic State (IS) was planning an attack on Germany's transport infrastructure. Spies managed to track down and identify the suspect in the eastern state of Saxony last Thursday and started a round-the-clock observation, Maassen said.
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| New U.S. rape survivors law may encourage more to press charges, experts say | | | By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new U.S. law granting victims of sexual assault the right to have evidence preserved while they consider prosecution could encourage more people to press charges, experts said on Monday. The Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, signed on Friday by President Barack Obama, gives victims the right to have evidence preserved in "rape kits" for the maximum period during which a person can decide to pursue legal action. Rape kits are used by police to collect evidence from the body and clothing of a victim of rape or sexual assault. |
| Actress Shailene Woodley arrested at North Dakota pipeline protest | |  Actress Shailene Woodley was arrested in North Dakota on Monday while protesting a planned pipeline that Native Americans say will desecrate sacred land and damage the environment, an incident that was live streamed on Facebook. The 24-year-old actress was taken into custody shortly after noon local time with 27 other people on misdemeanour charges of criminal trespass and engaging in a riot, said Rob Keller, spokesman for the Morton County Sheriff's Office. The protests were taking place at a construction site for the pipeline about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the town of St. Anthony.
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