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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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| 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 that 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 violates 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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| 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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| Democrats attack FBI head over Clinton emails, White House stays aloof | |  By Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland CLEVELAND/GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (Reuters) - Democrats kept up their attacks on FBI Director James Comey on Monday, accusing him of a double standard after he revealed his agency's probe into more material that might relate to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Little is publicly known yet about the trove of emails being investigated, other than that they were found during an unrelated probe into the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide. Comey himself said in a brief letter about the issue to members of Congress on Friday that "we don't know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails." But Clinton's Republican rival, Donald Trump, seized on the news of the probe to press his longstanding charge that Clinton lacks integrity, hoping he can make an improbable late comeback and win the Nov. 8 election.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Spain's Rajoy sworn in as PM, minority government may struggle | |  By Adrian Croft MADRID (Reuters) - Mariano Rajoy was sworn in for a second term as Spain's prime minister on Monday but his minority administration may struggle to govern effectively and heal scars left by 10 months of political deadlock. The conservative leader took his oath of office before King Felipe at the Zarzuela Palace near Madrid after winning a parliamentary confidence vote on Saturday, giving Spain a fully-functioning government once again after two inconclusive elections and fruitless coalition talks. Spanish government bond yields fell on Monday, but the slump was limited by lingering investor concerns over the country's ability to implement economic reforms and rein in public spending.
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| UK police seek tip-offs on guns to prevent Paris-style attacks | | | By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - British police appealed on Monday for tip-offs from the public on any illegal firearms in circulation, stepping up efforts to prevent what they described as a "marauding terrorist attack" similar to the Paris attacks a year ago. "We want to lessen the harm to our communities and to prevent the possibility of a marauding terrorist attack in the UK," said Lynne Owens, director general of the National Crime Agency, which leads Britain's fight against serious and organised crime. "The UK's illegal firearms market is still geared mainly to criminals using weapons to protect against one another or to target one another, but we must be clear that one gun in the wrong hands in a public space is all it takes to cause devastation," she told reporters. |
| UK has foiled 12 terror plots since June 2013 - spy chief | | | Police and intelligence services have disrupted 12 plots to attack Britain since June 2013, Andrew Parker, director general of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency, said on Monday. "Today the most visible threat is from terrorism and in particular that posed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant - ISIL - or Daesh in Syria," Parker said, according to a text of his remarks posted on the agency's website. |
| Bulgarian PM will not resign if party losses presidential run-off | |  Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has added a new twist to his pledge to step down if his centre-right party loses the first round of next month's presidential election, saying this would not apply to the expected run-off vote. Borisov said late on Sunday that he would still quit if his GERB party's candidate Tsetska Tsacheva does not top the list in the first round of voting on Nov. 6. Bulgaria's presidency is largely ceremonial post and opinion polls show Tsacheva leads her main rival, Socialist candidate Rumen Radev.
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| Myanmar's Suu Kyi under pressure as Rohingya crisis deepens | |  By Simon Lewis, Wa Lone and Shwe Yee Saw Myint NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces mounting criticism for her government's handling of a crisis in Muslim-majority northern Rakhine State, where soldiers have blocked access for aid workers and are accused of raping and killing civilians. The military operation has sharpened the tension between Suu Kyi's six-month-old civilian administration and the army, which ruled the country for decades and retains key powers, including control of ministries responsible for security. Exposing the lack of oversight of the armed forces by the government, military commanders have ignored requests for information about alleged misconduct by soldiers for more than 10 days, according to a senior civilian official.
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| Police shoot dead eight SIMI militants after prison escape in Bhopal | |  By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - Madhya Pradesh police shot dead eight Islamist prisoners who had escaped from jail hours earlier on Monday by using knotted bedsheets to scale the walls, officials said. The men, members of a banned militant group awaiting trial, fled the high security jail in the early hours in Bhopal, after slitting the throat of a prison officer. Police tracked the armed men down after local villagers reported suspicious movements, surrounded them outside the city and shot all eight dead, inspector general of police Yogesh Choudhary told Reuters.
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| 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. In a statement, the government said: "The court took the decision to allow time for expert analysis to be conducted on a digital platform managed by Rajab to confirm if the statements posted on the account were carried out by another author." It added that the charges, classified as criminal under the penal code, included promoting "misleading and inaccurate information about Bahrain and disseminating rumours at a time of war," a reference to Yemen, where a coalition of Arab countries including Bahrain is fighting the Iranian-allied Houthi group.
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