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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. |
| Dollar rebounds after Clinton probe shock, stocks steady | |  By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rebounded on Monday, shaking off concerns linked to an investigation that could influence the U.S. presidential election, while global equity prices steadied, helped by a buoyant Wall Street following a string of merger deals. Oil prices slid after non-OPEC producers failed to make any specific commitment to join the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in limiting output to support prices. The U.S. dollar rose against a basket of major currencies on reduced worries over the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation of emails linked to Hillary Clinton's use of a private server.
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| 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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| Democrats hit back at FBI head as Trump presses attacks on Clinton | |  By Steve Holland and John Whitesides ALBUQUERQUE, N.M./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pressed his attack on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's integrity as she struggled to get past a new firestorm over her emails with just eight days to go until Election Day. Friday's announcement by FBI Director James Comey that his agency is investigating more emails as part of a probe into Clinton's use of a private email server gave new hope to Trump that he can make an improbable comeback and win on Nov. 8. The Clinton campaign and its supporters in the Democratic Party furiously attacked Comey for releasing information that raised questions but provided no details so close to the election.
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| AirAsia India investigating former staff for financial irregularities | |  AirAsia India is investigating certain former employees over irregular personal expense claims, the aviation joint venture of Tata Sons and Malaysian airline AirAsia Bhd said in a statement on Monday. The announcement follows a letter sent last week by the ousted chairman of Tata Sons, which owns 49 percent of AirAsia India, in which Cyrus Mistry said board members were aware of "ethical concerns" with respect to certain transactions. AirAsia India said that together with parent AirAsia and Tata Sons, it would investigate allegations of impropriety and misappropriation.
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| Clashes as Pakistani anti-government protesters bear down on capital | |  Police on Monday fired tear gas to scatter hundreds of anti-government protesters heading for Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, after a court cleared the way for opposition politician Imran Khan to hold a mass protest this week, media reported. Television images showed the crowd approaching roadblocks amid clouds of tear gas as night fell near the town of Swabi, about 70 km (44 miles) from Islamabad, on a highway linking the capital to the northwestern city of Peshawar. Police had set up roadblocks on major roads on Monday morning, particularly those from Khan's political heartland of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, ruled by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.
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