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| UK police arrest man over London City airport "chemical incident" | | | British police said on Monday that they had arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with an incident that led to the evacuation of hundreds of passengers from London City Airport on Friday. "The man ... was arrested on suspicion of using a noxious substance to cause serious damage, an offence under section 113 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001," London's Metropolitan Police said on Monday. Police said the arrest took place at a residential address in east London on Saturday, and that the man was held at a west London police station and then released on bail pending further enquiries. |
| One killed in police firing in Jharkhand over move to amend land laws | | | By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One man was killed and at least 10 others were wounded in Jharkhand at the weekend, police said, when hundreds of indigenous people protesting against a government move to amend land laws clashed with police. Police opened fire in Saiko in the district of Khunti after protesters blocked the road, assaulted police and took several policemen hostage, senior police officer M.S. Bhatia said. "The police opened fire in self-defence," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. |
| Modi wades into political battle over Muslim divorce law | |  By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday waded into a controversy over a Muslim divorce law he said was destroying women's lives, drawing criticism from rivals that he was fishing for minority votes in a major state election next year. Modi criticised the so-called "triple talaq", that allows a Muslim man to part from his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times, in a speech in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, due to go to the polls next spring. The prime minister's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the state that is home to one in six Indians in the 2014 national election, and needs to broaden support outside its core Hindu base to have a chance of winning the state polls.
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| Plane on French anti-smuggling mission crashes in Malta | |  A light aircraft conducting a French surveillance mission over the Mediterranean crashed on take-off in Malta on Monday, killing all five people on board, Maltese authorities said. The twin-prop Fairchild Metroliner crashed near the runway of the island's main airport at about 7:20 a.m. (0520 GMT), sending smoke billowing into the sky, closing Malta International Airport for several hours in what was the country's worst peacetime air incident. The flight was part of a customs operation the French have been conducting for the last five months, tracking human trafficking and drugs smuggling, the Maltese government said.
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| Gunfire, protests erupt in Central African Republic capital | | | U.N. peacekeepers and armed men exchanged fire on Monday in Central African Republic's capital Bangui, the United Nations said, while hundreds of protesters gathered to call for the mission's departure. Central African Republic has been in chaos since early 2013 when fighting between mostly Muslim Seleka rebels and anti-Balaka Christian militias prompted the establishment of the MINUSCA mission a year later. Civil society groups called for a general strike on Monday to pressure the mission to leave. |
| Prince Ali says FIFA needs to speed up reforms | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Former FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan is concerned about the pace of reform in world soccer's governing body and says new president Gianni Infantino has "no time to lose" in bringing transparency to the organisation. Infantino was elected in February with the task of leading FIFA into calmer waters after a series of corruption scandals plunged the governing body into its worst crisis. Prince Ali told Reuters in an interview that Infantino should focus on implementing reforms rather than issues such as proposals to expand the World Cup.
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| Islamic State, Pakistani Taliban claim killing of police officer | | | By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters and the Pakistani Taliban on Monday said they killed a police official in northwest Pakistan, the second attack in the south Asian nation claimed by the Middle East-based militant group in just over a month. The killings follow an announcement by the military last month that it had stemmed Islamic State's attempts to expand in Pakistan, after arresting more than 300 people suspected of plotting attacks on government, diplomatic and civilian targets. Akbar Ali, a member of the Special Branch, or police intelligence wing in Charsadda, about 20 km (12 miles) from the provincial capital of Peshawar, was shot and killed at a bus stop, said the district police chief, Sohail Khalid. |
| Police kill 24 Maoist insurgents in Odisha | | | By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - Police killed at least 24 Maoist rebels in a remote, forested area of Odisha on Monday, police said, one of the heaviest casualty tolls suffered by the insurgents in recent years. Acting on a tip-off, police tracked a group of around 30 Maoists who had gathered at a makeshift training camp close to the border with Andhra Pradesh state, officials said. When the officers surprised the gathering shortly after midnight, a gun battle erupted. |
| British lawmakers ask Obama to let hacking suspect face trial in UK | |  A group of 105 British members of parliament (MPs) have asked President Barack Obama to withdraw a warrant for the extradition of an autistic Briton who is accused of hacking high-security U.S. state computers. Lauri Love, 31, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of involvement in a series of hacks in 2012 and 2013 into computers at agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. army, the Missile Defense Agency and the Federal Reserve. A London court approved his extradition in September despite warnings from his family, lawyers and supporters that he would be at risk of killing himself if sentenced to a lifetime in a U.S. prison.
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| Kyrgyz leader's party quits parliamentary coalition | |  Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev's party quit the ruling majority coalition on Monday over partners' refusal to back proposed constitutional reforms, deepening a rift that could destabilise the Central Asian nation. The move by the Social Democratic party which backs Atambayev has will trigger creation of a new coalition and may lead to the resignation of the cabinet, parliament deputy Azamat Arapbayev said. Arapbayev, a member of the Social Democratic party, said the move was the result of other coalition members' refusal to support constitutional reforms proposed by Atambayev.
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| Hong Kong jury to see "torture" video as British banker's trial begins | |  By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong judge warned jurors that they will have to view video filmed by former British banker Rurik Jutting of the torture and vicious killing of two Indonesian women he is accused of murdering as the trial got under way on Monday. Jutting, who studied at Cambridge University and Winchester College, one of Britain's most prestigious private schools, pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of "diminished responsibility". During the jury selection, Deputy High Court Judge Michael Stuart-Moore warned potential jurors that if they were unable to cope with viewing extreme violence they should not take part.
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