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| German police find DNA of neo-Nazi cell member on girl's remains | | | German police said on Thursday that DNA matching that of a dead member of a neo-Nazi cell had been found on the recently discovered remains of a girl who disappeared 15 years ago in Bavaria. Peggy Knobloch was 9 years old in 2001 when she disappeared on the way home from school. Police are trying to determine how DNA matching that of Uwe Boehnhardt, who was part of the so-called National Socialist Underground (NSU) cell that killed nine foreigners and a policewoman between 2000 and 2007, ended up on the girl's body. |
| ICC prosecutor warns Philippines over drug war killings | |  The International Criminal Court may have the jurisdiction to prosecute perpetrators of thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings in the Philippines' crack down on drugs, a prosecutor at the Hague-based tribunal said. Earlier on Thursday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called U.S. President Barack Obama, the European Union and United Nations "fools" and said he would humiliate them if they questioned his war on drugs. Nearly 2,300 people have died since Duterte started the campaign on June 30, according to police, of which 1,566 were drug suspects killed in police operations.
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| Syrian offensive kills scores in Aleppo before Swiss talks | |  By Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's military backed by Russian warplanes have killed more than 150 people in eastern Aleppo this week, rescue workers said, part of a renewed bombardment supporting an offensive to seize the city's shattered rebel-held sector. As air strikes and shelling of the city's east intensified since Tuesday after a brief period of relative calm, Syria's government approved a U.N. plan to allow aid convoys into most besieged areas of Syria, with the exception of Aleppo. Rising casualties in Aleppo, where buildings have been reduced to rubble or are lacking roofs or walls, have prompted an international outcry and a renewed diplomatic push, with talks between the United States and Russia planned for Saturday.
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| Montenegro PM accuses Russia of financing anti-NATO campaign | |  By Aleksandar Vasovic PODGORICA (Reuters) - Russia is pouring money into Montenegro's election campaign in an attempt to derail the country's progress towards joining NATO, the country's Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic said on Thursday, three days ahead of an election. Djukanovic, who has led the tiny Balkan country as president or prime minister for more than 25 years, is facing his toughest ever electoral challenge from opposition parties that accuse him of cronyism and of treating Montenegro as a personal fiefdom. In an interview with Reuters, he said opposition parties were being financed by Moscow, which saw Sunday's parliamentary vote as a final opportunity to stop the Balkan region's rush to integrate with the European Union and the Atlantic alliance.
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| Yemen's Houthis say ready to help investigate attacks on international shipping | |  Yemen's dominant Houthi group denied any role in missile strikes on U.S. warships in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and offered to help investigate attacks on international shipping in the area, the news agency controlled by the group reported on Thursday. The U.S. military on Thursday launched cruise missiles on three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthis, retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said. U.S. officials have told Reuters there were growing indications that Houthi fighters, or forces aligned with them, were responsible for Sunday's attempted strikes, in which two coastal cruise missiles designed to target ships failed to reach the destroyer.
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| Legoland in Florida evacuated after bomb threat | |  (Reuters) - The Legoland amusement park and hotel in Winter Haven, Florida was evacuated on Thursday due to a bomb threat, park officials said on Twitter. "A bomb threat was discovered on our property," the statement posted at about 1 p.m. EDT said. Local police and park officials did not provide details about the nature of the threat.
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| French law scraps sterilization for transgender people | | | By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rights activists celebrated a major victory in France on Thursday after the country passed legislation allowing transgender people to legally change their gender without undergoing sterilization. The move comes after a handful of European nations strengthened the rights of transgender people by scrapping requirements such as undergoing medical procedures in order to have their desired gender legally recognised. The practice of involuntary sterilization has been widely condemned as a human rights violation, including by the United Nations. |
| 'Absolutely false,' Trump says of allegations of inappropriate behaviour with women | |  By Steve Holland WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Thursday angrily denied several accusations of groping in a growing controversy over inappropriate behaviour with women that is damaging the Republican presidential candidate's chances of winning the Nov. 8 U.S. election. Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, the New York Times and other media were engaged in a concerted, "vicious" attempt to stop him, Trump told a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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| Trump denies women's claims, says will provide evidence | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump denied multiple women's claims that he sexually assaulted them as "totally and absolutely false." "The claims are preposterous, ludicrous and defy truth, common sense and logic," Trump said at a campaign rally in Florida. "We already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies, and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time, very soon." (Reporting by Steve Holland and Doina Chiacu)
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| At least 30 killed in Central African Republic fighting | | | By Crispin Dembassa-Kete KAGA BANDORO, Central African Republic (Reuters) - Thirty people were killed and 57 others wounded during an attack on refugees by largely Muslim Seleka militia in the north of Central African Republic on Wednesday, U.N. peacekeepers said on Thursday. Central African Republic's U.N. peacekeeping mission MINUSCA, which has a base in the town, repelled the Seleka, killing 12, it said in a statement on Thursday. "MINUSCA expresses its strong indignation and strong condemnation of the resurgence," the U.N. mission said, calling the Seleka response "disproportionate". |
| U.S. investigators see suicide behind Connecticut plane crash - sources | |  By Mark Hosenball and David Ingram WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. investigators believe a Jordanian student pilot was trying to kill himself when he crashed a small plane in Connecticut this week but do not believe he was affiliated with militant groups, two federal officials familiar with the probe said on Thursday. Feras Freitekh, 28, was with a flight instructor in a twin-engine Piper PA-34 Seneca when the plane slammed into a utility pole on Tuesday and burst into flames in East Hartford. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday that its initial investigation indicated the crash was "the result of an intentional act," and the FBI joined the probe.
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| Turkey sacks or suspends hundreds of judges, prosecutors in coup probe | | | The Turkish Armed Forces sacked 109 military judges on Thursday, the defence ministry said, further extending a crackdown which has targeted tens of thousands of state employees as part of an investigation into an attempted coup in July. Judicial authorities also suspended another 184 judges and prosecutors, adding to a stream of dismissals and arrests which Ankara says are aimed at rooting out supporters of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says masterminded the putsch. Gulen denies accusations he was behind the coup, during which more than 240 people, including civilians, were killed as rogue soldiers used jets, helicopters and tanks to bomb government institutions, including the parliament. |
| German court rejects bid to block Canada-EU trade deal, Trudeau impatient | | | By Caroline Copley and David Ljunggren BERLIN/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Germany's Constitutional Court cleared the government on Thursday to approve a free trade accord between the European Union and Canada under defined conditions, boosting the agreement's chances of passing an EU vote next week. The court in Karlsruhe rejected emergency appeals by activists to prevent Berlin from endorsing the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) before it has been ratified by national parliaments. Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who has championed the pact as Europe's best chance to shape the changing rules of global trade, said the ruling paved the way towards ratification. |
| Thai King Bhumibol, world's longest-reigning monarch, dies - palace | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch and a father-figure to the nation, died in hospital on Thursday. King Bhumibol reigned for seven decades after ascending the throne in 1946, providing a pillar of stability during the Cold War, the long conflict in Vietnam and his country's own political upheaval and rapid development. The military government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who has kept a tight grip on power since toppling an elected government in 2014, will try to allay long-standing concerns that Thailand's sharp political divisions could worsen without the king.
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| Aeroflot plane evacuated in Geneva after bomb threat, man arrested | |  An Aeroflot passenger plane was evacuated at Geneva airport on Thursday and a Russian man was arrested after saying there was a bomb on board, the prosecutor's office in the Swiss city said. Aeroflot said passengers booked on its flight 2381 to Moscow would be transferred to other aircraft. The man who made the threat was arrested and later admitted making a false bomb threat, saying he had been joking, the prosecutor's office said in a second statement.
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| Boko Haram frees 21 kidnapped Chibok girls - Nigerian government | | | By Alexis Akwagyiram and Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Jihadist group Boko Haram has freed 21 of more than 200 girls it kidnapped in April 2014 in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok, the government said on Thursday. Around 270 girls were taken from their school in Chibok in the remote northeastern Borno state, where Boko Haram has waged a seven-year insurgency to set up an Islamic state, killing thousands and displacing more than 2 million people. |
| EU ministers to say Aleppo offensive "may amount to war crimes" - draft | |  By Gabriela Baczynska LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - EU foreign ministers will accuse the Syrian government and its allies of using disproportionate violence in its assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo that "may amount to war crimes", according to a draft statement ahead of their meeting on Monday. France and the United States have already said the Aleppo offensive, which has included air strikes on hospitals, includes war crimes for which Syria and Russia are responsible. European Union foreign ministers will meet in Luxemburg to discuss Syria and a draft joint statement said they would "strongly condemn the excessive and disproportionate attacks by the regime and its allies." "Since the beginning of the offensive by the regime and its allies, the intensity and scale of aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo is clearly disproportionate," said the document, seen by Reuters on Thursday.
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| Maldives quits Commonwealth, weeks after democracy warning | |  The Maldives said on Thursday it will leave the Commonwealth, weeks after the organisation warned it could be suspended because of its lack of progress in promoting the rule of law and democracy. Best known as a paradise for wealthy tourists, the Indian Ocean archipelago has been mired in political unrest since Mohamed Nasheed, its first democratically elected leader, was ousted in disputed circumstances in 2012. The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group last month warned the Maldives that in the absence of substantive progress in rule of law and democracy, it would consider its options, including suspension.
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| Pakistani government defends travel ban on leading journalist | | | By Asad Hashim ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani government on Thursday defended its decision to place a travel ban on a prominent journalist over an article he wrote about an alleged rift between the the country's powerful military and its government. Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan told reporters that Cyril Almeida would not be allowed to leave the country until the completion of a government committee's inquiry into the story, which authorities have repeatedly denied. Almeida, a leading columnist and assistant editor at one of Pakistan's most respected English-language dailies, filed a story on Oct 6. |
| South Africa's Zuma asks court to block anti-graft report | |  South African President Jacob Zuma has asked a court to stop the release of results of an anti-corruption investigation into alleged political interference by his wealthy friends, the presidency said on Thursday. Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was due on Friday to release her preliminary findings in a probe into the Guptas, an Indian-born family accused of using their close ties with Zuma to influence cabinet appointments. "I can confirm that the president has applied for a court interdict," Zuma's spokesman Bongani Ngqulunga told Reuters.
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| 'I'll humiliate you': Duterte challenges West to probe Philippines drugs war | |  Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte called U.S. President Barack Obama, the European Union and United Nations "fools" on Thursday, and warned they would end up humiliated and outsmarted if they accepted an invitation to investigate his war on drugs. Duterte said he was open to an outside probe by Obama, his Secretary of State John Kerry, the EU and the U.N. Commission on Human Rights into alleged extrajudicial killings, but on the condition that after he was questioned, he had the right to be heard.
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| Moscow accuses Washington of destroying U.S.-Russia relations | | | By Dmitry Solovyov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the Obama administration of destroying relations with Moscow in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election next month, saying on Thursday that it hoped the next occupants of the White House would be better. In comments that underline how deeply a hacking scandal and differences over Syria and Ukraine have damaged U.S.-Russia relations, Maria Zakharova, the Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, told a news conference Washington was playing a dangerous game. "We see with regret how Washington continues to destroy our bilateral relations," said Zakharova. |
| UK to force suspected criminals to reveal source of wealth | | | Britain will give law enforcement agencies the power to force suspected criminals to explain the source of their wealth under new legislation published on Thursday. The government said the Criminal Finances Bill, which is subject to parliament's approval, would introduce "unexplained wealth orders", under which those who are not able to say where their wealth came from will face having their assets seized. |
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