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| Ohio to resume executions in January after three-year pause | | | (Reuters) - The state of Ohio plans to resume the execution of condemned inmates in January, ending a three-year pause in carrying out death sentences, under a new lethal-injection protocol designed to meet U.S. Supreme Court approval, prison officials said on Monday. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said it would proceed in January with the scheduled execution of Ronald Phillips, convicted and sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl. Ohio, one of 31 U.S. states with capital punishment, instituted a death penalty moratorium in 2015 due to difficulty in obtaining the drugs needed to perform lethal injections. |
| Kim Kardashian back after being held at gunpoint in $10 million Paris robbery | |  By Leigh Thomas PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reality TV star Kim Kardashian returned to New York "badly shaken" on Monday after being robbed at gunpoint in her Paris residence by masked men who stole some $10 million worth of jewelry from her. Kardashian, wearing sunglasses and with her head bowed, was pictured entering her Manhattan apartment with her rapper husband Kanye West. Kardashian, who her publicist said was "badly shaken but physically unharmed," said nothing to waiting media upon her arrival.
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| Thousands of Poles protest against planned abortion ban | |  The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has put forward the proposal - from a group called Ordo Iuris - for debate in parliament. Critics of the new rules say PiS may back them for fear of angering the church in staunchly Roman Catholic Poland. Poland's already restrictive laws only allow abortion in the case of rape, incest, a threat to a pregnant woman's health, or when the baby is likely to be permanently handicapped.
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| Shootings at U.S. colleges deadlier and more frequent, report finds | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shootings on college campuses over the last five years have more than doubled since a similar period a decade earlier, according to a report released on Monday by a criminal justice reform organization. The incidents have also grown more deadly, with three times as many people injured or killed during the most recent five-year period, the New York City-based Citizens Crime Commission said. "It is now appropriate to call our nation's gun violence problem an epidemic," said the commission's president, Richard Aborn.
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| Belgian FA starts inquiry into player bets on own matches | | | Belgium's soccer federation has started an inquiry into allegations that several players in the country's top league bet on their own matches. The federation said in a statement on Monday that it had begun its investigation on Sept. 29, a day after club Waasland Beveren fired keeper Laurent Henkinet for betting on a match in which he featured. Belgian media have run reports about betting by other players in Belgium's top league. |
| Stunned Latin America exhorts Colombia to keep seeking peace | |  By Alexandra Ulmer and Mitra Taj CARACAS/LIMA (Reuters) - Latin America bemoaned Colombian voters' rejection of a peace deal with Marxist insurgents but regional leaders urged Bogota to keep pursing efforts to end the longest-running conflict in the Americas. Havana hosted four years of peace negotiations while Chile, Cuba, and Venezuela acted as guarantor and observer countries. Nations from leftist-run Venezuela to center-right Peru lamented the outcome of Sunday's referendum, the "No" camp won by less than half a percentage point.
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| Protests hit Ethiopia after stampede deaths | |  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Protests broke out in some areas of Ethiopia's Oromiya region on Monday, a day after dozens of people were killed in a stampede at a religious festival sparked by a bid by police to quell demonstrations, witnesses said. On Monday, witnesses said crowds took to the streets in Oromiya's Ambo, Guder, Bule Hora and other towns in response to the deaths. The region's assistant police chief told journalists that "widespread disturbances" had taken place in several parts of the region.
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| U.N. to discuss urging end to all military flights over Syria's Aleppo | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council will begin negotiations on Monday on a draft resolution that urges Russia and the United States to ensure an immediate truce in Syria's Aleppo and to "put an end to all military flights over the city." The draft text, seen by Reuters, also asks U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to propose options for a U.N.-supervised monitoring of a truce and threatens to "take further measures" in the event of non-compliance by "any party to the Syrian domestic conflict." The 15-member council will begin talks on the text - drafted by France and Spain - on Monday afternoon, diplomats said. It was not immediately clear how Russia and China would respond to the draft, diplomats said.
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| Chechens go on trial for killing Kremlin critic, lawyers cry foul | |  By Valery Stepchenkov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Five Chechen men went on trial in Moscow on Monday for the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, but lawyers for the dead man's daughter said the investigation had failed to uncover who ordered the shooting. The 55-year-old Nemtsov, an opposition leader and former deputy prime minister, was gunned down near the Kremlin walls late in the evening of Feb. 27, 2015, as he walked home with his girlfriend from a restaurant. A prosecutor said the investigation had identified a group of Chechens who had been after Nemtsov since autumn 2014.
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| Morocco says arrests 10 suspected female Islamic State militants | | | Morocco has dismantled a suspected Islamic State militant cell and arrested 10 women believed to be planning attacks in the North African kingdom, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. It was the latest in a series of militant cells Morocco says it has broken up, but it is the first time authorities have arrested a group of female suspects. An Interior Ministry statement said the cell was operating in several regions including the cities of Kenitra and Tangier. |
| U.S. Sept. 11 law weakens international relations, Saudi cabinet says | | | Saudi Arabia said on Monday that a U.S. law allowing citizens to sue the kingdom over the Sept. 11 2001 attacks represented a threat to international relations and urged Congress to act to prevent any dangerous consequences from the new legislation. The cabinet, at its weekly meeting in the capital Riyadh, also said that the law, known as JASTA, represented a violation of a leading principle preventing lawsuits against governments that regulated international relations for hundreds of years. "Weakening this sovereign immunity will affect all countries, including the United States," the statement by Saudi Information Minister Adel al-Toraifi, carried by Saudi state news agency SPA, said. |
| Estonia's parliament elects country's first female president | |  TALLINN (Reuters) - The Estonian parliament on Monday elected the country's first female head of state. Kersti Kaljulaid, 46, a former EU budget auditor, received 81 votes in the election for the five-year presidential term, well above the two-thirds majority of 68 required. The office is largely symbolic in the Baltic country although it gained weight after outgoing President Toomas Hendrik Ilves carved a role as an outspoken critic of Russia and a campaigner for government digitalisation and cybersecurity. ...
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| Colombian government, rebels hope to revive peace deal after vote | |  By Helen Murphy and Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government and Marxist FARC guerrillas scrambled on Monday to revive a plan to end their 52-year war after voters rejected the hard-negotiated deal as too lenient on the rebels in a shock result that plunged the nation into uncertainty. Putting on a brave face after a major political defeat, President Juan Manuel Santos offered hope to those who backed his four-year peace negotiation with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Cuba. Latin America's longest conflict has killed 220,000 people.
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| Japan police probe hospital poisoning deaths | | | Japanese police are investigating the poisoning deaths of two elderly patients at a hospital near Tokyo, the latest in a spate of deaths on the same floor of the facility to arouse suspicion. More than a quarter of Japan's population is aged 65 and above, putting a strain on medical and nursing facilities, where long hours and low pay discourage workers, a problem the government has vowed to tackle. September's deaths follow the stabbing deaths of 19 residents of a home for the disabled in July, and the indictment of a former worker of a nursing home for killing three residents by throwing them off a balcony. |
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