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| 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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| South Korea's Park proposes multiple-term presidency | |  By Ju-min Park and Christine Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday proposed amending the constitution to allow presidents to serve multiple terms or to establish a parliamentary system, saying the single-term presidency has served its purpose after nearly 30 years. The South Korean presidency was limited to a single five-year term in the 1987 constitutional amendment that ended the country's military dictatorship. "Through the single-term presidency, it is difficult to maintain policy continuance, see results of policy and engage in unified foreign policy," she said in an address to parliament at the start of annual budget deliberations.
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| Rights activists urge Thai junta to drop sedition charge against lawyer | | | Human rights activists on Monday called on Thailand's junta to drop sedition charges against a rights lawyer in the first such case against an attorney since the military took power in a 2014 coup. Sirikan Charoensiri was charged with sedition and with disobeying authorities on Saturday after she refused to hand over the mobile phones of her clients, 14 student activists who were arrested following a protest against the junta last year. Since taking power, the junta has moved to silence critics and has come under sharp criticism from the international community for trying civilians in military courts, arresting dissidents and detaining some critics, including political activists, journalists and students, at military facilities for days before releasing them. |
| Police kill 18 Maoist insurgents in Odisha | | | By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - Police killed at least 18 Maoist rebels in Odisha on Monday after tracking them to a remote, forested area where a gunfight erupted shortly after midnight, police said. It was one of the heaviest casualty tolls suffered this year by the insurgents, who have fought a decades-long war against the Indian state from jungle hideouts across eastern and central India. Police acted on a tip-off that around 30 rebels had gathered close to the border with Andhra Pradesh, Odisha police chief K.B. Singh said. |
| Obama turns focus to U.S. Congress as he campaigns for Clinton | |  By Roberta Rampton LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday campaigned in the battleground state of Nevada for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate he wants to succeed him in the White House - but he spent most of his time talking about the state's Senate race. Democrats badly want to get back control of the Republican-controlled Senate in the Nov. 8 election, and are sending Obama, Michelle Obama and Joe Biden to states where close races could tip the balance. In Nevada, Obama reserved most of his firepower for mocking three-term Republican U.S. Representative Joe Heck, who had supported his party's presidential candidate until earlier this month when Donald Trump's campaign went into crisis mode by the release of a video in which he lewdly bragged about groping and kissing women.
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