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| Coked-up British banker imagined police behind curtains after cutting woman's throat | |  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Moments before he surrendered after killing a second victim in his Hong Kong apartment, British banker Rurik Jutting ingested up to 20 grams of cocaine and imagined police were behind the curtains, a court heard on Thursday. In videoed police interviews shown on the fourth day of his trial for the murder of two Indonesian women, Jutting impassively described the paranoia he felt moments before calling police to come and get him. Jutting has admitted killing Sumarti Ningsih, a 23-year-old single mother, and another Indonesian woman, Seneng Mujiasih, as he acted out violent fantasies.
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| Pakistan arrests 'Afghan Girl' from iconic photo, on ID fraud charge | |  By Sami Yousafzai ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested the green-eyed Afghan woman who became a symbol of her country's wars 30 years ago when her photo as a girl appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine, her family said. Sharbat Gula, who grew up in a refugee camp and is now in her 40s, is accused of having a forged Pakistani identity card. Gula is being held in jail in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, said her brother-in-law Shahshad Khan, who added that Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided her home early on Wednesday morning.
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| EU Parliament awards Sakharov Prize to Yazidi women | |  By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament on Thursday awarded its Sakharov Prize to Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two Iraqi Yazidi women who were held as sex slaves by Islamic State militants and have campaigned for human rights since escaping. Murad and Bashar were among thousands of women and girls abducted, tortured and sexually abused by Islamic State fighters after the militants rounded up Yazidis in the village of Kocho, near Sinjar in northwest Iraq, in 2014.
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| Turkey detains dozens of air force pilots in coup probe - Anadolu | | | By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 45 air force pilots and were to take in dozens more on Thursday in the latest in a stream of police operations relating to investigations into a failed coup by rogue military in July, the state-run news agency Anadolu said. The operation targeting suspected followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the putsch, focused on an air base in the central province of Konya and spread across 17 provinces, the agency said. The failed coup, in which rogue soldiers commandeered fighters jets and tanks in a bid to seize power, and the subsequent purges have shaken the Turkish armed forces, the second largest in NATO, as they fight Islamic State and Kurdish militants in Turkey, Syria and Iraq. |
| Doping-Three Kazakh weightlifters stripped of gold medals from 2012 Games | |  Three Kazakh weightlifters have been stripped of the gold medals they won at the 2012 London Olympics after failing doping tests in the re-analysis of samples, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday. The three were Zulfiya Chinshanlo in the women's 53kg category, Maiya Maneza in the women's 63kg and Svetlana Podobedova, who competed in the 75kg event. A total of 98 samples have come back as positive for banned substances in re-analysis from the 2008 and 2012 Games as the IOC attempted to root out cheats and stop them from going to this year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
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| Pakistan outlaws protests in capital ahead of Imran Khan's "lockdown" | |  By Asad Hashim ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan outlawed public gatherings and political protests in the capital Islamabad on Thursday, ahead of next week's planned "lockdown" of the city by opposition politician Imran Khan. Khan's party said it would defy the order, heightening the stakes in a political standoff with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who Khan wants to resign over alleged corruption, and raising fears of street clashes. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, which led a weeks-long occupation of Islamabad in 2014 after rejecting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's election win, says it will shut down the capital on Nov. 2 unless Sharif resigns or submits to the opposition's terms for an investigation.
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| Exclusive: India's tobacco industry, government face off ahead of WHO conference | |  By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's $11 billion tobacco industry has urged the government to take a softer line on tobacco control efforts when it hosts a WHO conference in New Delhi next month, but officials say the government will not bow to "pressure tactics". Delegates from about 180 countries will attend the Nov. 7-12 World Health Organization (WHO) conference on the sole global anti-tobacco treaty: the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In force since 2005, the treaty aims to deter tobacco use that kills around 6 million people a year.
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| Indonesian woman gets 20 years for poisoned-coffee murder | |  An Indonesian court jailed a woman for 20 years on Thursday for murdering her college friend by poisoning her coffee, ending a dramatic case that gripped the country for months. Jessica Kumala Wongso, 27, an Indonesian citizen and permanent resident of Australia, remained expressionless while hearing the verdict and sentence. "The defendant has been proven guilty of premeditated murder," presiding judge Kisworo said to applause from a packed courtroom without suggesting a motive.
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| Thai prison inmates line up in shape of number nine to honour late king | | | More than 3,000 prison inmates lined up on Thursday to form the Thai symbol for the number nine, in honour of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died on Oct. 13 after reigning for seven decades. Thailand has entered a year-long mourning period for the king, formally known as King Rama IX and the ninth of the 234-year-old Chakri Dynasty, who was seen as a unifying figure in the politically fractious country. As many as 3,699 male inmates of the Central Correctional Institution for Young Offenders in Pathum Thani province, 40 km (25 miles) north of the capital, Bangkok, stood in the grounds of the prison complex and sang songs dedicated to the late king. |
| Turkey detains 81 mostly foreigners on suspected Islamic State links - Dogan | | | Turkish authorities detained 81 people, most of them foreigners, on Thursday on suspicion of planning to travel illegally to join Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, the privately-owned Dogan news agency said. It said 21 of those detained were suspected of being senior figures in the Islamic State network, while 60 were foreign nationals. It said the operation was centred in Istanbul but involved raids at 31 locations in six Turkish provinces. |
| Support for South Korea's Park slides to all-time low amid crisis over friend | |  By Jack Kim and Yun Hwan Chae SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye faces a deepening crisis over allegations an old friend enjoyed inappropriate influence over her, a scandal that has sapped her support to an all-time low. Park's popularity has slumped to 17.5 percent, the lowest since she took office in February 2013, according to a poll released on Thursday by pollster Realmeter. Forty-two percent of people polled said Park should face impeachment or step down.
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| PNG court dismisses Australia asylum seeker resettlements on technicality | | | By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an application to send asylum seekers held on an isolated island to Australia on a paperwork technicality. A ruling in favour of the 302 detainees would have ordered the PNG and Australian governments to transfer them to Australia within 30 days, a political nightmare for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Under Australia's tough immigration laws, asylum seekers intercepted trying to reach the country by boat are sent for processing on PNG's Manus island and the tiny South Pacific island nation of Nauru. |
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