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| Jakarta police probe mosque vandalism amid tension ahead of election | | | By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Eveline Danubrata JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police on Monday urged Muslims to stay calm and not be "provoked" by the vandalism of a mosque in the capital, aiming to dispel fears of growing ethnic tension in the run-up to next year's election for the governor of Jakarta. Over the weekend, white Christian crosses were found spray-painted at several locations, including on the green gates of the Al Falah Mosque in Jakarta, the largest city in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. The incident risks fueling already simmering tension ahead of February's election, which pits the Christian and ethnic Chinese incumbent, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, against Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, a son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and the previous education minister, Anies Baswedan. |
| Gunmen kill eight in east Congo town, rebels suspected | | | Attackers with automatic weapons killed at least eight people in a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, the army said, as a wave of violence in the area entered its third year. Seven of the dead in Beni were civilians and the other a soldier, army spokesman Mak Hazukay told Reuters. The United Nations says more than 700 civilians have been killed near Beni since October 2014, most in overnight raids by rebels carried out with machetes and hatchets. |
| Analysis: Trump may have stopped the bleeding, but not the worrying | |  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump may have done just enough in Sunday's presidential debate to keep his leaky presidential campaign afloat - and that may have put Republicans considering abandoning him in an even tougher position. Had Trump imploded, the flow of lawmakers and party luminaries who deserted him at the weekend over lewd comments he made about women on a videotape likely would have become a torrent, increasing demands for him to drop out of the race. Now, Republicans who have seen their party torn apart by Trump's candidacy are once again faced with a familiar dilemma: Publicly abandon a badly wounded candidate who is endangering closely contested congressional races, or stand behind him in the dimming hope that he can still win them the White House.
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| Second Brexit vote "not acceptable" - UK PM May's spokesman | |  The British government said on Monday that holding a second vote in parliament on the country's exit from the European Union would not be acceptable, but that lawmakers would have a role to play in scrutinising the Brexit process.
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| Germany captures Syrian refugee suspected of planning bomb attack | |  By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - A Syrian man who came to Germany during a migrant influx into the country last year was arrested on Monday after a weekend manhunt on suspicion of planning an Islamist bomb attack, Saxony state police said. Police had been looking for 22-year-old Jaber Albakr since he evaded them during a raid on Saturday on an apartment in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, where they found several hundred grammes of explosive. "Tired but overjoyed: we captured the terror suspect last night in Leipzig," Saxony state police said on Twitter, adding that they seized Albakr after acting on a tip-off that other Syrians were holding him at an apartment in Leipzig.
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| France to seek ICC options for war crimes investigation in Aleppo | |  By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - France is working to find a way for the International Criminal Court's prosecutor to launch an investigation into war crimes it says have been committed by Syrian and Russian forces in eastern Aleppo, Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Monday. Since the collapse of efforts to reach a ceasefire in September, Russian and Syrian warplanes have launched their biggest offensive on Aleppo's besieged rebel-held sectors, in a battle that could become a turning point in the five-year-old civil war. "These bombings - and I said it in Moscow - are war crimes," Ayrault told France Inter radio after a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria was vetoed at the weekend by Russia.
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| Lithuania readies for new government as ruling party comes third in vote | |  Lithuania's ruling Social Democrats sank to a distant third place in the first round of national elections, leaving centre-right parties in a strong position to form a new coalition government, surprise results showed on Monday. After a campaign fought largely over Lithuania's sluggish economy, first place went to the centre-right Lithuanian Peasants and Greens party with 21.6 percent, 728 votes ahead of the Homeland Union party. The centre-left Social Democrats had been forecast to win Sunday's vote in opinion polls that have been unreliable in the past.
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| China backs sovereign immunity after U.S. Sept.11 bill becomes law | | | A country's domestic law should not supersede international law on anti-terrorism cooperation, China said on Monday, after the U.S. Congress last month approved a bill that allows relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia. Congress on Sept. 28 overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama's veto of the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act" (JASTA), the first veto override of his presidency, meaning the legislation will become U.S. law. |
| Congo opposition leader arrested over deadly anti-government protests | | | An opposition leader in Democratic Republic of Congo was arrested late on Sunday for his role in anti-government demonstrations last month in which more than 50 people died, the government and his party said on Monday. Bruno Tshibala, the deputy secretary-general and spokesman for the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), Congo's largest opposition party, was arrested Sunday night at Kinshasa airport as he prepared to board a flight for Brussels, the UDPS said in a statement. Government spokesman Lambert Mende confirmed the arrest, saying Tshibala would be questioned by the attorney general's office on Monday over his role in the protests, including the deaths of a police officer who was burned alive and a young girl. |
| Cambodian opposition MP jailed over 'fake' Facebook border map | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian opposition MP was jailed for two and a half years on Monday for posting a map on Facebook professing to show that the government had ceded territory to Vietnam. Cambodia has for centuries fretted about its much bigger neighbours - Vietnam to the east and Thailand to the northwest - encroaching on its territory. The issue remains emotive and many Cambodians are suspicious of both countries.
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| Turkish military says killed 417 Kurdish militants since August | |  The announcement came a day after suspected Kurdish militants set off a truck bomb, killing 15 people at a military checkpoint in Hakkari province, a region bordering Iran and Iraq that has borne the brunt of the conflict with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). There has not yet been a claim of responsibility for the bombing - the PKK usually issues such statements more than a day after an event. A two-year ceasefire with the PKK collapsed in July last year, adding to the turmoil in a region already struggling with the civil war in neighbouring Syria and the rise of Islamic State there and in Iraq.
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| Ethiopia blames foreign groups for stoking unrest | |  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia accused elements in Eritrea, Egypt and other states on Monday of arming, training and funding groups that it blames for a wave of protests and violence in regions around its capital Addis Ababa. "There are countries which are directly involved in arming, financing and training these elements," government spokesman Getachew Reda told a news conference.
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| Iraqi supreme court rules against PM Abadi on VP positions | |  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's supreme court on Monday ruled against a decision by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to scrap three vice-president positions. Abadi canceled the positions in August 2015, one year after he took over the premiership, as part of cost-cutting reforms, following an oil price collapse that curtailed the OPEC nation's income. The court said these positions were created by the Constitution and cannot be canceled by a simple government decision. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed, Writing by Maher Chmaytelli, Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| Myanmar sends troops into Muslim-majority region after deadly attacks | | | Myanmar has stepped up security in a Muslim-majority region near its border with Bangladesh, officials said on Monday, as authorities hunt for attackers who killed at least nine police officers. Officials believe that members of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority launched three separate attacks in the early hours of Sunday, in which dozens of weapons and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition were seized from border police. Nine policemen were killed, one was missing and five were wounded. |
| Singapore charges two former BSI bankers with forgery | |  SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore police on Monday charged two former BSI bankers amid an ongoing investigation that led to the Singapore branch of the Swiss private bank being ordered to shut down in May. Yak Yew Chee, who was a senior vice president at BSISingapore and handled BSI's relationship with embattled state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), was charged with forgery and failure to disclose suspicious transactions. The Commercial Affairs Department of Singapore police filed similar charges against Yvonne Seah, a former director at the bank. ...
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