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| Car bomb attack kills 9 soldiers in southeast Turkey - sources | | | Nine Turkish soldiers were killed and more than 20 people were wounded on Sunday when suspected Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb that ripped through a checkpoint near a police station in the country's southeast, security sources said. The blast hit the Durak gendarmerie station, 20 km (12 miles) from the town of Semdinli, in a mountainous part of Hakkari province near the border with Iraq and Iran, where Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants are active. Authorities were on high alert for possible attacks on Sunday, 18 years to the day since PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan fled Syria before being captured by Turkish special forces in February the following year. |
| Outcry over death of Hyderabad girl, 13, after 68-day fast | | | By Neha Dasgupta NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A children's rights group has called for the police to arrest the parents of a 13-year-old girl from the minority Jain community who died after observing a religious fast for 68 days. The girl, Aradhana Samdhariya, died due to cardiac arrest on Oct. 3, a day after her family held a procession in Hyderabad in which she rode in a chariot with her parents to celebrate the end of her fast. The tragedy exploded into the national headlines at the weekend, and raised new questions about whether India's tradition of religious tolerance is failing to protect the most vulnerable. |
| Russian police shoot dead eight militants in Chechnya clashes - Ifax | | | Police shot dead eight militants in Chechnya in southern Russia around midnight on Saturday after the men, travelling in two cars, opened fire when asked to stop at a checkpoint, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday. Moscow has fought two wars with separatists in Chechnya since the 1991 Soviet collapse and still faces a low-level insurgency in the mainly Muslim region in Russia's volatile North Caucasus area. Citing the Chechen Interior Ministry, Interfax said the militants had opened fire with automatic weapons and thrown grenades at police officers who tried to stop them. |
| Bangladesh kills 12 Islamists blamed for cafe attack | |  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi security forces on Saturday killed 12 members of an Islamist militant group blamed for a deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July, senior officials said. Most of the militants were killed in a three-hour gun battle as security forces raided four hideouts on the outskirts of Dhaka, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters. The dead were believed to be members of a new faction of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), known as New JMB, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, authorities said.
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| Two police officers killed in Palm Springs, California shooting | |  By Sam Mircovich PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (Reuters) - Two police officers were shot and killed in the Southern California desert town of Palm Springs on Saturday after they were called to a family dispute and came under fire as they arrived on the scene, local police said. A third officer was wounded in the afternoon shooting, Police Chief Bryan Reyes told a news conference. The officers who were killed were identified as Jose Vega, a 35-year veteran who was due to retire in December, and 27-year-old Lesley Zerebny, who had been an officer for about a year and a half and was the mother of a four-month-old baby.
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| Evangelical leaders stick with Trump, focus on defeating Clinton | |  By Steve Holland and Michelle Conlin WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Leaders of religious conservative groups largely stood behind Donald Trump on Saturday, the day after vulgar sexual comments he made about women surfaced online, but some expressed concern that the U.S. Republican presidential nominee's remarks could depress evangelical turnout on Election Day. Most evangelical leaders did not condemn Trump, and instead pointed to an urgent need to prevent Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency, reshaping the Supreme Court and implementing liberal policies. The latest blow to Trump's campaign came after a 2005 video surfaced of the then-reality TV star talking on an open microphone about groping women and trying to seduce a married woman.
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| Kuwait arrests suspected Islamist after truck attack on Americans | | | Kuwaiti security forces have detained a suspected Islamist militant who rammed a truck believed to be carrying explosives into a car carrying five Americans, state news agency KUNA reported on Saturday. The agency quoted an interior ministry statement as saying the Americans were unhurt, but the assailant, identified as Egyptian national Ibrahim Suleiman, was injured and was taken to a hospital under security escort. "After an initial investigation of the suspect Suleiman, who was born in 1988, by specialised security apparatus, a hand-written note was found indicating that he had adopted the terrorist Daesh ideology and pledged allegiance to this organisation," KUNA said, referring to Islamic State. |
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