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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. |
| France to ask ICC for war crimes investigation in Syria | |  France will ask 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, speaking after a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria was vetoed at the weekend by Russia, also said President Francois Hollande would not welcome his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Oct. 19 to just trade "pleasantries".
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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 pole 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 Lithuanian Peasants and Greens party with 21.7 percent of the vote and the Homeland Union party close behind with 21.6 percent. 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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| Turkish military says killed 417 Kurdish militants since August | |  Turkish security forces have killed 417 Kurdish militants since late August, the army said on Monday, a day after a truck bomb attack on a military checkpoint in southeast Turkey killed 18 people. The blast was one of the deadliest recent attacks in the region, near the border with Iraq and Iran where much of the army's conflict with the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is focused. The military said in a statement the PKK's ability to stage attacks had been limited and its winter preparations disrupted, prompting it to focus on attacks with improvised explosive devices and suicide bomb attacks targeting civilians.
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| German police capture man suspected of planning bomb attack | | | German police said on Monday they had captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who had slipped through their grasp during a raid two days ago. Police had been looking for 22-year-old Syrian refugee Jaber Albakr since he evaded them during a raid on an apartment in the eastern 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. |
| 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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| Trump vs Clinton: He calls her a devil, she says he abuses women | |  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A defiant Donald Trump on Sunday said Hillary Clinton would go to jail if he were president and attacked her husband for his treatment of women in a vicious presidential debate less than a month before the U.S. election. Through it all, Trump, 70, and Clinton, 68, both landed punches as they clashed over taxes, healthcare, U.S. policy in the Syria civil war and Clinton's comments that half of Trump's supporters belonged in a "basket of deplorables." Trump took the stage in St. Louis, Missouri, at the most perilous time of his 16-month-old candidacy. CLINTON 57 PCT, TRUMP 34 PCT A CNN/ORC snap poll of debate watchers found that 57 percent thought Clinton won the encounter, versus 34 percent for Trump.
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| U.S. Navy ship targeted in failed missile attack from Yemen - U.S. | | | By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters, saying neither of the two missiles hit the ship. The attempted strike on the USS Mason, which was first reported by Reuters, came just a week after a United Arab Emirates vessel came under attack from Houthis and suggests growing risks to the U.S. military from Yemen's conflict. The failed missile attack on the USS Mason began around 7 p.m. local time, when the ship detected two inbound missiles over a 60-minute period in the Red Sea off Yemen's coast, the U.S. military said. |
| Once-powerful Philippines Church divided, subdued over drug killings | |  By Clare Baldwin and Manolo Serapio Jr MANILA (Reuters) - Catholic priests from the Philippines Church, an institution that helped oust two of the country's leaders in the past, say they are afraid and unsure how to speak out against the war on drugs unleashed by new President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte, who had a 76 percent satisfaction rating in a survey released last week, has quashed opposition to his war on drugs.
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| China tries again to stop confessions through torture | | | China has long tried to eliminate a problem that regularly attracts international condemnation and has put a brake on China's efforts to have corruption suspects who have fled to Western countries extradited. A joint statement issued by the Supreme Court, state prosecutor, public security, state security and justice ministries said the use of violence, threats or other illegal methods to obtain evidence or confessions must end. "If investigating organs' collection of material and documentary evidence does not accord with the legally set process, it could seriously affect justice," it said. |
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