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| Explosions in Japanese park kill one, cause not known - NHK | | | Several explosions went off in on Sunday in two locations near a park in the Japanese city of Utsunomiya, killing one person and injuring three, state broadcaster NHK reported. The cause of the blasts was not known, NHK said. Images broadcast by NHK showed two burnt out cars in a parking lot about 200 metres (650 feet) from the park and a charred broken bench at the edge of the park, where a folk art festival was underway. |
| Leslie Jones hits back at hackers in "Saturday Night Live" rant | |  A day after hackers unleashed an attack on some of the world's best-known web sites, comedian Leslie Jones weighed in on cyber-security in a commentary on "Saturday Night Live," saying cyber criminals could put their talents to far better use than hacking celebrities. Jones, whose own web site was hacked in August resulting in nude photos and personal information including her passport and driver's license being posted, offered her perspective during her recurring gig as an impassioned contributor to the weekly comedy show's "Weekend Update" news segment. "I am very comfortable with who I am. I am an open book," Jones declared, noting "I keep my porn in a folder labeled porn." "If you wanna see Leslie Jones naked, just ask," the comedian added, in what one Twitter user, an entertainment web site editor, said may have been Jones' "finest SNL moment." After starring in the "Ghostbusters" film this summer, Jones briefly quit Twitter because she was bombarded by racist and abusive comments.
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| Opium crops spread in Afghanistan as Taliban gains ground, U.N. says | |  The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan, the world's main source of heroin, has risen to its third-highest level in more than 20 years, the United Nations confirmed on Sunday, as the Taliban insurgency gains ground. In the key findings of its annual Afghanistan opium survey, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said the total area of land devoted to poppy cultivation had risen 10 percent in 2016 to 201,000 hectares (497,000 acres). "The survey shows a worrying reversal in efforts to combat the persistent problem of illicit drugs and their impact on development, health and security," UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said in a statement.
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| British anti-terrorist police find second "suspicious item" after London arrest | | | Counter-terrorism police investigating the discovery of a "suspicious item" on a London train this week said they found another such device on Saturday when they searched a house in Devon, western England. The house and neighbouring properties were evacuated and a 200-metre cordon thrown around the area while specialist officers investigated. On Thursday morning, the first device was found on a train at North Greenwich station, near the Canary Wharf financial district and close to the O2 music venue. |
| Maduro opponents march after Venezuela referendum sunk | |  By Deisy Buitrago and Diego Oré CARACAS (Reuters) - Led by women dressed in white, several thousand Venezuelans marched through Caracas on Saturday in the first of what the opposition hopes will be growing protests against the quashing of a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro. The opposition coalition, seeking to end 17 years of socialism in the South American OPEC nation, says this week's suspension of its drive for a plebiscite against the unpopular leader shows Venezuela has abandoned democracy. "There's no obstacle that can defeat Venezuelan mothers, fighting for the future of their children," said Tintori, who has called for civil disobedience in Venezuela, saying democratic options are lacking.
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| French Socialist sees little prospect of election win | |  Socialist party leader Jean-Christophe Cambadelis has said that on current trends none of the Socialist candidates will be able to win France's 2017 presidential election or even make it into the second round. French President Francois Hollande's chances of being re-elected next May are seen as increasingly remote following recent revelations in a book written by two Le Monde journalists about remarks on secret matters, Islam and judges. The Socialist Party is divided and Hollande has not yet declared he will seek a second term.
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| Dozens of demonstrators arrested at North Dakota pipeline | |  More than 80 protesters were arrested on Saturday after clashing with police near a pipeline construction site in North Dakota, according to the local sheriff's department, which said pepper spray was used on some demonstrators. The 83 protesters were arrested near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline on numerous charges ranging from assault on a peace officer to rioting and criminal trespass, the Morton County Sheriff's department said in a statement. Law enforcement was alerted early Saturday morning to an SUV on private property near the pipeline construction site and found that four men had attached themselves to the vehicle, according to the sheriff's department.
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| Mass prison break in Haiti, 174 inmates flee after killing guard | | | Haiti's Minister Of Justice, Camille Edouard Junior, said one prisoner died after falling off a wall and hitting his head during the escape from the Arcahaie prison on the coast north of capital Port-au-Prince. "One guard was killed during the incident," Edouard Junior told Reuters. The U.S. embassy in Haiti issued a security message about "a violent prison break in Arcahaie," and advised its citizens to avoid the area. |
| India's children of bonded labourers use memories to rescue others | |  By Anuradha Nagaraj BENGALURU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - They are not easy to spot. Working in vegetable patches and on millet fields in Karnataka, farm labourers caught in debt bondage suffer mainly in silence. Now 44, the son of bonded labourers is on a mission to identify workers trapped in debt bondage - and to make sure they get justice.
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