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| Police issue warning as creepy clown craze comes to Britain | | | British police have issued warnings after a spate of creepy clown sightings across the country, mimicking a prank that began in the United States and has spread across the world. Police forces said they had received dozens of reports of "killer clown" sightings in the last week where individuals dressed in clown outfits sometimes carrying knives have acted suspiciously or chased people, often young children. "We believe this to be part of a much larger prank which is currently sweeping across the USA and parts of the UK," said Sergeant Mel Sutherland from Durham Police in northern England. |
| IAEA chief: Nuclear power plant was disrupted by cyber attack | |  By Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) - A nuclear power plant became the target of a disruptive cyber attack two to three years ago, and there is a serious threat of militant attacks on such plants, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Yukiya Amano also cited a case in which an individual tried to smuggle a small amount of highly enriched uranium about four years ago that could have been used to build a so-called "dirty bomb". "This is not an imaginary risk," Amano told Reuters and a German newspaper during a visit to Germany that included a meeting with Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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| After Yemen funeral strike, U.N. rues failure to punish war crimes | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official renewed his call on Monday for an international probe into possible war crimes committed in Yemen, saying the "outrageous" weekend bombing on a funeral showed that violations continued unpunished. Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement that countries belonging to the U.N. Human Rights Council had contributed to "a climate of impunity" in Yemen by failing to investigate adequately. ...
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| Top Iraqi court nixes PM's move to scrap mostly-ceremonial VP jobs | |  By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a decision by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to scrap three vice-president positions, weakening his political standing by overruling one of his most important measures to streamline the government. One of the VPs was former prime minister Nuri al-Maliki. Abadi was elected in 2014 with the support of Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Ali al-Sistani, on a pledge to fight corruption, reform the government and defeat Islamic State.
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| Captured Syrian refugee was IS-inspired and poised to strike -Germany | |  By Paul Carrel and Martin Schlicht BERLIN/DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) - A Syrian refugee arrested in Germany on Monday was ready to strike imminently with attacks similar to those in Brussels and Paris, and was probably inspired by Islamic State, German officials said. Jaber Albakr, 22, arrived in Germany in February last year during a migrant influx into the country and was granted temporary asylum in June 2015. Police had been looking for him since he evaded them during a raid on Saturday on an apartment in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, where they found 1.5 kg of highly-charged explosives.
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| Trump threatens jail time, Clinton says rival's campaign is "exploding" | |  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Donald Trump, defiant amid a tide of criticism of his sexually aggressive remarks about women, 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. The Sunday night debate, the second of three before the Nov. 8 vote, was remarkable for the brutal nature of the exchanges between Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, and Clinton, his Democratic rival. The New York businessman called Clinton a "devil" who repeatedly lies, someone with tremendous hate in her heart.
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| German trial begins of Korean family accused of 'exorcism' murder | | | A trial began in Germany on Monday of five South Koreans accused of beating to death a 41-year-old female relative in a Frankfurt hotel room last year as part of an exorcist ritual. "They are accused of together cruelly killing the woman on December 5 in a Frankfurt hotel room, in a so-called exorcism," said senior prosecutor Nadja Niesen. Prosecutors allege the five South Koreans used massive violence on the victim's neck and chest to "cast out the devils". |
| 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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| 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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