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| Turkey detains brother of cleric Gulen, issues arrest warrants for 115 | | | Turkish authorities have detained a brother of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based cleric they accuse of orchestrating a coup attempt in July, and issued arrest warrants for 115 other people as part of nationwide investigations into the abortive putsch. Kudbettin Gulen was taken into custody on Sunday by Turkish counter-terrorism police in the Gaziemir district of the Aegean province of Izmir following intelligence that he was staying at a relative's house, state-run Anadolu Agency said. The daily Hurriyet reported that Kudbettin Gulen had been abroad recently but that security services learned he had returned to Turkey and he was then detained. |
| Swiss prosecutors investigate suspect over Syrian crime | | | Swiss prosecutors said on Monday they had opened an investigation into an unnamed person on suspicion of links to a crime in Syria. The person had been flagged up by immigration authorities, and the investigation started in August, she added. The OAG currently had around 20 similar cases pending linked to conflicts in a number of countries, the spokeswoman said, without giving any other details on the nature of the charges. |
| Hungary's Jobbik calls on PM Orban to resign after invalid referendum | |  BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's nationalist Jobbik party called on Monday for Prime Minister Viktor Orban to resign because a referendum on rejecting European Union migrant quotas was rendered invalid by its low turnout. Jobbik Chairman Gabor Vona told the premier in Parliament that he had weakened Hungary's positions in Europe with a referendum that failed when less than half of Hungarian voters cast a valid vote. "You need to resign, like David Cameron did, as is the norm in European politics," Vona said. "I know you will not resign, but the least you could offer is an apology. ...
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| South Africa's Zuma says student protests could destroy universities | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Widespread protests by South African students demanding free higher education could destroy universities, President Jacob Zuma said on Monday. "What is happening on our campuses has the potential to destroy our universities but we have the power to change that working together," Zuma said at an education summit. "Government is committed to do everything possible to progressively make higher education more affordable for all." (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by Joe Brock)
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| Mega Financial scandal claims first Taiwan administration victim as top regulator quits | |  By Faith Hung TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's top financial regulator resigned on Monday as a scandal over state-run institution Mega Financial's New York bank branch breaching anti-money laundering regulations claimed its first victim among officials on the island. Ding Kung-Wha, the chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), stepped down amid mounting criticism over the watchdog's effectiveness. The Mega Financial branch was fined $180 million by U.S. authorities for violations of rules including lax attention to risk exposure in Panama.
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| Armed jewel thieves leave 'shaken' Kardashian tied up in Paris bathroom | |  By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - Masked men robbed Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in the early hours on Monday, leaving her tied up in the bathroom of her luxury residence in Paris and stealing millions of dollars' worth of jewellery, police and her publicist said. Five attackers, wearing ski masks and clothes with police marking, struck around 3 a.m. (0100 GMT) inside the exclusive apartment block where Kardashian was staying while attending Paris Fashion Week, a police source told Reuters. After she was discovered - "badly shaken but physically unharmed," according to her publicist - and news of her ordeal spread, the reality star's husband, rapper Kanye West, abruptly ended a performance in New York less than an hour into his set.
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| Sturgeon says British PM May does not care about Scotland over Brexit | |  Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon accused Theresa May of ignoring Scots over Britain's exit from the European Union after the British Prime Minister indicated that Scotland will not have a veto. Sturgeon, whose nationalist party is not ruling out a new Scottish independence vote, said on Twitter that May was "going out of her way to say Scotland's voice and interests don't matter". "Strange approach from someone who wants to keep (the) UK together," Sturgeon said.
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| Kim Kardashian robbed at gunpoint in Paris, millions in jewels taken - police | |  Five gunmen took millions of dollars of jewellery from U.S. reality TV star Kim Kardashian at a luxury residence in central Paris early on Monday, a police source said. The armed men robbed Kardashian at gunpoint at around 3 a.m. (0100 GMT), but no one was hurt, the source told Reuters. Kardashian has stayed there at least once before, in 2014, before her marriage to rapper Kanye West.
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