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| Western-backed coalition under pressure over Yemen raids | |  By William Maclean DUBAI (Reuters) - An air strike on a funeral wake, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that has long been criticised for civilian losses. The White House announced an immediate review of Washington's support for the 18-month-old military push after planes hit mourners at a community hall in the capital Sanaa on Saturday, killing 140 people according to one U.N. estimate and 82 according to the Houthis. The statement from Riyadh's main ally, noting for the second time in as many months that U.S. support was not "a blank check", sets up an awkward test of a Saudi-U.S. partnership already strained by differences over wars in other Arab lands.
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| Truck bomb attack on soldiers kills 18 in southeast Turkey | | | Ten Turkish soldiers and eight civilians were killed on Sunday when suspected Kurdish militants detonated a five-tonne truck bomb that ripped through a checkpoint near a military outpost in the country's southeast, the prime minister said. The mountainous Hakkari province, where the attack took place, lies near the border with Iraq and Iran and is one of the main flashpoint areas in a conflict that has pitted the Turkish military against the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for three decades. A bomb in the vehicle was detonated, which Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters contained some five tonnes of explosives. |
| Australian, Briton arrested in Bali for possession of drugs | | | An Australian and a Briton residing on the resort island of Bali have been arrested on suspicion of possessing hashish, an offence that can incur jail sentences of up to 20 years, Indonesian police said in a statement on Sunday. Police found 7.32 grams of suspected hashish at the residence of the 48-year-old Australian in Sanur. Both suspects has lived in Bali for five years according to the police. |
| Ethiopia declares state of emergency to restore order after protests | |  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn declared a six-month state of emergency on Sunday, saying it was to restore order after weeks of protests that have resulted in deaths and damage to mostly foreign-owned factories and flower farms. "A state of emergency has been declared because the situation posed a threat against the people of the country," Hailemariam said on state-run television. "The state of emergency is vital.
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| Malaysia arrests 16 for suspected militant links | | | Malaysian police said on Sunday they have arrested 16 people for suspected militant links after a two-week operation across the country. Fifteen were Malaysians and the other was a citizen of a North African country. Fourteen were arrested for suspected links to Islamic State and channelling funds to Muhammad Wanndy Muhammad Jedi, who was responsible for a grenade attack on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur in June, police said in a statement. |
| China sentences former Yunnan party boss to death for bribery with reprieve | | | China has sentenced the former Communist Party boss from the southwestern province of Yunnan to death for bribery with a two-year reprieve, the latest official to fall in President Xi Jinping's sweeping war on graft. A court said Bai Enpei, 70, abused his posts, including as party chief in Yunnan until 2011 and earlier as the top official in the western province of Qinghai, illegally amassing more than 247 million yuan ($37 million) in assets. Bai was handed a two-year reprieve as he had admitted his crimes and expressed regret, and because the assets were recovered in full, the court said. |
| Death toll in southeast Turkey bomb blast rises to 17 - governor's office | | | DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A car bomb that ripped through a military outpost in southeast Turkey on Sunday killed 17 people, including nine soldiers, the provincial governor's office said in a statement on Sunday. It said 27 people were wounded in the blast, of whom 11 were soldiers. (Writing by Daren Butler; editing by John Stonestreet) |
| 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. |
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