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| Three Kazakh weightlifters stripped of gold medals from 2012 Games | |  Three Kazakh weightlifters have been stripped of the gold medals they won at the 2012 London Olympics after failing doping tests, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday. The three were Zulfiya Chinshanlo in the women's 53 kilos, Maiya Maneza in the women's 63 kilos and Svetlana Podobedova in the women's 75 kilos.
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| Thai prison inmates line up in shape of number nine to honour late king | | | More than 3,000 prison inmates lined up on Thursday to form the Thai symbol for the number nine, in honour of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died on Oct. 13 after reigning for seven decades. Thailand has entered a year-long mourning period for the king, formally known as King Rama IX and the ninth of the 234-year-old Chakri Dynasty, who was seen as a unifying figure in the politically fractious country. As many as 3,699 male inmates of the Central Correctional Institution for Young Offenders in Pathum Thani province, 40 km (25 miles) north of the capital, Bangkok, stood in the grounds of the prison complex and sang songs dedicated to the late king. |
| Turkey detains 81 mostly foreigners on suspected Islamic State links - Dogan | | | Turkish authorities detained 81 people, most of them foreigners, on Thursday on suspicion of planning to travel illegally to join Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, the privately-owned Dogan news agency said. It said 21 of those detained were suspected of being senior figures in the Islamic State network, while 60 were foreign nationals. It said the operation was centred in Istanbul but involved raids at 31 locations in six Turkish provinces. |
| Coked-up British banker imagined police behind curtains after cutting woman's throat | |  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Moments before he surrendered after killing a second victim in his Hong Kong apartment, British banker Rurik Jutting ingested up to 20 grams of cocaine and imagined police were behind the curtains, a court heard on Thursday. In videoed police interviews shown on the fourth day of his trial for the murder of two Indonesian women, Jutting impassively described the paranoia he felt moments before calling police to come and get him. Jutting has admitted killing Sumarti Ningsih, a 23-year-old single mother, and another Indonesian woman, Seneng Mujiasih, as he acted out violent fantasies.
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| Support for South Korea's Park slides to all-time low amid crisis over friend | |  By Jack Kim and Yun Hwan Chae SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye faces a deepening crisis over allegations an old friend enjoyed inappropriate influence over her, a scandal that has sapped her support to an all-time low. Park's popularity has slumped to 17.5 percent, the lowest since she took office in February 2013, according to a poll released on Thursday by pollster Realmeter. Forty-two percent of people polled said Park should face impeachment or step down.
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| PNG court dismisses Australia asylum seeker resettlements on technicality | | | By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an application to send asylum seekers held on an isolated island to Australia on a paperwork technicality. A ruling in favour of the 302 detainees would have ordered the PNG and Australian governments to transfer them to Australia within 30 days, a political nightmare for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Under Australia's tough immigration laws, asylum seekers intercepted trying to reach the country by boat are sent for processing on PNG's Manus island and the tiny South Pacific island nation of Nauru. |
| Exclusive: India's tobacco industry, government face off ahead of WHO conference | |  By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's $11 billion tobacco industry has urged the government to take a softer line on tobacco control efforts when it hosts a World Health Organization conference in New Delhi next month, but officials say the government will not bow to "pressure tactics". Delegates from about 180 countries will attend the Nov. 7-12 WHO conference on the sole global anti-tobacco treaty: the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In force since 2005, the treaty aims to deter tobacco use that kills around 6 million people a year.
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| Turkey orders dozens of pilots detained in coup investigation - Anadolu | | | Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of 73 air force pilots, the latest in a stream of police operations related to the investigation of July's attempted coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Thursday. The operation targeting supporters of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the putsch, focused on an air base in the central Turkish province of Konya and spread across 17 provinces, it said. Since the July 15 coup attempt, Turkey has arrested 35,000 people and sacked or suspended more than 100,000 others in the civil service, judiciary, police, military and elsewhere. |
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