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| U.N. chief could win South Korean presidency, but contest would be bruising | |  By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is the odds-on favourite to be the next president of South Korea - if he wants the job - thanks to high name recognition, a clean reputation and what is seen to be a lacklustre field of rivals. Kim Chong-in, former leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Korea, said Ban many not be able to run a rigorous campaign after having been away for so long.
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| Four killed on river ride at Australia's biggest theme park | |  By Colin Packham and Jonathan Barrett SYDNEY (Reuters) - Four people were killed on Tuesday on a river rapids ride at Australia's biggest theme park, police said, after a malfunction threw two of the victims off the seemingly innocuous ride and left the other two trapped inside. "One of the rides sustained a malfunction, causing two people to be ejected from a ride, and the other two were caught inside," Gavin Fuller, an official of Queensland Ambulance, told reporters.
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| Suicide truck bomb rams African troop base in Somalia | | | Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group rammed a suicide truck bomb into a military base of African AMISOM peacekeeping troops on Tuesday in the area of Beledweyne town, north of the capital, the militant group and a police officer said. "A mujahid (fighter) driving a heavily loaded truck bomb rammed the Djibouti base in Baladweyne," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operations spokesman, said, echoing comments made by a local police officer. Djibouti has a contingent of troops with AMISOM. |
| Hong Kong legislature delays swearing in of pro-independence lawmakers amid pressure | |  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - The president of the legislature in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong delayed the swearing-in of two pro-independence lawmakers on Tuesday, an unprecedented move that follows weeks of intensifying pressure from factions loyal to Beijing. The promotion of independence has long been taboo in the former British colony, now governed under the "one country, two systems" principle since its return to Communist Party-ruled China in 1997. The Hong Kong government last week failed to halt the swearing-in of the two newly elected lawmakers, 25-year-old Yau Wai-ching and 30-year-old Baggio Leung.
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| Indonesia jails Australian man for 15 years for molesting girls | |  An Indonesian court on Tuesday jailed an Australian man for 15 years for sexually molesting several girls on the resort island of Bali. Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis, 70, "groomed" and molested 11 girls aged between seven and 17 over a period of two years before he was arrested early this year. "He has been proven to have molested children in Bali, which has a big impact for their future psychological development," presiding judge I Wayan Sukanila said, ordering Ellis to serve 15 years and pay a fine of 2 billion rupiah ($154,000).
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| British banker's torture video stuns jury in Hong Kong murder trial | |  By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - The jury in the trial of a British investment banker accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment on Tuesday watched a horrific video that he filmed while sexually torturing and killing his first victim. Rurik Jutting, 31, has admitted killing the two women two years ago but has pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of "diminished responsibility", while pleading guilty to the lesser crime of manslaughter. Bespectacled and wearing pale blue shirt, Jutting was flanked by three policemen as he watched what he had done on a video recording a judge said had been found on his iPhone.
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| Corrected - Congolese oppose extension of Kabila's mandate, poll shows | |  (Corrects paragraph 11 to show that number of countries surveyed in human development index is 188, not 189) By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese overwhelmingly oppose changing the constitution to allow President Joseph Kabila to stand for a third term and believe he should step down at the end of his mandate in December, according to a opinion poll published on Tuesday. Democratic Republic of Congo's ruling coalition and part of the opposition have agreed to delay the vote from this November to April 2018, citing difficulties enrolling millions of voters But the main opposition bloc rejects the accord, saying it allows Kabila to cling to power and remove constitutional term limits. The poll, conducted by the Congo Research Group at New York University in collaboration with a Congolese polling institute, sampled 7,545 respondents in Congo's 26 provinces in face-to-face interviews between May and September.
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| Islamic State claims attack on Pakistani police college | |  Militant group Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a police academy in the Pakistani city of Quetta, in which masked gunmen killed at least 59 people and wounded more than 100. The attack was carried out by "Islamic State fighters", the group's Amaq news agency said. In August, Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a gathering of mourners at a hospital in Quetta that killed 70 people.
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| Attackers kill 12 in Kenyan guesthouse blast near Somali border | | | Attackers blew up part of a hotel in northeastern Kenya, killing at least 12 people on Tuesday, in a raid claimed by al Shabaab militants from neighbouring Somalia. The group said it had set out to kill non-Muslims in Kenya's Mandera area - the scene of numerous assaults by the fighters seeking to overthrow Somalia's Western-backed government and punish Kenya for sending in soldiers to oppose it. Rescuers pulled at least six survivors from the rubble and were searching for more, North Eastern Regional Commissioner Mohamoud Saleh said in a statement that did not name the attackers. |
| Two Saudi security officers shot dead by gunmen - Arabiya TV | | | Gunmen shot dead two Saudi security officers in the eastern city of Dammam on Tuesday, Saudi-owned Arabiya TV reported. "Two security men were martyred ... three unidentified gunmen opened fire on the two security men as they returned from work in Dammam," the channel said, adding that the officers were driving a private car. Eastern Province is home to many Shi'ite Muslims, who form a minority in the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom. |
| Spanish police arrest two Moroccans accused of supporting Islamic State | | | Spanish police have arrested two Morrocan imams on the island of Ibiza accused of supporting the Islamist militant group Islamic State publicly and through their social media profiles, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. This year, Spanish police have arrested 49 people, including the two men detained on Tuesday, with suspected connections to Islamist militants. |
| Al Shabaab gunmen kill intelligence officer in Somali capital | | | MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen from Somalia's al Shabaab militant group shot dead a senior intelligence officer as he walked to a mosque in Mogadishu late on Monday, police and the group said. Colonel Abdiasis Araye was killed in the capital's Waberi district, police officer Ismail Hussein told Reuters. "We reached the scene but the militants had already escaped," Hussein added. Al Shabaab launches regular attacks in Mogadishu in its bid to topple Somalia's Western-backed government and impose its version of Islam. ... |
| Islamic State takes control of half Iraqi town near Jordan-Syria border - sources | | | Islamic State fighters expanded the area under their control in a remote western Iraqi town near the borders with Syria and Jordan from a third to about half, security sources said on Tuesday. The insurgents attacked the town of Rutba on Sunday in a bid to relieve pressure on the northern city of Mosul where they are fighting off an offensive by the Iraqi army and Kurdish fighters backed by the U.S.-led coalition. The Iraqi army and Sunni tribal fighters remained in control of the other half, at the town's entrances from the express highway that links Baghdad and the western border, they said. |
| Support for Australian PM falls, sets scene for potential leadership tensions | |  By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Support for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is at its lowest level since his election last year, according to an opinion poll on Tuesday, fuelling speculation of more political upheaval in a country that has seen four leaders in six years. The Australian newspaper poll showed Turnbull's net satisfaction rating, which measures the difference between those who are satisfied and those who are dissatisfied, had fallen to 29 points, some 11 points lower than after his July 2 election. Turnbull enjoys only marginal more support from the electorate than Australia's previous prime minister, Tony Abbott, whom he toppled in a party room coup year ago due to poor voter support.
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| Gunmen kill 59 in attack on police academy in Pakistani city of Quetta | |  By Gul Yusufzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 59 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta and took hostages, government officials said on Tuesday. Most of the dead were police cadets. Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister of Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital, said the gunmen attacked a dormitory inside the training facility while cadets rested and slept.
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