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| Rights activists urge Thai junta to drop sedition charge against lawyer | | | Human rights activists on Monday called on Thailand's junta to drop sedition charges against a rights lawyer in the first such case against an attorney since the military took power in a 2014 coup. Sirikan Charoensiri was charged with sedition and with disobeying authorities on Saturday after she refused to hand over the mobile phones of her clients, 14 student activists who were arrested following a protest against the junta last year. Since taking power, the junta has moved to silence critics and has come under sharp criticism from the international community for trying civilians in military courts, arresting dissidents and detaining some critics, including political activists, journalists and students, at military facilities for days before releasing them. |
| Hong Kong judge warns of "torture" images as British banker's trial begins | |  Jurors were warned by a Hong Kong judge that former British banker Rurik Jutting filmed the torture and killing of the two Indonesian women he is accused of murdering two years ago as the trial got underway on Monday. Jutting, 31, pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of "diminished responsibility", though the victims' bodies were found in his luxury high rise apartment. The 31-year-old, who studied at Cambridge University and Winchester College, one of Britain's most famous and oldest private schools, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter, and to a third charge of preventing lawful burial of a body.
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| Police kill 18 Maoist insurgents in Odisha | | | By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - Police killed at least 18 Maoist rebels in Odisha on Monday after tracking them to a remote, forested area where a gunfight erupted shortly after midnight, police said. It was one of the heaviest casualty tolls suffered this year by the insurgents, who have fought a decades-long war against the Indian state from jungle hideouts across eastern and central India. Police acted on a tip-off that around 30 rebels had gathered close to the border with Andhra Pradesh, Odisha police chief K.B. Singh said. |
| Obama turns focus to U.S. Congress as he campaigns for Clinton | |  By Roberta Rampton LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday campaigned in the battleground state of Nevada for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate he wants to succeed him in the White House - but he spent most of his time talking about the state's Senate race. Democrats badly want to get back control of the Republican-controlled Senate in the Nov. 8 election, and are sending Obama, Michelle Obama and Joe Biden to states where close races could tip the balance. In Nevada, Obama reserved most of his firepower for mocking three-term Republican U.S. Representative Joe Heck, who had supported his party's presidential candidate until earlier this month when Donald Trump's campaign went into crisis mode by the release of a video in which he lewdly bragged about groping and kissing women.
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| South Korea's Park proposes amending constitution | |  South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday proposed amending the country's constitution to allow presidents to serve multiple terms or to establish a parliamentary system, saying the single-term presidency has served its purpose. The presidency was limited to a single five-year term in the 1987 constitutional amendment that ended the country's military dictatorship, but that has become an obstacle to the country's further developments, Park said. "Through the single-term presidency, it is difficult to maintain policy continuance, see results of policy and engage in unified foreign policy," Park said in an address to parliament.
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| Venezuela congress presses for Maduro trial in rowdy session | |  By Alexandra Ulmer and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly in a rowdy session on Sunday pressed to put Nicolas Maduro on trial for violating democracy, days after authorities nixed a recall referendum against the unpopular leftist president. The measure is unlikely to get traction as the government and the Supreme Court have systematically undermined the legislature on grounds it is illegitimate until it removes three lawmakers accused of vote-buying. "It is a political and legal trial against President Nicolas Maduro to see what responsibility he has in the constitutional rupture that has broken democracy, human rights, and the future of the country," said opposition majority leader Julio Borges during a special congressional meeting.
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| Centre-right opposition claims victory in Lithuania vote, to start coalition talks | |  Lithuania's centre-right opposition Peasants and Greens party declared victory after a second round of voting in a general election on Sunday and said it would start negotiations with the Homeland Union and Social Democrats over forming a coalition government. The Peasants and Greens won 54 seats in the 141-member parliament, making it the biggest party, results published by the Lithuanian election commission showed. "Our government will be transparent, responsible, professional and resolute," Saulius Skvernelis, the man who led the party's election campaign and is now its candidate to be the next prime minister, told Reuters.
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