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| Police arrest man, but say London airport incident not "terrorist-related" | | | British police said on Monday that they had arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with an incident that led to the evacuation of hundreds of passengers from London City Airport on Friday, but that the matter was not "terrorist-related". "The man ... was arrested on suspicion of using a noxious substance to cause serious damage, an offence under section 113 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001," London's Metropolitan Police said on Monday. Police said the arrest took place at a residential address in east London on Saturday, and that the man was held at a west London police station and then released on bail pending further enquiries. |
| UK police: London City Airport incident not being treated as a terrorist-related matter | | | British police said an incident at London City Airport on Friday was not being treated as a terrorist-related matter, after a 25-year old man was arrested and later bailed on suspicion of using a noxious substance to cause serious damage. London City airport was briefly closed on Friday as police and firefighters in protective equipment swept the terminal building of the airport with chemical detectors after several people were taken ill, some of them coughing violently. "The incident is not being treated as a terrorist-related matter and the investigation is being led by officers from the Aviation Policing CID (Criminal Investigation Department)," London's Metropolitan Police said in statement on Monday. |
| South Africa opposition party challenges ICC withdrawal in court | | | By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's main opposition party has filed papers with the Constitutional Court to challenge the government's decision to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it said on Monday. South Africa will become the first country to quit the Hague-based court next year, after formally declaring its departure last week, saying ICC membership conflicted with its diplomatic immunity laws. The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) hopes the Constitutional Court, the final arbiter on constitutional issues, can intervene. |
| Embraer reaches $205.5 million graft settlement with U.S., Brazil | | | Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA on Monday reached an agreement with U.S. and Brazilian authorities to settle a six-year corruption investigation, paying $205.5 million to turn the page on signs of graft in four foreign contracts. Embraer said an internal probe, launched in 2010 after receiving a subpoena in the United States, found evidence of wrongdoing in deals with Saudi Arabia, India, Mozambique and the Dominican Republic in the five years through 2011. The fine due to U.S. and Brazilian authorities is in line with a $200 million provision Embraer made in July. |
| Polish women protest again as ruling party heats up abortion row | |  By Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) - Hundreds of women marched again in Polish cities on Monday to oppose proposals for tight restrictions on abortion after earlier protests effectively scuttled a near-total ban on terminating pregnancies. Television reports showed hundreds of women dressed in black protesting on the streets of major Polish cities including Katowice, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk, Warsaw and Bialystok. The renewed protest was organised by a group called The Nationwide Women's Strike and was aimed at the PiS government and its close ally, the influential Roman Catholic Church.
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| Myanmar army forces hundreds of Rohingya villagers from homes - witnesses | | | By Wa Lone YANGON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya villagers are facing a second night hiding in rice fields without shelter, after the army on Sunday forcibly removed them from a village in a crackdown following attacks on border security forces. Four Rohingya sources contacted by Reuters by telephone, said border guard officers went to Kyee Kan Pyin village on Sunday and ordered about 2,000 villagers to abandon it, giving them just enough time to collect basic household items. The move marks an escalation in violence which has destabilised Myanmar's most volatile state located in the remote northwest. |
| Pakistan says won't allow opposition protest to shut down Islamabad | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's government on Monday vowed to block protests in Islamabad if opposition leader Imran Khan pushes ahead with plans to shut down the government and transport in the capital from Nov. 2. The threatened protest has prompted worries of a repeat of a crippling occupation of Islamabad that Khan led in 2014 after he rejected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's election win. Khan has demanded that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign over the Panama Papers data leak that linked the premier's family to offshore wealth.
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| EXCLUSIVE: Philippines police plan new phase in drugs war - sources | |  By Tom Allard and Clare Baldwin MANILA (Reuters) - Signalling a shift in strategy in its blood-soaked war against drugs, Philippines police aim to reduce the killing of suspects and put more resources into arresting prominent people tied to the trade, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Project Double Barrel Alpha will put a stronger focus on arresting politicians, military, police, government officials and celebrities allegedly involved in narcotics, the sources said. The new approach will be outlined on Tuesday at a meeting of police chiefs from each of the Philippines' 18 regions at Camp Crame, the police headquarters north of the capital Manila, Philippines National Police spokesman Dionardo Carlos confirmed to Reuters.
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| RBI meets bank officials after debit card security breach | |  MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it met with senior officials from select banks, the National Payment Corporation of India and card network operators following one of the country's largest-ever cyber security incidents. A slew of banks in India are replacing or asking their customers to change security codes of as many as 3.25 million debit cards due to fears that the card data may have been stolen. ...
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| Plane on French surveillance mission crashes in Malta, 5 dead | |  The ministry declined to say what the purpose of the surveillance operation was. Airport officials said the plane had been heading for Misrata in Libya, where some Western powers have sent small teams of special forces to support the new U.N.-backed unity government in its fight against Islamist militants. The twin-prop Fairchild Metroliner went down near the runway of the southern Mediterranean island nation's main airport in the morning, sending smoke billowing into the sky.
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| Business plea for Gordhan echoes rifts in South Africa's ANC | |  By Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least 80 heads of top South African firms including Anglo American, Barclays Africa Group and Naspers want fraud charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to be dropped. The top executives of mostly-listed firms in Africa's most industrialised country - ranging from mining, media, retail and banking - said in a newspaper advertisement on Sunday that political wrangling was damaging an already stalling economy at a time the country faced a sovereign credit downgrade. The calls by corporate South Africa echo those in the political realm, after a senior official in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) called for the party's leadership to quit over the alleged political persecution of Gordhan.
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| Congo's Kabila courts regional support as opposition prepares "red card" | | | By Aaron Ross and David Lewis KINSHASA/NAIROBI (Reuters) - When Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern neighbours took advantage of an outbreak of political turmoil there to invade in 1998, President Laurent Kabila turned to regional powerhouse Angola for help. Angola's jets pounded Rwandan and Ugandan positions inside Congo and its troops patrolled the streets of the capital, Kinshasa, fearing the installation of a hostile government sympathetic to its own separatists. Heads of state at Wednesday's Congo-focused regional summit, many of whom have extended their own mandates at home, are likely to back a deal Kabila recently struck with part of the opposition to allow him to stay in power until at least April 2018, beyond his mandate which ends in December. |
| Russia fires deputy sports minister involved in doping scandal | | | Russia has dismissed a deputy sports minister at the heart of the doping scandal that led to its track and field athletes being banned from the Rio Olympics, the government said on Monday. Yury Nagornykh was named as a key player in an investigation into state-sponsored doping by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published weeks before the 2016 games. The Russian government website made no mention of the doping scandal, saying that Nagornykh had asked to resign and his dismissal had been signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. |
| One killed in police firing in Jharkhand over move to amend land laws | | | By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One man was killed and at least 10 others were wounded in Jharkhand at the weekend, police said, when hundreds of indigenous people protesting against a government move to amend land laws clashed with police. Police opened fire in Saiko in the district of Khunti after protesters blocked the road, assaulted police and took several policemen hostage, senior police officer M.S. Bhatia said. "The police opened fire in self-defence," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. |
| Modi wades into political battle over Muslim divorce law | |  By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday waded into a controversy over a Muslim divorce law he said was destroying women's lives, drawing criticism from rivals that he was fishing for minority votes in a major state election next year. Modi criticised the so-called "triple talaq", that allows a Muslim man to part from his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times, in a speech in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, due to go to the polls next spring. The prime minister's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the state that is home to one in six Indians in the 2014 national election, and needs to broaden support outside its core Hindu base to have a chance of winning the state polls.
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