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| Dutch may allow assisted suicide for those who feel life is over | | | By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government intends to draft a law that would legalise assisted suicide for people who feel they have "completed life," but are not necessarily terminally ill, it said on Wednesday. The Netherlands was the first country to legalise euthanasia, in 2002, but only for patients who were considered to be suffering unbearable pain with no hope of a cure. In a letter to parliament, the health and justice ministers said details remain to be worked out but that people who "have a well-considered opinion that their life is complete, must, under strict and careful criteria, be allowed to finish that life in a manner dignified for them." The proposal is likely to provoke critics who say Dutch euthanasia practice has already expanded beyond the borders originally envisioned for it, with "unbearable suffering" not only applying to people with terminal diseases, but also to some with mental illnesses and dementia. |
| Syrian bomb plotter commits suicide in German police custody | |  A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has committed suicide in a detention centre in Leipzig, the Justice Ministry for the state of Saxony said on Wednesday. Investigators believe Jaber Albakr, 22, who arrived in Germany last year, was close to staging an attack comparable to those that killed 130 people in Paris last November and 32 in Belgium in March. "On the evening of October 12, 2016, Jaber Albakr, who was suspected of planning a serious attack, took his life in the detention centre at Leipzig correctional hospital," the ministry said in a statement on its website.
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| Britain, France seek more EU sanctions on Syria, Russia over Aleppo | |  By Robin Emmott and John Irish BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - Britain and France are leading EU efforts to impose more sanctions on Syrians close to President Bashar al-Assad in response to the devastating bombing of Aleppo, diplomats said, signalling that Russians may eventually be added to the list. German government sources say Berlin is open to broadening the EU's existing list of Syrians banned from travelling to Europe or accessing money in the bloc's banks. The majority of the EU's 28 governments are moving closer to supporting more sanctions, three diplomats said.
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| Italy judge jails 3 for 20 years each over deadly 2015 migrant voyage | | | An Italian judge sentenced three men to 20 years each in jail on Wednesday for their role in packing hundreds of migrants into a boat in which 49 suffocated in the Mediterranean last August, a legal source said. The judge in Catania, Sicily, found the three guilty of murder and facilitating illegal immigration, more than a year after rescuers recovered the victims from the hold of a fishing boat from which they also pulled 312 survivors. Five others suspected of forming the boat's crew still face trial by a court in Catania, where the victims and survivors were taken by a Norwegian ship after the rescue. |
| Militants shoot dead political party worker in Kashmir | | | By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Militants shot dead a political party worker from Indian-controlled Kashmir's ruling coalition on Wednesday, police said, hours after two suspected militants were killed by armed forces in the region. Local police said Ghulam Nabi, a party worker of the People's Conference in Kashmir was shot by at least two armed militants in the Kupwara district. Kupwara is near the Line of Control, the de facto border that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, which both claim the Muslim-majority region. |
| Kerry and Lavrov to resume talks on Syria despite war crimes row | |  By Vladimir Soldatkin and Tom Perry MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart in Switzerland on Saturday to discuss Syria, officials said on Wednesday, as a devastating bombing campaign of the city of Aleppo intensified. The Syrian government launched an assault to capture rebel-held areas of Aleppo last month with Russian air support and Iranian-backed militias, a week into a ceasefire agreed by Washington and Moscow. Kerry broke off talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week over the offensive, which has included air strikes on hospitals that the United States and France said amounted to war crimes for which Syria and Russia were responsible.
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| Putin rejects accusations of meddling in U.S. election | |  By James Oliphant and Katya Golubkova WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Even as WikiLeaks released another trove of internal documents from Hillary Clinton's campaign on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted his country was not involved in an effort to influence the U.S. presidential election. Last week, the U.S. government formally accused Russia of launching a hacking campaign to "interfere with the U.S. election process." Clinton's campaign, which has charged the Kremlin is trying to help Republican Donald Trump win the White House on Nov. 8, took its allegations a step further on Tuesday when John Podesta, chairman of the Democratic nominee's campaign, accused the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia.
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| Trump as president would pose global danger - U.N. rights chief | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The world will be in danger if Republican nominee Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the top United Nations human rights official said on Wednesday. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein cited Trump's views on vulnerable communities including minorities and his talk of authorising torture in interrogations, banned under international law, as "deeply unsettling and disturbing". "If Donald Trump is elected on the basis of what he has said already - and unless that changes - I think it is without any doubt that he would be dangerous from an international point of view," Zeid told a news briefing in Geneva.
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| Palestinian president pardons officer jailed for criticising him over Peres | |  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday pardoned a military officer sentenced to a year in jail for criticising him for attending the funeral of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, an official said. A court in the occupied West Bank had sentenced Lieutenant-Colonel Osama Mansour to jail and ordered him dismissed because he had broken a military code of conduct forbidding uniformed officials from expressing political opinions, his lawyer said. While supporters defended Abbas as making a diplomatic and a good-will gesture in attending Peres's funeral in Jerusalem earlier this month, critics in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip said he betrayed national principles.
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| U.S. NTSB transferring plane crash probe to FBI | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday it believes a small plane crash in East Hartford, Connecticut, was the result of an intentional act and is transferring the investigation to the FBI. The crash on Tuesday killed a passenger, but the pilot survived. Local media reports showed wreckage of the plane and part of Main Street is still closed. The Hartford Courant reported the crash knocked out power to about 500 customers in East Hartford. (Reporting by David Shepardson, editing by G Crosse) |
| British PM to human traffickers: "We are coming after you" | |  By Temesghen Debesai LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British Prime Minister Theresa May vowed on Wednesday to put the UK at the forefront of global efforts to eradicate modern slavery, warning human traffickers: "We are coming after you." May called for a greater urgency in tackling a borderless crime affecting 46 million people worldwide and generating $150 billion in illegal profits a year. "To the victims of modern slavery: We will not ignore your plight," she said, speaking at London's Westminster Abbey.
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| U.S. lawmaker urges Saudi arms sales halt, cites possible Yemen 'war crimes' | | | A U.S. lawmaker urged the Obama administration to suspend cooperation with a Saudi-led coalition conducting airstrikes in Yemen, saying in a letter released on Wednesday that civilian casualties from the strikes "appear to be the result of war crimes." Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, saying the coalition had conducted more than 70 "unlawful airstrikes" in Yemen. Both would be war crimes," wrote Lieu, who had taught classes on the law of war when he was a lawyer in the U.S. Air Force. |
| Deutsche Bank to pay $9.5 million penalty over research info - SEC | |  By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank will pay a $9.5 million penalty to settle civil charges that it failed to properly safeguard material non-public information generated by its research analysts and of publishing an improper research report, U.S. regulators said Wednesday. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Deutsche Bank's securities unit encouraged its equity research analysts to communicate with customers and its own traders, and failed to implement policies to prevent the analysts from disclosing non-public reports on trading recommendations and changes in estimates. In a statement, Deutsche spokeswoman Amanda Williams said the bank "takes its research analyst communications and conduct very seriously." She added that the bank has a robust policy in place and has taken steps to correct issues identified by the SEC.
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