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| At least two U.S. trainers killed in Jordan shooting - source | | | By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - At least two U.S. military trainers were shot dead in Jordan on Friday when the car they were in failed to stop at the gate of a military base and was fired on by Jordanian security forces, a Jordanian military source said. Another U.S. trainer was injured and a Jordanian army guard was also shot and wounded during the exchange of fire. Another security source said it was not possible to rule out any political motives in an air base that has dozens of U.S. trainers working alongside Jordanians. |
| Hospital staff in Karnataka arrested for stealing babies for illegal adoption | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Six hospital staff in Karnataka have been charged with stealing babies and young children and selling them to childless couples in an illegal adoption racket, police in Karnataka state said on Friday. The three men and three women, who worked as nurses and lab technicians at five private hospitals and a government-run hospital in Mysuru city, were part of a bigger, organised gang involved in trafficking children, investigating officer Ravi Channannavar said. |
| N.Y. authorities warned of terror threat around U.S. election | | | By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal officials have warned New York City authorities about possible attacks by the al Qaeda militant group around Election Day, putting local law enforcement on alert the weekend before Tuesday's vote, officials said on Friday. Both the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were given the information, the local agencies said. "We are continuing with the high level of patrols at all of our facilities that we have had in place for some time now," said spokesman Steve Coleman of the Port Authority, which operates airports, tunnels and bridges around the New York City area. |
| Kurdish PKK militant group vows to intensify struggle against Turkey - video | |  The Kurdish PKK militant group will intensify its struggle against Turkey, one of its top commanders said in a video message on Friday, after police detained lawmakers from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish opposition party. Murat Karayilan, a top PKK commander, said in the video message published on a website close to the PKK that it was "very important" for Kurdish people to react against the detentions of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers.
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| Angry mourners bury victims of air strike in Afghanistan | | | By Sardar Razmal KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of mourners gathered on Friday to bury more than 30 civilians killed in an air strike called in to protect Afghan and U.S. forces during a raid on suspected Taliban militants outside the northern city of Kunduz. There was an angry mood in Buz Kandahari, the village outside Kunduz where the raid took place in the early hours of Thursday, as white-shrouded bodies, many of small children, were laid out for burial. "My brother and three of his children were killed. ... |
| Indonesian police fire tear gas, water cannon at Muslim protesters in Jakarta | |  By Johan Purnomo and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hardline Muslims protesters on Friday, after tens of thousands had rallied to demand the resignation of the Christian governor of the capital, Jakarta, who they said had insulted the Koran. Reuters witnesses saw at least five water cannon trucks in front of the Presidential Palace, the focal point of a protest that had been peaceful for most of the day. Some protesters were seen covering their faces and trying to move away from the tear gas, while others threw plastic bottles and other objects at police officers who had formed a barricade.
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| British PM Theresa May confident of Brexit plans, reassures EU leaders | |  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May told European Union leaders on Friday she was confident a court ruling that could delay Britain's departure from the bloc would be overturned and she vowed to stick to her Brexit timetable. May told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker she believed her case that the government - not parliament - should be responsible for triggering Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty to launch the divorce would win in Britain's highest court, a spokesman said.
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| New York authorities advised of potential threat around election | | | New York authorities have been made aware of a potential threat from al Qaeda militants around Election Day, police and other officials said on Friday. Federal authorities alerted the New York Police Department, the department said. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which operates airports, tunnels and bridges around New York City, was also alerted, authority spokesman Steve Coleman told Reuters. |
| Turkey jails leaders of pro-Kurdish opposition pending trial - court officials | | | DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish authorities ordered the co-leaders of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to be formally arrested pending trial on Friday, court officials said, after they were detained in a terrorism-related investigation. The detentions of Figen Yuksekdag, HDP co-chairwoman, and Selahattin Demirtas, the party's other leader, in overnight raids early on Friday drew condemnation from European leaders and rights groups. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Ayla Jean Yackley; Writing by Nick Tattersall) |
| WMA president Ketan Desai attends court hearing in corruption case | |  By Aditya Kalra and Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ketan Desai, an Indian doctor recently installed as president of the World Medical Association (WMA), appeared in a New Delhi courthouse on Friday to attend a hearing in a case where he faces charges of corruption. In the New Delhi case filed in 2010, Desai faces charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy for allegedly being involved in a conspiracy to obtain a bribe of 20 million rupees ($450,000 at the time) from a medical college. Desai denies any wrongdoing, but investigators allege he helped the school get permission from the Medical Council of India to add more students.
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| U.N. says Turkey may be going "beyond what is permissible" on rights | | | Turkey's detention or suspension of more than 110,000 officials since a failed coup in July, including the arrest of pro-Kurdish lawmakers on Friday, may go "beyond what is permissible", the United Nations' human rights office said on Friday. "There needs to be a presumption of innocence when you're going to suspend somebody from their job, when you're going to detain somebody, you need to do this in line with due process," U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a briefing in Geneva. |
| Pakistan to deport "Afghan Girl" from famed National Geographic photo | |  By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani judge on Friday ordered the deportation of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed "Afghan Girl" whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country's wars, after finding her guilty of illegally obtaining a Pakistani identity card. Gula, now in her 40s, was also sentenced to 15 days in jail and fined about 100,000 rupees ($955.11) She had been living in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar for years with her husband and children. Gula is likely to be freed in three days, as she has already spent more than 10 days in prison since her arrest last week, said Afghan consulate official Abdul Hameed Jalili.
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| Harvard cancels men's soccer season over lewd ranking system | | | Harvard University canceled its men's soccer season after discovering that its players had for years maintained lewd rankings of incoming women players. The Ivy League university said an investigation that began when it discovered a 2012 online "scouting report," in which male players ranked female players by attractiveness and suspected sexual preferences, determined that the practice had continued into this year. "The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard's view that both the team's behavior and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community," Drew Faust, the university's president, said in a statement. |
| Somali militants intensify attacks, death count doubles - experts | | | By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Islamist rebels have intensified their attacks in Somalia, detonating larger, more sophisticated devices, bringing in more foreign expertise and doubling the death toll from last year, experts said. The findings, some of them also outlined in a coming U.N. report, reveal the challenge facing Somalia's Western-backed government as it battles militants who want to overthrow it and impose their harsh version of sharia, or Islamic law. Security experts say the plot behind a plane attack in February in particular showed the expanding skillset of al Qaeda-aligned al Shabaab militants and possible links to Islamist insurgencies in the Middle East and other areas. |
| Factbox: What happens if the U.S. election is close? | |  (Reuters) - The unusual nature of U.S. presidential elections means a candidate does not have to win the national popular vote to become president. Rather, the result depends on the Electoral College, an institution whose composition is determined by the winner of each individual state. WHAT IS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?
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| Indonesia boat disaster death toll up to 54, with 6 missing - police | |  The death toll from a boat accident off an Indonesian island rose to 54 on the third day of a search for survivors, police said, with hopes fading on Friday for six people still missing. A packed boat carrying 98 Indonesian migrant workers, most of them illegal, and three crew sank off Indonesia's Batam island at around dawn on Wednesday, having departed from Malaysia's southern state of Johor. Airlangga, a police spokesman for Riau Islands, which include Batam, put the latest death toll at 54.
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| China to weigh up Hong Kong allegiance rules amid independence row | |  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's top parliamentary panel will discuss Hong Kong's mini-constitution and how it should be interpreted, the Chinese-ruled city government said on Friday, to try to end a crisis over a fledgling independence movement but raising fears of legal interference. The Hong Kong government confirmed that the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress would consider provisions of Hong Kong's Basic Law related to political allegiance this weekend. The move comes as the Hong Kong government tries to disqualify two newly elected legislators promoting independence from China, amid growing speculation that Beijing would intervene.
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| Sensex, Nifty fall; post biggest weekly fall in five | |  REUTERS - Indian shares hit their lowest level in nearly four months on Friday, posting their biggest weekly fall in five, as sentiment remained weak on growing uncertainty over the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Drug makers were among the top losers after Bloomberg reported that U.S. prosecutors could file charges by year-end in a criminal investigation of generic makers over suspected price collusion.(http://bloom.bg/2e6cZjF) The Sensex fell 0.57 percent to 27,274.15, after earlier dropping to its lowest level since July 8. It fell 2. ...
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| Analysis - GST will come on time, but multiple rates will dilute benefits | |  By Douglas Busvine and Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India moved a step closer to creating a national sales tax but a deal on rates reached on Thursday will hit some businesses harder than others, while its complexity will dilute any boost to growth and undermine its reliability as a revenue generator. The Goods and Services Tax (GST), due to be rolled out from April 1, 2017, had been billed as the one reform that could help Prime Minister Narendra Modi deliver on his jobs and growth agenda. In a key Modi win, parliament amended the constitution in August to clear the way for the GST, which would unify Asia's third-largest economy into a common market for the first time.
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| State's appeal against Oscar Pistorius sentence to be heard in open court | |  South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Friday told state prosecutors and the defence to argue their case over the six-year sentence for murder handed to Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius in open court. Pistorius was sentenced to six years in prison in July after being found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on appeal last December, in a case that has attracted worldwide interest. Legal experts had expected the SCA to issue a ruling on whether prosecutors have the right to challenge the sentence but instead said both parties should first argue their case in court.
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| Turkey detains pro-Kurdish lawmakers, car bomb kills at least eight | |  A car bomb killed eight people and wounded more than 100 in southeastern Turkey's largest city on Friday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, hours after police detained the leaders of the mostly Kurdish region's biggest political party. The blast struck near a police station in Diyarbakir where some of the party leaders were being held in a terrorism probe. A spokesman for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), parliament's second-biggest opposition grouping, said the detention of its two leaders and at least nine other lawmakers risked triggering civil war.
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| South Africa prosecutor says probe on Gordhan's role in "spy unit" advanced | |  South Africa's main prosecutor said on Friday investigations into Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's role in setting up a surveillance unit at the tax department that allegedly spied on politicians were at an advanced stage. The rand eased briefly against the dollar, moving to 0.76 percent down on the day 0.61 percent lower before the news, amid concerns the outcome of the probe could shake financial markets. "The status of the rogue unit investigation - I've been advised that investigations are at an advanced stage," National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams told a parliamentary hearing in Cape Town.
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| U.S. boosting cyber defenses, but not police presence, for election | |  By Julia Harte and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal and state authorities are beefing up cyber defenses against potential electronic attacks on voting systems ahead of U.S. elections on November 8, but taking few new steps to guard against possible civil unrest or violence. The threat of computer hacking and the potential for violent clashes is darkening an already rancorous presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, amid fears that Russia or other actors could spread political misinformation online or perhaps tamper with voting. To counter the cyber threat, all but two U.S. states have accepted help from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to probe and scan voter registration and election systems for vulnerabilities, a department official told Reuters.
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