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| From soldiers to midwives, Turkey dismisses 15,000 more after coup bid | | | By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Tuesday dismissed 15,000 more officials, from soldiers and police officers to tax inspectors and midwives, and shut 375 institutions and news outlets, deepening purges condemned by Western allies and rights groups after a failed coup. European allies have criticised the breadth of the purges under President Tayyip Erdogan, with some calling for a freezing of Turkey's EU membership talks. Erdogan has rejected such criticism, saying Turkey is determined to root out its enemies at home and abroad, and could reintroduce the death penalty. |
| Palestinian tries to stab Israeli security guard, shot dead - Israeli police | |  An Israeli security guard shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to stab him at a busy checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli police said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the Palestinian was brandishing a knife and approached the guard on foot in the vehicle lane of the Qalandiya checkpoint. At least 228 Palestinians have been killed in violence in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip since October 2015.
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| Hundreds more Myanmar Rohingya flee to Bangladesh - aid workers | |  By Mohammad Nurul Islam and Wa Lone COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar crossed the border to Bangladesh over the weekend and on Monday, aid workers said, seeking shelter from escalating violence in the northwest that has killed at least 86 people and displaced some 30,000. An official from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations' migration agency, who did not want to be identified, said he had witnessed more than 500 people enter its camps in the hills near the border on Monday. Aid workers from other United Nations agencies and Reuters reporters in the IOM camps also reported seeing Rohingyas who said they had recently fled the fighting in Myanmar.
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| UKIP's Farage: I can help UK build ties with Trump | |  Leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said on Tuesday he was in a good position to help Britain build ties with Donald Trump after the U.S. President-elect tweeted that Farage should be British ambassador to Washington. "I have known several of the Trump team for years and I am in a good position with the President-elect's support to help," Farage, leader of the opposition UK Independence Party (UKIP), wrote in a column for the Breitbart website. Trump, who after his election victory met Farage ahead of any EU leaders, had said on Twitter that "many people" would like to see the UKIP leader, who is on very bad terms with the ruling Conservatives, as Britain's ambassador.
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| Court says Republican gerrymandering in Wisconsin was unconstitutional | |  By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Republicans in Wisconsin tilted district maps in their favor in order to hamper Democrats and ultimately win state elections in 2012 and 2014, a federal court said on Monday in a case that could influence future rulings on gerrymandering. The United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin decided 2-1 that Act 43, a redrawing of districts approved by the state's Republican-led legislature in 2012, violated the U.S. Constitution, court documents showed. "We find that the discriminatory effect is not explained by the political geography of Wisconsin nor is it justified by a legitimate state interest," the court wrote in its ruling.
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| Trump's pullout of TPP opens way for China | |  By Ami Miyazaki and Tom Westbrook TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Asia-Pacific trade deal stands almost no chance of working now that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pulled the plug on it, proponents of the pact said on Tuesday, opening the way for China to assume the leadership mantle on trade. Japan and Australia expressed their commitment to the pact on Tuesday, hours after Trump vowed to withdraw from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership on his first day in office, calling the deal "a potential disaster for our country." Trump's declaration appeared to snuff out any hopes for the deal, a signature trade initiative of President Barack Obama, five years in the making and meant to cover 40 percent of the world economy. The TPP, which aims to cut trade barriers in some of Asia's fastest-growing economies and stretch from Canada to Vietnam, can't take effect without the United States.
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| Turkey's nationalist opposition: AKP's constitutional change bill reasonable | |  The leader of Turkey's nationalist opposition said on Tuesday his party views the ruling AK Party's proposed bill to change the constitution as reasonable, indicating support of legislation likely to give President Tayyip Erdogan more power. Speaking at a weekly parliamentary group meeting, Devlet Bahceli also said there were several points in the proposal that would require consultations between the two parties, but that these could be overcome. The AK Party's bill plans to expand the powers of the presidency, in line with Erdogan's long-standing ambition to establish an executive presidency.
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| Struggling Australian PM wins much-needed victories in Parliament | |  By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, whose leadership has been questioned after political setbacks, on Tuesday won a much-needed victory in parliament, with the passage of two controversial bills. Australia's Senate, which the government does not control, passed a labour bill that it had previously blocked, triggering an election in July. Turnbull has seen his poll numbers hit their lowest since taking power in September 2015, and political commentators have questioned his future as prime minister, as confidence erodes in Australia's fourth leader in the last six years.
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| Egypt court overturns life sentence against ex-president Mursi | |  Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Tuesday a life sentence against deposed President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a retrial in the case that revolves around accusations of espionage with Palestinian group Hamas. The court last week overturned a death sentence against Mursi in a separate case, meaning he no longer faces execution. Democratically elected after the 2011 uprising, Mursi was overthrown in mid-2013 by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following mass protests against his rule, and was immediately arrested.
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| Insight - Portugal's judicial makeover: the reform that flattered to deceive? | |  By Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) - When international creditors released Portugal from onerous loan conditions two years ago, they hailed the nation for some major reform achievements - not least, an overhaul of the judiciary. The International Monetary Fund applauded Lisbon for reforming a dysfunctional court system which had been a brake on the economy. The IMF, which had lauded Portugal for "one of the most successful reforms" ever undertaken in the judiciary, denied it had exaggerated those achievements in order to show to anti-austerity campaigners that the bail-out programme was a success. In an email to Reuters, it cited a drop in pending enforcement cases, faster processing times and a boost in loan recoveries from a new electronic system for seizing cash from overdue debtors' bank accounts.
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| Thai lawmakers told to stand by as ascension date approaches | |  Thai lawmakers have been asked not to leave the country next week, the head of parliament said on Tuesday, as a much-touted December date for Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to ascend the throne draws near. The death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Oct. 13 at the age of 88 has left the Southeast Asian nation of 67 million people without a monarch, but Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has made it clear that the king's only son and appointed heir, Prince Vajiralongkorn, will inherit the throne. Pornpetch Wichitcholchai, head of the National Legislative Assembly, said lawmakers had been asked not to take leave between Nov. 28 and Dec. 2 and not to travel abroad or outside of the capital Bangkok over an upcoming long weekend holiday.
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| Indonesian president moves to stop "growth of radicalism" | |  By Hidayat Setiaji and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday he was determined to "prevent the growth of radicalism", apparently responding to rumours that Islamist extremists were planning protests to destabilise his government. Officials say there has been mounting alarm within the government since more than 100,000 Muslims, led by hardliners, took to the streets of Jakarta on Nov. 4 to demand the ouster of the capital's governor, a Christian, over alleged blasphemy. National Police Chief Tito Karnavian warned on Monday that certain groups may try to storm parliament during rallies that are expected this Friday and on Dec. 2.
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| Turkey's AK Party to review controversial bill on underage marriage | |  Turkey's ruling AK Party is withdrawing a proposed bill on underage marriage for further consultations, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday, after opposition and rights groups said it could allow men accused of sexually abusing girls to avoid punishment. The proposal, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, would have allowed sentencing in cases of sexual abuse committed "without force, threat or trick" before Nov. 16, 2016 to be indefinitely postponed if the perpetrator marries the victim. Yildirim said the AKP would seek the opinion of the opposition and civil society groups in order to reformulate the proposal, in line with a call from President Tayyip Erdogan for a wider consensus.
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| Driver arrested, faces charges in deadly Tennessee school bus crash - police | |  A bus carrying elementary students home from school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, crashed on Monday afternoon, killing six children and sending nearly two dozen to a hospital with injuries, authorities said. The driver, identified as Johnthony Walker, 24, was taken into custody and faces five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving charges, Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher said during a news conference. Chattanooga Police said earlier on Twitter the driver was being questioned and was cooperating with investigators.
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| U.S. Holocaust museum alarmed over 'hateful speech' by white nationalists | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed alarm on Monday over "hateful speech" at a white nationalist meeting over the weekend, and a restaurant apologized for hosting the group after a woman tweeted a picture of herself making a Nazi salute. The National Policy Institute, a think tank that is part of the alt-right movement that includes neo-Nazis, white supremacists and anti-Semites, held a gathering at the federally owned Ronald Reagan Building on Saturday. President-elect Donald Trump has drawn criticism for naming Steve Bannon, former head of a website linked to the alt-right, as his chief White House strategist.
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| Mexico, Central America seek joint strategy on migrants as Trump looms | |  By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala met on Monday to form a strategy to protect their migrants in the United States, in a show of regional solidarity following Donald Trump's win in the U.S. presidential election. Trump's election upset has sent shockwaves through Mexico and Central America, which rely heavily on U.S. remittances and bilateral trade with their rich northern neighbour.
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