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- U.N. says Turkey may be going "beyond what is permissible" on rights
- Pakistan to deport "Afghan Girl" from famed National Geographic photo
- Harvard cancels men's soccer season over lewd ranking system
- British PM Theresa May moves to reassure EU over court decision on Brexit
- Somali militants intensify attacks, death count doubles - experts
- U.S. warns about possible al Qaeda attacks in Virginia, Texas, NY - CBS
- Factbox: What happens if the U.S. election is close?
- Indonesia boat disaster death toll up to 54, with 6 missing - police
- China to weigh up Hong Kong allegiance rules amid independence row
- Sensex, Nifty fall; post biggest weekly fall in five
- Analysis - GST will come on time, but multiple rates will dilute benefits
- State's appeal against Oscar Pistorius sentence to be heard in open court
- Turkey detains pro-Kurdish lawmakers, car bomb kills at least eight
- South Africa prosecutor says probe on Gordhan's role in "spy unit" advanced
- Tens of thousands of Indonesian Muslims protest against capital's governor
- U.S. boosting cyber defenses, but not police presence, for election
- Myanmar policeman killed by attackers in Rakhine State - officials
- Congo Republic parties petition government to withdraw from ICC
- Car bomb in Turkey's southeast kills eight, wounds more than 100 - PM
- Turkey's opposition HDP says lawmakers' detention a 'political operation'
- British banker in HK "needed cocaine boost" for courage to torture, kill
| 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. |
| British PM Theresa May moves to reassure EU over court decision on Brexit | |  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May told European Union leaders on Friday she is confident a court ruling that could delay Britain's departure from the bloc will be overturned, and that she can stick to her Brexit timetable. A spokesman said May had 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 and start the divorce would win in the country's highest court.
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| 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. |
| U.S. warns about possible al Qaeda attacks in Virginia, Texas, NY - CBS | | | U.S. intelligence officials have warned local authorities in New York, Texas and Virginia about possible attacks by al Qaeda on Monday, a day before the U.S. presidential election, CBS News reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources. No specific locations were mentioned, but U.S. intelligence officials alerted joint terrorism task forces about the possible threat, CBS reported. "The FBI, working with our federal, state and local counterparts, shares and assesses intelligence on a daily basis and will continue to work closely with law enforcement and intelligence community partners to identify and disrupt any potential threat to public safety," a senior FBI official told CBS. |
| 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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| Tens of thousands of Indonesian Muslims protest against capital's governor | |  By Fergus Jensen and Johan Purnomo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of hardline Muslim protesters in Indonesia rallied outside the presidential palace on Friday to demand the resignation of the governor of the capital, Jakarta, who they said had insulted the Koran. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country, where many people follow a moderate form of Islam. The atmosphere in Jakarta was tense and some companies asked employees to work from home, access to business districts was restricted and embassies urged caution.
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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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| Myanmar policeman killed by attackers in Rakhine State - officials | | | Myanmar officials said on Friday a police officer was killed and one wounded in an assault on a guard post in northwestern Rakhine State, in the latest violence in the area. The military has flooded the northern part of the state near the border with Bangladesh since Oct. 9, when militants believed to be Rohingya Muslims attacked police border posts, killing nine officers. Security forces have blocked access to aid workers and most journalists to the area. |
| Congo Republic parties petition government to withdraw from ICC | | | Two parties in Congo Republic's ruling coalition petitioned the government late on Thursday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that threatens to deal a fresh blow to the tribunal in The Hague. African states have long complained of ICC bias against Africans. Last month, South Africa and Burundi became the first countries to officially notify the United Nations of their intention to pull out of the Rome Statute, the 1998 treaty establishing the ICC. |
| Car bomb in Turkey's southeast kills eight, wounds more than 100 - PM | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A car bomb attack by Kurdish militants in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Friday killed eight people and wounded more than 100, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. Yildirim told reporters that one suspected member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was also killed in the blast. (Reporting by Ayla Jean Yackley; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Daren Butler) |
| Turkey's opposition HDP says lawmakers' detention a 'political operation' | | | Turkey's arrest on Friday of a dozen opposition lawmakers mainly representing the country's largely Kurdish, strife-hit southeast in a terror probe lacks any legal basis and is a clear political operation, a party spokesman said. The detentions are aimed at achieving what the ruling party failed to do at the ballot box in two general elections last year, when the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) won more than 5 million votes, HDP spokesman Ayhan Bilgen said. The HDP, which has Kurdish roots and is parliament's third-biggest grouping, will show a "democratic reaction" to the detentions, Bilgen told reporters at a news conference, describing the action as an attempt to provoke a civil war. |
| British banker in HK "needed cocaine boost" for courage to torture, kill | |  By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - Prosecution and defence lawyers used their closing arguments on Friday to try to convince a Hong Kong jury of the extent British banker Rurik Jutting was in control of his actions when he tortured, raped and killed two Indonesian women. Jutting, 31, a former Bank of America Corp employee, has denied murder in the 2014 killings of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
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