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| Verdict in Rolling Stone trial over university rape story | | | (Reuters) - A federal jury has reached a verdict in the defamation lawsuit brought by University of Virginia administrator Nicole Eramo over a retracted Rolling Stone magazine story about a gang rape at the school, a court spokeswoman said on Friday. The verdict was being read in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville, Virginia, she said. The spokeswoman had no information on the jury's findings. (Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Chris Reese and Jonathan Oatis) |
| Indonesian police quell mass protest by hardline Muslims | |  By Johan Purnomo and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police quelled a mass protest by tens of thousands of hardline Muslims on Friday, firing tear gas and water cannon into crowds demanding the resignation of the Christian governor of Jakarta, who they said had insulted the Koran. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country, but most follow a moderate form of Islam and protests on such a large scale are rare. Critics say the protest was whipped up by an extremist group that latched on to political tension ahead of February's election for the governorship of Jakarta, the country's capital, and was allowed to grow because the government failed to rein it in.
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| Former Christie allies convicted in N.J. 'Bridgegate' trial | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two former allies of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were convicted on Friday for their roles in the "Bridgegate" lane closure scandal, following a six-week trial that served to further tarnish the Republican's damaged reputation. Bridget Kelly, the governor's former deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, were found guilty in Newark federal court on all counts, the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey said on Twitter. Kelly and Baroni were convicted of fraud, conspiracy and depriving the residents of Fort Lee, New Jersey, of their civil rights.
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| U.S. Chief Justice's 'courtesy' vote blocks Alabama execution | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts provided the pivotal fifth vote on the Supreme Court to block the scheduled execution in Alabama of a 74-year-old man convicted in the 1982 shooting death of his girlfriend's husband. Roberts said in a brief order issued late on Thursday that his action was a "courtesy" to four justices on the eight-member court who favored putting on hold the lethal injection execution of death row inmate Thomas Douglas Arthur. The order did not say which justices voted for the stay of execution aside from Roberts, but noted that his fellow conservatives Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas opposed it.
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| U.S. authorities warn of al Qaeda threat to election | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal officials have warned authorities in New York City, Texas and Virginia about an unspecific threat of 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. A U.S. government source in Washington said some federal agencies sent bulletins to local and state officials flagging the information but that the threat was relatively low-level. A U.S. official familiar with the threat information said that it was "uncorroborated," but that federal agencies believed that they needed nonetheless to remain vigilant.
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| Spain's Rajoy turns to troubleshooter deputy in bid to woo rivals | |  By Sarah White and Sonya Dowsett MADRID (Reuters) - The great survivor of Spanish politics, newly re-appointed Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, is hoping to cling to power with the help of a 45-year-old lawyer who has a valuable quality he lacks: she is well liked. Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, Rajoy's troubleshooter and deputy during his first term, is one of his few allies to emerge unscathed from years of austerity measures and unpopular policies that have chipped at relations with opposition parties. Rajoy has handed Saenz de Santamaria an expanded role in his new cabinet where alongside her deputy position she will deal with one of Spain's thorniest issues - an independence campaign by the northeastern Catalonia region.
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| Myanmar freedom of speech under threat amid Rakhine violence - monitors | |  Human rights monitors have raised concerns about press freedom in Myanmar after a journalist at an English-language newspaper said she was fired following government criticism of her reporting of allegations of rape by soldiers. Violence in the north of troubled Rakhine State, which began with deadly attacks on border police posts on Oct. 9, has sparked the biggest crisis of de facto Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's seven months in power. Troops poured into the region after the attacks, which the government says were carried out by minority Rohingya Muslims with links to militant Islamists overseas.
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| Egypt arrests militants, links them to Muslim Brotherhood | | | By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested members of two recently emerged militant groups, along with weapons, explosives and evidence that the organisations had been set up by the Muslim Brotherhood. Police detained five leaders and other members of the Hasam Movement and Louwaa al-Thawra, the Interior Ministry said - both groups that have claimed responsibility for assassination attempts on judges, policemen and military officers. There was no immediate comment from either organisation, or from the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, which says it is a peaceful movement and accuses the government of abuses. |
| Second Egyptian general killed in Sinai in as many weeks - sources | | | A senior Egyptian general was shot dead by militants on Friday near his home in North Sinai where an Islamic State insurgency is raging, health and security sources said, the second such incident in as many weeks. Gunmen opened fire on Brigadier General Hesham Mahmoud Abualazm, 47, on the street from a moving car in Arish city, North Sinai's provincial capital, the sources said. Abualazm was on a visit to Arish and does not serve in Sinai, the sources added. |
| Turkey condemned over Kurdish lawmaker arrests, as car bomb kills nine | |  Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish opposition party in a terrorism probe on Friday, drawing European and U.N. condemnation of a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan. Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, co-leaders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), were jailed pending trial after being held in overnight raids, officials said. Ten other HDP lawmakers were also detained, although some were later released.
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| Philippines' Duterte says drugs flow slows, vents at U.S. and Soros | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday his war on drugs had cut back the supply to "very low" levels and thanked China for supporting his crackdown, but swore repeatedly at ally the United States for criticising it. Duterte said his bloody campaign against drugs had successfully reduced the narcotics flow, but conceded there were signs that criminals had now turned to kidnapping, another problem he planned to tackle. On Friday, he got angry again at former colonial power Washington for its concerns about alleged summary killings and contrasted its stance with that of China, which has funded a huge drugs rehabilitation centre.
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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. |
| 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. ... |
| 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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