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| Canada moves to expand voting rights to expatriates | | | Canada moved on Thursday to expand the ability to vote to citizens that have lived out of the country for more than five years, making good on part of the Liberal government's campaign promise to reform election laws. The bill, introduced by Minister of Democratic Institutions Maryam Monsef, will also allow voter information cards to be used as identification at the polls and allow a voter to vouch for someone else without ID, measures Monsef said will improve voter participation. The proposed changes would roll back measures that were brought in under the previous Conservative government. |
| Hurricane Otto nears Nicaragua, Costa Rica forcing mass evacuations | |  By Ivan Castro BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Hurricane Otto rumbled toward the Caribbean shores of Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Thursday, prompting evacuations in eastern coastal communities as people braced for the storm to hit land within hours. At 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT), the Category 2 hurricane was about 75 miles (121 km) north-northwest of the Costa Rican city of Limon, blowing 110 mile-per-hour (177 km-per-hour) winds, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. In Bluefields, a city in Nicaragua's southeastern Mosquito Coast, rainfall began early on Thursday morning, with local forecasters suggesting the storm would hit around midday.
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| EU lawmakers urge halt to Turkey EU membership talks | |  By Gilbert Reilhac STRASBOURG (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers called on Thursday for a temporary halt to EU membership talks with Turkey because of Ankara's "disproportionate" reaction to July's failed coup, although EU governments are unlikely to take heed. Members of the European Parliament voted 479 to 37 in favour of a non-binding motion urging the European Commission and national governments to institute what lawmakers acknowledge would be a largely symbolic freeze in negotiations that have been going on for 11 years but have long been stalled. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said ties with the EU were already strained and that the vote was of no importance, echoing comments this week by President Tayyip Erdogan.
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| U.N. torture investigator to visit Turkey, jails next week | | | The U.N. torture investigator is going to Turkey from Nov. 27 to Dec 2 at government invitation and plans to visit police stations, prisons and pre-trial facilities where detainees are held to discuss "challenges" related to torture, a U.N. statement said. Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 125,000 officials in the military, civil service, judiciary and elsewhere since a failed coup attempt in July. About 36,000 have been jailed pending trial, in a crackdown condemned by Western allies, activist groups and the U.N. human rights office. |
| Bangladesh team headed to Manila, seeking to recover cyber heist funds | |  A Bangladesh delegation will visit the Philippines to speed up recovery of the rest of some $81 million stolen from its account in the New York Federal Reserve in February, two officials said on Thursday, after recovering a fifth of the funds. The five-member team, led by Law Minister Anisul Haq, will hold talks with Philippines authorities on Nov. 28 to Dec. 1. "We are hoping it will help expedite the recovery of the rest of stolen funds," a member of the team told Reuters, on condition of anonymity.
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| Wildfires tear across Israel, minister blames arson for some blazes | |  By Rami Amichai HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of residents were ordered to leave Israel's third largest city on Thursday as wildfires tore through Haifa and threatened other areas, including the Israeli-occupied West Bank, fuelled by unusually dry conditions and an easterly wind. A senior minister in the Israeli government said he believed many of the blazes had been deliberately set, but police said they had no hard evidence at this stage that arson was to blame. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday attributed the fires to "natural and unnatural" causes.
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| Peru agrees to extradite former soccer federation head to U.S. | |  Peru agreed to extradite the former head of the country's soccer federation to the United States to face criminal conspiracy charges in a far-reaching inquiry into corruption at the heart of the sport's governing body FIFA. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski approved Manuel Burga's extradition in a resolution published on Thursday in the official gazette, El Peruano, five months after a Peruvian court found that the request from a New York court was substantiated. Burga headed the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) for a dozen years through 2014, when the federation blocked him from running for a fourth term as criticism grew over his management.
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| Blast kills two at governor's office in southern Turkish city | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An explosion killed two people and wounded more than 30 outside the governor's office in the southern Turkish city of Adana on Thursday, weeks after the United States warned of attacks by what it called extremist groups. Video footage showed a vehicle ablaze in the car park outside the building and thick black smoke rising into the sky in the city, 40 km (25 miles) from Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, the son-in-law of President Tayyip Erdogan, who was in Adana for a conference at a separate location, said 33 people had been wounded in the blast.
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| Danish journalists sentenced for monitoring celebrity credit cards | | | By Annabella PultzNielsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Four journalists from a Danish gossip magazine were sentenced to up to 15 months in prison on Thursday for paying for credit card data to help track politicians, celebrities and members of the royal family. An employee of the credit card company Nets got 18 months for selling information between 2008 and 2012 that revealed the whereabouts of prominent people such as Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Hannibal-actor Mads Mikkelsen. The leaks enabled the weekly magazine Se & Hor to follow Prince Joachim and his wife on what was meant to be a secret honeymoon to Canada in 2008, after it bought data about the couple's plane tickets from the Nets system operator. |
| Protests flare in Jharkhand after changes to decades-old land laws | | | By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protests over land rights flared for a second day in Jharkhand, as activists and indigenous people took to the streets after the state assembly approved amendments to colonial-era land laws despite strong opposition. The state assembly on Wednesday approved changes to two laws that will allow the state to buy protected tribal land to lease to investors, as well as use agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes. |
| Chinese legal activist goes missing after being tracked by state agents - wife | | | A well-known Chinese legal activist has been missing for several days, according to his wife, who said he had last made contact on a trip to a central province after being tracked by state security agents. Jiang Tianyong, 45, has spoken out about a government crackdown on legal defenders and has been involved in high-profile cases of dissidents who have irked Chinese authorities, including the case of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who got out of China after he fled to the U.S. embassy in 2012. Jiang's wife, Jin Bianling, said she and friends had been unable to contact him since Monday night, after he travelled to the city of Changsha, in central Hunan province, to visit relatives of an arrested human rights lawyer, Xie Yang. |
| FIFA faces lawsuit over rules banning transfer of minors | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA is facing a lawsuit in a Zurich court over regulations that ban the transfer of players under the age of 18. The case was been filed at the Zurich Commercial Court on Wednesday on behalf of a 17-year-old African player and his parents, who say that the rules make FIFA's transfer regulations unlawful. A spokesman for Zurich law firm Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwaelte, which has brought the case, said in a statement that the player, who had represented his country at youth level, was unable to move to a club in the European Union because of the rules.
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