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| Gunmen kidnap three UNHCR workers in Sudan's Darfur - local official | | | Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped three workers from the United Nation's refugee agency in Sudan's restive Darfur region, a local official told Reuters on Monday. The three workers, one Sudanese and two Nepalese, were kidnapped from Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state and were taken to an unknown location, said West Darfur government spokesman Abdallah Gar al-Nabi. An official from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) declined to comment. |
| Indonesia police, Muslim leaders aim for "super peaceful" rally | |  Indonesia's police chief said that a rally to be held by Muslim groups on Friday calling for the ouster of Jakarta's Christian governor would be "super peaceful" and confined to a park to help prevent a repeat of protest violence earlier this month. More than 100,000 Muslims, led by hardliners, took to the streets on Nov. 4 to protest against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is accused of insulting the Koran. Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population and is home to Christian and Hindu communities.
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| Spanish police arrest four on suspicion of Islamist militant links | | | Spanish police have arrested four people suspected of involvement in a migrant network with connections to Islamic State, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. Islamic State is believed to have used the network to smuggle militants into Europe via Turkey among migrants fleeing Syria's civil war, the ministry said. Since Spain raised its national security threat alert in 2015, authorities have detained about 168 people on suspicion of involvement in Islamist militant activity. |
| Malaysian pro-democracy leader released after ten days' detention | |  The leader of Malaysian pro-democracy group Bersih and critic of Prime Minister Najib Razak was released on Monday after ten days in detention under a widely criticised security law. Maria Chin Abdullah was arrested the day before a protest rally organised by the group saw thousands of Malaysians marching in the capital to demand Najib's resignation over his alleged involvement in a multi-billion dollar financial scandal. Najib has denied wrongdoing.
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| Ugandan police seize machetes, spears after clash with king's guards | | | By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police said on Monday they had taken control of a tribal king's palace after a weekend of deadly clashes with his supporters and seized a cache of machetes, spears and petrol bombs. At least 46 members of king Charles Wesley Mumbere's guards died fighting police and soldiers in western Uganda, a regional police spokesman said, raising an earlier estimate of the toll. Sixteen police officers also died, he added. |
| China "concerned" over Philippines' detention of Chinese in gambling crackdown | | | China is concerned over the Philippines' detention of more than a thousand Chinese nationals during a crackdown on online gambling, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday, in what could be a strain for ties that have warmed in recent months. The detentions marked the government's biggest such round-up of Chinese nationals in the country, many thought to be working there illegally. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China had requested that the Philippines "appropriately make arrangements" for those who had been detained and quickly release individuals who have "legal identification". |
| South Korea's Park "can't be questioned by Tuesday" as prosecutors have requested | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye cannot be questioned by Tuesday as prosecutors have requested, her lawyer said, as she resists growing calls to resign over an influence scandal that has engulfed her administration. Park is under intense pressure to step down over the crisis involving a close friend accused of meddling in state affairs, with the main opposition party seeking to put an impeachment motion up for a vote as soon as Friday. Park's lawyer, Yoo Yeong-ha, said in a text message that the president had to deal with the "fast-moving situation" and so there was little time for her to cooperate with prosecutors, who had asked to question her by Tuesday.
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| Philippine police find home-made bomb near U.S. embassy, rebels suspected | | | Philippine police conducted a controlled detonation of a home-made bomb found in a trash bin near the U.S. embassy in Manila on Monday and said militants sympathetic to Islamic State could have been responsible. National police chief Ronald dela Rosa said components of the improvised explosive device suggested it could have been planted by the Maute, a Muslim rebel group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State. "We could theorise that they could use this as a diversion," dela Rosa told a news conference. |
| Support for Australian PM falls with another legislative compromise | |  By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Support for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has fallen to its lowest levels since he took office more than a year ago, an opinion poll showed on Monday, potentially loosening his already tenuous grip on power. Approval ratings for Turnbull had fallen to 46 percent by Nov. 17, the Fairfax poll showed, a fall of 4 percentage points from the previous survey in June. With support dwindling, Turnbull has sought to demonstrate his leadership by pushing through several laws that were the centrepiece of his narrow election win in July.
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