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| Court sends Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa to jail in graft case | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A court on Saturday sentenced Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram to four years in jail in a corruption case that has lasted nearly two decades, television channels reported. Jayalalithaa, one of the most popular politicians in south India, was convicted of having assets disproportionate to her income, the reports said. She was also fined 1 billion rupees ($16.36 million). Television reports showed supporters of Jayalalithaa, chief of the AIADMK party, clashing with police in Bangalore and the state capital Chennai. ...
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| Small-town U.S. politician emerges as unlikely foe of Modi | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - A city council member from a Chicago suburb of 25,000 people is making for an unlikely antagonist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Joseph Whittington of Harvey, Illinois, worked with a group of New York lawyers to found a nonprofit and file a civil lawsuit that said Modi failed to stop anti-Muslim rioting in 2002. The suit was filed on Thursday in New York and seeks damages for crimes against humanity. ...
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| Afghan villagers hang Taliban fighters as battle for district rages | | | GHAZNI Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan villagers hanged four captured Taliban militants from a tree on Saturday as security forces battled the insurgents for a sixth day in a district of Ghazni province, an official said. The hangings were carried out after Taliban fighters had killed more than 100 people in the area in the past week, including more than a dozen who were beheaded, according to Ghazni deputy governor Mohammad Ali Ahmadi. ... |
| Prospect of tighter White House security touches nerve in Washington | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The prospect of more of the U.S. capital being closed off after an intruder got into the White House has struck a nerve in Washington over public space being eroded by barricades and bollards. The possible tightening of security around the president's residence, a highly visible symbol of democracy and a prime draw for tourists and protesters alike, raises questions like whether safety trumps openness or whether a capital city can ever be entirely safe, analysts said. The week after a 42-year-old Iraq war veteran climbed the 7-foot (2. ...
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| Egypt postpones verdict in case against ex-president Mubarak | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court postponed to Nov. 29 its verdict on whether former president Hosni Mubarak ordered the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his three-decade rule. Before adjourning the hearing on Saturday, the judge said he and members of the prosecution team had not finished reviewing all the evidence in the case, which amounted to 160,000 pages. A TV screen in the courtroom showed thousands of documents related to the case piled up in folders and bound with string. ...
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| Catalonia leader calls referendum on independence from Spain | |  By Elena Gyldenkerne BARCELONA Spain (Reuters) - The president of Spain's Catalonia region signed a decree on Saturday calling an independence referendum on Nov. 9, putting him on a collision course with the central government which says such a vote is illegal. The wealthy north-eastern region, which accounts for around a fifth of Spain's economy, has its own language and distinct culture and has long fought for self-rule. A large majority of Catalans want to hold a referendum on independence, polls show. ...
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| Somali militants stone woman to death | | | By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab militants stoned a woman to death in the southern town of Barawe on Friday after a court they had set up declared her guilty of adultery, the militants and witnesses said. The group, which pledges loyalty to al Qaeda, has waged an armed campaign to impose its strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. Forced out of many areas of the east African country by African Union forces and the Somali army, al Shabaab is keen to show it has authority over areas it still controls. ... |
| Japan swimmer charged with camera theft at Asiad | |  By Peter Rutherford INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - A Japanese swimmer has been kicked out of the Asian Games and will have to pay his own way back home after being charged by police for stealing a camera from a South Korean journalist. Naoya Tomita, a gold medallist from Guangzhou in 2010 but outside the medals in Incheon, had been captured by video surveillance putting the 8 million won ($7,600) camera into his bag at the Games swimming venue on Friday. Japan delegation chief Tsuyoshi Aoki apologised for Tomita's behaviour on behalf of the team at a news conference on Saturday. ...
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