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| Indonesian president Yudhoyono backs direct election of district leaders | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's outgoing president has spoken out in favour of retaining direct elections for governors and mayors, saying democratic reforms had to be protected. Indonesia's parliament has proposed doing away with direct elections for provincial, district and city leaders, saying legislative assemblies in those jurisdictions should fill those posts. But critics say that doing away with such elections would damage the development of democracy and entrench the authority of old elites and their patronage politics. ...
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| Gilead licenses hepatitis C drug to Cipla, Ranbaxy, five others | |  By Aditya Kalra and Zeba Siddiqui NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc has agreed to license its hepatitis C drug Sovaldi to seven India-based drugmakers to sell cheaper versions of the $1,000-a-pill medicine in 91 developing nations including India. Gilead also plans to launch its own branded Sovaldi in India at a price of $300 per month. The drug is normally given for either three or six months and it costs $84,000 for a 12-week course in the United States. Gilead's next generation version its going to be even more expensive. ...
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| Leading Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah freed on bail | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - One of Egypt's most prominent activists, Alaa Abdel Fattah, was released on bail on Monday ahead of his re-trial on charges of violating a protest law, triggering celebrations by dozens of supporters in the court room. Abdel Fattah, a leading secular figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, and other defendants facing similar charges, were freed from a court room cage immediately after the judge's ruling and were swamped by friends and family. ...
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| Django Unchained actress says arrested in L.A. for "showing affection" | | | (Reuters) - A black U.S. actress who appeared in hit movie "Django Unchained" has accused Los Angeles police officers of handcuffing and briefly detaining her for "showing affection" in public. The city's police force said on Sunday it was investigating a complaint from Daniele Watts, who posted a picture on Facebook, showing her crying next to an officer with her hands behind her back. Los Angeles police said in a statement its officers had responded to reports from a passerby that a couple were indecently exposed inside a silver Mercedes on Thursday afternoon. ... |
| FACTBOX: Where are the world's stateless people? | |  THE HAGUE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An estimated 10 million people worldwide are not recognised as nationals by any country. The first global forum on statelessness opens in The Hague on Monday ahead of a campaign to eradicate statelessness within a decade. Here are examples from around the world. MYANMAR: The Rohingya from western Myanmar have suffered a history of abuse. Unlike the majority population which is Buddhist, they are Muslims of South Asian descent. In 1982 Myanmar passed a law which denied them access to citizenship. ...
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| An unlikely hero, Gordon Brown wrestles with Scotland's fate | |  By Alistair Smout GLASGOW Scotland (Reuters) - Once mocked for claiming to have saved the world after the 2008 financial crisis, former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown may now have the fate of Scotland in his hands. For many English, Scotsman Brown is an unlikely hero. Academic and awkward in front of the camera, he was ranked Britain's most unpopular prime minister in half a century before he led the Labour party to its worst electoral defeat in a generation in 2010. ...
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| U.S. to help train people to spot potential violent extremists | | | By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government launched a program on Monday to reach out to key members of communities across the country to try to stop radicalized young people joining Islamic State and other extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq. "Today, few threats are more urgent than the threat posed by violent extremism," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a video announcing the program. ... |
| South Africa probes two Nigerians, Israeli over $9.3 mln cash seizure | | | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police are investigating two Nigerians and an Israeli citizen who tried to bring $9.3 million in cash into the country illegally, a spokesman said on Monday, in what might have been part of an arms deal. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) seized the funds at Lanseria airport, northwest of Johannesburg, on Sept. 5. The funds are being held at the central bank as police investigate, SARS spokeswoman Marika Muller said. "The passengers' luggage was searched after Customs officials detected irregularities. ... |
| New Zealand dismisses Snowden's claim it planned mass domestic spying | |  WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand was preparing to conduct mass domestic surveillance last year, a U.S. investigative journalist said on Monday, five days before the country goes to the polls, provoking immediate denials from Prime Minister John Key. The accusations by Glenn Greenwald were based on evidence disclosed by former U.S. National Security Authority contractor Edward Snowden that Key's centre-right government planned to exploit amended spying laws to sharply widen domestic spying. ...
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