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| Japan, North Korea to meet next week on abductees | |  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese and North Korean officials will meet next week for an update on the North's probe into the fate of Japanese citizens it kidnapped decades ago, Japan's top government spokesman said on Thursday. North Korea agreed in July to reopen an investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens it kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s to help train spies, prompting Japan to ease some sanctions on the North. ...
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| Australia to reintroduce temporary visas for refugees | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will reintroduce a controversial temporary visa system to deal with a huge backlog of asylum seekers, its immigration minister said on Thursday, despite criticism the stopgap process leaves refugees in limbo. Conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott won an election last September after campaigning on tough immigration policies, which have been criticised internationally but which polls show remain popular with voters. ...
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| Malaysia among worst countries in world for transgenders - report | | | KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is among the worst countries in the world to be a transgender person, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday that detailed systematic abuses by religious authorities and police including sexual assault and extortion. The report, based on interviews with more than 40 transgender people, blamed "increasingly vitriolic" discourse by government officials, politicians and religious leaders in the Muslim-majority country for the deterioration in rights. ... |
| UK's Cameron recalls parliament to sanction air strikes against Islamic State | |  By Andrew Osborn and Michelle Nichols LONDON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted Britain to join U.S.-led air strikes against the Islamic State militant group after the Iraqi government requested London's help and he recalled parliament to secure its approval for military action. Parliament, which was in recess, will reconvene on Friday to vote on allowing Britain's Royal Air Force to hit Islamic State targets in northern Iraq. The action has the backing of all three main parties and is expected to comfortably pass. Cameron spoke after U.S. ...
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| Star of reality TV show 'Jersey Shore' charged with tax fraud | |  By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino, star of the reality TV show "Jersey Shore," and his brother have been charged with not paying taxes on $8.9 million in income, according to an indictment handed down on Wednesday. Sorrentino, 32, who popularized the phrase "gym, tan, laundry" to refer to the pre-party routine of the show's cast members, allegedly failed to report income while also claiming clothes and cars as business expenses. The brothers are charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. government and filing false tax returns, the U.S. ...
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| Sri Lanka president uses UN speech to assail war crimes probe | |  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa assailed the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday in his address to the U.N. General Assembly, calling its probe into Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war disproportionate and politically motivated. Sri Lanka has refused to cooperate with the Human Rights Council's investigation into the deaths of some 100,000 people since it was announced in March, despite mounting international pressure to issue visas to U.N. investigators. ...
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| No charges for NASCAR driver Tony Stewart in fatal incident | |  By David Bailey REUTERS - Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart has been cleared by a grand jury investigating a dirt-track incident in upstate New York in August that killed a young driver, a county prosecutor said on Wednesday. Stewart, 43, one of the biggest names in auto racing, struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr., 20, during a non-NASCAR sprint-car race on Aug. 9 on a dimly lit part of the Canandaigua Motorsports Park track, about an hour's drive west of Syracuse. ...
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| U.S. to pay Navajo tribe $554 million in landmark settlement | | | By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The Obama administration has agreed to pay the Navajo Nation a record $554 million to settle longstanding claims by America's largest Indian tribe that its funds and natural resources were mishandled for decades by the U.S. government. The accord, resolving claims that date back as far as 50 years and marking the biggest U.S. legal settlement with a single tribe, will be formally signed at a ceremony on Friday in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the sprawling Navajo reservation. ... |
| Yemen president warns of civil war as factions collide | |  By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has warned Yemenis their country is heading toward civil war after the takeover of the capital by Shi'ite Muslim rebels, a move that has allowed the insurgents to dictate terms to a weakened, fractured government. "(The combat in Sanaa) emphasises to us the painful bitterness of fighting among our people and the danger of entering into a civil war," Hadi said in a speech to political and security chiefs at his headquarters on Tuesday. ...
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| Survivalists on FBI 'Most Wanted List' prove elusive | | | By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the intense manhunt for a survivalist accused of gunning down two Pennsylvania State Police troopers in its second week, Governor Tom Corbett has vowed the quick capture of the man, Eric Matthew Frein. But history suggests it could take years to track down the fugitive. Frein, thought to be hiding in a remote part of the Pocono Mountains, has been added to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List," Nearly a third of fugitives named there are avid outdoorsmen with skills to hide for years - if not a lifetime - in the wilderness. ... |
| In historic U-turn, Mexico to join U.N. peacekeeping missions | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - After years of keeping out of the world's conflicts, Mexico said on Wednesday it was ready to take part in United Nations peacekeeping missions, as the government steps up efforts to raise its profile on the global stage. "Mexico has taken the decision to participate in U.N. peacekeeping missions, taking part in humanitarian tasks that benefit civil society," Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto told the U.N. General Assembly in a speech in New York. ...
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| Mass shootings on the rise in United States, FBI report finds | |  By Scott Malone REUTERS - Mass shootings have occurred in the United States with increasing frequency over the past 14 years, with 486 people killed in 160 incidents, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation analysis released on Wednesday. There were an average of 16.4 active-shooter incidents from 2007 through 2013, more than double the 6.4 average from 2000 to 2006, the report found. ...
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| U.N. backs strong laws against foreign extremist fighters | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council demanded on Wednesday that all states make it a serious criminal offense for their citizens to travel abroad to fight with militant groups, or to recruit and fund others to do so, in a move sparked by the rise of Islamic State. At a meeting chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama, the 15-member council unanimously adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution that compels countries to "prevent and suppress" the recruitment and travel of militant fighters to foreign conflicts. The U.N. ...
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| Algerian militants behead kidnapped French tourist | | Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:49 PM | |
|  By Patrick Markey ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian militants beheaded French tourist Herve Gourdel, who was kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday in what the group said was a response to France's action against Islamic State militants in Iraq. In a video released by his captors on Wednesday, Gourdel, a 55-year-old from Nice, is seen kneeling with his arms tied behind his back before four masked militants who read out a statement in Arabic criticizing France's intervention. They then pushed him on his side and held him down. ...
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