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| Burkina protestors burn parliament, ransack state TV | |  By Mathieu Bonkoungou and Joe Penney OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters stormed Burkina Faso's parliament and ransacked state television on Thursday, forcing it off the air ahead of a planned vote on a motion to allow the veteran president to extend his 27-year rule. Lawmakers had been due to vote on Thursday on a government plan to change the constitution to allow President Blaise Compaore - who took power in a coup in 1987 - to stand for re-election again next year, when he was due to stand down. According to one local reporter, state television read a statement saying the proposal had been withdrawn before it was forced off air.
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| Corrected - France investigates mystery drone activity over nuclear plants | | | PARIS (Reuters) - (Corrects to meters from kilometers in ninth paragraph) France has launched an investigation into unidentified drones that have been spotted over nuclear plants operated by state-owned utility EDF , its interior minister said on Thursday. Seven nuclear plants across the country were flown over by drones between Oct. 5 and Oct. 20, an EDF spokeswoman said, without any impact on the plants' safety or functioning. "There's a judicial investigation under way, measures are being taken to know what these drones are and neutralise them," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told France Info radio on Thursday, without specifying the measures. The drone sightings may renew concerns about the safety of nuclear plants in France, the world's most nuclear-reliant country with 58 reactors on 19 sites operated by EDF. |
| Nigeria kidnappers free German Julius Berger staff - company | | | Nigerian gunmen have freed a German citizen working for construction firm Julius Berger less than a week after they kidnapped him and killed another German citizen in a raid on their vehicles, the company said on Thursday. The kidnappers attacked the staff and a contractor for the firm in southwest Nigeria's Ogun state on Friday as they were making their way to work in a quarry. "Julius Berger Nigeria...is pleased to...announce the release of the company's member of staff," a statement said. "The company would like to thank the all those who assisted in achieving a swift and safe release, especially government authorities and security services." Nigeria is one of the world's worst countries for kidnapping, a multimillion dollar criminal enterprise seen as one of several major security headaches in Africa's top oil producer and biggest economy. |
| China's growth-obsessed officials ignoring green policies - parliament | |  Local officials determined to make their economies bigger at any cost are ignoring Beijing's push to cut hazardous air pollution, opting instead to expand heavy industries and cut clean energy from the grid, a Chinese parliamentary report said. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, dispatched a team of inspectors to 10 cities and provinces from May to September to oversee the implementation of new pollution policies. The team found some local officials continued to pursue GDP growth at the expense of the environment, according to details published on China's parliament website (www.npc.gov.cn). "Some local governments have not fulfilled their responsibilities to improve air quality," the report said.
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| Northern Ireland police arrest man over Jean McConville murder | |  Police in Northern Ireland on Thursday said they had arrested a man for questioning over the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, months after Irish nationalist leader Gerry Adams was questioned about the same crime. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement on Thursday that it had arrested a 73-year-old man in Dunmurry, a town just south of Belfast, for questioning about the murder. Northern Ireland police detained 66-year-old Adams for four days in May in relation to the murder of McConville, who was abducted by the Irish Republican Army in front of her children from a nationalist area. The detention of Adams, who said he was "innocent of any part" in the murder, raised tensions among Northern Ireland's power-sharing government and its fragile peace.
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| Malaysia's Anwar says hopeful, lawyers question DNA evidence | |  By Trinna Leong KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Thursday he was a victim of a conspiracy but was hopeful of winning an appeal against a sodomy conviction and five-year prison term that could stymie his political ambitions for good. Anwar was the ruling party's rising star in the mid-1990s before he fell out with then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
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| One year after devastating super typhoon, Philippines approves rebuilding plan | |  Almost a year after a super typhoon devastated wide areas of the central Philippines killing thousands, President Benigno Aquino only this week approved a $3.74 billion master plan to rebuild housing, social services and public infrastructure. "The recovery plans are based on the principle of 'build back better' by focusing on long-term, sustainable efforts to reduce vulnerabilities and strengthen capacities of communities to cope with future hazard events." Apart from housing concerns, data from the Office of Presidential Assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery showed the government had rebuilt only six km of 116 km of damaged major roads.
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| Milosevic widow 'laughs' at EU decision to unfreeze assets | |  The widow of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic has dismissed news the European Union had lifted a 15-year freeze on family assets, telling a local newspaper that they owned nothing outside of Serbia. Tuesday's decision by the EU triggered speculation that the family and several close associates of the man who presided over the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s may now get their hands on millions of euros that Milosevic's opponents say his regime smuggled abroad during a decade of war and sanctions. "Neither I, my late husband, nor our children ever had or have any kind of property in the European Union. Everything we have is in Serbia." Markovic, 72, said the family had a house in her and Milosevic's hometown of Pozerevac, where Milosevic was buried in 2006 after he died in his cell in The Hague while standing trial for war crimes, and a house in the capital Belgrade that they had rented out.
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| Myanmar calls meeting of political, military heavyweights | |  By Aung Hla Tun and Paul Mooney YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's president and powerful military chief will hold an unprecedented high-level meeting on Friday with major political parties and ethnic minority groups as cracks widen in the fledgling democracy ahead of an election next year. The talks are the first of their kind in Myanmar and will see opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet for the first time with the powerful armed forces chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing - talks that the Nobel laureate has sought since she became a lawmaker in 2012. Friday's hastily arranged get-together in the capital Naypyitaw comes as a complex peace process with armed ethnic rebels teeters on the brink of collapse and tensions linger over moves by Suu Kyi's party - backed by five million petitioners - to amend the constitution and reduce the political clout of a military that ruled Myanmar brutally for 49 years. President Barack Obama prepares to visit Myanmar next month for a regional summit amid growing U.S.
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| Egypt bans pro-Mursi pressure group | | | Egypt on Thursday banned a pressure group that has pushed for the reinstatement of President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was overthrown by the army last year, dealing a new blow to the country's oldest Islamist movement. Egypt banned the Muslim Brotherhood itself last year and dissolved its political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, in August precluding it from running in parliamentary elections expected to take place in the next few months. Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb issued a decree on Thursday dissolving the National Coalition to Support Legitimacy and Reject the Coup as well as its political arm, the Independence Party, in line with an earlier court ruling. The Coalition, which included Brotherhood supporters and other Islamist groups, was set up after then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi overthrew Mursi in July 2013 following mass protests against his rule. |
| Protesters storm Burkina Faso parliament - witness | |  OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters stormed Burkina Faso's parliament building on Thursday, forcing police to withdraw, ahead of a vote on a motion to allow the president to stand for re-election, a Reuters witness said. He said the protesters stormed the building and had got inside and that the police had run away. (Reporting by Mathieu Bonkoungou; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Alison Williams)
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| Cipla asks government to revoke Novartis patents on respiratory drug | | | Generic drugmaker Cipla Ltd said on Thursday it had requested the government to revoke five patents held by Swiss firm Novartis AG on respiratory drug Onbrez, to boost its access in the Indian market. Cipla alleged that Novartis has had patents on the drug since 2008/09, but did not make it in India, and instead imported a "negligible quantity" from Switzerland, leading to a shortage of supply. A Novartis spokeswoman in Mumbai did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "Cipla believes that it has potential to manufacture adequate quantities of the drug and make the same available in the country," the company said in statenment, confirming its request to the government for the patents to be revoked. |
| Egypt targets universities as last haven for political expression | | | By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of police surround its walls, patrolling in armoured vehicles with sirens blaring, while muscle-bound security guards man metal detectors, searching all who enter. The government has cracked down on critics since July 2013, when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi overthrew Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, after????? ?????mass protests against his rule. |
| South Korean court-martial jails soldiers in hazing death case | |  By Ju-min Park YONGIN South Korea (Reuters) - A South Korean court-martial convicted four soldiers on Thursday of homicide for the beating death of a fellow conscript and sentenced them to long prison terms in a case that sparked an outcry about how enlisted are treated. Private First Class Yoon Seung-joo, 20, died in April after more than a month of almost daily beating and other abuse. The case shocked South Korea, which maintains a military of about 630,000, many of them conscripts who serve about two years, and led to the resignation of the army chief of staff. A panel of three military judges sentenced the four defendants to prison terms ranging from 25 to 45 years.
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| Fathers of missing Mexican students blast president after meeting | |  By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Angry fathers of 43 Mexican students missing for the past month turned on President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday, accusing his government of deceit, fostering impunity and bungling the search for their sons. Following a five-hour meeting with the president, relatives of the students abducted by police in late September in the southwestern city of Iguala dismissed his efforts to find the missing and said their patience was running out. The disappearances have become arguably the sternest challenge yet to face Pena Nieto, who took office two years ago vowing to restore order in Mexico, where close to 100,000 people have died in violence linked to organized crime since 2007. Initial testimony from investigators suggested that the students, who belong to an all-male leftist college, had a history of conflict with the Iguala mayor and that the city police had handed them over to local gangsters who killed them.
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