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| Islamic State releases 25 kidnapped Kurdish children | | | Islamic State insurgents freed 25 Kurdish school children on Wednesday, the last of more than 150 children kidnapped in May to be released, a Kurdish official and a rights group said. The hardline Sunni Muslim group, which has fought Kurdish militia in Syria and Iraq, abducted the children aged 13 and 14 from the Syrian town of Kobani as they returned from taking exams in the city of Aleppo, rights groups said. This is the last part of the releases," Idris Nassan, deputy foreign minister of Kobani district, told Reuters by telephone. He said he did not know why the children had been released but suggested it could be part of a campaign of "propaganda." New York-based Human Rights Watch said in July that 15 children were released in June as a hostage swap to free three Islamic State members held by Kurdish forces. |
| U.S. nurse who tested negative for Ebola fights Maine quarantine | |  By Susan Heavey and David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The state of Maine on Wednesday moved to enforce a quarantine on a nurse who has tested negative for Ebola and says she is healthy in a fight that illustrates how U.S. Governor Paul LePage said he would seek legal authority to enforce a 21-day quarantine after nurse Kaci Hickox said she would challenge state restrictions and not follow guidelines to quarantine herself at home until Nov. 10 as demanded. Hickox, 33, returned to the United States last Friday after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, one of the three nations at the heart of an outbreak that has killed about 5,000 people in West Africa.
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| Canada's plan to defang would-be jihadists at home | |  By Richard Valdmanis OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian law enforcement officials plan to use counseling to help stop would-be jihadists and could even help them find jobs - an effort that has added urgency after Muslim converts killed two soldiers in separate attacks in Canada last week. "Historically, efforts for safeguarding Canada's national security used to be primarily focused on enforcement and disruption," said Sgt. Greg Cox, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which is spearheading the effort. The work comes as Canada faces a growing threat from homegrown jihadis: some 130 Canadians have traveled abroad to fight with groups like Islamic State, of whom 80 have returned home, according to intelligence officials.
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| Islamists attack northeast Nigerian town, several killed - witnesses | | | Suspected Islamist Boko Haram insurgents stormed the northeast Nigerian town of Mubi on Wednesday, killing several people, burning houses and triggering a gunbattle with security forces, witnesses said. Beatice Elisha, a civil servant trapped in the town, said he heard gunfire north of the town when the attack started earlier in the day. "There was gunfire all over the place." Violence in Nigeria's troubled northeast has surged since the government announced a ceasefire with the rebels nearly two weeks ago to pursue talks in neighbouring Chad aimed at freeing more than 200 girls kidnapped in April. Suspected Boko Haram insurgents killed at least 17 people and abducted dozens in a series of attacks in the central region of Nigeria's northeast Borno state over the weekend. |
| Fifty-one countries sign OECD pact to tackle tax cheats | |  By Stephen Brown and Michelle Martin BERLIN (Reuters) - Finance ministers and tax chiefs from 51 countries signed an agreement on Wednesday to automatically swap tax information, which Germany's finance minister said heralded the end of tax evasion via secret bank accounts. "Let's make a joint contribution to more transparency and fairness in our globalised 21st century," Wolfgang Schaeuble told a taxation conference of about 100 countries coordinated by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The pledge from so many countries -- Schaeuble said there were 51 signatories from four continents, after one country joined at the last minute -- is the result of years of OECD efforts to facilitate tax authorities' access to bank data.
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| U.S. judge says Google settlement over pharma ads is fair | |  Under the terms of the deal, Google also said it would make content about prescription drug abuse more visible and work with legitimate pharmacies to counter marketing by rogue sellers. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton said the programs Google would create are "satisfactory." Hamilton did not formally rule from the bench, but said she was prepared to preliminarily approve the settlement. Shareholders sued Google and its board in 2011 after the company reached a settlement with the government over the issue. Google will allocate and spend at least $50 million a year to the internal effort for at least five years under the settlement.
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| Myanmar activists demand independent probe into journalist's killing | |  A group of activist organisations in Myanmar demanded the setting up of an independent commission on Wednesday to probe the killing of a journalist in army custody, saying the military had delayed reporting his death for almost three weeks. A committee formed by the 46 organisations said the journalist, Par Gyi, was killed on Oct 4. "The military waited 20 days to release the report on his death," Ko Ko Gyi, one of the members of the committee, said at a news conference. "They had plenty of time to inform the family, but they didn't, and this is why we're calling for an independent investigation into the incident." Par Gyi was arrested on Sept. 30 after completing a photo assignment documenting clashes between the military and the rebel Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) in the east, the Myanmar-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) has said.
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| Maine, nurse who tested negative for Ebola clash over quaratine | |  By Susan Heavey and David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maine's governor said on Wednesday that he would seek legal authority to enforce a 21-day quarantine on a Maine nurse who has tested negative for Ebola after treating patients in West Africa and initially was isolated in a tent in New Jersey. Governor Paul LePage issued a statement after nurse Kaci Hickox said she would challenge the New England state's restrictions and would not follow guidelines to quarantine herself until Nov. 10 as demanded. ...
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| Austria says detained 14-year-old on terrorism suspicions | | | Austrian authorities have detained on terrorism-related suspicions a 14-year-old boy who was allegedly planning to travel to Syria and had researched on the Internet how to build bombs, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The boy, a Turkish national who has lived in Austria for about eight years, was taken into custody late on Tuesday. "He admitted he had plans to go to Syria and searched the Internet for plans on how to build explosive devices," said Michaela Obenaus, spokeswoman for prosecutors in St. Poelten, the capital of Lower Austria province. Obenaus said the boy had expressed sympathy with Islamic State militants fighting in Syria and Iraq. |
| Canadian lawmakers strike defiant tone in return to Parliament | |  By Randall Palmer and Richard Valdmanis OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian lawmakers struck a defiant tone on Wednesday as they held their first caucuses since a gunman charged into the Parliament building after shooting dead a soldier in an attack that raised questions about the nation's low-key approach to security. Members of Parliament headed back to meeting rooms where some of them hid a week ago during a gun battle between security officers and an attacker described as a recent convert to Islam who struggled with drug addiction. We are only human," said David Christopherson, a member of the House of Commons representing Hamilton, Ontario, the hometown of Corporal Nathan Cirillo, 24, who was shot dead in the Oct. 22 attack in Ottawa. "I am going to walk back in the room and pick up where we left off last week and do the people's business." The attack and an incident two days earlier in which a man rammed two soldiers with his car near Montreal, killing one, came during a week in which Canada sent warplanes to take part in air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Iraq.
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