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| Top Turkish generals say knew of no coup plot as retrial begins | | | By Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two retired generals who led Turkey's armed forces at the time of an alleged 2003 coup plot told a retrial of hundreds of officers on Monday that they knew of no plans to topple then-Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. The constitutional court quashed their convictions in June, ruling the case against them flawed. The 2010-2012 "Sledgehammer" trial was a high point in Erdogan's drive to tame an army that for decades had dominated politics. In sending senior officers to jail, the case eroded the authority and power of NATO's second biggest army at a time of tensions on the borders with Syria and Iraq. |
| Suicide blast kills 23 during Nigerian Shi'ite ceremony - witnesses | | | A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people in a procession of Shi'ite Muslims marking the ritual of Ashoura in northeast Nigeria's Yobe state on Monday, witnesses said. The attacker joined the line of Shi'ites before setting off his device as they marched through a market in the town of Potiskum, in a territory at the heart of an insurgency by Sunni Muslim Boko Haram rebels, resident Yusuf Abdullahi told Reuters. Mohammed Gana, whose brother was killed in the attack, said he counted 23 bodies at the scene. Boko Haram's five-year-old campaign for an Islamic state, which has killed thousands, is seen as the main security threat to Africa's biggest economy and leading oil producer. |
| Market blast kills 10 in Nigeria's Yobe - witness | | | YOBE Nigeria (Reuters) - - An explosion killed 10 people in Nigeria's northeastern State of Yobe on Monday as Shi'ite Muslims marched through a market, marking the ritual of Ashoura, a witness told Reuters. The blast hit the town of Potiskum, in a territory at the heart of an insurgency by Boko Haram Islamist rebels. (Reporting by Joe Hemba; Writing by Chijioke Ohuocha; Editing by Andrew Heavens) |
| Bangladesh court upholds death sentence for convicted war criminal | |  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death penalty for an Islamist leader over atrocities committed during the country's war of independence from Pakistan more than four decades ago. In May last year, a special war crimes tribunal found Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, 62, an assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, guilty of genocide and torture of unarmed civilians during the 1971 war. The tribunals have delivered death sentences for two Jamaat leaders, including its party chief and former minister, Motiur Rahman Nizami, over the past week.
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| Berlin wants UK to stay in EU but won't negotiate on immigration | |  Germany wants Britain to remain an "active and engaged" member of the European Union but will not cede on Prime Minister David Cameron's plans to curb immigration from other EU countries, Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said on Monday. "It is up to Britain to clarify what role it wants to play in future in the European Union. This is not a bilateral matter between Germany and Britain but between Britain and all of its European partners," said Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert.
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| Thai tourist murder suspects accuse police of torture - lawyer | | | A lawyer representing two Myanmar men charged with the murder of two British tourists in Thailand said on Monday that their families have asked Thai authorities to investigate allegations of torture. The bodies of British tourists Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were discovered on a rocky alcove on the island of Koh Tao on Sept. 15. Last month police said two men - Myanmar workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun - had admitted to the killings. The murders have dented tourism, which accounts for nearly 10 percent of Thailand's gross domestic product, at a time when the country is still under martial law following a May coup. |
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