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| Myanmar ruling party meets ahead of parliamentary showdown | |  (Corrects name of ruling party lawmaker in paras 10,11) By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's President Thein Sein made a rare appearance at the ruling party headquarters on Monday as his newly installed leadership team prepared for a showdown in parliament with his rival, ousted party chairman Shwe Mann. Members of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), made up mostly of former military officers, made an appeal for unity at the meeting, with the country's first free elections in 25 years due in three months. The party, which took power in 2011 to end almost half a century of military rule, is expected to fare poorly against Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy in the vote.
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| Five Nicaraguan police officers killed in attack | | | MANAGUA (Reuters) - Five Nicaraguan police officers were killed on Sunday in the south of the country after being attacked by a criminal group trying to free one of its members that had been detained, police said. Police said they would give more details about the incident, which took place in Punta Gorda in the south of the country on the Caribbean side, on Monday. (Reporting by Ivan Castro) |
| Sri Lankans go to polls in 'referendum' on Rajapaksa comeback | |  By Shihar Aneez and Douglas Busvine COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankans went to the polls on Monday to elect a new parliament in what amounts to a referendum on ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa's comeback bid, with the reformist alliance that swept him from power seeking a stronger mandate. The nationalist strongman has set his sights on becoming premier of a government led by his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). Sirisena, in a cross-party alliance with a government led by the United National Party (UNP), has sought to break with that troubled past by passing reforms to weaken his own presidency and make the government more open and accountable.
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| Fukushima operator's mounting legal woes to fuel nuclear opposition | |  By Kentaro Hamada IWAKI, Japan (Reuters) - Four and a half years after the Fukushima disaster, and as Japan tentatively restarts nuclear power elsewhere, the legal challenges are mounting for the crippled plant's operator. Also, class actions against Tepco and the government now have more plaintiffs than any previous Japanese contamination suit and, overruling reluctant prosecutors, criminal charges have been levelled against former Tepco executives for failing to take measures to prevent the 2011 meltdowns and explosions. Radiation from the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986 forced 160,000 people from their homes, many never to return, and destroyed businesses, fisheries and agriculture.
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| Granddaughter of actor Morgan Freeman stabbed to death | |  Actor Morgan Freeman on Sunday announced the death of his granddaughter, Edena Hines, 33, who New York City police said was found fatally stabbed near her residence. Police responded to a 911 call just before 3 a.m. ET on Sunday and found a woman later identified as Hines lying in the street in the Harlem section of New York, said police spokesman George Tsourovakas. Hines was an actor, writer and acting instructor in New York, according to her website.
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| Greek opposition party refuses to back PM in any confidence vote | |  Greece's socialist PASOK party joined the main opposition on Sunday in saying it would not back Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras if he calls a confidence vote following a rebellion in the governing party over a new bailout deal. Tsipras had to rely on opposition groups including PASOK to win a parliamentary majority on Friday in favour of the 86 billion euro bailout programme, Greece's third with international creditors since 2010. By contrast, Tsipras suffered the biggest rebellion yet among anti-bailout lawmakers from his leftist Syriza party, forcing him to consider a confidence vote that would pave the way for early elections if he loses.
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| Iraqi panel finds Maliki, others responsible for fall of Mosul | |  By Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Iraqi parliamentary panel called on Sunday for former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and dozens of other top officials to stand trial over the fall of the northern city of Mosul to Islamic State last year. Separately, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi directed military commanders accused of abandoning their posts in Ramadi, the capital of western Anbar province which was overrun by Islamic State in May, to face court martial. The moves come a week after Abadi launched a sweeping campaign to reform the governing system, and are the most drastic steps yet taken by Baghdad to provide accountability for the loss of nearly a third of the country's territory to the radical jihadists.
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| U.S. warns China on agents pressuring expatriates to return home - NY Times | | | The United States has sent a warning to Beijing about Chinese agents it says are operating covertly in the United States to pressure fugitives, including some suspected of corruption, to return to China, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Citing U.S. officials, the newspaper said the operation, named Operation Fox Hunt, was part of a worldwide effort by Beijing to repatriate fugitives and recover funds suspected of being tied to criminal activity. The Times said the State Department warned China in recent weeks to stop the agents' activities. |
| Brazil protesters keep pressure on President Rousseff | |  By Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets in dozens of Brazilian cities on Sunday to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, blaming her for a vast corruption scandal and the economy's worst slump in a quarter century. Less than a year into her tumultuous second term, the left-wing president's approval rating has dwindled to single digits and polls show that two in three Brazilians support calls for her impeachment. In the third wave of demonstrations against Rousseff this year, protesters convened by social media across Latin America's largest country created a festive family atmosphere and chanted "Out with Dilma!" About 135,000 people swarmed Sao Paulo's financial district, according to pollster Datafolha, and 25,000 assembled in front of Congress in Brasilia, according to police.
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| Egypt's Sisi approves anti-terrorism law setting up special courts | |  Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and provides protections to its enforcers in the face of a two-year-long insurgency that aims to topple his government. It also shields those applying it, such as the military and police, from legal ramifications for the proportionate use of force "in performing their duties." Sisi had promised a tougher legal system in July, after a car bomb attack that killed the top public prosecutor, the highest level state official to be killed in years. Financing "terrorist groups" will also carry a penalty of life in prison, which in Egypt is 25 years.
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| Poverty drives Myanmar girls into underage sex work | | | By Htet Khaung Lin YANGON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Teenager Wut Yee was devastated when her mother, a sex worker, told her that she had just agreed to sell her daughter's virginity to a businessman for $3,000. Wut Yee, then 14, had quit school to handle household chores and look after her brother but had no other source of income. The monsoon was coming and their thatch-roofed house in Yangon's Hlaingthaya Township required urgent repairs. |
| Uber plans to increase security staff to 100 people - FT | |  REUTERS - The popular ride-hailing service, Uber Technologies Inc, will increase its security team to more than 100 employees by the end of the year to boost the company's defenses against data breaches and attacks from hackers, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The company, which was recently valued at $50 billion, would hire around 25 additional employees. Uber could not immediately be reached for comment. (Reporting By Elizabeth Dilts in New York; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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| Rio film team robbed at cycling test event | | | RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A team employed by the city of Rio de Janeiro to film a road cycling test event for next year's Olympic Games were robbed at gunpoint, according to Brazilian news reports on Sunday. Two armed men on a motorbike approached the group of five and robbed them of camera equipment and a mobile phone, the Globo news network said. The team were setting up to film 100 cyclists from 20 countries as they went past during the 164.9 km road race. ... |
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