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| Bulgaria lifts statute of limitations for communist-era crimes | | | Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday lifted the statute of limitations for prosecuting political crimes from the communist era, clearing the way to pursue cases including the notorious assassination of an exiled dissident. Among them was the killing of exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgy Markov with the poisoned tip of an umbrella on London's Waterloo Bridge in 1978. Bulgaria's statute of limitations had run for 35 years. |
| CORRECTED: Japan takes key step to passage of security bills despite protests | |  (Corrects name of Abe's grandfather) By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan took a step on Thursday towards enacting legislation for a policy shift that would allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, part of the prime minister's agenda to loosen the limits of a pacifist constitution. The security policy shift, which Abe says is vital to meet challenges such as a rising China, has sparked protests and sharply eroded his popular support. Opponents argue it violates the constitution and fear it could ensnare Japan in U.S.-led conflicts.
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| Refugees see last chance for Europe before winter closes route from Turkey | | | By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Syrians and other migrants thronged a small park in central Istanbul, hoping for a last chance to reach Europe before poor weather makes their favoured route from Turkey to Greece too dangerous to undertake. "It is time to go, while the door to Europe is open," said Zopir, 20, who fled the Syrian town of Deir al-Zor three years ago and now wants to reach Europe before his wife, eight months pregnant, gives birth. "I am afraid, but I am ready." Zopir scraped together 8,000 euros ($9,000) for their trip, which begins in and near the park in Aksaray, a working-class district of Istanbul, by hiring a "dealer": a front man for smugglers who help refugees reach the Aegean coast. |
| GM pays $900 mln in U.S. criminal settlement over ignition switches | |  General Motors Co agreed to pay $900 million and admit to misleading the government and the public about the safety of its vehicles to end a U.S. criminal investigation into its handling of defective ignition switches linked to 124 deaths. The settlement and charges, which were detailed in papers filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, have transformed the relationship between the automaker and the U.S. government, which had bailed out GM during the financial crisis. GM admitted to failing to disclose to its U.S. regulator and the public a potentially lethal safety defect with the switches that kept airbags from deploying in some vehicles.
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| Pakistani police accuse businessman of helping al Qaeda | | | (Corrects to clarify man was expelled from air force college, did not become pilot) By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested a businessman who donated funds to the Taliban and al Qaeda, police told Reuters on Wednesday, in a rare case targeting those who financially contribute to militancy. The suspect, Syed Sheaba Ahmed, was detained in the southern city of Karachi, police said although they did not say when. "Ahmed has also been financing Afghan Taliban, we are still in the process of ascertaining if he has been providing financing through his businesses or someone else is behind him," the officer said. |
| Blasts in central Baghdad leave 23 dead, 68 wounded | |  At least ?23? people were killed and 68 others wounded when three bombs went off in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods in central Baghdad on Thursday, security and medical sources said. Two suicide blasts claimed by Islamic State killed at least 19 people in the commercial district of Bab al-Shargi, a demonstration that the Sunni insurgent group can still launch attacks in the heart of the capital despite government efforts to thwart them. Baghdad is trying to dislodge Islamic State from large swathes of the country's north and west, but advances have been slow, particularly in the western province of Anbar, where Baghdad has been focusing its attention for months.
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| UK police watchdog examines new political sex abuse cover-up claims | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's police watchdog said on Thursday it would investigate more than a dozen new claims that officers covered up or shut down child sex inquiries or prosecutions between 1970 and 2000 because they involved public officials or lawmakers. Since 2012 when it was revealed the late BBC TV presenter Jimmy Savile was a prolific sex offender, there has been a flood of speculation and accusations that powerful figures including senior politicians were involved in paedophile rings and were protected by high-ranking police officers. In May, an officer leading a nationwide investigation into historical child sex abuse said more than 1,400 people had been named as suspects including 261 "people of public prominence". |
| Interview: Somali president says rebel attacks don't mean resurgence | |  By Abdi Sheikh and Abdirahman Hussein MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has dismissed the capture of settlements by al Shabaab militants this month, saying they had no strategic value and it did not signal a resurgence of the Islamist group. Al Shabaab, which wants to topple Mohamud and his Western-backed government, retook the central Somali town of Buqda and two other southern settlements this month and has attacked African troops. The raids follow a military campaign by the African Union's AMISOM forces and Somali troops that pushed the rebels out of towns on the coast and drove them into increasingly small pockets of countryside mostly in the south of Somalia.
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| Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor walk through London to support refugees | |  Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei and British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor led a protest march through central London on Thursday to press for "human rather than political" responses to the refugee crisis. The two artists each carried a tatty, grey blanket as a symbol of the needs of the world's refugees, whose number reached a record 60 million this year, according to the United Nations refugee agency. Ai, who called last week for the British government to accept greater numbers of refugees streaming across European borders, said on Thursday at the start of the march that the problem "concerns everybody." Kapoor also urged European governments to do more.
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