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| U.S. welcomes arbitration decision against China's claims in South China Sea - official | | | The United States on Thursday welcomed the decision of an arbitration court in the Netherlands that it has jurisdiction to hear some territorial claims the Philippines filed against China over disputed parts of the South China Sea, a senior U.S. defence official said. |
| American Airlines flight diverted after passenger's 'alarming' 9-11 speech | | | An American Airlines flight bound for Philadelphia from Los Angeles was diverted to Phoenix on Thursday after a passenger made "alarming" statements referencing the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, police said. The passenger was removed from American Airlines Flight 754 at Phoenix Sky Harbor International airport and transported to a psychiatric facility for evaluation under an involuntary hold, said Sergeant Vince Lewis of the Phoenix Police Department. The flight, which departed Los Angeles International Airport at 8:38 a.m. Pacific Time, carried 150 passengers, three infants and six crew members, and was refueled and allowed to continue on to Philadelphia, a spokesman for American Airlines said. |
| Once a month, Modi steps in to revive stalled projects | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Paritosh Bansal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi is personally taking on India's notorious red tape to clear tens of billions of dollars worth of stalled public projects, hoping that his hands-on intervention can bend a vast, dysfunctional bureaucracy. Once a month, Modi holds a meeting with top state and federal bureaucrats to check why projects have not got off the ground. Modi has won plaudits for the initiative that has chipped away at a $150 billion backlog of planned roads, ports, railways, power stations and other projects.
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| Number of Zimbabwe elephants killed with cyanide rises to 60 | |  Suspected poachers have used cyanide to kill 23 elephants in Zimbabwe's Hwange national park, raising the death toll there and in the northern part of the country to 60 since late September, officials said on Thursday. Hwange national park in western Zimbabwe currently hosts 53,000 elephants, twice the park's carrying capacity. Park rangers recovered most of the tusks after the 23 elephants were killed with the deadly poison last Friday but poachers got away with three tusks, officials said.
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| Poll sees ruling AKP winning large majority in Turkish election | |  Turkey's ruling AK Party has increased its support by six percentage points ahead of a snap election on Sunday, pollster Adil Gur said on Thursday, enough to form a single-party majority after falling short in a June poll. After failing to form a coalition, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu formed an interim cabinet.
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| Turkey ruling party hopes crackdown on Kurds will win back support in heartland | | | By Dasha Afanasieva KAYSERI, Turkey (Reuters) - Like other conservative voters in Turkey's pious, Anatolian heartland, 55-year-old Yasin deserted the ruling AK Party in June parliamentary elections, fearing it had gone soft on Kurdish militants after years of peace talks. Now, he says, he has been wooed back by a renewed crackdown on insurgents of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and plans to once again vote for the AKP in the Nov. 1 election re-run. "You give them a finger, they take your arm," he said, referring to the PKK, which has carried out a three-decade insurgency for greater Kurdish autonomy. |
| Illinois man pleads guilty to trying to join Islamic State | | | By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - A 20-year-old Chicago-area man pleaded guilty on Thursday to a federal charge of trying to provide support to Islamic State militants in exchange for prosecutors agreeing to seek a prison sentence of no more than five years. Mohammed Hamzah Khan told U.S. District Judge John Tharp that he had intended to travel to Syria to work for Islamic State, including taking a possible combat role, and acknowledged that he knew the U.S. government considers the group a terrorist organisation. Khan was 19 when he was arrested in October 2014 at O'Hare International Airport as he tried to travel to the Middle East with his siblings, then 17 and 16 years old. |
| Myanmar opposition candidate attacked with machetes | | | By Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun YANGON (Reuters) - An opposition lawmaker and two other people were attacked with machetes and injured on Thursday, in the first serious violent incident in campaigning for Myanmar's historic Nov.8 election, his campaign manager said. Naing Nan Lynn, a lower house lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, who is running for a seat in the regional assembly in Yangon, was attacked while campaigning around 9.30 p.m. by three men with machetes. |
| Mali's army says it kills five Islamists near Burkina border | | | Mali's army has killed five Islamist fighters believed to have been behind a series of attacks along the border with Burkina Faso, a spokesman said on Thursday. Clashes erupted on Wednesday in the Tiebanda Forest, in central Mali's Mopti region, and ended in the early evening, said Colonel Souleymane Maiga. A number of Islamist militants were also wounded, he said, while the army suffered no casualties. |
| Moroccan intellectual suspends hunger strike, faces charges: lawyer | |  By Aziz El Yaakoubi RABAT, Oct 29 (Reuters) - A prominent Moroccan intellectual has suspended his hunger strike after authorities ended a travel ban, but has been charged with receiving foreign funds with the intent to undermine Moroccan institutions, his lawyers said. Maati Monjib, a professor of political history and writer, went on hunger strike three weeks ago in protest against the travel ban and what he said was police harassment. Authorities said they imposed the ban because of their investigation into suspected financial wrongdoing in an institution Monjib had been running.
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| German police arrest man suspected of abducting migrant boy | | | Police in Berlin have arrested a 32-year-old man suspected of abducting a 4-year-old migrant boy after the body of a child was found in the boot of his car. Mohamed Januzi disappeared on Oct. 1 while waiting outside the offices of the government programme for social care with his mother and two siblings. Police spokesman Stefan Redlich told a news conference that they had received a tip-off from the suspect's mother on Thursday after he had told her he was involved in Mohamed's abduction. |
| Exclusive: Asian sports chief hopes for election deal between AFC and UEFA | | | By Simon Evans WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the top powerbrokers in global sport, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, said a direct battle between Asian and European candidates for president of crisis-hit world soccer body FIFA should be averted by the striking of a deal between the pair. In an interview with Reuters, Kuwaiti Sheikh Ahmad said he still hoped that suspended UEFA chief Michel Platini would be able to stand as president in February to lead FIFA out of the worst corruption scandal of its 111-year history. |
| Newly elected speaker Ryan promises to fix 'broken' U.S. House | |  By David Lawder and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly elected U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday promised to sweep away Republican Party differences and repair a "broken" House of Representatives by returning legislative power to committees and rank-and-file members. Ryan won 236 votes among the chamber's 247 Republicans to be elected speaker, abandoned by only a handful of conservatives who mounted repeated revolts that pushed out his predecessor, John Boehner, who retired. Ryan said in a speech after the vote that infighting in the Republican-majority House had been counterproductive and added to the legislative gridlock in Washington.
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| White House says Obama 'hopeful' he can work with House Speaker Ryan | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday said President Barack Obama is hopeful he can work with new U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama called Ryan to wish him well on his new leadership position. Earnest said Obama respects Ryan despite their "significant policy differences." (Reporting by Julia Edwards; Editing by Bill Trott) |
| Anti-establishment rocker holds key to reshaping Poland | |  By Wiktor Szary and Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) - Covered in tattoos and known for his foul-mouthed lyrics, Polish rapper Liroy would appear an unlikely ally for the deeply conservative and religious Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who has just scored a stunning election victory. Kaczynski, a former prime minister, needs no coalition partner for PiS to govern.
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