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| Pistorius freed on parole after year behind bars for killing girlfriend | |  By TJ Strydom JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's "Blade Runner", will be released on parole on Tuesday, a day short of a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, 28, who was found guilty of the lesser charge when he fired four shots through a locked bathroom door and hit Steenkamp, will be confined to his uncle Arnold's home in a wealthy suburb of the capital Pretoria. The athlete, whose lower legs were amputated when he was a baby, will be freed in line with South African sentencing guidelines that say non-dangerous prisoners should spend only one-sixth of a custodial sentence behind bars.
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| Libya's recognised parliament rejects U.N. proposal for unity government | | | By Ayman Al-Warfalli BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's internationally-recognised parliament decided on Monday to reject a United Nations proposal for a unity government, lawmakers said, in a blow to efforts to end a political crisis. Libya is in the grip of a war between the internationally-recognised government and its elected parliament on the one side and an unofficial self-styled government controlling Tripoli. Four years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Western powers are pushing for both sides to accept the U.N. accord, fearing violence has allowed Islamist militants to gain ground and illegal migrant smugglers to take advantage of the chaos. |
| Barca to fight UEFA fine with all legal means | | | Barcelona have vowed to use all legal means to fight a second fine imposed by UEFA after fans displayed pro-Catalan independence flags during September's Champions League Group E match at home to Bayer Leverkusen. Barca were already fined 30,000 euros ($33,963) by European soccer's Swiss-based governing body in July after supporters waved the flags, known as "Esteladas", and chanted pro-independence slogans at the Champions League final in Berlin. UEFA's Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body ruled the club had breached article 16 (2) (e) of the regulations, which prohibits "the use of gestures, words, objects or any other means to transmit any message that is not fit for a sports event, particularly messages that are of a political, ideological, religious, offensive or provocative nature". |
| U.N. condemns Iran's execution of minors, notes 'worrying trend' | |  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned Iran's execution of two minors last week, while voicing his concern about the rise in executions in the Islamic republic. "(Ban) is deeply saddened by the news of the execution of two juvenile offenders last week in Iran," Ban's press office said in a statement. It added that Iran has ratified both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibit the death penalty for anyone under the age of eighteen.
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| Bus blast kills 11 in Pakistan's Baluchistan province | |  The bomb exploded as the bus was bound for the city suburbs, carrying dozens of passengers home from work, police official Abdul Waheed Khattak said. Baluchistan province has seen almost a decade of separatist violence against government personnel and security forces as well as non-Baluch ethnic groups. "This is a cowardly act that has targeted innocent people," said Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti, Baluchistan's home minister.
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| Fighting near Syria's Aleppo displaces 35,000: U.N. | |  Fighting in Syria has displaced 35,000 people from Hader and Zerbeh on the southwestern outskirts of the city of Aleppo in the past few days, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday. "Many people are living with host families and in the informal settlements near Kafer Naha and Orem al Kubra in countryside west of the city," a spokeswoman said in an emailed comment, citing reports OCHA had received from the area.
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| Ageism in U.S. workplace: a persistent problem unlikely to go away | | | By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Leslye Evans-Lane left her teaching job in New Mexico at the age of 58 to move to Oregon with her husband, she never imagined that it would be difficult to find work. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 20,588 charges of age discrimination in 2014, a rise from 17,837 a decade earlier. Although the number dropped from a peak of 24,582 in 2008, legal and employment experts said it is a common phenomenon that will increase with millennials eager to enter the workforce and baby boomers reluctant to leave it. |
| Turkey names one of Ankara suicide bombers - media | |  Turkish authorities have identified one of two suicide bombers who killed 102 people in an attack this month as a young man from southeast Turkey whose brother carried out a similar attack in July, state media reported prosecutors as saying on Monday. The Ankara prosecutor's office named the bomber as Yunus Emre Alagoz from the town of Adiyaman and said work was continuing on identifying the other bomber, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Alagoz was a prime suspect in the Ankara bombing targeting pro-Kurdish activists, the worst attack of its kind in modern Turkey's history, which occurred as political parties prepared for a Nov. 1 parliamentary election.
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| More than half of Americans want tougher gun sale laws - survey | | | The number of Americans who believe the United States should have stricter laws on firearms sales rose by 8 percentage points over the past year, with 55 percent of respondents to a Gallup poll released on Monday preferring tighter regulations on sales. Gallup poll results were based on telephone interviews conducted from Oct. 7 to 11. |
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