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| End of China's one-child policy may slow U.S. asylum cases - experts | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's decision on Thursday to allow couples to have two children after decades of limiting families to a single child may slow the flood of Chinese immigrants receiving political asylum in the United States, legal experts said. In recent years, more immigrants from China have been granted U.S. asylum than from any other country. In part, that reflects an unusual aspect of U.S. immigration law that lowers the bar required for Chinese nationals seeking asylum. |
| Illinois, New Jersey men admit to trying to support Islamic State | | | By Fiona Ortiz and Nate Raymond CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Thursday secured guilty pleas from two men in New Jersey and Chicago for trying to provide support to the Islamic State in a pair of cases following investigations nationally into potential supporters of the militant group. Alaa Saadeh, a 24-year-old who was among several men arrested in recent months in New York and New Jersey and accused of trying to aid the Islamic State, pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark to conspiring with others to provide material support to the group. In a separate federal case in Chicago, Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 20, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, as part of deal in which prosecutors will seek at most five years in prison. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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