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| Nepali police charge protesters at India border post |
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 By Ross Adkin and Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali police baton charged protesters to clear a key checkpoint on the border with India on Monday as they attempted to end a blockade that has badly damaged relations with the country's big southern neighbour. Nepal has faced an acute fuel crisis for more than a month since protesters in the lowland south, angered that a new constitution fails to reflect their interests, prevented supply trucks from entering from India. Many in Nepal see India's hand in the protests, although New Delhi denies any role.
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| China says one-child policy stays in effect for now |
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 China must continue to enforce its one-child policy until new rules allowing all couples to have two children go into effect, the top family planning body said. The ruling Communist Party said last week that Beijing would loosen its decades-old one-child policy. The online statement by the National Health and Family Planning Commission contradicts a remark by a family planning official in the southern province of Hunan, who said last week that couples currently pregnant with a second child will not be punished, according to the Hunan Daily newspaper.
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| China to prosecute former Xinjiang editor who queried party line |
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| By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China will prosecute the former editor-in-chief of the official Communist Party publication in the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang on charges of corruption after he queried ethnic and security policies, the paper said on Monday. Hundreds of people have died in the last few years in Xinjiang unrest blamed by the government on Islamist militants. China denies any such repression takes place. |
| North Korea's girl with seven names still feels hunted |
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 By Bill Tarrant UBUD, Indonesia (Reuters) - The girl with seven names is finding it hard these days to contact relatives in Stalinist North Korea on the underground mobile phone link defectors have used for years. Hyeonseo Lee is also increasingly worried about her personal security since the July publication of the best-selling memoir about her escape from North Korea, "The Girl with Seven Names". Defectors living in South Korea contact relatives in the North through Chinese mobile phones that are smuggled across the border.
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| Turkish PM calls for new constitution after election victory |
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 ANKARA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called on Turkey's political parties to come together and agree a new constitution after his ruling AK Party regained its parliamentary majority at a general election on Sunday. "I'm calling on all parties entering parliament to form a new civilian national constitution," he said in a balcony speech to thousands of AKP supporters at the party headquarters in Ankara, as fireworks lit the sky. "Let's work together towards a Turkey where conflict, tension and polarisation are non-existent and everyone salutes each other in peace. ...
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| Turkey's Erdogan says election outcome was a vote for stability |
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 ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday's election result, in which the AK Party he founded regained its majority, showed that the nation had chosen to protect an environment of stability and confidence. Erdogan also said in an emailed statement that the most important message from the result was for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group that "violence, threats and bloodshed cannot coexist with democracy and the rule of law. ...
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| Turkey returns to single-party rule in boost for Erdogan |
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 By Ercan Gurses and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Islamist-rooted AK Party swept to an unexpected victory in elections on Sunday, returning the country to single-party rule in an outcome that will boost the power of President Tayyip Erdogan but may sharpen deep social divisions. Erdogan said the outcome was a vote for stability, and a message to Kurdish insurgents in the country's restive southeast that violence could not coexist with democracy. Prime Minister and AKP leader Ahmet Davutoglu tweeted simply "Elhamdulillah" (Thanks be to god), before emerging from his family home in the central Anatolian city of Konya to briefly address crowds of cheering supporters.
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