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| Domestic abuse trial in UK soap opera sheds light on needs of real-life victims | | | By Pietro Lombardi LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A fictional domestic abuse trial in the popular British radio soap opera "The Archers" has prompted charities to call for more support for real-life victims of domestic abuse. The plight of character Helen Titchener, standing trial for stabbing her abusive husband Rob, has sparked a fundraising campaign, a social media hashtag and a debate on prison reform. "If Helen had access to specialist domestic abuse support in Ambridge (the fictional village where the character lives) perhaps she would not be on trial now," Polly Neate, chief executive of Women's Aid England said in a statement. |
| Bahrain brings new charges against man believed to be top democracy activist | |  Bahrain prosecutors on Monday filed new charges against a man believed by rights activists to be the Gulf state's most prominent jailed democracy campaigner, Nabeel Rajab, after the New York Times published an op-ed under his byline. The prosecutor of the Gulf state's northern region, Mohammed Salah, said a man had been questioned over a complaint from the cybercrime unit accusing him of "publishing a column in a foreign newspaper in which he deliberately broadcast news, statements and false rumours that undermine the kingdom's prestige and stature". Salah did not identify the man or name the newspaper, but a rights group and a lawyer said the statement clearly referred to Rajab, who had been in jail since June on charges related to anti-government tweets published last year, including one accusing the security forces of torturing detainees.
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| Gunfire kills two at New York Caribbean street party | |  By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two people were shot dead at a pre-dawn Caribbean heritage celebration in New York despite ramped-up efforts by police and community activists to prevent the violence that has plagued the annual event, authorities said on Monday. Gunfire erupted in three separate incidents during J'Ouvert, a street party tied to the Caribbean Carnival that draws tens of thousands of revelers in the borough of Brooklyn over the Labor Day Weekend. At the same event last year, two people were killed, including a top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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| G20 promises to coordinate on economy, but little in way of concrete steps | |  By Kevin Yao and Michael Martina HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Leaders from the world's top economies broadly agreed at a summit in China on Monday to coordinate macroeconomic policies, but few concrete proposals emerged to meet growing challenges to globalisation and free trade. At the two-day gathering in the scenic Chinese city of Hangzhou, the world's most powerful leaders also agreed to oppose protectionism, with Chinese President Xi Jinping urging major economies to drive growth through innovation, not just fiscal and monetary measures. "We will support multilateral trade mechanisms and oppose protectionism to reverse declines in global trade." Discussions at the meeting were distracted by North Korea test-firing three medium-range ballistic missiles in a defiant reminder of the risks to global security.
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| British lawmakers debate petition demanding second Brexit referendum | |  British lawmakers on Monday debated a petition signed by more than 4.1 million people that demands a second referendum on European Union membership. Britain's government has ruled out a second referendum and says that it is preparing to trigger the formal divorce proceedings that would eventually take Britain out of the club it joined in 1973. In the days following the referendum result, millions of people signed the petition calling for a second vote on membership.
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| Tata applies to set aside DoCoMo court order on asset claims | |  By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Tata Sons Ltd said on Monday it had made an application to set aside an order obtained by NTT DoCoMo from a London court that would allow the Japanese company to lay claim to Tata's overseas assets to settle a dispute over Tata Teleservices. In June, London's Commercial Court ordered Tata to pay $1.17 billion to DoCoMo to settle the dispute. Tata has said it is willing to pay DoCoMo and has already deposited the money with the High Court of Delhi, but India's central bank has refused to allow the payment as it would contravene domestic regulations.
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| Obama throws planned meeting with Philippines leader into doubt | |  By Roberta Rampton and Manuel Mogato HANGZHOU, China/VIENTIANE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he was considering whether or not to meet his Filipino counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, as planned, amid alarm over the latter's campaign against illegal drugs in which thousands of people have died. Earlier in the day, the plain-talking Duterte had told reporters he would swear at Obama if he tried to question him about extrajudicial killings, using a Filipino phrase for "son of a bitch" to describe the U.S. president. Speaking at a G20 meeting in China, and before travelling to Laos for a summit where he was due to hold talks with Duterte, Obama said he had asked his team to find out if "constructive, productive conversations" were possible.
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| Beijing warns Hong Kong radicals over calls for independence | |  By Venus Wu and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Several pro-independence candidates won seats in Hong Kong's first major election since pro-democracy protests in 2014, prompting a robust warning from China that any independence would damage the city's security and prosperity. In comments carried by the official Xinhua news agency, China's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office said it "resolutely opposed" any form of independence for Hong Kong, noting this would violate China's constitution.
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| Special agency needed to protect Indian children from traffickers | |  By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Decades of neglect of Indian children's rights have created a breeding ground for children to be trafficked and abused, said a prominent lawmaker on Monday, calling for a dedicated agency to detect and prosecute child traffickers. Crime data released by the government last week showed more than 40 percent of human trafficking cases in 2015 involved children being bought, sold and exploited as modern day slaves. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who last year set up the campaign group the National Coalition to Protect our Children, said Indian society had long been in denial about child exploitation.
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| Suu Kyi oversees panel on plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims | |  By Simon Daniel Lewis YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former U.N. chief Kofi Annan on Monday oversaw the first meeting of a panel tasked with bringing peace to a region where violence between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims has cast a pall over the country's democratic transition. The plight of the Rohingya has raised questions about Suu Kyi's commitment to human rights and represents a politically sensitive issue for her National League for Democracy, which won a landslide election victory last year. The commission, whose aim is to stop human rights abuses in the northwestern state of Rakhine, was chaired by Annan.
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