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| U.S. Supreme Court has reasons to duck transgender rights fight | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide within weeks whether to hear a major transgender rights case for the first time, a dispute involving which bathroom a Virginia high school student can use, but the justices have reasons to duck the issue. The local school board is asking the justices to hear its appeal of an April 19 ruling by the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found that transgender students are protected under U.S. laws that bar sex-based discrimination. If the high court refuses to hear the case, the justices would leave in place the groundbreaking appeals court ruling in favor of transgender rights that Grimm could use the bathroom of the student's choice.
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| Two French teenagers arrested for ties to jihadist | | | French police arrested two young women from the city of Nice in mid-September for suspected ties to Islamist State militant Rachid Kassim, the Paris prosecutors' office said on Sunday. Aged 17 and 19, the teenagers used the Telegram encrypted messaging system to communicate with Kassim, who is suspected of having participated in several attacks or attempted attacks in France, a spokesman said, confirming an earlier report by newspaper Le Parisien. "They were incited to commit an attack on specific targets in retaliation for the recent death of the Islamic State's spokesman (Abu Muhammad al-Adnani)," a source close to the investigation told Le Parisien. |
| Jordanian writer shot dead outside court before trial over cartoon | | | By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam, witnesses and state media said. A security source said he was a 39-year-old Muslim preacher in a mosque in the capital. Hattar, a Christian and a anti-Islamist activist who was a supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was arrested last month after he shared a caricature that depicted a bearded man in heaven smoking in bed with women and asking God to bring him wine and cashews. |
| When temporary is permanent: EU court verdict fans calls for Spanish jobs overhaul | | | By Sarah White MADRID (Reuters) - An EU court ruling defending the right of temporary workers in Spain to receive severance pay is fuelling calls from Spanish unions and politicians for one of Europe's most uneven labour markets to be fixed. Spain has the European Union's second-highest unemployment rate after Greece and its labour market is more reliant on temporary contracts than any other in the bloc bar Poland. The European Court of Justice blew open the issue after it argued in a September 14 ruling that a Spanish woman who was employed as a temporary substitute for a civil servant over seven years was entitled to the same severance pay as a permanent employee when she was let go. |
| Russia guilty of prolonging war in Syria, UK foreign minister says | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Russia is guilty of prolonging the war in Syria and may have committed war crimes by targetting an aid convoy, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said in an interview aired on Sunday. A 31-truck convoy was attacked on Monday night, killing around 20 civilians. U.S. officials believe Russian aircraft were responsible for the strike, but Moscow has denied involvement. "(Russia) are guilty of protracting this war and making it far more hideous," Johnson told the BBC's Andrew Marr show. ... |
| Blast rocks Hungary's capital, two injured | | | An explosion rocked central Budapest late on Saturday, injuring two police officers, Hungarian police said on Sunday. The blast was next to an unused store front on a one of the busiest thoroughfares in central Budapest. Images on local news media showed a ruined doorway. |
| Suspect in fatal shooting of 5 at Washington state mall captured | |  By Matt Mills McKnight BURLINGTON, Wash. (Reuters) - A man believed to have opened fire with a rifle at a Washington state mall, killing five people, was captured on Saturday, one day after the attack, authorities said. Washington State Patrol spokesman Keith Leary said in a phone interview that the suspect was taken into custody but declined to immediately release more details. Seattle television station KOMO reported on Twitter that the suspect had been captured in Oak Harbor, a community about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Burlington where the mall shooting occurred on Friday.
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| Police search for motive in deadly Washington state mall shooting | |  Authorities on Sunday were still working to determine what prompted a 20-year-old man to open fire in a Washington state mall, killing five people. Police arrested the suspected gunman, Arcan Cetin of Oak Harbor, Washington, on Saturday. Police said he was taken into custody without incident in Oak Harbor, some 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Burlington where the shooting occurred on Friday night.
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| Coalition raids kill 9 in central Yemen - medical sources, residents | | | Arab coalition air strikes killed nine people in Houthi-controlled Ibb city in central Yemen late on Saturday, medical sources and residents in the area told Reuters. A spokesman for the Saudi-led alliance of Arab countries could not immediately be contacted. The coalition, which began operations in Yemen in March last year to try to reverse the rise to power of the Iran-allied Houthi group, has repeatedly said it does not target civilians. |
| Charlotte protesters keep marching after police release shooting video | |  By Robert MacMillan and Mike Blake CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - Nearly a week of protests over the police killing of a black man in Charlotte, North Carolina showed no signs of abating on Sunday, after police released videos showing the victim being shot but did not answer the question of whether he had a gun. Hundreds marched through the center of Charlotte on a fifth night of demonstrations that stretched into Sunday morning, including white and black families protesting police violence. One sign read "Stop police brutality" and another showed a picture of a bloody handprint with the phrase #AMINEXT, a social media tag about the fear of becoming a victim of police.
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