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| Icelandic voters to choose between Pirates and establishment | |  Iceland holds parliamentary elections on Saturday, with polls showing the opposition led by the anti-establishment Pirate Party could topple the current centre-right ruling coalition. Icelanders' faith in their political and financial establishment was shaken after the 2008 financial crisis and further eroded this year when several senior government figures were named in the Panama Papers. The biggest protests in the country's history ultimately led to the resignation of Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson of the Progressive Party and the early election this weekend.
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| Three in Florida, Virginia charged with voter fraud | |  Officials in Florida and Virginia filed voter fraud charges against three people in apparently unrelated cases on Friday, just 11 days before American voters cast ballots in the hotly contested presidential race. The charges targeted a Florida woman and a Virginia man accused of filing bogus voter registration forms and a Florida woman alleged to have tampered with absentee ballots she was opening at the Miami-Dade Elections Department.
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| Clinton says confident new emails will not change FBI probe's conclusion | | Friday, October 28, 2016 11:22 PM | |
| | DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday called on the FBI to release all new information in its probe of her private email server and said she did not think the agency would change its conclusion in July not to prosecute her. "The American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately. The director himself has said he doesn't know whether the emails referenced in his letter are significant or not. I'm confident whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached in July," she told reporters. ... |
| Rajoy set to win vote to be Spain's leader, ending gridlock | | Friday, October 28, 2016 11:06 PM | |
|  By Adrian Croft MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's 10 months without a government should end on Saturday when parliament is set to grudgingly grant conservative Mariano Rajoy a second term as prime minister. After two inconclusive elections and months of fruitless attempts at coalition-building, a controversial decision by the opposition Socialists to abstain should allow Rajoy to be confirmed as prime minister in a parliamentary confidence vote set for 7.45 p.m. (1745 GMT) on Saturday. The result will be a triumph for the 61-year-old Rajoy, who is renowned as a political survivor.
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| Factbox: Women who have alleged inappropriate conduct by Trump | | Friday, October 28, 2016 10:52 PM | |
| | (Reuters) - At least 12 women have accused U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of sexual advances and groping. In a 2005 video that emerged on Oct. 7, Trump boasted about grabbing women by the genitals and kissing them without their consent. Trump has called "absolutely false" the allegations by several women of groping and other misconduct, reported by The New York Times and other news media. |
| Maduro is Venezuelan, top court rules | | Friday, October 28, 2016 9:46 PM | |
|  Venezuela's top court on Friday ruled that President Nicolas Maduro is indeed Venezuelan, responding to years of opposition speculation that the socialist leader was in fact born in neighbouring Colombia and has dual citizenship. "The incontrovertible evidence demonstrates with absolute certainty that the aforementioned Venezuelan head of state was born in Caracas," said the Supreme Court ruling, which also assured Maduro has no other nationality. Opposition leaders have demanded that Maduro show a birth certificate, and have noted discrepancies between different statements by public officials regarding where he was born.
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| U.S. voices concern to Myanmar about reported rapes of Rohingya women | | Friday, October 28, 2016 9:40 PM | |
| | The U.S. State Department said on Friday that it had voiced concern to Myanmar's foreign ministry about the reported rape of Rohingya Muslim women by soldiers during a recent upsurge in violence against the persecuted minority. State Department spokesman Mark Toner told a briefing that the United States wanted Myanmar to investigate the reported rapes and hold those responsible accountable. Toner said earlier that the United States had raised the issue with the Myanmar foreign minister, but the State Department later issued a transcript of the briefing saying it had brought the issue up with "the foreign ministry," not the foreign minister. |
| Biden says he's not interested in serving in Clinton administration | | Friday, October 28, 2016 9:32 PM | |
|  U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday he is not interested in serving under Democrat Hillary Clinton if she is elected president. "I'll do anything I can if Hillary's elected to help her, but I don't want to remain in the administration," Biden said in an interview with NBC's KBJR affiliate in Duluth, Minnesota. On Thursday, Politico reported that Clinton's campaign was considering Biden for secretary of state if she wins the Nov. 8 election.
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| U.S. Supreme Court takes up major transgender rights case | | Friday, October 28, 2016 9:16 PM | |
|  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed for the first time to rule on transgender rights in a case in which a Virginia public school district is fighting to prevent a female-born transgender high school student from using the boys' bathroom. The justices agreed to hear the Gloucester County School Board's appeal of a lower court's April 19 ruling that transgender students are protected under U.S. laws barring sex-based discrimination. The case involves a 17-year-old transgender student named Gavin Grimm, who identifies as male and sued in 2015 to win the right to use the school's boys' bathroom.
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| Clinton campaign says 'confident' FBI conclusion in email probe won't change | | Friday, October 28, 2016 8:11 PM | |
| | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said on Friday that the campaign was "confident" the FBI would again recommend against pressing charges against the former secretary of state relating to her use of a private email server once it wraps up the latest leg of its investigation. "The (FBI) Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining," campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement after the FBI said it was examining new emails for whether they contained classified information. ... |
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