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Dutch far-right leader Wilders on trial for inciting hatred | Monday, October 31, 2016 3:10 AM | |
| By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch anti-Islam opposition leader Geert Wilders goes on trial on Monday for inciting hatred and discrimination, 18 months after he led a chant for fewer Moroccans in the country and called them scum during campaigning for local elections. A verdict is due in December, just months before a March 15 parliamentary election in which Wilders' Freedom Party is vying for first place with Prime Minister Mark Rutte's conservative VVD, which rules in a fragile coalition with Labour. Wilders, who said on Friday he would not attend the hearings but just be represented by his lawyer, faces a fine of up to 7,400 euros ($8,100) and a year in jail for the remarks in early 2014.
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Violence and low turnout in Ivory Coast's constitutional referendum | Monday, October 31, 2016 3:06 AM | |
| By Joe Bavier and Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Violence erupted at around 100 polling stations in Ivory Coast on Sunday as voters decided whether to approve a new constitution that President Alassane Ouattara argues will ensure peace in the wake of years of political turmoil. Elections worker Nandi Bamba was preparing to open the voting when a group of young men, some of them armed with clubs and machetes, attacked her polling station in Abidjan's Yopougon neighbourhood. "They demanded we stop working because the new constitution wasn't for the people.
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Icelanders vote for stability as Pirates fall short of expectations | Monday, October 31, 2016 3:03 AM | |
| With voters still angered by the 2008 financial crisis and the naming of several government figures in an offshore tax haven scandal this year, Icelanders looked to oust the centre-right coalition in its current form. The biggest group, the Progressive Party, lost more than half its share of the vote in Saturday's election after Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned following revelations in the "Panama Papers" scandal. On Sunday, current Prime Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson of the Progressive Party officially resigned, a formality as the government did not get a majority.
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Imran Khan says mass protest no danger to Pakistan democracy | Monday, October 31, 2016 2:56 AM | |
| By Kay Johnson and Drazen Jorgic ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Sunday dismissed accusations his planned shutdown of the nation's capital could lead to a military coup, saying Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif "can't hide behind 'democracy in danger'" to quash protests. Khan, a former national cricket hero, has vowed to bring a million people into Islamabad on Wednesday to paralyse the government and force Sharif either to resign or allow an inquiry into the "Panama Papers" revelations about his family's offshore wealth. Sharif's ruling PML-N party has accused Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of endangering democracy by attempting to draw Pakistan's powerful military into a political dispute - a sensitive issue in a nation where the army has a history of staging coups.
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Turkey sacks 10,000 more civil servants, shuts media in latest crackdown | Monday, October 31, 2016 2:53 AM | |
| By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey said it had dismissed a further 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organisations and U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July. More than 100,000 people had already been sacked or suspended and 37,000 arrested since the abortive putsch in an unprecedented crackdown President Tayyip Erdogan says is crucial for wiping out the network of Gulen from the state apparatus. The continued crackdown has also raised concerns over the functioning of the state. |
FBI obtains warrant to examine Clinton emails - source | Monday, October 31, 2016 2:52 AM | |
| By Mark Hosenball and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal investigators have secured a warrant to examine newly discovered emails related to Hillary Clinton's private server, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday, as a prominent Democrat accused FBI Director James Comey of breaking the law by trying to influence the election. The warrant will allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to examine the emails to see if they are relevant to its probe of the private email server used for government work by Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Comey came under heavy pressure from Democrats on Sunday to quickly provide details of the emails, as Clinton allies worried the prolonged controversy could extend beyond the Nov. 8 election and cast a shadow over a Clinton transition if she wins the White House.
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Venezuela's Maduro meets opposition at Vatican-led talks | Monday, October 31, 2016 2:39 AM | |
| By Andrew Cawthorne and Andreina Aponte CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's unpopular socialist leader Nicolas Maduro shook hands with opposition leaders at Vatican-convened talks on Sunday, but his wary foes threatened to boycott further meetings if some demands were not quickly met. The irate opposition Democratic Unity coalition has escalated protests against Maduro after authorities scuttled a recall referendum that polls show he would have lost, triggering a presidential election. Opponents say 17 years of socialism have wrecked the OPEC nation's economy and crushed democracy, while the government says a U.S.-backed elite is seeking a violent coup.
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