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| British government must consult parliament before quitting EU, court rules | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - England's High Court ruled on Thursday that the British government requires parliamentary approval to trigger the process of exiting the European Union, complicating Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans. The government said it would appeal against the decision and Britain's Supreme Court has set aside Dec. 5-8 to deal with the matter. Sterling rose on the news, with many investors taking the view that lawmakers would temper the government's policies and make an economically disruptive "hard Brexit" less likely.
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| Turkish academics, students protest against post-coup purges in Istanbul | | | Ankara, which says U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen orchestrated the July 15 putsch, has launched a crackdown in which 110,000 civil servants, judges, prosecutors and police have been suspended or dismissed over suspected links to the preacher. Among those suspended or removed in the purges since July are nearly 50,000 academics, teachers and other education staff. |
| Keeping kosher: it may be bad for your economic health | |  By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Behind Israel's food and tourism industries thrives a parallel economy run by rabbis and a legion of inspectors whose business it is to make sure everything is kosher. It described frequent tax avoidance and even cases of suspected money laundering.
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| Insight: Emails show how Republicans lobbied to limit voting hours in North Carolina | |  By Julia Harte ASHEBORO, N.C (Reuters) - When Bill McAnulty, an elections board chairman in a mostly white North Carolina county, agreed in July to open a Sunday voting site where black church members could cast ballots after services, the reaction was swift: he was labeled a traitor by his fellow Republicans. "I became a villain, quite frankly," recalled McAnulty at a state board of elections meeting in September that had been called to resolve disputes over early voting plans. "I got accused of being a traitor and everything else by the Republican Party," McAnulty said. Following the blowback from Republicans, McAnulty later withdrew his support for the Sunday site.
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| Hong Kong can handle politicians' legal case without Beijing - lawyer | |  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong can handle an unprecedented city government legal attempt to bar two newly elected legislators promoting independence from China, a government lawyer said on Thursday, amid growing speculation Beijing would intervene in the case. The case of the pro-independence politicians who won seats in the city legislature in a September election has highlighted worries about Beijing's intervention in the former British colony despite promises of autonomy. The two politicians - Yau Wai-ching, 25, and Baggio Leung, 30 - displayed a "Hong Kong is not China" banner and used a derogatory word for China during a swearing in ceremony as Legislative Council members last month.
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| Suu Kyi says "delicate" Myanmar conflict handled by rule of law | |  By Minami Funakoshi KYOTO, Japan (Reuters) - The Myanmar government is responding to conflict in the troubled north of Rakhine state, which has suffered its worst violence since 2012, based on rule of law, leader Aung San Suu Kyi was quoted as saying on Thursday. Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi has faced mounting criticism abroad for her government's handling of a crisis in the Muslim-majority region, where soldiers have blocked access for aid workers and are accused of raping and killing civilians. In Japan on a five-day visit that included a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Suu Kyi met Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, who said violence could not be permitted in dealing with the crisis, a Foreign Ministry statement said.
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| South Africa's Guptas to challenge influence-peddling report at inquiry | |  South Africa's wealthy Gupta family, which has been accused of holding undue political sway over President Jacob Zuma, said on Thursday it would defend itself at a judicial inquiry demanded by an anti-corruption watchdog. The carefully worded Public Protector report into alleged influence-peddling stopped short of saying crimes had been committed but said a judge must probe a scandal that has rattled markets in Africa's most industrialised economy and increased the risk of ratings downgrades. Titled "State of Capture", the 355-page report by the constitutionally mandated watchdog listed several allegations against Zuma, the Guptas, two cabinet ministers and executives at state-owned firms.
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| Indonesia police brace for hardline Islamic protest | | | By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police deployed armoured vehicles and armed personnel in the capital Jakarta ahead of a Friday protest planned by hardline Muslims groups against the governor, a Christian and the first ethnic Chinese in the job, over claims he insulted the Koran. Police said dozens of social media accounts had been found "publishing provocative statements and images" and urging people to take violent action in the name of Islam against Governor Basuki Tjahja Purnama, better known by his nickname "Ahok", including calls to kill him. "We have seen racially and ethnically divisive statements being spread online and there are indications many of them are anti-Chinese," said Jakarta police spokesman Awi Setiyono. |
| Turkey removes 1,218 gendarmerie from duty - interior ministry official | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey suspended 1,218 gendarmerie personnel on Thursday, an official from the interior ministry overseeing the force said, as part of investigations into a failed coup in July. Turkey has already sacked or suspended more than 110,000 civil servants, judges, prosecutors, soldiers and others over suspected links with the network of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based cleric blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup. (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker; Writing by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Nick Tattersall) |
| In a West Bank refugee camp, political struggle turns to violence | |  By Luke Baker BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (Reuters) - Hundreds of bullet holes scar the concrete walls, shop fronts and trash-strewn alleys of Balata, the West Bank's largest refugee camp, the result of furious clashes earlier this week between Palestinian security forces and local gunmen. "Balata is a fortress," 31-year-old Khattam Abu Rezak told Reuters, dragging on a cigarette as he sat in the sparsely furnished front room of a friend's rundown house, the curtains firmly drawn, a fading portrait of Yasser Arafat on the wall. "We don't let the Palestinian Authority in because they will take us, torture us," he said, referring to the administration run by President Mahmoud Abbas that has limited self-rule in the Israeli occupied West Bank.
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