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| U.S. naval base in western Japan on lockdown after reported shots | | Thursday, November 03, 2016 3:35 AM | |
| | A U.S. naval base at Sasebo, in western Japan, was put on lockdown on Thursday after reports of gunshots, a Navy spokesman said, but there was no confirmation of an active shooter. Gunshots had been reported from a building on the base, 980 km (614 miles) west of Tokyo, and the base was put on lockdown as a precaution as the building was checked by security, said Darin Wilson, Deputy Public Affairs Officer for U.S. Naval Forces, Japan. |
| Corrected - U.S. militia girds for trouble as presidential election nears | | Thursday, November 03, 2016 2:28 AM | |
| | (Corrects 13th paragraph to show pistols and rifles were semi-automatic not automatic) By Justin Mitchell and Andy Sullivan JACKSON, Ga. (Reuters) - Down a Georgia country road, camouflaged members of the Three Percent Security Force have mobilized for rifle practice, hand-to-hand combat training -- and an impromptu campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. "How many people are voting for Trump? Ooh-rah!" asks Chris Hill, a paralegal who goes by the code name "Bloodagent." "Ooh-rah!" shout a dozen militia members in response, as morning sunlight sifted through the trees last weekend. |
| Mississippi church burned, vandalized with 'Vote Trump' | | Thursday, November 03, 2016 2:27 AM | |
| | By Therese Apel JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) - A historic black church in Mississippi was burned and spray-painted with "Vote Trump" and authorities said on Wednesday it was arson and being probed as a hate crime committed one week before the U.S. presidential election. Greenville Fire Chief Ruben Brown Sr. told a news conference on Wednesday afternoon that investigators had determined the fire at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was "intentionally set." "Samples and evidence have been collected from inside the church and are being analyzed to determine the accelerant or ignition source," Brown said. "We're investigating this as a hate crime," Greenville Police Chief Delando Wilson told a news conference early on Wednesday. |
| Suspect arrested in ambush killings of two Iowa policemen | | Thursday, November 03, 2016 1:09 AM | |
|  By Scott Morgan DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - A man known to police for several run-ins with the law, most recently for waving a Confederate flag at a football game, was arrested as a suspect in the ambush killings of two Iowa officers shot in their patrol cars early on Wednesday, authorities said. Police offered no possible motive for what precipitated the attacks, which unfolded shortly after 1 a.m. (0600 GMT) in Iowa's capital, Des Moines, and its affluent Urbandale suburb, nor did they explain what led them to the suspect, Scott Michael Greene, 46. Details of the shootings and the circumstances of Greene's arrest were not made public.
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| Report attacks 'gross errors' on Afghan Guantanamo detainees | | Thursday, November 03, 2016 12:35 AM | |
|  Eight Afghans detained in Guantanamo Bay have been imprisoned for years on the basis of tenuous evidence, "fantastical allegations" and hearsay, a report issued on Thursday said. The report by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), an independent, non-profit research group, examined the cases of eight of the longest-serving Afghan detainees, all either still in Guantanamo Bay or recently moved to the United Arab Emirates. "Viewing the U.S. detention regime through the lens of the Afghan experience in Guantánamo raises broader questions about the effectiveness of U.S. intelligence and justice," it said.
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| Court to rule on whether London needs parliament to trigger EU exit | | Thursday, November 03, 2016 12:07 AM | |
|  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will learn on Thursday whether she must seek parliamentary approval before triggering the formal process of leaving the European Union, a step some investors hope will lessen the chances of an economically disruptive "hard Brexit". London's High Court will hand down its judgement on whether May and her ministers have the authority to invoke Article 50 of the EU Lisbon Treaty, the mechanism by which a country can leave the bloc, without the explicit backing of parliament. May has said she will invoke Article 50 by the end of March, kicking off two years of divorce negotiations.
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| Anthony Weiner checks into sex addiction rehab clinic - Daily Mail | | Thursday, November 03, 2016 12:04 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - Disgraced former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner has checked into a rehab facility that treats sex addiction, the DailyMail.com reported on Wednesday. The online version of the British newspaper said electronic devices are banned at the facility, which separates men from women and treats a range of addictions related to cyber sex, exhibitionism and anonymous sex and other acts. Weiner could not be reached for comment.
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| Asian MPs urge probe of reported Myanmar abuses in troubled Rakhine | |  By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - A group of parliamentarians from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Wednesday urged Myanmar to probe reports of human rights abuses in troubled Rakhine state, as top diplomats based in the country visited the area. The U.S. State Department said the U.S. ambassador visited several villages in the northern part of the state as part of an international delegation and stressed the need for a thorough investigation into allegations of abuses and for aid workers to be allowed back into the area.
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| Indonesia police brace for hardline Islamic protest | | | By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Thousands of hardline Muslims are expected to take to the streets on Friday to protest against the governor of Jakarta, a Christian and the first ethnic Chinese in the job, over claims he insulted the Koran. Jakarta police said dozens of social media accounts were discovered "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. |
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