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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. |
| Suspect arrested in ambush killings of two Iowa policemen | |  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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| Cosby's accusers can describe 'serial nature' - prosecutor | |  By Joseph Ax NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - More than a dozen women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault should be allowed to testify at his trial about the "serial nature" of his predatory behaviour, a Pennsylvania prosecutor argued in court on Wednesday. Cosby, 79, who once enjoyed immense popularity as a family-friendly entertainer, is charged with drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former basketball coach at his alma mater, Temple University, in Pennsylvania in 2004. While Constand's allegation is the only one to lead to criminal charges, Cosby faces assault allegations going back decades from about 60 women.
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| Obama says U.S. mulling alternate routes for North Dakota pipeline | |  By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said the U.S. government is examining ways to reroute an oil pipeline in North Dakota as it addresses concerns raised by Native American tribes protesting against its construction. Obama's comments late on Tuesday to online news site Now This were his first to directly address the escalating clashes between local authorities and protesters over Energy Transfer Partners' $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline project. "My view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of Native Americans.
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| Quebec police tracked calls of six journalists - report | | | Police in Quebec secretly tracked phone calls received and made by six French-language reporters in 2013, broadcaster Radio-Canada reported on Wednesday, widening a media surveillance scandal that has already sparked furore in the Canadian province. Quebec's provincial police force, the Surete du Quebec, obtained warrants to track the journalists' calls but did not register their conversations, the public broadcaster reported on Wednesday. Provincial and municipal police were tracking the calls to find the sources of leaks to media, including one case involving an officer implicated in a probe into allegations that cops had been fabricating evidence, Canadian media say. |
| German police arrest Syrian suspected of belonging to terrorist group | | | German police have arrested a Syrian man in Berlin on suspicion of being a member of a foreign terrorist organisation, local police tweeted. In October, a Syrian refugee was arrested on suspicion of planning a major attack in Berlin after police discovered explosives in his apartment. |
| Mississippi church burned, vandalized with 'Vote Trump' | |  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.
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| Jury selection begins in Venezuelan first lady's nephews' U.S. trial | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jury selection got underway in New York on Wednesday in the trial of two nephews of Venezuela's first lady who are facing U.S. charges that they attempted a multimillion-dollar drug deal for a large amount of cash to help their family stay in power. Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, appeared in Manhattan federal court wearing grey and blue sweaters, respectively, as jury selection began. |
| England and Scotland to defy FIFA poppy ban | |  England and Scotland are planning to defy a FIFA ban on players wearing poppies during their World Cup qualifier on Nov. 11, their Football Associations said on Wednesday. FIFA rules forbid players from wearing anything that can be perceived as a political statement and England and Scotland could be punished if they do not comply. "The poppy is an important symbol of remembrance and we do not believe it represents a political, religious or commercial message, nor does it relate to any one historical event," the English FA tweeted.
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| Philippines' Duterte rails at U.S. 'monkeys' for halting gun sale | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte chided the United States on Wednesday for halting the planned sale of 26,000 rifles to his country, calling those behind the decision "fools" and "monkeys" and indicating he might turn to Russia and China instead. Duterte's tirades against the former colonial power are routine during his speeches and he said on Wednesday he once believed in Washington, but had since lost respect for the Philippines' biggest ally. In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said he regarded Duterte's latest salvo as "inexplicably at odds with the close relationship that we continue to have with not just the Filipino people, but the Filipino government." The State Department halted the sale of the assault rifles to the Philippine police after staff from U.S. Senator Ben Cardin's office said he would oppose it, Senate aides told Reuters on Monday.
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| Imran Khan says he expects Pakistani Supreme Court inquiry to topple Sharif | |  By Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan said on Wednesday that he expected a Supreme Court corruption investigation to topple Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and repeated his calls for Sharif to resign immediately. The court on Tuesday agreed to Khan's request to set up a judicial commission to probe Khan's corruption allegations against Sharif, stemming from revelations that his children owned offshore companies in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands.
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| 'Loving' spotlights interracial couple who changed U.S. marriage laws | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When Mildred Loving, a black woman banned from her rural Virginia hometown for marrying a white man, wrote to U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy in 1963, she never imagined that she was about to change the course of American history. Kennedy referred Mildred and Richard Loving's case to the American Civil Liberties Union, and in 1967, eleven years after the couple had been exiled from Virginia for violating the state's anti-miscegenation laws, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down legislation that prohibited interracial marriages. Nearly 50 years after the landmark ruling, the quiet, working class Lovings are showcased in the film, "Loving," out in U.S. theatres on Friday.
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| Far rightists threaten asylum seekers in eastern German town | | | Suspected far-right extremists have threatened asylum seekers in the eastern German town of Bautzen, police said on Wednesday, adding to signs of discontent over an influx of almost one million last year. Police cited witnesses as saying that about eight men had threatened a group of two German women and three young asylum seekers in the town on Tuesday evening. Two of the men aimed objects resembling pistols at the asylum seekers, police said. |
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