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| Indonesia says foiled plot to exploit Muslim protest | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police on Friday said they had detained eight people before dawn, thwarting a plot hatched to take advantage of a demonstration by tens of thousands of Muslims and lead an uprising against President Joko Widodo's government. The detentions followed weeks of tension, during which Widodo said "political actors" had fanned violence at a Nov. 4 protest and the country's police chief warned that "certain groups" might try to occupy parliament during Friday's rally. Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar described the plan as attempted subversion of Widodo's government, which has strong support from the military.
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| China exonerates man executed in 1995 for rape and murder | | | China's highest legal body on Friday exonerated a 21-year-old man executed in 1995 following a conviction of rape and murder, saying the evidence against him had been insufficient. Nie Shubin was found guilty 21 years ago of raping and killing a woman in the city of Shijiazhuang in China's northern province of Hebei. The exoneration by the Supreme People's Court followed a second re-examination of the case, that began in June. |
| U.S. military veterans to join North Dakota pipeline protest camp | |  By Terray Sylvester and Alicia Underlee Nelson CANNON BALL/WEST FARGO, N.D. (Reuters) - More than 2,000 U.S. military veterans are expected to join a protest at a camp in North Dakota on Friday where thousands of activists, braving frigid conditions, are demonstrating against a pipeline project near a Native American reservation. Veterans Stand for Standing Rock will spend the day building a barracks at the Oceti Sakowin camp near Cannon Ball and coordinating with protesters who have spent months rallying against plans to route the Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, organizers said.
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| Blatter appeal decision to be announced on Monday | |  Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter will discover on Monday whether he has won his appeal against a six-year ban from football imposed for ethics violations amid the biggest corruption scandal ever to shake the world soccer body. Blatter led the global soccer body for 17 years until he resigned in June last year after several dozen football officials, including former FIFA executive committee members and entities, were indicted in the United States on graft-related charges. Blatter, 80, was not among those indicted but himself became embroiled when he was banned from all football-related activity the following December by FIFA's ethics committee, along with the then UEFA president Michel Platini.
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| Pro-EU party wins British local election in Brexit 'shockwave' | | | By Sarah Young and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's pro-European Union Liberal Democrat party won a parliamentary seat previously held by the ruling Conservatives on Friday in a major upset it hailed as a rejection of a "hard Brexit" that would pull the country out of the single market. Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney's victory in a constituency in southwest London - overturning the Conservatives' 23,000 majority from 2015 - illustrated the deep divisions running through a country that voted 52-48 percent to leave the EU. The affluent Richmond Park and North Kingston area had backed the Remain camp in June's referendum on EU membership. |
| Cambodia's king pardons opposition leader at PM's request | |  Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni on Friday granted a royal pardon to a leader of the main opposition party, at the request of Prime Minister Hun Sen, holding out hope for compromise after a period of rising political tension. Kem Sokha, a leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was sentenced to five months in jail in September after failing to appear in court in connection with a case against two of his party colleagues.
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| Singapore minister sees increased threat of extremist attack | |  By Aradhana Aravindan and Marius Zaharia SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore minister said on Friday the threat of an extremist attack was higher now than earlier this year as hardline Islamists are increasingly pushing their agenda in neighbouring Indonesia. Law and Home Affairs Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, speaking to the Foreign Correspondents Association in Singapore, did not specify whether the threat had increased just in the city state or in Southeast Asia generally. "The threat if anything, I think, has increased, compared to last year and earlier this year," said Shanmugam.
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| Three Turkish soldiers killed after clashes with militants - military sources | | | Three Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday after clashing with Kurdish militants in the southeastern province of Hakkari, military sources said. Turkey's southeast has been rocked by violence following the collapse of a 2-1/2-year ceasefire between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in July last year. The PKK has repeatedly targeted security forces since. |
| China's top graft-buster tells party members to give up the ghosts | |  The man in charge of China's war against graft has issued a new warning against Communist Party members believing in "ghosts and supernatural beings" and revealed two top officials had left after systemic corruption was found in their departments. Since assuming office four years ago, President Xi Jinping has waged battle against deep-seated graft, warning, as others have before him, the problem is so bad it could undermine the party's grip on power. In an undated speech to members of a government advisory body and carried in the latest issue of the influential party theoretical journal Qiushi, Wang Qishan said too many party members were weak in their ideological commitment.
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| Singapore slaps penalties on StanChart, Coutts in 1MDB-related probe | |  Singapore's central bank said on Friday it imposed penalties on the local units of U.K.-based Standard Chartered Bank and Coutts for money laundering breaches related to Malaysia's scandal-tainted 1MDB fund. The penalties - of S$5.2 million ($3.65 million)and S$2.4 million, respectively - were the latest punitive measures taken by the central bank in its crackdown on money laundering, having ordered the closure earlier this year of the local units of Swiss banks BSI and Falcon. MAS is also in the process of issuing a prohibition order against Tim Leissner, Goldman Sachs' former Southeast Asia chairman.
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| Death toll from devastating Tennessee wildfire climbs to 11 | |  The death toll from a devastating blaze in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee rose to 11 on Thursday, the highest loss of civilian life from a single U.S. wildfire in 13 years. Investigators have determined the so-called Chimney Tops 2 fire, which laid waste to whole neighborhoods in the resort town of Gatlinburg earlier this week, was caused by unspecified human activity, officials said. Total property losses from the fire have been put at more than 700 structures, with most of the destruction in Gatlinburg, known as the "gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains," in eastern Tennessee, about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Knoxville.
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| Trump takes populist message to U.S. heartland in "thank you" tour | |  By Emily Stephenson CINCINNATI (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump kicked off his post-election "thank you tour" on Thursday by railing against globalization, promising the return of manufacturing jobs to American workers, and vowing to shut U.S. borders to some Middle East migrants. Speaking in an arena that was about three-quarters full, Trump rallied the crowd by repeatedly attacking the "extremely dishonest" media and invoking the populist message that resonated with millions of voters. "From now on it's going to be America first, okay?" Trump said as he stressed job-creation spurred by trade deals he intends to renegotiate, including the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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| South Korea's scandal-tainted Park to face impeachment vote next week | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean opposition parties said on Friday they will hold a parliamentary impeachment vote on scandal-tainted President Park Geun-hye next week, while her own party remains undecided on whether to force her out of office. Park has offered to resign and asked parliament on Tuesday to decide how and when she should step down over the influence peddling scandal but the opposition has rejected it as a delaying tactic to avoid impeachment. If Park is forced out of office or resigns, she will be the first democratically elected South Korean president not to serve a full term.
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