Indonesia selfie museum draws fire with Nazi display
JAKARTA, Nov 10: A leading Jewish organization has called for an Indonesian waxworks museum to remove a Nazi exhibit at which visitors take selfies with a Hitler figure standing before an image of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, which campaigns against Holocaust denial and anti-semitism, said the display is "disgusting" and mocks victims of the Holocaust in which millions were exterminated by Nazi Germany. Human Rights Watch has condemned the exhibit as "sickening." — AP
Turkish police detain 100 I S suspects
ISTANBUL, Nov 10: Turkish police have detained at least 100 people suspected of links to the Islamic State group, Turkey's official news agency said Friday. Istanbul police conducted simultaneous operations at multiple districts to detain 82 foreigners, Anadolu Agency reported. The suspects had allegedly been active in conflict zones with IS and planned on going to Syria. Separately, Anadolu said 11 Syrian nationals were detained in the southern province of Adana for alleged links to IS. Seven others, whose nationalities weren't revealed, were detained in western Izmir province.—AP
Iran's first Oscar submission directed by woman causes stir
TEHRAN, Nov 10: A movie about a young girl whose fantasy world helps her escape the hard realities of growing up in the countryside near Tehran in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution is Iran's first-ever submission for the Academy Awards' foreign film directed by a woman. But not everyone is celebrating. The mixed reaction to Narges Abyar's film "Nafas," or "Breath," shows how art cuts across Iranian politics, both at home and abroad. Hard-liners have criticized the movie. — AP
Toll hits six after collapse of Russian highrise
MOSCOW, Nov 10: The death toll climbed to six people on Friday after the corner section of a nine-storey residential building collapsed in the provincial city of Izhevsk, officials said. "There are three injured and six dead," said the health ministry in the Udmurtia region of which Izhevsk is the capital. The sixth body was discovered earlier Friday, an emergencies ministry official said. — AFP
Spanish court grants bail to five Catalan lawmakers
MADRID, Nov 10: A Spanish Supreme Court judge granted bail Thursday to former Catalan Parliament Speaker Carme Forcadell and four other Catalan lawmakers who appeared in court on charges of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation, according to a court statement Forcadell will have to pay bail of 150,000 euros in order to be released. The other Parliament members -- Lluís Corominas, Lluís Guinó, Anna Simó and Ramona Barrufet -- were released on bail of 25,000 euros, which they will have to deposit by the end of the week.—CNN
MADRID: Catalan regional Parliament Speaker Carme Forcadell arrives at Spain's Supreme Court on Thursday in Madrid. — CNN
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