25 November 2013 Last updated at 06:33 GMT
Central Intelligence Committee will co-ordinate intelligence gathering across all agencies, including police and military
Frank McDonald
Iran welcomes nuclear deal which Israel calls 'mistake'
Cheering crowds have welcomed home the Iranian negotiators who secured a nuclear deal with world powers, while Israel called it a "historic mistake".
US President Barack Obama telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking to reassure him of Washington's commitment to Israel.
Sunday's deal in Geneva prompted a fall in oil prices on markets on Monday.
Iran has agreed to curb some of its nuclear activities in return for about $7bn (£4.3bn) in sanctions relief.
Hundreds of cheering supporters greeted Iran's negotiators as they arrived back in Tehran on Sunday, after reaching an interim nuclear agreement with the US, Russia, China, France, the UK, and Germany.Indonesia boosting spying capabilities following phone tapping controversy
Central Intelligence Committee will co-ordinate intelligence gathering across all agencies, including police and military
Indonesia is bolstering its intelligence capabilities in the wake of the phone tapping revelations, as the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, awaits a reply from Jakarta after sending a letter to the Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, on Sunday.
Yudhoyono issued a presidential decree over the weekend appointing the head of Indonesia’s State Intelligence Agency (BIN) Lieutenant General Marciano Norman as the chief of a new Central Intelligence Committee that will co-ordinate intelligence gathering from other agencies including the police force and the military.
The Central Intelligence Committee will open a headquarters in Jakarta as well as branches throughout Indonesia, according to the Jakarta Globe.
Compromise climate deal reached in Warsaw but critics brand it inadequate
Countries to indicate their ‘contributions’ to cutting emissions in early 2015
Frank McDonald
The UN’s 19th climate change conference in Warsaw narrowly avoided collapse at the weekend after marathon talks produced a compromise deal that optimists believe is “just enough” to pave the way for an international agreement in Paris in two years’ time.
Amid scenes of high drama at plenary sessions, two-hour “huddles” involving key players and deep divisions between rich and poor nations, bleary-eyed delegates from more than 190 countries who had been negotiating through the night finally agreed to move the process forward.
Although nobody was entirely satisfied with the outcome, it was agreed that all countries would indicate what “contributions” they would make to cut greenhouse gas emissions in advance of the Paris conference, so the adequacy of their efforts could be examined by others.
Anti-government protests in Thailand spread to state agencies
Anti-government protesters in Thailand have marched on more than a dozen state agencies in protest against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Protesters have also forced their way into the Finance Ministry building.
Thai police say about 30,000 protesters marched on more than a dozen state agencies across the capital, Bangkok, on Monday, in an escalating anti-government campaign to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government.
Hundreds of demonstrators, spurred on by former opposition lawmaker Suthep Thaugsuban, also occupied buildings in the compound of the Finance Ministry, waving flags.
Addressing the crowd through a loudspeaker, Suthep said, "Tomorrow we will seize all ministries to show to the Thaksin system that they have no legitimacy to run the country."
Monday's rally comes one day after about 100,000 peaceful anti- and pro-government demonstrators marched in Bangkok, the largest rally Thailand has seen in three years.
Saudi Juliet demands right to marry her Yemeni Romeo
November 25, 2013 - 11:35AM
A young Saudi woman has urged a Yemeni court to let her stay and marry the man she loves, defying norms in both deeply conservative countries.
In a case reminiscent of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, Huda al-Niran, 22, defied her family and crossed the border illegally to be with her beloved.
As she pleaded her case to be able to stay and marry Arafat Mohammed Tahar, 25, her supporters demonstrated outside the Sanaa courthouse, sporting headbands proclaiming "We are all Huda."
The lovers' plight has gripped imaginations in both Yemen and Saudi Arabia, where the young woman's courage is seen as astonishing.
Egypt's government bans protests without police approval
By Maggie Fick and Yasmine Saleh, Reuters
CAIRO — Egypt's president passed a law on Sunday making it illegal to hold demonstrations without the approval of the police and banning protests in places of worship, a move rights groups condemned as a blow to political freedom.
As the law was being announced by state media, thousands of anti-government protesters were on streets in Cairo and other cities, as they have been regularly in the nearly three years since a popular uprising ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
The number of protests and the scale of political violence have grown since July when the army removed elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi following mass protests against his rule.
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