Pro-Russia candidate leading in Moldova presidential race

CHISINAU, Moldova, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Moldova's first presidential election in 20 years will go to a second round after no candidate achieved a majority in weekend voting.

Socialist Party leader Igor Dodon fell just short of the required majority, with 48.6 percent of ballots cast Sunday. Dodon is regarded as a pro-Russia candidate, and his near-victory is seen as a blow to attempts to bring former Soviet republics out from Russia's influence, the New York Times said Monday. Maia Sandu, a former World Bank official and leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity, received 38 percent of the vote. Six other candidates also ran for the office, a ceremonial position which is expected to be more influential after the country's constitution is changed.

Moldova is among Europe's poorest countries, bordered by Romania and Ukraine, and independent since 1991. It has been governed by a divided coalition of parties since 2009 which has sought integration in the European Union but has kept strong economic ties to Russia and failed to eliminate rampant graft and corruption. The country was thrown into political turmoil in 2014 when about $1 billion disappeared from its banking system. Six prime ministers took office in one year following the scandal and there were weeks of protests in the streets.

Russia imposed restrictions on the importation of Moldavan products earlier this year, in an attempt to force the country to abandon its interest in siding with Western Europe.

Dodon and Sandu will be the only candidates in a Nov. 13 runoff election. Both campaigned on platforms to eliminate government and business corruption in the country

Poll: 63% say FBI review makes no difference in voting for Clinton

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Sixty-three percent of likely voters in an ABC News/Washington Post poll said the FBI's review of additional emails in connection with Hillary Clinton's use of a private server will make no difference in how they vote in the Nov. 8 election.

But 34 percent of likely voters said they are less likely to vote for Clinton against Republican nominee Donald Trump after FBI Director James Comey's announcement Friday that the agency is re-opening its investigation of the Democratic candidate. Also, 2 percent said they are more likely to vote for the Democrat and 1 percent said they have no opinion.

Among Clinton supporters, 7 percent say the matter makes them less likely to support her and 13 percent of Democrats and 15 percent of liberals feel that way. Among groups already generally supporting Trump, 47 percent of conservatives and 52 percent of Republicans say they are less likely to support Clinton.

The question was asked of 480 likely voters Friday through Saturday with a margin of error of 5 percentage points.

Other tracking poll questions were asked from Tuesday through Friday of 1,160 likely voters with a margin of error of 3 percentage points. Overall, Clinton drew 46 percent and Trump was at 45 percent in interviews over the four days.

In earlier tracking polls, 60 percent of likely voters disapproved of how Clinton has handled the email situation while secretary of state, including three in 10 of her own supporters and 93 percent of Trump's backers

Warrant to search newly found emails obtained by FBI

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has obtained a warrant to begin reviewing newly discovered emails that may be relevant to the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

FBI investigators want to review emails of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were found on a device seized during an unrelated sexting investigation of Anthony Weiner, a former New York congressman and Abedin's estranged husband.

The official, who has knowledge of the examination, would not say when investigators might complete the review of Abedin's emails but said Sunday they would move expeditiously.

The Clinton email inquiry, which closed without charges in July, resurfaced on Friday when FBI Director James Comey alerted members of Congress to the existence of emails that he said could be pertinent to that investigation.

The FBI wants to review the emails to see if they contain classified information and were handled properly, the focus of the earlier Clinton inquiry.

Separately Sunday, another law enforcement official said FBI investigators in the Weiner sexting probe knew for weeks about the existence of the emails potentially related to the probe of Clinton's server. A third law enforcement official also said the FBI was aware for a period of time about the emails before Comey was briefed, but wasn't more specific.

In his letter that roiled the White House race, Comey said he'd been briefed on Thursday about the Abedin emails and had agreed that investigators should take steps to review them.

It was not immediately clear Sunday what steps investigators took once the emails were first found to fully advise FBI leaders that additional and potentially relevant messages had been discovered.

The officials were not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The timing of Comey's letter less than two weeks before Election Day drew criticism from Democrats and some Republicans who cast it as unprecedented and as potentially tipping the scales in the presidential race in favor of Republican Donald Trump.

Energized by the news, the GOP presidential nominee has rallied his supporters, calling the latest developments worse than Watergate and arguing that his candidacy has the momentum in the final days of the race.

"We never thought we were going to say 'thank you' to Anthony Weiner," Trump said in Nevada.

Trump also highlighted reports that the Justice Department had discouraged the FBI from alerting Congress to the unexpected discovery of the emails, and said the department is trying "so hard" to protect Clinton.

Comey told FBI colleagues in a memo Friday that he was aware the letter to Congress was at risk of being misunderstood, but he said he felt obligated to notify lawmakers about the new emails after having told them that the matter was closed.

Dozens of former federal prosecutors, including former Attorney General Eric Holder, have signed a letter critical of Comey's decision. And Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., wrote to Comey saying the action may have violated the law.

In an op-ed written in Monday's editions of The Washington Post, Holder called Comey's decision to divulge the new inquiry "incorrect."

Holder said the Justice Department "has a policy of not taking unnecessary action close in time to Election Day that might influence an election's outcome."

He called Comey "a man of integrity" but said "good men make mistakes."

Earlier, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid charged that Comey might have broken the law.

"Your actions in recent months have demonstrated a disturbing double standard for treatment of sensitive information, with what appears to be a clear intent to aid one political party over another," the Nevada Democrat wrote to Comey.

Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of State has dogged her campaign since early last year. In July, Comey recommended against criminal prosecution after a months-long investigation, but rebuked Clinton and her aides for being careless with classified material.

Justice Department officials who were advised of the FBI's intention to notify Congress about the discovery expressed concern that the action would be inconsistent with department protocols designed to avoid the appearance of interference in an election. Comey acted independently when he sent several members of Congress a letter about the emails on Friday, said one of the officials.

It was not immediately clear what the Abedin emails were about or what significance, if any, they carried to the Clinton email server investigation.

A person familiar with the investigation, who lacked authority to discuss the matter publicly and insisted on anonymity, said the device that appears to be at the center of the new review was a computer that belonged only to Weiner and was not one he shared with Abedin.

As a result, it was not a device searched for work-related emails at the time of the initial investigation. The person said it is "news to (Abedin)" that her emails would be on a computer belonging to her husband.

Abedin told lawyers in June in a deposition that, like millions of internet users who don't manage their inboxes, she never deleted old emails on her devices, either at work with Clinton or at home with Weiner.

"I didn't have a practice of managing my mailbox other than leaving what was in there sitting in there," Abedin said. "They all stayed in whatever device I was using at the time or whatever desktop I was on at the time."

In February 2013, Abedin signed a routine State Department document under penalty of perjury in which she promised to "turn over all classified or administratively controlled documents and materials" before she left her government job, and promised that she was not retaining copies, "including any diaries, memorandums of conversation or other documents of a personal nature."

Abedin and Weiner separated this year after Weiner was caught in 2011, 2013 and again this year sending numerous woman sexually explicit text messages and photographs of himself undressed. Federal authorities in New York and North Carolina are investigating online communications between Weiner and a 15-year-old girl.

UK Government gave Nissan written details of Brexit talks strategy The Herald

Theresa May’s government has been forced to reveal a key part of its Brexit negotiation strategy after days of pressure over secret reassurances to Japanese car giant Nissan.

Business Secretary Greg Clark also admitted that he had given Nissan written details of the plan, to seek tariff-free access to European Union markets, in a letter.

The news prompted fury among opposition parties.

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Former Labour leader Ed Miliband accused the Tory government of planning to keep MPs in the dark while spilling the beans to business.

The position was “totally unsustainable”, he said.

Mr Clark's candour comes just days after high-level talks at Downing Street ended with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expressing frustration that she was no closer to knowing the May’s government’s strategy for Brexit talks.

The row erupted last week after Nissan announced plans to invest in the production of two new models at its Sunderland plant, securing the future of 7,000 jobs in the UK's biggest car factory.

Chief executive Carlos Ghosn said that the decision had been made after his firm received "support and assurances" from the Government.

Ministers denied that the firm was offered a "sweetheart deal".

But pressure intensified over the weekend as MPs and the Scottish Government demanded to know what Nissan had been promised – and whether or not the same terms would be extended to other businesses.

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Scottish Government’s Brexit minister Michael Russell also suggested that if Nissan could have a special deal on the EU then so could Scotland.

Mr Clark said that his commitments, in a letter to the Nissan chief executive, also included continued funds for skills and training, support for research and development and a plan to encourage smaller firms in the supply chain to locate in the UK.

On the BBC's Andrew Marr programme he also confirmed that World Trade Organisation rules on state aid mean the Government could not offer to compensate Nissan if it was hit by new post-Brexit tariffs.

"It is simply not possible to compensate for any future risks so the intention of keeping the sector competitive was important," he said.

"What I said was that our objective would be to ensure that we would have continued access to the markets in Europe - and vice versa - without tariffs and without bureaucratic impediments and that is how we will approach those negotiations.”

He said that such a deal should suit both sides in the talks.

“Continental European car manufacturers.. export a lot to us, we export a lot to them... If you conduct the negotiations in a serious, constructive and civilised way there is a lot in common that we can establish.”

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His comments will lead to speculation that the government wants to remain part of the EU customs union, though he refused to be drawn on that issue.

Already, however, there is a move against the outcome from a leading pro-Brexit group.

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Change Britain, co-founded by Michael Gove and endorsed by Boris Johnson, said that the UK could secure trade deals worth twice the amount of those signed by the EU if it adopted a more extreme form of Brexit and rejected the idea of a customs union

Last night Labour pushed the Tory Government to say whether or not there was a "financial element" to the agreement with Nissan.

Meanwhile, a new report suggests that Brexit might not pose a significant risk to the Scottish financial services sector.

The University of Strathclyde report by former Royal Bank of Scotland economist Jeremy Peat, and Owen Kelly, lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University Business School and former head of Scottish Financial Enterprise, found that even in the worse-case scenario of 'hard Brexit, these risks do not make a case for Scottish independence.

A Scottish government spokesman said that Brexit was "far and away the biggest threat to Scotland's economy, jobs and long-term prosperity"

33 coal miners trapped, 2 rescued following blast

BEIJING, China – A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western China on Monday, leaving 33 miners trapped, a local government official said. Two other miners were rescued, he said.

The condition of those underground isn’t known and rescue work is continuing, said the official, reached by phone at the Yongzhou district government propaganda office in the sprawling Chongqing region. He refused to give his name, as is common with Chinese public servants.

The blast occurred shortly before noon, state media reported. Such accidents are often caused when a flame or electrical spark ignites gas leaking from the coal seam. Ventilation systems are supposed to prevent gas from becoming trapped.

China’s mining industry has long been among the world’s deadliest, although safety improvements and the closure of smaller, more dangerous mines have reduced the death toll in recent years.

China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal but has announced plans to shutter more than 1,000 outdated mines. The head of China’s State Administration of Work Safety said this year that struggling coal mines might be likely to overlook maintenance.

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