Quoi de neuf le 02 octobre

• RUSSIA: NO PLANS FOR CAPITAL CONTROLS

With the ruble falling and no sign of a letup in Western sanctions, Russia's top officials sought to reassure nervous investors that there were no plans for capital controls nor for further retaliation over U.S. and EU restrictions.

• AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT REDRAWS WELFARE PLAN

Australia's conservative government repackaged a raft of proposed cuts to welfare spending to help steer the controversial measures through a hostile Senate.

• AUSTRALIA TO SEPARATE BURQA-CLAD VISITORS AT PARLIAMENT

Any visitor wearing a facial covering will be required to sit in separate, glass-enclosed areas if they wish to observe Australia's Parliament.

• JAPAN INC.'S INFLATION VIEW STABLE

Expectations among Japanese firms for price rises barely changed in the three months to September, a Bank of Japan survey showed Thursday, highlighting doubts over the central bank's promise to achieve its 2% inflation target by around next year.

• INDIA CLINGS TO DISPUTED FOOD SUBSIDIES

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington didn't dispel the dispute over his efforts to protect his country's $19 billion food aid program.

• BRAZIL CAMPAIGN TAKES A TWIST AS SILVA LAGS

Marina Silva trails President Dilma Rousseff, who has targeted the Socialist Party candidate in an aggressive ad campaign.

• ECUADOR APOLOGIZES TO INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY

Ecuador's justice minister apologized to the Sarayaku indigenous community as part of the government's compliance with a 2012 court decision that found the state guilty of rights violations related to oil activities.

• MARINES DEPLOY NEW QUICK-REACTION FORCE IN KUWAIT

Conceived after the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, the 2,300-strong force is designed for crisis response anywhere in the Middle East-including Iraq if needed.

• AIRSTRIKES HIT NEAR BESIEGED SYRIAN CITY

Rare daylight U.S.-led attacks hit Islamic State targets near the predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab.

• FRANCE 2015 BUDGET TO CURB SPENDING

The French government presented a 2015 budget aimed at striking a delicate balance: shoring up France's finances without tipping an economy heavily reliant on public spending into recession.

• CATALANS KEEP PRESSURE ON FOR VOTE

A day after Spain's Constitutional Court halted plans for an independence referendum in Catalonia, thousands of protesters braved driving rain to press their demand for a vote, demonstrating their determination.

• NEW NATO CHIEF SOFTENS TONE ON MOSCOW

Jens Stoltenberg, taking office Wednesday as the new chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, took a relatively conciliatory tone toward Russia Wednesday in his first comments on the Ukraine crisis.

• GERMANY IS URGED TO BRING NAZIS TO JUSTICE

The Simon Wiesenthal Center said it sent a list of 80 former members of Nazi death squads to the German government, urging authorities to prosecute those still alive.

• AMERICANS HAND OVER BASE KEYS TO AFGHAN MILITARY

American officials on Wednesday handed over the keys to Forward Operating Base Lightning, a dusty outpost in southeastern Afghanistan, to the Afghan military.