News Headlines - 03 November 2013

▽Mursi faces trial in Egypt in test of democracy | Reuters

The first freely elected Egyptian president, Mohamed Mursi, goes on trial on Monday, the second time in just over two years that a deposed president has found himself in court in Egypt, a pivotal Arab nation some fear is sliding back into autocratic rule.

▽Pakistan to review relations with US after drone strike kills Taliban leader | The Guardian

Pakistan is to review its relationship with Washington, the prime minister's office said on Sunday, following the killing of the Pakistani Taliban leader in a US drone strike. Hakimullah Mehsud, who had a $5m (￡3.1m) bounty on his head, was killed on Friday in the north-western Pakistani militant stronghold of North Waziristan, near the Afghan border.

▽Russia may move arrestsed Greenpeace activists, including Tasmanian Colin Russell | Herald Sun

THE family of jailed Tasmanian activist Colin Russell faces more uncertainty amid reports he could be transferred to a different Russian jail.

▽In China's Xinjiang, poverty, exclusion are greater threat than Islam | Reuters

In the dirty backstreets of the Uighur old quarter of Xinjiang's capital Urumqi in China's far west, Abuduwahapu frowns when asked what he thinks is the root cause of the region's festering problem with violence and unrest.

▽Gosport 'Car Murder': Two Teenage Girls Named

A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two teenage girls died when they were hit by a car. Jasmine Allsop, 14, died at the scene in Ann's Hill Road in Gosport, while Olivia Lewry, 16, was taken to hospital but also died, Hampshire Police said.