News Headlines - 27 September 2017

▽King Salman issues decree allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia | Arab News

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said it would allow women to drive in the Kingdom, in the latest move in a string of social and economic reforms underway in the country.

▽Former Thai PM Yingluck sentenced in absentia to 5 years' jail for negligence - Channel NewsAsia

Thailand’s ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was handed a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday (Sep 27) after the country’s highest court found her guilty of negligence in the management of a rice subsidy scheme.

▽Ukraine ammunition depot explosion: 24,000 people evacuated after Kalynivka blasts | The Independent

Ukranian emergency services said the blasts occurred at a military base near Kalynivka in the Vynnytsya region, 270km (168 miles) west of Kiev... More than 30,000 people have been bussed out of the area by authorities. The electricity and gas supply has also been switched off.

▽New Zealand's kingmaker party defers govt decision until October 7

The leader of the New Zealand First Party, which emerged as the kingmaker after an inconclusive weekend election, said on Wednesday he would not make a decision on who should form government until after the Oct. 7 release of a final count.

▽Paul Horner, writer of fake news about 2016 election, dead at 38 - CBS News

A leading purveyor of fake news in the 2016 presidential election has died outside Phoenix at the age of 38.
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Mark Casey said Tuesday authorities discovered Paul Horner dead in his bed on Sept. 18.