NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police detained more than 2,000 protesters and the founder of the “Cockroach” youth movement in Delhi on Saturday as security forces locked down parts of the capital to thwart a rally demanding the resignation of India’s election chief. Thousands of police and paramilitary personnel were deployed across the city, mobile internet services were suspended in the central business district and dozens of metro stations and markets were shut as authorities moved to stop a demonstration organized by the Cockroach movement. The protest was aimed at Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a revision of voter lists that critics say disproportionately benefits Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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WARSAW (Reuters) - Three people were injured in a stabbing attack at a further education college in Warsaw on Saturday, police said, the latest in a series of incidents that have stoked concerns in Poland about copycat violence among young people. On Friday thousands of police visited schools nationwide to try to reassure pupils after two stabbing sprees by teenagers in as many days sparked rumors of potential further attacks, fears that Saturday’s incident is likely to intensify. “At 12:30 today, we received a report of an incident involving the use of a dangerous weapon,” police spokesperson Jakub Filipiak told.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopian government forces and their militia allies entered Adigrat, near the border with Horn of Africa neighbor Eritrea, on Saturday, three residents said, days after Eritrean troops were pushed back from the strategic city.
The incursion by Eritrean troops, which Eritrea has denied and Reuters could not independently verify, has raised fears of a return to all-out war along Ethiopia’s northern border where the two nations have clashed before. Conflicts elsewhere in the region and tensions across the Red Sea have further raised the stakes. Three Adigrat residents told Reuters they had seen the Ethiopian army and an allied militia in the city on Saturday morning, with one of the residents saying they saw soldiers on patrol along with military vehicles.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has ruled the Justice Department’s push to obtain state voter rolls and check them against a federal immigration database to demand that states remove voters it deemed ineligible was unlawful. US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s decision marked the latest setback for President Donald Trump’s push to expand federal control over election administration ahead of the November 3 midterms, with his Republican Party battling to hold majorities in both houses of Congress. In a 78-page decision siding with a challenge to the Justice Department’s practice brought by watchdog group Common Cause, Sooknanan wrote that the Justice Department had downplayed the risk that its practice would wrongfully disenfranchise eligible U.S. citizens despite evidence that the immigration database, known as SAVE, could be inaccurate.

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SAO PAULO (AFP) - Brazil’s government announced on Friday that gasoline taxes will be temporarily scrapped, two weeks ahead of the runoff election between incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro. Lula, who is seeking his fourth term, is trying to contain rising fuel prices amid a global spike in oil prices driven by the war in the Middle East. The gasoline tax, which was set at 0.89 reais ($0.18) per liter, would be waived for 30 days, according to the government. The measure announced on Friday also expands subsidies for importers of diesel, the predominant fuel used in Brazil’s freight transport.