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| ICC prosecutor to examine alleged British crimes in Iraq war | | Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:25 AM | |
| | By Mirjam Donath UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court re-opened on Tuesday a preliminary examination of allegations of \"systematic detainee abuse\" by British troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 after receiving new information. The Hague-based court had previously concluded an examination of similar accusations in 2006, but it did not launch a full investigation because the information did not meet the \"required gravity threshold.\" \"I received earlier this year substantial information, much more than what we had in 2006, on alleged crimes that were committed by the UK forces,\" ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told reporters at the United Nations after she had briefed the U.N. Security Council on the court's cases in Libya. They said more than 400 Iraqi former detainees had made allegations of grave mistreatment, of which 85 had been chosen as \"representative cases.\" Bensouda's office said in a statement earlier on Tuesday: \"The communication alleges a higher number of cases of ill-treatment of detainees and provides further details on the factual circumstances and the geographical and temporal scope of the alleged crimes.\" The British government rejected the allegations that British troops had carried out systematic abuse in Iraq. |
| Nigeria signals readiness to talk to Boko Haram rebels | | Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:25 AM | |
|  By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government signalled a willingness on Tuesday to negotiate with Islamist militants holding more than 200 schoolgirls, a month after the kidnapping that has provoked global outrage. He was speaking a day after Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau posted a video offering to release the girls in exchange for prisoners held by the government. Instead, he referred to an amnesty committee that he heads, set up by President Goodluck Jonathan last year to talk to the Boko Haram militants behind a five-year-old insurgency. Boko Haram has killed thousands of people since 2009 and destabilised parts of northeast Nigeria, the country with Africa's largest population and biggest economy.
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| France says Syria used chlorine in 14 recent attacks | |  By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Syria may have used chemical weapons involving chlorine in 14 attacks in recent months, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday, expressing concerns that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is hiding toxic weapons. \"We have at least 14 indications that show us that, in the past recent weeks again, chemical weapons in a smaller scale have been used, in particular chlorine,\" Fabius told a news conference through an interpreter. \"Right now we are examining the samples that were taken.\" Fabius made the comments during a visit to Washington where he discussed the crises in Syria and Ukraine with his American counterpart John Kerry. Fabius said the Assad government had handed over 92 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile under an international agreement overseen by the watchdog Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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| U.S. prosecutors use London imam's words against him at trial | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday showed jurors excerpts from sermons and interviews in which London imam Abu Hamza praised former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as a "hero," called non-Muslims "pigs" and said the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States made "everybody" happy. During the final day of testimony in Abu Hamza's terrorism trial in New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Cronan used Abu Hamza's own words to try to undermine his claims of innocence, confronting him with the inflammatory speeches that made him one of Britain's most prominent radical clerics. "You just cut and paste," a frustrated Abu Hamza told Cronan. "Why don't you play the whole thing?" Prosecutors have accused the Egyptian-born Abu Hamza, 56, of providing advice and a satellite phone to Yemeni militants who kidnapped Western tourists in 1998 in an operation that ended with the deaths of four hostages.
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