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| Texas Governor Perry calls indictment politically motivated | | Sunday, August 17, 2014 2:48 AM | |
|  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, said on Saturday an indictment against him for abuse of power was a political move that he intends to fight. Perry was indicted on Friday by a grand jury in Travis County, a Democratic stronghold in the heavily Republican state, on two counts of abuse of power and coercion over a funding veto he made last year that was seen as being intended to force a local prosecutor to resign. "This indictment amounts to nothing more than an abuse of power and I cannot and I will not allow that to happen," Perry told reporters in Austin, Texas.
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| Home of Canada opposition leader Trudeau broken into overnight | | Sunday, August 17, 2014 2:44 AM | |
|  The Ottawa house of Canadian opposition leader Justin Trudeau was broken into overnight while his wife and children were sleeping there but no one was harmed, officials with Trudeau's Liberal Party said on Saturday. Trudeau was in the western city of Winnipeg on a political tour at the time. Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau have three young children. The Liberals slumped into third place after the 2011 federal election but have revived under the leadership of Trudeau, son of former Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
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| Protesters take to streets again ahead of curfew in Ferguson | | Sunday, August 17, 2014 2:33 AM | |
|  By Ellen Wulfhorst FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, angry at the shooting death of a black teenager by police took to the streets in the rain on Saturday night, hours ahead of a planned curfew called for by the state's governor. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency, as he and other officials seek to restore order after a week of racially charged protests and looting over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. Johnson was named by the governor this week to oversee security in the suburban St. Louis community that has been roiled by the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The mood among hundreds of protesters on a main road in Ferguson that has been the scene of recent demonstrations was tense and defiant on Saturday night, in marked contrast to the festive atmosphere of Thursday.
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| Missouri protests reignite over police shooting of black teen | |  By Ellen Wulfhorst FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - After another night of racially charged protests and looting in Ferguson, Missouri, over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer, Governor Jay Nixon was meeting with local and state law enforcement on Saturday to craft a plan aimed at quelling further violence. There was a lot of looting and there were a lot of people arming themselves in their storefront to guard their businesses," said Al Nothum, a spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol. The governor put Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson in charge of security on Thursday after several nights of violent clashes between protesters and local police forces in the aftermath of the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Tensions temporarily cooled on Thursday night but on Friday evening protesters again swarmed through a residential and retail district in the small town outside St. Louis that has become a virtual war zone, pitting mostly black protesters against mostly white police forces.
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| Pakistan anti-government protests draw determined crowd | |  By Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters flooded the centre of Pakistan's capital on Saturday, vowing to stay in the streets until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns. The numbers were far below what protest organisers expected, but the protesters' paralysis of the central business district is presenting the 15-month-old civilian government with its biggest challenge yet. The unrest raises questions about Pakistan's stability at a time when the nuclear-armed nation of 180 million is waging an offensive against Pakistani Taliban militants and the influence of anti-Western and sectarian groups is growing. "The prime minister and chief minister of Punjab should immediately resign and they should be sent to jail," thundered populist cleric Tahir ul-Qadri after arriving in a convoy of black Toyotas, their tinted windows speckled with rose petals.
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| Iraqi Kurdish leader appeals to Germany for weapons | |  The leader of Iraq's Kurds appealed to Germany for weapons to help Kurdish fighters battling militants of the Islamic State, and said foreign powers must find a way to cut off the group's funding. The European Union on Friday gave a green light to EU governments to supply arms and ammunition to the Kurds if it has the consent of the government in Baghdad. Germany has shied away from direct involvement in military conflicts for much of the post-war era and a survey conducted for Bild am Sonntag newspaper indicated that almost three quarters of Germans were against shipping weapons to the Kurds. Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, said the Kurds needed more than the humanitarian aid that Germany began sending on Friday to support people forced to flee their homes by the Sunni militant group's advance.
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