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| WRAPUP 5 -Streets of Ferguson quiet after two nights of racial unrest | | Thursday, November 27, 2014 3:41 AM | |
|  By Ellen Wulfhorst, Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The streets of Ferguson, Missouri, were mostly quiet on Wednesday after two nights of racially charged unrest following a U.S. grand jury decision to clear a white policeman over the killing of an unarmed black teenager. A couple of dozen protesters huddled in the falling snow outside police headquarters in the St. Louis suburb, in sharp contrast to the hundreds who took the streets on Monday in a night of arson, looting, sporadic gunfire and clashes with police that ended in more than 60 arrests. ...
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| U.S. top law enforcer promises strong Ferguson police probe - activists | | Thursday, November 27, 2014 1:13 AM | |
|  By Julia Edwards and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told civil rights activists the Justice Department would aggressively investigate police practices in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury declined to indict a white officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager, two of the activists said on Wednesday. ...
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| Angry outbursts in Ferguson overwhelm organized protests | | Thursday, November 27, 2014 1:11 AM | |
|  By Ellen Wulfhorst and Carey Gillam FERGUSON/KANSAS CITY, MO. (Reuters) - Angry over the shooting of Michael Brown, thousands of people in August took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, with the hope the policeman who shot the unarmed black teenager would be charged. This week, the protests have become more violent and less organized as that hope has soured into bitterness over a grand jury's decision not to indict the policeman, Darren Wilson. ...
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| British lawmakers urge EU to stop Sri Lanka trade perks if UN probe not given access | | Thursday, November 27, 2014 1:10 AM | |
| | By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Leading British lawmakers urged the European Union on Thursday to remove preferential trade tariffs from Sri Lanka if it fails to address human rights concerns. Sri Lanka has refused to cooperate with a United Nations Human Rights Council investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by both state forces and separatist Tamil rebels during a conflict that ended in 2009, despite mounting international pressure. ... |
| Venezuela to charge opposition leader over alleged plot to kill Maduro | | Thursday, November 27, 2014 1:03 AM | |
|  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will be charged with involvement in an alleged plot to kill President Nicolas Maduro, authorities said on Wednesday, a move Machado slammed as an effort to silence her. Ruling Socialist Party leaders in May accused a group of opposition activists including Machado of planning Maduro's assassination to pave the way for a coup. Opposition critics dismissed the accusation as a charade based on forged documents. ...
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| Canadian celebrity radio host charged with sexual assault | | Thursday, November 27, 2014 12:51 AM | |
|  By Andrea Hopkins TORONTO (Reuters) - A celebrity radio host at the heart of one of Canada's biggest sex scandals was charged with sexual assault on Wednesday in a case that has grabbed headlines. Jian Ghomeshi, 47, former host of the internationally syndicated music and arts program Q on Canadian Broadcasting Corp radio, appeared in court to answer four counts of sexual assault and one of choking. His lawyer said Ghomeshi would plead not guilty to the charges. ...
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| More than 400 arrested as Ferguson protests spread to other U.S. cities | | By Ellen Wulfhorst, Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - National Guard troops and police aimed to head off a third night of violence on Wednesday in Ferguson, Missouri, as more than 400 people have been arrested in the St. Louis suburb and around the United States in unrest after a white policeman was cleared in the killing of an unarmed black teenager. There have been protests in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta and other cities decrying Monday's grand jury decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. ...
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| Russia throws rights accusations back at U.S. with Ferguson unrest | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia pointed on Wednesday to rioting in Ferguson and protests across the United States as evidence that its detractors in Washington were hypocrites and in no position to lecture Moscow on human rights. Issuing two statements on the unrest in just one day, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the United States should "focus on large-scale domestic problems with safeguarding human rights" rather than preach to others. ...
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| Book Talk: Pack of Thieves? Convict-era Australia stacks the deck | |  By Pauline Askin SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fate dealt Honorah Sullivan a bad hand when she was found guilty of arson in the mid-19th century and put on a British convict ship bound for modern-day Tasmania. But more than 160 years later, the lives of Sullivan and 51 women at a historic workhouse on the Australian island are played out in a deck of cards and a companion book of real-life stories. In "Pack of Thieves? 52 Female Factory Lives", researchers trace the lives of prisoners and jail staff, using digitized archives of newspapers and convict records. ...
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| U.S. court rejects Motorola Mobility price-fixing appeal | |  By Jonathan Stempel REUTERS - A federal appeals court rejected Motorola Mobility LLC's bid to sue several Asian suppliers under U.S. antitrust law for fixing prices of mobile phone displays sold to its foreign units. Wednesday's decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago may lessen protections against inflated prices for U.S. consumers who buy cellphones, computers and other products whose components are made outside the country. Circuit Judge Richard Posner said Motorola could not invoke U.S. antitrust law because the "immediate victims" had been non-U.S. ...
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| Stigma and isolation haunt S.Korean families of convicted ferry crew | |  By Ju-min Park JINDO, South Korea (Reuters) - Im Young-ae and her husband, a crew member who survived the Sewol ferry disaster, had dreamed of a peaceful retirement by the sea until their lives were upended by the April tragedy. Their new house is finished and Im has moved in, but she is living in virtual isolation with her adult daughter. As Im's husband serves a 5-year jail term for negligence over the ferry's sinking, she, like the loved ones of other surviving crew, is being treated as a pariah amid outrage in South Korea over the deaths of 304 people, mostly teenagers, on the doomed boat. ...
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| In Ferguson, black residents stand guard at white-owned store | |  By Emily Flitter FERGUSON, MO. (Reuters) - Since looting first erupted following the August police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, nearly all the businesses in a 2 square mile area of this St Louis suburb have had to board up. One exception - a Conoco gas station and convenience store. At least a dozen stores have been set ablaze and others looted in Ferguson in racially charged riots since a grand jury on Monday cleared white policeman Darren Wilson in the shooting, which has torn apart this predominantly black Missouri city. ...
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| Cameroon army says frees 16 hostages, including Polish priest | |  YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The Cameroonian army has freed 16 hostages, including Polish Catholic priest Mateusz Dziedzic, who were abducted by rebels from Central African Republic last month, Cameroon's government said on Wednesday. However, the rebel force, the Democratic Front of the Central African People (FDPC), said in a statement it had voluntarily handed over the group following the intervention of former Central African minister Karim Meckassoua. The FDPC abducted Dziedzic on Oct. ...
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