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| Missouri officer in fatal shooting resigned without severance - mayor | | Monday, December 01, 2014 2:29 AM | |
|  By Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, this summer, got no severance deal when he resigned from the force, the mayor of the St. Louis suburb said on Sunday. The officer, Darren Wilson, announced his resignation late Saturday, saying he feared for his own safety and that of his fellow police officers after a grand jury decided not to indict him in the fatal Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. ...
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| Mubarak verdict fuels protests, mockery in Egypt | | Monday, December 01, 2014 2:29 AM | |
|  By Amr Dalsh CAIRO (Reuters) - Protests erupted at universities across Egypt on Sunday, condemning a court decision to drop criminal charges against Hosni Mubarak, the president whose ouster in the 2011 uprising raised hopes of a new era of political openness. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Cairo University, waving pictures of Mubarak behind bars and demanding the "fall of the regime", the rallying cry of the Arab Spring uprisings that shook governments from Tunisia to the Gulf in 2011. ...
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| Uruguayan ruling party's Vazquez wins presidential election | | Monday, December 01, 2014 2:19 AM | |
|  By Malena Castaldi and Esteban Farat MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Tabare Vazquez won back his old job as president of Uruguay in a runoff election on Sunday, allowing the leftist ruling coalition to extend its decade in power and roll out a groundbreaking law that legalizes the production and sale of marijuana. Center-right opposition candidate Luis Lacalle Pou quickly conceded defeat after unofficial quick counts showed Vazquez with over 53 percent support. Lacalle Pou trailed with about 41 percent. ...
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| Uruguay votes for president, leftist favorite to win | |  By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguayans voted on Sunday for a new president, with former leader Tabare Vazquez poised to reclaim his old job, opening the way for the ruling leftist coalition to roll out its pioneering marijuana law. Voting kicked off slowly as storms pounded the country but for many the result was already clear. Opinion polls show Vazquez, 74, who was president from 2005 to 2010, trouncing Luis Lacalle Pou of the centre-right National Party by some 14 percentage points. ...
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| Ferguson police officer resigned on safety concerns, lawyer says | | By Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Missouri (Reuters) - The white police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager to death this summer in a St. Louis suburb decided to resign from the force because of threats against fellow officers after a grand jury decided not to indict him, his lawyer said on Sunday. Darren Wilson's resignation, announced on Saturday, came nearly four months after the officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9. ...
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| Colombian rebels free hostages including general | | | By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels freed an army general and two other captives on Sunday, paving the way for peace talks in Cuba to resume in the quest to end five decades of conflict. President Juan Manuel Santos halted negotiations in Havana two weeks ago after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) seized five hostages, including General Ruben Dario Alzate, disrupting the push to end violence that has killed more than 200,000 people. ... |
| Germany says 300 jihadists facing trial, anti-terrorism laws working | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - Nearly 300 people are facing prosecution in Germany for supporting Islamic State (IS), German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has said, adding that it was a sign that anti-terrorism laws were working and tougher legislation was not needed. "Whoever supports IS can already be prosecuted under existing laws," he told Sunday's weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview, after some politicians called for tighter laws. He added, however, that he would present a draft law by the end of the year to tackle the flow of money to IS. ... |
| Qatar court overturns conviction of U.S. parents in death of adopted girl | |  By Carey Gillam REUTERS - An appeals court in Qatar on Sunday overturned the convictions of a Los Angeles couple who were sentenced to three years in jail for the death of their adopted African-born daughter, but the government was refusing to let the couple leave the country, a spokesman for the family said. Matthew and Grace Huang were trying to return to the United States after the tribunal found the lower court had made numerous errors, family spokesman Eric Volz told Reuters. ...
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| Kabul police chief quits after South African family die in Taliban attack | |  By Kay Johnson and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - The Kabul police chief resigned on Sunday after Taliban gunmen killed three members of a South African family in the capital, while officials said Afghan forces had ousted insurgents trying to seize former U.S. and British base Camp Bastion in the south. Taliban fighters breached the perimeter of Camp Bastion in the southern Afghan province of Helmand three days ago, just one month after the base was handed over to the Afghan army. ...
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| Hundreds march in New Delhi for gay pride in Modi's India | |  By Tony Tharakan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hundreds of people danced, sang and cheered in a gay pride parade in New Delhi on Sunday, the first since the country's top court reinstated a ban on gay sex in the world's largest democracy. Multi-coloured balloons, masquerade masks and wigs, a huge rainbow flag and a St. Bernard dog ushered in the seventh Delhi Queer Pride parade, with many shaking their hips to drum beats. Participants chanting "Azaadi" (freedom) and shouting slogans such as "I'm gay, that's OK" carried banners and placards demanding their right to love. ...
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| Colombia rebels free kidnapped general, peace talks may resume | | | BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's president said on Sunday Marxist FARC rebels had freed an army general and two other hostages captured earlier this month, in a move that may help restart peace talks suspended by the government over the abductions. President Juan Manuel Santos refused to allow negotiations, aimed at ending five decades of war, to continue until the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) released General Ruben Dario Alzate, a civilian lawyer and a soldier seized on Nov. 16. ... |
| Online threats case to show if U.S. justices are down with rap | | | By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A case before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning threats that a Pennsylvania man made toward his estranged wife and others on Facebookcould hinge on how the nine justices interpret the sometimes violent imagery in rap lyrics. The justices, not known for their pop culture bona fides, are set on Monday to hear a one-hour oral argument in an appeal filed by Anthony Elonis. He was convicted for making threats aimed at his wife, law enforcement officers and others after posting statements on Facebook in 2010 soon after his wife left him. ... |
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