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| Impeachment verdict of ousted Thai PM could test fragile calm | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's army-stacked parliament will vote in an impeachment hearing against ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday, testing a fragile calm between the rural poor and the royalist establishment backed by the Bangkok middle class. A guilty verdict on the charge of dereliction of duty could see Yingluck, Thailand's first female prime minister, banned from politics for five years. The government of coup leader Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has urged Yingluck's supporters to stay out of the capital Bangkok this week, worried about a repeat of the street violence that has dogged the country in recent years. Thailand is under martial law and public gatherings are banned.
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| Chile to reopen investigation into poet Neruda's death | |  Chile will reopen an investigation into the death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda to determine if the poet was poisoned more than 40 years ago by a military dictatorship, after tests on his exhumed body in 2013 found no evidence to back the claims. Neruda, famed for his passionate love poems and staunch communist views, is presumed to have died from prostate cancer just days after the Sept. 11, 1973, coup that ushered in the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. "There is initial evidence that he was poisoned and in that sense the signs point to the intervention of specific agents ... that could constitute a crime against humanity," Francisco Ugas, the head of the government's humans rights department, said on Wednesday. One theory on why he was poisoned is because he was a staunch communist and loyal to deposed President Salvador Allende, and it was feared he would become an opposition leader to the dictatorship.
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| Family of comedian killed in Tracy Morgan crash, Wal-Mart settle | |  The family of a comedian killed in an auto accident that seriously injured comedian Tracy Morgan has reached a financial settlement with Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the family's attorney said on Wednesday. The out-of-court settlement is the first legal resolution from the New Jersey big-rig crash that killed comedian James McNair and seriously injured Morgan on June 7 last year. McNair, 62, who performed under the name Jimmy Mack, died at the scene after a Wal-Mart truck rear-ended a limousine bus carrying McNair, Morgan and others returning from a comedy performance in Delaware. Terms of the settlement were confidential, McNair family attorney Daryl Zaslow said.
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| Guantanamo inmate details torture in first book from Cuba prison | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first book published by a longtime Guantanamo Bay inmate that describes torture, humiliation and despair during 13 years in captivity was selling briskly in the United States on Wednesday and drawing hard-won attention to his case. Mohamedou Ould Slahi's account from the U.S. naval base in Cuba, "Guantanamo Diary" was published on Tuesday after a seven-year legal battle. It recounts ice baths, degradation and myriad humiliations in a first-person telling of his interrogation during the American war on terrorism from a prisoner who has never been charged by the United States with a crime and was ordered released by a U.S. federal court in 2010. The book's publication coincided with President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, seven years after the Democratic president vowed to close the prison in Cuba during his first year in office.
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| Google, Viacom win dismissal of children's web privacy lawsuit | |  Google Inc and Viacom Inc won the dismissal of a nationwide privacy lawsuit accusing them of illegally tracking the Internet activity of boys and girls who visited Nickelodeon's website, in order to send targeted advertising. The lawsuit claimed that Viacom secretly kept track of children under the age of 13 who streamed videos and played video games on its Nick.com website, and shared what it learned with Google. It said both companies then without permission put text files known "cookies" into the children's computers, letting them gather additional information that advertisers could use. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of young children who registered to use Nick.com.
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| Church backs Congo protesters, rights group says 42 killed | |  By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's powerful Catholic church on Wednesday backed ongoing protests against reforms that could extend President Joseph Kabila's rule, denouncing a government crackdown which a rights group said had killed 42 people. As anti-government demonstrations in the capital Kinshasa entered their third day, the leader of Congo's Catholics, Cardinal Laurent Mosengwo Pasinya, strongly criticised any attempt to postpone a presidential election due next year. Opposition supporters took to the streets on Monday to try to derail legislation that would require a national census before the vote. With more than 40 percent of Congo's 65 million people describing themselves as Catholic, the Church's stance is likely to bolster popular resistance to the reform.
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| U.S. Congress invites Netanyahu, Obama blindsided | |  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress without consulting President Barack Obama, and a White House spokesman questioned whether protocol had been violated. An Israeli official said Netanyahu, whose relationship with Obama has often been tense, was looking into the possibility of meeting with Obama when he comes to Washington to address a joint session of Congress on Feb. 11.
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| Bin Laden's ex-secretary loses appeal of life sentence | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's former personal secretary lost a bid to throw out his life sentence for conspiring to bomb U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which killed 224 people and injured thousands. Wadih El-Hage, 54, had argued that a life sentence was out of proportion to his relative lack of culpability in the attacks. U.S. authorities say Fawwaz, 52, helped disseminate declarations of war for bin Laden via a London media office. |
| Women players drop legal battle over World Cup turf | | | Players who had begun legal action over the use of artificial surfaces at this year's Women's World Cup have dropped their case, their lawyers said on Wednesday. A group of elite women's players had sued FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA), arguing that artificial turf surfaces for the tournament, which takes place in Canada in from June 6 to July 5, were unsafe and that it was discriminatory for women to play on surfaces. The men's World Cup is played on natural grass pitches. FIFA and the CSA had argued that the surfaces had passed their sanctioning standards and that the bidding process for hosting the tournament had made clear that artificial surfaces would be used. |
| Japanese reporter's bid to save friend led to IS abduction | |  By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - It is an unlikely friendship that ties the fates of war correspondent Kenji Goto and troubled loner Haruna Yukawa, the two Japanese hostages for which Islamic State militants demanded a $200 million ransom this week. Yukawa was captured in August outside Aleppo. Goto, who had returned to Syria in late October to try to help his friend, had been missing since then. For Yukawa, who dreamed of becoming a military contractor, travelling to Syria had been part of an effort to turn his life around after going bankrupt, losing his wife to cancer and attempting suicide, according to associates and his own accounts. A unit at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been seeking information on him since August, people involved in that effort said.
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| Sri Lanka probes deals by ex-president, brothers amid graft concerns | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's new government will investigate all financial deals sealed by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brothers during his term as head of state and will take legal action if they involved any corruption, a minister said on Wednesday. Rajapaksa lost his bid for a third term in an election on Jan. 8 after a campaign that had focused on misuse of public funds and on his powers and those of his family members, many of whom held public office during his decade in power. "All the alleged deals by the Rajapaksas will be investigated," government spokesman Rajitha Senarathne, who is also health minister, told reporters. Senarathne said former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who oversaw the military defeat of Tamil Tiger separatists after a 26-year war, was alleged to have maintained a "private military" with a floating armoury, something he has denied.
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| Corrected - New satellite system to track illegal "pirate fishing" | | | By Chris Arsenault ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - (Corrects name of initiative and its backers in paragraph 2, adds paragraph 4 on the project's global reach ) About 20 percent of the world's fishing catch is taken illegally by poachers, experts estimate, but a new satellite tracking system launched on Wednesday aims to crack down on the industrial-scale theft known as "pirate fishing." Run by the British technology firm Satellite Applications Catapult and backed by the Pew Charitable Trusts, project 'Eyes on the Seas' will open a "Virtual Watch Room". Computers will be able to watch satellite feeds of the waters around Easter Island, a Chilean territory in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, and the western Pacific island nation of Palau, which lacks the resources to monitor all the illegal fishing taking place near its waters. The technology analyses numerous sources of live satellite tracking data, enabling monitors to link to information about a ship's country of registration and ownership history to spot suspicious vessels. |
| Trial of woman charged with supporting Islamic State starts in Germany | | | The trial of a woman accused of sending money and film-making equipment to Islamist militant group Islamic State in Syria began in the German city of Duesseldorf on Wednesday. The 25-year-old woman, who holds joint German and Polish citizenship, appeared in the high-security courthouse wearing a chador, a black, head-to-toe gown worn by some conservative Muslims. The charges against her include aiding a terror organisation for sending up to 11,000 euros ($13,000) to the group, as well as cameras and other equipment for making propaganda films, Simon Henrichs from the federal prosecutors' office told the court. German security services say about 600 German residents have joined IS and other similar groups in Syria and Iraq. |
| Syria wants U.N. action against Turkey over Paris attacks suspect | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria called on the United Nations Security Council to take action against Turkey for allowing a French woman linked to militant attacks in Paris to illegally enter Syria along with other foreign fighters. France launched a search for 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene after police killed her partner Amedy Coulibaly while storming a Jewish supermarket where he had taken hostages earlier this month. Boumeddiene crossed into Syria on Jan. 8, he said. |
| After defiant speech, Obama heads to Republican heartland | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after delivering a defiant State of the Union speech to the Republican-led U.S. Congress, President Barack Obama hit the road on Wednesday to promote his plans for lifting up the middle class. Obama headed out for a two-day trip to Idaho and Kansas to push his message that the economy has effectively recovered from years in the doldrums. No longer restrained by having to face voters again, Obama struck a highly confident tone in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, saying, "the shadow of crisis has passed." It is now time for policies like raising taxes on the rich and offering community college for free for two years, he said. Republicans called for Obama to be more humble, given that they took control of both chambers of Congress this month after winning November's midterm elections handsomely.
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