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| Britain to unveil new powers for Scotland, edges towards federalism | | Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:10 AM | |
| | By Andrew Osborn and Andy Bruce LONDON/STIRLING (Reuters) - The British government will publish a draft law on Thursday underpinning the biggest transfer of powers to Scotland in over a decade, keeping a promise it gave to Scots to encourage them to reject independence last year. Under the law, Scotland, which voted to reject full-blown independence in September, will be able to set income tax rates, have some influence over welfare spending, and be given the authority to decide how the Scottish parliament and other structures are elected and run. The draft law will be formally unveiled at the British parliament in London on Thursday, with Prime Minister David Cameron set to visit Scotland, which already enjoys a large measure of autonomy, to promote the bill. Britian's main political parties have agreed to pass the legislation regardless of who wins the forthcoming election. |
| Disenchanted militants in South Asia eye Islamic State with envy | | Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:03 AM | |
| | By Jibran Ahmad and Mohammad Stanekzai PESHAWAR, Pakistan/LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Splits within the Taliban, and doubts over whether its elusive leader is even alive, are driving a growing number of militant commanders in Afghanistan and Pakistan towards Islamic State (IS) for inspiration. Security and intelligence sources believe there are no operational links yet between IS and South Asia, and that the region is not a priority for a group that occupies areas of Syria and Iraq and is focused on the Arab world. In Afghanistan, one militant commander said many have turned to IS, or Daish as it is also known, because they are frustrated at the lack of leadership by Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Afghan Taliban chief who has not been seen in public for years. |
| TV son tells magazine sex claims against Bill Cosby are 'painful' | |  Malcolm Jamal-Warner, who played Bill Cosby's son on television, has told Billboard magazine that he found it painful to hear the claims that the comedian sexually abused more than a dozen women. Warner, who played Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s and 1990s, told the music trade magazine on Wednesday that the allegations do not match Cosby's reputation. "The Bill Cosby I know has been great to me and great for a lot of people," said Warner, who is up for a Grammy Award next month as a featured performer on the Robert Glasper Experiment song "Jesus Children." "Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this," Warner was quoted as saying. I can't speak on the other stuff." Warner has joined "Cosby Show" actors Phylicia Rashad and Keshia Knight Pulliam in defending the 77-year-old comedian.
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| Israeli arrested in Madonna song leak probe | |  By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli man was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of hacking into the computers of singers including pop star Madonna and selling their songs online, according to Israeli and U.S. law enforcement sources. An Israeli police spokesman said a 39-year-old Israeli had been detained, but declined to name him, citing a court-issued gag order. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Joshua Campbell said the arrest of the Tel Aviv resident was the result of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Israeli authorities. Madonna said she was grateful to the FBI, Israeli police investigators and anyone who helped in the arrest of the hacker.
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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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| U.S. Congress invites Netanyahu for Iran speech, Obama blindsided | |  By Patricia Zengerle and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran without consulting President Barack Obama, and the White House questioned whether protocol had been violated. Setting up a diplomatic showdown on an issue that has sharply divided Obama and congressional Republicans, Boehner announced the invitation the day after Obama pledged in his State of the Union address to veto Iran sanctions legislation being developed in Congress.
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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 as "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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| 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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