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| Al Jazeera journalist Greste says relief to be free, like a "rebirth" | |  By Amena Bakr DOHA (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste said on Monday it was a great relief to be freed from prison in Egypt, but that he felt "incredible angst" about leaving two colleagues behind in prison. "This (release) has been like a rebirth," he said in an interview on Al Jazeera, his first public remarks since he was freed. Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian, and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian national, remain in prison. They were jailed for between seven and 10 years on charges including spreading lies to help a terrorist organisation - a reference to the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
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| 'Power Rangers' actor arrested in fatal sword stabbing in California | | | An actor who co-starred in the "Power Rangers Wild Force" television series has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a roommate to death with a sword in Southern California, authorities said on Monday. The slaying on Saturday afternoon in Palmdale, California, north of Los Angeles, stemmed from an argument between the suspect and the victim that turned violent, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. According to an account of the incident provided by sheriff's deputies, the suspect, Ricardo Medina, 36, retreated to his bedroom with his girlfriend during the altercation, but his roommate, Joshua Sutter, followed them and forced open the door. A spokeswoman for the department confirmed that Medina is the actor who played the Red Lion Wild Force Ranger on the "Power Rangers Wild Force" TV series in 2002. |
| Female Iraqi militant held by Jordan is heroine to jihadists | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Stephen Kalin AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When her husband blew himself up in a luxury hotel during a wedding in Amman a decade ago, Sajida al-Rishawi was meant to die too, but her suicide bomb belt did not go off. Today, as a death-row prisoner in Jordan, she is a heroine to jihadists in the region, who may be willing to swap a Jordanian pilot for her. Rishawi, now in her mid-40s, has an influential background in militant circles: she hails from a powerful Sunni clan in Western Iraq, and her brother was a top lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of al Qaeda's Iraq branch. Today, that group has since transformed itself into Islamic State, breaking off from al Qaeda and controlling swathes of Iraq and Syria.
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| Four surviving Magna Carta copies on show together after 800 years | |  By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - The four surviving original copies of the Magna Carta, the English treaty which established that nobody was above the law, were put on display together in London's British Museum on Monday for the first time. Just 1,215 ballot winners will see the copies of the treaty in which King John granted rights to rebel barons. King John added his seal to the Magna Carta, or Great Charter, giving all free men the right to justice and a fair trial, after landowners, reacting against heavy taxation, had renounced their oaths of allegiances to him and captured London. Written with quills on vellum in 1215, it became a symbol for the rule of law and helped to inspire the U.S. constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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| As U.S. faces new threats, Pentagon seeks bigger defense budget | |  By David Alexander and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing new security challenges in the Middle East and Ukraine, the Obama administration on Monday proposed a $534 billion Pentagon base budget plus $51 billion in war funds as it urged Congress to end spending cuts which it says erode U.S. military power. In addition to the base budget and war funding requests, the administration proposed some $27 billion in defense spending at other agencies, primarily nuclear weapons work by the Department of Energy. The Pentagon base budget proposal broke through the $499 billion federal spending cap for fiscal year 2016, setting up a debate in Congress over whether to continue deep cuts to federal discretionary spending or to amend the limits set in a 2011 law that sought to narrow the U.S. budget deficit.
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| CORRECTED - Uber probed by U.S. judge on driver benefits | |  (In Jan 30 item, corrects judge's name to Vince, not Vincent, in paragraph 7) By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge appeared skeptical on Friday about Uber's bid for a quick pretrial ruling that its drivers are contractors and not employees, a critical question facing Silicon Valley's sharing economy. App-based ride service Uber, and smaller rival Lyft, face separate lawsuits seeking class action status in San Francisco federal court, brought on behalf of drivers who contend they are employees and entitled to reimbursement for expenses, including gas and vehicle maintenance. At a court hearing on Friday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen said Uber's bid for a pretrial ruling its drivers are contractors is a "tough argument" to make, given that the drivers serve Uber's business goals. "The idea that Uber is simply a software platform, a service provider and nothing else, I don't find that a very persuasive argument," Chen said.
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| Saudi Arabia has helped save British lives - PM Cameron says | |  Saudi Arabia has given information which helped save British lives, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday, saying it was important to maintain a relationship with the kingdom despite accusations it has a poor record on human rights. The British government's decision to fly the Union flag at half mast on public buildings following the death of Saudi's King Abdullah last month drew criticism human rights campaigners and several prominent British politicians. Asked about this decision during a question and answer session on Sky news on Monday, Cameron said the countries had a long standing relationship and it was "a mark of respect". "We have a relationship with Saudi Arabia partly over things like trying to achieve peace in the Middle East but crucially over fighting terrorism ... Since I have been prime minister a piece of information that we have been given by that country has saved potentially hundreds of lives here in Britain," he said.
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| Albanian highwaymen outwitted by Chinese karate skills | | | Three Albanian gunmen met their match when they held up three Chinese contractors only to be outwitted and overpowered by the karate skills of their would-be victims. The Chinese contractors re-enacted for Albania's News24 TV on Monday what they said had happened on a mountain road in northern Albania on Sunday after they were held up at gunpoint. |
| Belgian police detain man near EU Parliament, find gun and chainsaw | |  Brussels police on Monday detained a Slovakian man dressed in camouflage gear near the European Parliament and found a gun and a chainsaw in his car, triggering a security scare which caused several offices to be evacuated. The man, deemed to be acting suspiciously, was questioned and told police officers that he wanted to meet the European president, prosecutors said. What they did then find was a chainsaw and a gun.
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| Behind Obama's budget proposals, a gloomy view of the future | |  By Jason Lange and Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Beneath President Barack Obama's plan to fight income inequality lies a gloomy view of an economy that is growing slower and creating fewer rewards for its workers than it did in much of the last century. In a budget proposal unveiled on Monday, the White House cut forecasts for an array of economic variables, depicting less growth, weaker inflation and lower interest rates than officials expected only a year ago. This comes despite an unemployment rate that the Obama administration expects to hit the 5.2 percent level considered to be roughly in line with full employment sometime this year. The administration's take on the economy moves it closer to the growing view among economists that the United States could be stuck in a prolonged period of stagnation.
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| In feisty Israeli campaign, even Netanyahu's wife's recycling is a target | |  By Allyn Fisher-Ilan JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Forget the deadlocked Palestinian peace process or the Iranian nuclear programme. The latest political fracas in Israel is over whether the prime minister's wife kept the deposit when she recycled bottles from state functions. With opinion polls predicting a close race between Netanyahu's Likud party and a centre-left opposition alliance, the focus has been on personalities and allegations of wrongdoing rather than substance. "This is a mudslinging war," declared Hanan Crystal, a well-regarded political analyst on Israel Radio.
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| Russia's Putin calls for end to fighting in east Ukraine - TASS | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is "extremely concerned" over the situation in east Ukraine and has called on rival sides to end the fighting, TASS news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Monday. Pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine were pounding the positions of Kiev forces holding a strategic rail town in east Ukraine with rockets on Monday, as both sides press ahead with the mobilisation of more forces for combat. (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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| Obama proposes $3.99 trillion budget, sets up battle with Republicans | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 that sets up a battle with Republicans over programs to boost the middle class that are funded by higher taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans. Obama's budget fleshes out proposals from his State of the Union address last month and helps highlight Democratic priorities for the last two years of his presidency and the beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign. "And we'll have some battles along the way, but there's going to be a whole bunch of stuff that we can do that's really productive." The president is scheduled to speak about the budget at 11:55 a.m. EST (1655 GMT) from the Department of Homeland Security, a site the White House chose to emphasize its insistence that Republicans fund the agency charged with implementing his controversial executive actions on immigration. Republicans have said they see room for compromise in areas such as tax reform and infrastructure, but many of Obama's programs, which were rolled out in the weeks before the budget's release, have landed with a thud.
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| Uber tightens driver screening in India, to check criminal records | |  The U.S. taxi company Uber Technologies Inc has tightened background screening of its drivers in India to include inspection of criminal court records, Uber said in a statement on Monday. Uber was banned from operating in New Delhi after allegations of rape against one of its drivers. Uber has joined with First Advantage, a global background screening company, to run additional checks that will include scanning past criminal court records and a national criminal database search. "Our arrangement with First Advantage brings in additional layers of screening over and above the standard transport licensing process," Uber said in the statement.
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| Egypt court sentences 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death | | | By Omar Fahmy CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges of killing police officers, part of a sustained crackdown by authorities on Islamists. The men were convicted of playing a role in the killings of 16 policemen in the town of Kardasa in August, 2013 during the upheaval that followed the army's ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. Egypt has mounted one of the biggest crackdowns in its modern history on the Brotherhood since the political demise of Mursi, the country's first democratically-elected president. Thousands of Brotherhood supporters have been arrested and put on mass trials in a campaign which human rights groups say shows the government is systematically repressing opponents. |
| Sex offence trial of ex-IMF head Strauss-Kahn opens | |  By Chine Labbé LILLE, France (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief tipped to become French president before a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in 2011, went on trial in France on Monday in a separate case of alleged procuring of prostitutes. Strauss-Kahn, 65, who settled a U.S. civil case with chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo after criminal charges were dropped, risks as much as 10 years in jail and a fine of up to 1.5 million euros ($1.7 million) if convicted in the French trial, taking place in the northern city of Lille. Investigating magistrates who sent Strauss-Kahn to trial with 13 others argue he knew he was dealing with prostitutes when taking part in sex parties in Paris, Lille and Washington from 2008 to 2011, a judicial source told Reuters. In Strauss-Kahn's case, judicial investigators allege he allowed his rented apartment to be used for sex parties involving prostitutes and that he was involved in organising them.
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