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| Ex-CIA chief Petraeus to plead guilty in affair-related case | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to a single charge relating to mishandling classified information in a case arising from the ex-U.S. Army General's extramarital affair with a female Army Reserve officer, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. Documents disclosing Petraeus's guilty plea were filed in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina. A law enforcement source said Petraeus is pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge and is unlikely to be sentenced to serve prison time.
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| Three dead as Kiev accuses Ukraine rebels of shelling | | | By Pavel Polityuk and Maria Tsvetkova KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and nine wounded as pro-Russian rebels shelled government positions despite a ceasefire deal, the military said on Tuesday, announcing Kiev's highest casualty toll in several days. The losses underscore the fragility of a two-week-old ceasefire agreement which Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called the last chance for peace between Kiev and the separatists he says are being armed by Russia. In recent days both sides have been withdrawing artillery from the front line, the next stage in a peace agreement brokered by France and Germany. In rebel-held Donetsk, among the ruins of the city's airport, artillery fire was heard coming towards rebel positions from the direction of Ukraine's frontline stronghold of Pisky. |
| U.S. FCC Chairman defends net neutrality rules | |  The top watchdog of the U.S. telecommunications market defended new rules that will tighten regulation over the country's broadband providers as necessary to defend consumers' interests and openness on the Internet. Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday, Tom Wheeler, the head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said that some in the industry exaggerated when they said the moves would harm them or cripple innovation on the web. "One of the tragedies" of net neutrality debate has been people invoking "imaginary horribles," he said, adding that the FCC would not interfere the telecom or cable groups' businesses.
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| Activist writer's trial tests freedom of expression in Italy | | | By Isla Binnie ROME (Reuters) - When he lent his support to a fight against a high-speed train line through the mountains between France and Italy, Erri De Luca never expected to face jail. "If they convict me, censorship has triumphed," De Luca said at his home in the countryside outside Rome. "In that courtroom I am the accused, but that courtroom is also under scrutiny from public opinion." De Luca, who wrote some of his prize-winning poems and stories when he was part of the now-defunct Lotta Continua (Continuous Fight) revolutionary group in the 1970s and 1980s, took up the cause of the "No TAV" movement in 2005. It opposes the long-delayed Lyon-Turin line, construction of which French President Francois Hollande said last week would start in 2016, some 15 years after an agreement to build the railway. |
| U.S. trial of suspected al Qaeda operative heads to jury | | | Jury deliberations began Tuesday in the trial of a Pakistani man accused by U.S. authorities of participating in an al Qaeda plot to attack targets in Europe and the United States. A federal judge in Brooklyn dispatched the jury of six men and six women to consider the fate of Abid Naseer, who prosecutors say headed up a al Qaeda cell plotting to bomb a shopping center in Manchester, England, in April 2009. Naseer, 28, faces life in prison if convicted of providing and conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda and conspiring to use a destructive device. The proposed attack was one of three plots al Qaeda cells were working on, along with attacks against the New York City subway system and a Copenhagen newspaper, prosecutors say. |
| UK's Cameron says child sex abuse to be classified "national threat" | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said tackling child sexual abuse was a national priority on a par with organised crime on Tuesday, announcing measures to prevent systematic abuse. Britain has been rocked by a series of child sex abuse revelations, including a case in Rotherham, northern England, where some 1,400 children, some as young as 11, were abused by gangs of men. "I've just spent half an hour with some of the survivors of abuse in Rotherham and these are stories that are going to stay with me forever. They are absolutely horrific," Cameron said at a meeting of victim groups, police and child protection experts held in his official London residence.
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| Nigeria's Boko Haram releases beheading video echoing Islamic State | | | By Isaac Abrak and Julia Payne ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram released a video purporting to show it beheading two men, its first online posting using advanced graphics and editing techniques similar to footage from Islamic State. The footage will raise concerns that Boko Haram, which evolved out of a clerical movement focused on northeast Nigeria, is expanding its scope and seeking inspiration from international militant networks including al Qaeda and Islamic State. Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has said Boko Haram is allied to both al Qaeda and IS, though that has not been confirmed by Boko Haram itself. |
| Kenya burns 15 tonnes of ivory in anti-poaching fight, to destroy its stockpile by year-end | | | By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya burnt 15 tonnes of ivory on Tuesday and promised to destroy all of its stockpile this year, the latest step in its campaign against elephant poaching. Poaching has surged in the last few years across sub-Saharan Africa, where gangs kill elephants and rhinos to feed Asian demand for ivory and horns for use in folk medicines. "As part of Kenya's continued policy to put ivory beyond economic use ... I will today burn 15 tonnes of ivory at this historic site in Nairobi National Park," President Uhuru Kenyatta said during a ceremony at the park. |
| Fugitive ex-U.S. spy Snowden in talks on returning home: lawyer | |  A Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden said on Tuesday the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government's mass surveillance programmes was working with American and German lawyers to return home. Anatoly Kucherena, who has links to the Kremlin, was speaking at a news conference to present a book he has written about his client. Russia has repeatedly refused to extradite him.
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| Russians stand in line to mourn by coffin of slain Nemtsov | |  By Alexander Winning and Gabriela Baczynska MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Russians, many carrying red carnations, on Tuesday filed past the coffin of Boris Nemtsov, the Kremlin critic whose killing last week, friends say, showed the hazards of speaking out against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Aides to Putin deny any involvement in killing Nemtsov, who was shot in the back four times on Friday within sight of the Kremlin walls. Nemtsov's friends say he was the victim of an atmosphere of hatred whipped up against anyone who opposes the president. "The shots were fired not only at Nemtsov but at all of us, at democracy in Russia," Gennady Gudkov, a prominent Kremlin opponent, said in a speech delivered next to the coffin.
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| Taxis jam Brussels in protest over possible Uber arrival | |  By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hundreds of taxis jammed central Brussels on Tuesday in a protest against the city's planned reform of the industry that could lead to the legalisation of online ride-sharing services such as Uber. Brussels' Transport Minister Pascal Smet outlined plans last week for taxi reform in the Belgian capital from the start of 2016, including conditions under which the fast-growing U.S. company Uber could operate. Taxis drove slowly through central Brussels, bearing banners such as "No to Uber" and blocking major intersections. Taxi drivers across Europe, many of whom benefit from highly regulated markets, say Uber breaks local taxi rules and violates licensing, insurance and safety regulations.
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| FBI to help investigate US citizen blogger killing in Bangladesh | | | By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will help investigate the case of an American blogger hacked to death in Dhaka last week, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Avijit Roy, an engineer of Bangladeshi origin, was killed by machete-wielding assailants on Thursday while returning from a book fair. His wife and fellow blogger Rafida Ahmed, who lost a finger and suffered head injuries, remains in hospital. "An FBI team might come to Dhaka this week to assist in our investigations of the killing of writer and blogger Avijit Roy," said Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Monirul Islam. |
| U.N. calls for accountability in Sri Lanka rights investigation | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - The United Nations urged Sri Lanka on Tuesday to make sure it had strong systems for holding people accountable, as the island nation carried out its own investigations in abuses during a 26-year civil war. The U.N. Human Rights Council has separately investigated atrocities in the war against Tamil separatists, but last month deferred its report, saying Colombo had shown a new willingness to open up to scrutiny. Jeffrey Feltman, the U.N. Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, said he had urged the government "to take steps in the short term to address issues regarding land, detentions, disappearances, and the military posture in civilian areas". The United Nations and world powers expected Colombo to develop a "strong framework for accountability that meets international standards and norms," he added at the end of a four-day visit.
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| Influential Mozambican lawyer Cistac gunned down in taxi | | | By Manuel Mucari MAPUTO (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead on Tuesday a prominent Mozambican lawyer who was viewed as sympathetic to opposition calls for decentralisation of power in the resource-rich southern African country. Gilles Cistac, 54 and of French origin, had been in a taxi on his way to work when a car carrying four men pulled up alongside the cab and one of them shot him several times, police spokesman Orlando Modumane said. Cistac had been a central figure in a debate about the creation of autonomous states in Mozambique, a country that has attracted billions of dollars in foreign investment in recent years after making huge coal and natural gas finds. Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo has called for its politicians to govern regions where it won more votes than the ruling Frelimo party in elections last year. |
| Queen Elizabeth strips entertainer Rolf Harris of honour over child sex conviction | |  Britain's Queen Elizabeth has stripped veteran entertainer Rolf Harris of an honour she bestowed on him in 2006, basing the move on his conviction for child sex crimes last year, an official notice on Tuesday revealed. Harris, a household name in his native Australia and adopted home Britain, was jailed for almost six years in July last year for repeatedly abusing young girls over decades when he was a much loved host on children's television. An announcement in the London Gazette, Britain's official newspaper of record, said the royal award given to Harris, who had painted the queen's portrait in 2005, had now been rescinded. "The Queen has directed that the appointment of Rolf Harris to be a Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 17 June 2006, shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name shall be erased from the Register of the said Order," the statement said.
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| Russia bars two EU politicians from Nemtsov funeral | |  By Christian Lowe and Alastair Macdonald MOSCOW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia barred entry to two European Union politicians who had planned to attend the funeral on Tuesday of murdered opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, prompting accusations the Kremlin was using the killing to score petty political points. The pair, former Latvian foreign minister Sandra Kalniete and Bogdan Borusewicz, the speaker of Poland's upper house of parliament, were both from countries whose ties with Moscow have come under particular strain in the Ukraine crisis. Russia said Kalniete was subject to a travel ban for her "anti-Russian activities". It said she may have been seeking to provoke a row by trying to come to Moscow anyway.
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| Sahara's Grosvenor House hotel in London put up for sale | |  By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - London's landmark Grosvenor House hotel has been put up for sale after its owner, part of troubled Indian conglomerate Sahara which has been trying to raise funds for its jailed boss Subrata Roy, was placed into administration by creditors. Consultant Deloitte said on Tuesday it had been appointed administrator of Sahara Grosvenor House Hospitality Ltd, which owns the long leasehold title to the hotel. Property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) will advise on the sale. Sahara, which has been trying to raise $1.6 billion to free Roy by refinancing overseas hotels including Grosvenor House and New York's Plaza, said the administrator was hired after Bank of China's loan on the London hotel was declared in default.
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| Maharashtra clamps down on beef trade through new act | |  Maharashtra has extended a ban on killing cows to bulls and bullocks, a state government source said, in a blow to meat traders who are now considering legal action. President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday give his assent to the long-pending Maharashtra Animal Preservation Bill, making it a law and drawing cheers from the state government led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "Our dream of ban on cow slaughter becomes a reality now," Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis tweeted. Groups close to the BJP, also the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, oppose the beef industry.
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| Film on 2012 Delhi gang rape stokes debate on Indian male mindset | |  By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A new documentary based on the fatal gang rape of a woman in New Delhi in 2012 highlights gender inequality and sex crimes in India, with the seeming lack of remorse among those convicted of the crime shocking even the film's director. Leslee Udwin's "India's Daughter" features conversations with Mukesh Singh and fellow convicts who raped and tortured a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in December 2012, sparking nationwide protests and forcing India to toughen anti-rape laws. The film will have its world premiere on March 8, showing in India as well as Britain, Denmark and other countries simultaneously on the occasion of International Women's Day. "Mukesh's attitude is: Why (are people) making a fuss about us, everybody is doing it." Udwin, producer of the 1999 British cult comedy "East is East" and its sequel, said she was inspired to make the film after watching thousands of people taking to the streets across India in protest against the Delhi gang rape.
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| Egypt court defers parliamentary election - judicial sources | | | An Egyptian court on Tuesday deferred a long-awaited parliamentary election due in March indefinitely after another court declared the election law's provision on voting districts as unconstitutional, judicial sources said. Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012, when a court dissolved the democratically elected main chamber, reversing a major accomplishment of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. This delay prolongs a period in which President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has wielded sole legislative authority and slows Egypt's progress towards democracy since its first freely elected president was ousted by the army in 2013. The decision by Egypt's Administrative Court came as expected after a ruling on Sunday by the Supreme Constitutional Court against an article on voting districts in an election law which heralded a likely delay to the poll. |
| British parliament may be forced from Westminster home - Speaker | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers might have to abandon the Houses of Parliament in London's Westminster unless a large amount of money is spent on the building within the next 10 years, according to the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow. It incorporates the clock tower known as "Big Ben" and is one of London's top tourist attractions. "Yet I will tell you in all candour that unless management of the very highest quality and a not inconsequential sum of public money are deployed on this estate over the next 10 years that will be the outcome." A world heritage site, the Palace of Westminster is considered to be one of the finest examples of 19th century neo-gothic Victorian architecture. The oldest building on the site, Westminster Hall, dates from 1099 and is still in daily use.
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| UK intelligence asked Tanzania to stop "Jihadi John" in 2009 - source | |  By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala Dar es Salaam (Reuters) - Mohammed Emwazi, the Briton identified as Islamic State killer "Jihadi John", was denied entry to Tanzania in 2009 at the request of British security services, a Tanzanian police source said on Tuesday. Security officers at Dar es Salaam airport refused to allow entry to Emwazi and two friends - another Briton and a German - because they were on an official immigration stop list, said the source who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. Immigration officials said the request came from British intelligence rather than the international police organisation Interpol, the source added. "When Emwazi and his friends were told they would not be allowed to enter Tanzania, they caused a commotion and tried to force their way out of the airport," the source said.
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| Afghanistan must prosecute government officials who violate rights - group | |  By Jessica Donati and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - The United States and other aid donors should press Afghanistan to prosecute government and security force officials guilty of serious human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Holding powerful individuals accountable should be a top priority, the rights group said in a report, as impunity fuels support for the Taliban and raises concern about efforts to train and supply Afghanistan's security forces. "The United States, which helped install numerous warlords and strongmen after the overthrow of the Taliban, should now lead an international effort to support the new government to remove serious human rights abusers from their ranks," said the group's deputy director for Asia, Phelim Kine.
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| Sunderland's Johnson bailed until March 18 - BBC | |  LONDON (Reuters) - Sunderland and England midfielder Adam Johnson has been bailed until March 18 after being arrested on Monday on suspicion of having sex with an under-age girl, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Sunderland have suspended Johnson while police investigations are ongoing. The 27-year-old, who has won 12 England caps, played for Manchester City for two years from 2010-12 before joining Sunderland, his hometown club. (Reporting by Ed Osmond, editing by Tony Jimenez)
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| Catholics and Jews pan film defending wartime Pope Pius XII | | | By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A new Italian film that attempts to defend wartime Pope Pius XII against accusations he turned a blind eye to the Holocaust has been panned by the Vatican as well as Catholic and Jewish media. "Shades of Truth" is the account of a fictional present-day American journalist who starts off as a critic of Pius and changes his mind after research in Israel, Rome and elsewhere in Europe. Some Jews have accused Pius, who headed the Roman Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958, of failing to use his position to bring attention to the extermination of Jews. The Vatican says he worked actively behind the scenes to save thousands of Jews and did not speak out more forcefully for fear his words could have led to more deaths of both Jews and Christians at the hands of the Nazis. |
| Citing Russia and IS threat, Kosovo urges faster EU expansion | |  By Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - Kosovo's Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci urged the European Union and NATO to speed up integration of Balkan states or risk the spreading influence of both Russia and Islamist extremists. Thaci, the first prime minister of independent Kosovo until last year, told Reuters he hoped for tangible results in the coming months, such as a new EU visa regime for Kosovo. "It is the moment when Brussels should move from rhetoric and nice words about Kosovo to concrete measures," Thaci said in Berlin on Tuesday, after meeting his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Kosovo, a poor, landlocked state of 1.7 million people, declared independence from Serbia in 2008, but Belgrade and its former Soviet master Moscow refuse to recognise this and have blocked its membership of bodies such as the United Nations.
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