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| Ex-Bissau military chief jailed over plot against president | | | A former head of Guinea-Bissau's armed forces, held under house arrest for the past month, was transferred to a military prison on Wednesday over his suspected involvement in an aborted plot to kill President Jose Mario Vaz, his lawyer and police said. Rear Admiral Jose Zamora Induta, who headed the volatile West African nation's military from 2009 until he was pushed out in 2010 by General Antonio Indjai, returned from exile in Portugal in July. Police sources said they had driven Induta to the Mansoa prison, around 50 km (30 miles) northeast of the capital, on the orders of a military tribunal in connection to the August plot and other crimes. |
| Swiss authorities ask FIFA for access to suspended general secretary's emails | |  By Mark Hosenball ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's Attorney General Michael Lauber has formally asked FIFA to give investigators access to the email accounts of the global football organisation's suspended General Secretary Jerome Valcke."The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has requested FIFA to get access to all email accounts of Jerome Valcke," a spokesman for the office said in an email."These email accounts are under seal by FIFA so far. The OAG has not received access to J. Valcke's email accounts until today due to FIFA sealing them."Valcke, the second-in-command to President Sepp Blatter at FIFA, was put on leave and "released from his duties" last Thursday after allegations he was involved in a plan to re-sell 2014 World Cup tickets at a big mark-up, pending an investigation by the FIFA ethics committee.A source close to FIFA said late on Wednesday in response to questions from Reuters that it was never the organisation's intent to withhold Valcke's emails from prosecutors and that it was likely they will be handed over to the Attorney General's office on Thursday.
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| Chicago man arrested, charged in connection with Bali suitcase murder | | | By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago man was arrested on Wednesday for his long-distance role in the August 2014 murder of Chicago-area woman Sheila von Wiese-Mack, who was killed in Bali by her daughter's boyfriend and stuffed into a suitcase, prosecutors said. Robert Bibbs, 24, is charged with conspiracy in the murder because he advised the killer in hope of sharing in an inheritance, according to charges brought by federal prosecutors. Bibbs is scheduled to appear on Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Chicago, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez. |
| Berlusconi's party crumbling as defections in Italy mount | |  By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Forza Italia, the centre-right party of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, was hit by a wave of desertions on Wednesday, raising questions about its political future. Eight Forza Italia parliamentarians, including an ex-minister, announced they were leaving the group just days after two other party heavyweights said they were quitting. "Forza Italia has exhausted its reforming zeal," three of the defectors, Peppe Ruvolo, Pino Galati and Saverio Romano, wrote in a statement, saying the party was now at the whim of populist trends.
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| New Greek government gets off to bumpy start, with a row over tweets | | | By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece' newly elected government hit its first setback hours after it was sworn in on Wednesday, in a row over whether a junior minister had posted offensive tweets online. In what might be one of the shortest cabinet appointments in recent years, deputy infrastructure and transport minister Dimitris Kammenos was asked to resign, amid a furore over alleged postings on Twitter. "Until the truth is clarified on anti-semitic and racist posts, the deputy minister will facilitate (the issue) with his resignation," Panos Kammenos, the leader of the Independent Greeks party, said in a posting on his official Twitter account. |
| Colombian president in Cuba to advance peace talks with rebels | |  By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos arrived in Cuba on Wednesday to announce a breakthrough in peace talks including a provision on what punishment Marxist FARC rebels should face for their role in Latin America's longest war. The visit marks the first time the president has travelled to Cuba since the Havana negotiations began nearly three years ago. The event will place Santos in the same room with rebel leader Rodrigo Londono, better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko, in a historic meeting that may point to a coming peace accord.
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| Pope tells U.S. bishops crimes of sexual abuse should never be repeated | |  By Susan Cornwell and Philip Pullella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday told U.S. Roman Catholic bishops that crimes of sexual abuse of minors by clergy should never be repeated, acknowledging the damage caused by years of scandal in the U.S. Catholic Church. In the remarks, delivered at Saint Matthews Cathedral in Washington on the first full day of his visit to the United States, the pope did not utter the words "sexual abuse" but referred to the scandal by talking about "difficult moments" and providing help for victims. "I know how much the pain of recent years has weighed upon you, and I have supported your generous commitment to bring healing to victims ... and to work to ensure that such crimes will never be repeated," Francis told the bishops, who applauded.
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| Holy lawsuit, Batman! U.S. court affirms Batmobile's copyright | |  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Batmobile, the indispensable crime fighting vehicle driven by comic book hero Batman, has enough distinct character traits to qualify for copyright protection, a U.S. appeals court has ruled. The 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a ruling against a manufacturer of replica Batmobiles. "As Batman so sagely told Robin, 'In our well-ordered society, protection of private property is essential,'" 9th Circuit Judge Sandra Ikuta wrote for a unanimous three judge panel.
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| Egypt's Sisi pardons 100 prisoners, including Jazeera journalists | | | Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 100 prisoners including three Al Jazeera television journalists, on Wednesday, a day before he plans to head to the annual United Nations summit of world leaders. The Al Jazeera journalists, Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Australian Peter Greste, were sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial last month for operating without a press licence and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt. |
| States should pay more into EU budget to deal with refugees -Orban | | | By Michelle Martin and Marton Dunai BAD STAFFELSTEIN, Germany/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian leader Viktor Orban said on Wednesday he would propose that European Union states pay more into the EU budget to help cope with the refugee crisis and that Greece should allow other countries to defend its borders to slow the influx. Hungary lies in the path of the largest migration wave Europe has seen since World War Two and has registered more than 220,000 asylum-seekers this year. To stem the flow of migrants, Orban's right-wing government has built a fence on the Serbian frontier and is constructing another on Hungary's border with Croatia. |
| Weapons found inside U.N. vehicles on ship in Kenya - vessel owner | | | By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Weapons found by Kenyan police on a ship last week had been stashed inside a shipment of United Nations vehicles, the Norwegian company that owns the vessel said on Wednesday. Kenyan police said security agents on Thursday discovered firearms and drugs on the Norwegian-flagged Hoegh Transporter, which is docked at the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. Hoegh Autoliners confirmed weapons were found inside some of the vehicles on its vessel, which was carrying a consignment from Mumbai to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO. |
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