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| Japan ruling bloc makes final push on security bills despite protests | | Friday, September 18, 2015 1:30 AM | |
| | By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government began a final push on Friday to enact contentious defence legislation that could let its troops fight overseas for the first time since World War Two, despite public protests and delaying tactics by the opposition. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the policy shift, which would mark the biggest change in defence policy since the creation of Japan's post-war military in 1954, is vital to meet new challenges such as from a rising China. Japan's ally the United States has welcomed the shift but the bills have sparked massive protests from ordinary citizens and other critics who say they violate the pacifist constitution and could ensnare Japan in U.S.-led conflicts. |
| Man crashes car through gate at Waco, Texas, airport, tries to steal jet | | Friday, September 18, 2015 1:28 AM | |
| | A man with a history of mental health issues crashed his vehicle through the security gate of a runway at Waco Regional Airport on Thursday and tried to steal a Learjet, police said. The unidentified man was armed with a stick and believed to be under the influence of narcotics when he tried to remove the tire chocks from around the landing gear and board the jet belonging to a local business, Waco Police said in a statement. The central Texas airport also offers American Airlines flights to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. An off-duty officer working airport security approached the man, who put up a struggle despite being stunned several times with a Taser, according to police.The suspect was eventually restrained with the help of airline employees and taken to a nearby hospital for a mental health evaluation. |
| UK PM Cameron rules out second Scottish independence vote | | Friday, September 18, 2015 1:15 AM | |
|  Scotland must move on from its failed bid for independence, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday, using the first anniversary of an historic referendum to rule out holding another vote on the issue. The Scottish National Party (SNP) has seen a surge in support since Scots voted 55-45 percent to reject independence in September last year, winning 56 of Scotland's 59 seats in the Westminster parliament at May's election. Last week SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said the party would include triggers for a second referendum in its manifesto for Scottish elections in May 2016.
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| Hague court to rule in Lebanon witness intimidation case | | Friday, September 18, 2015 12:39 AM | |
| | An international court in The Hague rules on Friday on whether a Lebanese reporter and her TV station jeopardised the case against the killers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri by exposing alleged witnesses to his assassination. Defenders of journalist Karma Khayat say the charges raise questions about free speech and have accused the tribunal of seeking to intimidate the free press in order to prevent it from holding public institutions to account. Khayat and Al-Jadeed, her TV station, deny wrongdoing, saying they blurred out faces and distorted voices in a series of broadcasts in 2012 which they said examined whether the Special Tribunal for Lebanon was wasting public money. |
| Iraqi militia leader condemns Turks' abduction, but slams Ankara policy | | Friday, September 18, 2015 12:37 AM | |
| | The head of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, one of Iraq's fiercest Shi'ite militias, on Thursday denounced the abduction of 18 Turkish workers in Baghdad earlier this month but condemned Turkey as Iraq's biggest enemy. The Turkish captives appeared in a video days after their abduction, apparently held by an armed group that used a familiar Shi'ite Muslim slogan and threatened to attack Turkish interests in Iraq if its demands were not met. Iraqi security forces investigating the Turks' abduction raided the Baghdad headquarters of Kataib Hezbollah, another Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, but without result. |
| Senate report 'proves Lithuania hosted CIA jail' - detainee's lawyers | | Friday, September 18, 2015 12:16 AM | |
| | By Christian Lowe MOSCOW (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate report on CIA interrogations proves beyond doubt that Lithuania knowingly hosted one of the agency's secret detention facilities, lawyers for an ex-detainee told the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday. Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah is asking the Strasbourg-based court to rule that NATO member Lithuania was part of a network of U.S. allies which agreed to host CIA "black sites" around the world where al Qaeda suspects were held and tortured. |
| Somali-American pleads guilty in Minneapolis to trying to help Islamic State | | Friday, September 18, 2015 12:02 AM | |
| | A Somali-American man from Minnesota pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to provide support to Islamic State militants, the second young adult in a week to do so in connection with a federal probe into the group's recruiting, prosecutors said. Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 20, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. The guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Michael Davis follows that of his friend and fellow defendant Hanad Musse, 19, last week in Minneapolis. |
| World Trade Center developer gets new chance for damages | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court has given the developer Larry Silverstein a new chance to recoup more money for rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York, on top of the $4.1 billion of insurance proceeds he has received. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge incorrectly calculated that Silverstein lost just $2.805 billion on his 99-year lease for the site, signed six weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and deserved no additional damages because insurance more than offset it. Thursday's decision by a three-judge panel clears the way for Silverstein and his World Trade Center Properties LLC to seek more damages from United Continental Holdings Inc , American Airlines Group Inc , and dozens of financial, real estate and security companies.
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| Corrected - Last bid to kill Iran nuclear deal blocked in U.S. Senate | | | (This story corrects to show the four Democratic senators voted to advance the disapproval resolution, in the eighth paragraph) By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked legislation meant to kill the Iran nuclear deal for a third time, securing perhaps the greatest foreign policy win of President Barack Obama's six years in office and clearing the way to implement the accord. By a 56-42 vote, the Republican-majority Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance in the 100-member chamber. Despite an intense and expensive lobbying effort against it, all but four of Obama's fellow Democrats backed the nuclear pact between the United States, five other world powers and Tehran announced in July. |
| Mali militias clash near Algerian border, killing at least 15 | | | Fighting erupted between rival armed groups near Mali's desert border with Algeria on Thursday, reportedly taking at least 15 lives in a fresh violation of a U.N.-backed peace deal. "Fighting resumed this morning in Inafarak where pro-government militias arrived recently to prepare an offensive against the CMA," said Attaye Ag Mohamed, a representative of the separatist Coordination of Azawad Movements. Medhi Ag Almoubareck, spokesman for Platform's largest group GATIA, said its fighters were assaulted by the CMA early on Thursday and had fought back. |
| Corporate 'siloing' an obstacle to charging GM employees - prosecutor | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief U.S. prosecutor in Manhattan blamed gaps in federal law and "siloing" within General Motors Co for the failure so far to charge any individual employees who may be responsible for faulty ignition switches linked to 124 deaths. The lack of individual prosecutions infuriated GM's critics despite the company agreeing to pay $900 million to end a criminal investigation of the defects and a cover-up. GM, the No. 1 U.S. automaker, signed what is known as a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to avoid a conviction on charges of fraud and hiding information from a regulator.
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| India's dream of borderless trade grinds to a halt at checkpoints | |  By Sandhya Ravishankar and Rajesh Kumar Singh WALAYAR/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) - At the Walayar checkpoint in southern India, lines of idle trucks stretch as far as the eye can see in both directions along the tree-lined interstate highway, waiting for clearance from tax inspectors that can take days to complete. Delays are so bad that textile entrepreneur D Bala Sundaram has stopped sending his trucks to the international container terminal at nearby Cochin, instead diverting them hundreds of kilometres to a smaller regional port and onwards via Sri Lanka. "Our containers would get stuck for four to five days," said Sundaram, who runs a firm with an annual turnover of $150 million.
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| Croatia bans traffic on roads to seven border crossings with Serbia | |  The Croatian police said on Thursday it banned all traffic on roads leading to seven border crossings with Serbia. The traffic ban includes the border crossing of Tovarnik, near where most migrants entered Croatia from Serbia over the last two days. Police said 11,003 migrants have entered Croatia since Wednesday morning.
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| FIFA suspends number-two official after ticket allegations | |  By Mark Hosenball and Mica Rosenberg ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - World football body FIFA put Jerome Valcke, its second-ranking official, on leave on Thursday just hours after an ex-footballer raised allegations he may have been involved in a deal to resell 2014 World Cup tickets for a lucrative profit. FIFA, which has been rocked by corruption investigations by Swiss and U.S. authorities, said in a statement it was made aware of allegations involving Secretary General Valcke and has requested a formal investigation by the FIFA ethics committee. Earlier on Thursday, former Israeli football player Benny Alon said at a news conference in Zurich that he agreed in 2013 to pay cash to Valcke to secure plum World Cup tickets in Brazil.
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| Recall settlement frees GM CEO to confront new challenges | |  By Joseph White, Jonathan Stempel and Nate Raymond DETROIT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hours after General Motors Co agreed on Thursday to pay $900 million to settle criminal charges related to a bungled recall, Chief Executive Mary Barra said the legal and public relations crisis that has shadowed her for nearly two years was "a catalyst for meaningful change." Now, Barra must show investors and consumers that the change at the No. 1 U.S. automaker is real, and goes beyond the steps she ordered to attack the engineering and managerial lapses that resulted in GM waiting more than a decade to fix dangerous vehicle defects now linked to 124 deaths. GM shares rose modestly on Thursday as investors digested details of the criminal settlements, for which the automaker will take a $1.475 billion third-quarter charge, including $575 million for private litigation.
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