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| U.S. report calls for release of immigrant children from detention | | | A stinging report released on Thursday called on the Obama administration to reverse course and stop detentions of women and children who entered the United States illegally but might qualify for asylum. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said it found evidence that the federal government "was interfering with the constitutional rights afforded to detained immigrants," including their access to legal representation. The commission, created in 1957, describes itself as an independent, bipartisan federal agency that helps develop civil rights policy and enhance enforcement of civil rights laws. |
| Corrected - Military prosecutors say Bergdahl deliberately snuck off post | |  (Corrects in paragraph 4 that Bergdahl has been stationed at the base, not held) By Jon Herskovitz SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - U.S. military prosecutors said in opening statements on Thursday that Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former prisoner of war in Afghanistan held for five years before being swapped in 2014 for five Taliban leaders, deliberately left his post. The prosecutors said at a preliminary hearing to establish probable cause that Bergdahl launched a plan that was weeks in the making and there was sufficient evidence to hold him for trial on charges of desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy. If convicted of misbehaviour, the most serious charge, Bergdahl, 29, could be sentenced to life in prison.
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| FIFA puts Secretary General Jerome Valcke on leave | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - World soccer body FIFA said on Thursday Secretary General Jerome Valcke has been put on leave and released from his duties effective immediately. 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 Valcke and has requested a formal investigation by the FIFA ethics committee. (Reporting by Mica Rosenberg and Simon Evans; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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| GM's $900 million accord with U.S. gets judge's approval | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday signed off on General Motors Co's agreement to pay the U.S. Justice Department $900 million to settle criminal charges related to the company's concealment of a lethal defect in its vehicle ignition switches. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan said she would approve the Detroit-based automaker's deferred prosecution agreement, which resolved the criminal probe into a defect that has been linked to 124 deaths. (Reporting by Nate Raymond; Writing by Joseph Ax; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)
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| GM also resolves civil lawsuits over ignition-switch defect | |  By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Thursday it has reached agreements to settle significant portions of the civil litigation brought against it over faulty ignition switches that prompted the recall of millions of vehicles and was linked to 124 deaths. The deals were announced alongside GM's $900 million settlement with U.S. prosecutors to end a criminal probe into the switch problems. One would settle about 1,380 injury and death claims consolidated in New York federal court, and another would resolve litigation brought by GM shareholders who say the company lost billions in market value because of safety issues.
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| Last bid to kill Iran nuclear deal blocked in U.S. Senate | | | 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. |
| With no U.S. trade loans, GE to build turboprop engines in Europe | |  By David Lawder and Lewis Krauskopf WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Turning up the pressure on Congress to revive the U.S. Export-Import Bank, General Electric Co said on Thursday it would open a new development centre for turboprop engines in Europe because it cannot access U.S. export financing. The GE's move was the latest effort by a big company to raise the alarm in Washington about the shutdown of new financing by EXIM, so far with little evident impact on Congress. It said it will develop, test and produce engines for larger aircraft, a new market for GE Aviation.
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| GM to pay $900 million, settle U.S. criminal case over ignition switches - sources | |  By David Ingram, Nate Raymond and Joseph White NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co has agreed to pay $900 million and sign a deferred-prosecution agreement to end a U.S. government investigation into its handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to 124 deaths, two sources told Reuters. The deal means GM will be charged criminally with hiding the defect from regulators and in the process defrauding consumers, but the case will be put on hold while GM fulfills terms of the deal, one source said. The company's expected $900 million payment, confirmed by a second source, is less than the $1.2 billion that Toyota Motor Corp paid to resolve a similar case.
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| Berlin police shoot dead convicted militant after knife attack | | | German police said on Thursday that they had shot dead a man they described as a convicted member of a terrorist group after he attacked a policewoman in western Berlin with a knife. "He had been convicted of being a member of a terrorist association and of being involved in a plot to murder the Iraqi prime minister," Berlin police said on Twitter. German media identified the man as Rafik Y. In 2008, three men, including one named Rafik Mohamad Yousef, were convicted in Germany of hatching a plot to kill Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi during a visit to Berlin in 2004. |
| Activists outraged as Saudi diplomat accused of raping Nepali maids flees | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The departure of a Saudi diplomat accused of repeatedly raping and torturing two Nepali maids in his home outside Delhi sparked outrage in India on Thursday with activists calling on the United Nations to pressure Riyadh to take up the matter. Citing the diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention, foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup confirmed in a statement late on Wednesday that Majed Hassan Ashoor, the first secretary at the Saudi embassy, had left India.
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| UK spy chief calls for more powers to fight terrorism threat | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's security agencies need greater powers to deal with a growing terrorism threat and the advanced technology being used by militants, the head of the country's domestic spy service said on Thursday in the first live media interview by an MI5 chief in its 106-year history. Prime Minister David Cameron's government plans new laws later this year to bolster surveillance capabilities of spies and police, but faces a battle from privacy and human rights campaigners who say such measures represent an assault on freedoms. In an interview with BBC radio, MI5 Director General Andrew Parker said Britain was facing its most serious terrorism threat since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and had foiled six attempted attacks in the last year.
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| Turkish prosecutors seeking up to 34-year sentence for president's rival Gulen - state news | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish prosecutor is seeking a prison sentence of up to 34 years for a U.S.-based cleric and rival of President Tayyip Erdogan on charges including "forming and leading an armed organisation", the state-run Anadolu Agency said on Thursday. Erdogan accuses Fethullah Gulen and his followers of plotting a coup and operating a "parallel structure" in the ranks of the police, judiciary, media and education. ...
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| Japan takes key step to passage of security bills despite protests | |  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan took a step on Thursday towards enacting legislation for a policy shift that would allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, part of the prime minister's agenda to loosen the limits of a pacifist constitution. The security policy shift, which Abe says is vital to meet challenges such as a rising China, has sparked protests and sharply eroded his popular support. Opponents argue it violates the constitution and fear it could ensnare Japan in U.S.-led conflicts.
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