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| Colombia, FARC rebels vow to reach peace deal by March 2016 | | Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:51 AM | |
|  By Nelson Acosta and Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the top FARC rebel commander pledged on Wednesday to end Latin America's longest war within six months and sealed their pact with a handshake likely to stand as a lasting image. Santos and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono, better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko, also agreed the leftist guerrillas would lay down arms within 60 days of signing the deal, which now has an official deadline of March 23, 2016. The two sides have been in peace talks in Havana for nearly three years, but this was the first time Santos had come to Cuba and his first meeting with Timochenko.
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| Nobel winners urge Obama to press Xi for fellow laureate's release | | | By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on President Barack Obama to make a public call for the release of their fellow laureate, Liu Xiaobo, and his wife Liu Xia during a summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The laureates, led by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, wrote to Obama, who is also a recipient of the Noble Peace Prize, on Sept. 2 to urge him to press the issue with Xi, the U.S. advocacy group Freedom Now said. Obama and Xi will meet in Washington on Thursday and Friday. |
| Colombia, FARC rebels vow to reach peace deal in 6 months | | By Nelson Acosta and Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the top commander of leftist FARC rebels shook hands on Wednesday and agreed to reach a final peace agreement within six months in Latin America's longest war. "The chief of the FARC secretariat and I have agreed that in no more than six months this negotiation should come to an end and we should sign a final agreement," Santos told a ceremony in Havana, the site of peace talks for the past three years. Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have fought the Colombian government for 51 years in a conflict that has killed some 220,000 and displaced millions.
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| Did Pentagon employees try to expense strip club, casino bills? | | | The Pentagon's Inspector General is investigating whether U.S. military personnel tried to get the U.S. government to pay them back for bills they racked up at casinos and strip clubs, using official travel charge cards. In May, the Pentagon watchdog reported that Defence Department employees spent $952,258 at casinos and another $96,576 at "adult entertainment establishments" using the cards during a year-long period. The report can be seen here: http://bit.ly/1Hr2D2T The Inspector General's office, in a Sept. 21 memorandum released on Wednesday, said the Senate Armed Services Committee requested a follow-on investigation. |
| Stick with Spain, urges foreign minister in Catalan secession debate | |  Catalonia should stick with Spain and avoid disaster, Spain's foreign minister said on Wednesday, becoming the only member of Madrid's centre-right government to debate on television with a secessionist adversary on the heated topic of Catalan independence. The fact that Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo had agreed to participate in the televised debate at all was in itself a "great success" for the separatist camp, argued Oriol Junqueras, head of the leftist Catalan republican party, given the lack of dialogue with Madrid. The sparring match came ahead of Sunday's Catalan regional election which separatists have billed as a proxy vote on independence from Spain - a description rejected by Madrid.
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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. |
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