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| Colombian drug lord gets 11 years prison in New Jersey | |  A septuagenarian Colombian drug lord who has admitted to conspiring to traffic cocaine sold in the United States was ordered on Wednesday to spend 11 years in a U.S. prison, federal prosecutors in New Jersey said. Salomon Camacho Mora, 71, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Walls in Newark, New Jersey, 15 months after pleading guilty. A lawyer for Camacho did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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| Man convicted in 'Making a Murderer' case wants out on bond | | | (Reuters) - A convicted killer in Wisconsin whose legal troubles were dramatized in the television documentary "Making a Murderer" filed motions in the state's appeals court asking to be released on bond, saying he was denied his right to a fair trial. Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, are serving life sentences in the 2005 killing of freelance photographer Teresa Halbach, who was found outside Avery's home in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. "Making a Murderer," a 10-episode documentary on the Netflix streaming service, questioned the handling of the case and the motivation of Manitowoc County law enforcement officials. |
| U.S. court struggles over Iran bank's bid to block payout to attack victims | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court's chief justice voiced concern on Wednesday that Congress trampled on the authority of the U.S. judiciary by passing a law dictating that families of Americans killed in attacks blamed on Iran get nearly $2 billion in frozen Iranian funds. Other justices signalled support for the more than 1,000 Americans waging a long legal battle seeking compensation for the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and other attacks they say Iran orchestrated. The nine justices heard an appeal by Bank Markazi, Iran's central bank, of a 2014 lower-court ruling that stated the frozen funds, held in New York in a Citibank trust account, should be handed over to the plaintiffs.
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| Behind both Obama and Haley speeches, Trump looms | |  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump was not in the room during U.S. President Barack Obama's final State of the Union speech, but the Republican presidential front-runner was a looming presence nonetheless. Both Obama's speech on Tuesday and, for that matter, the Republican response by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, took pains to rebuke Trump, the real estate billionaire whose red-hot rhetoric has endeared him to some and dismayed others in the campaign for the Nov. 8 presidential election. Obama and Haley, although from different parties, offered a defence of establishment politics, a plea for optimism and a quest for common ground.
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| German far-right cell planned attacks on Muslims, refugees - prosecutors | | | German prosecutors said on Wednesday they had charged four people with setting up a far-right organisation that planned to carry out attacks on ultra-conservative Islamists and refugees. The three German men and a woman, aged between 57 and 23, started up a cell, known by the English name of Oldschool Society, in late 2014 and planned to carry out arson and nail-bomb attacks in May 2015, prosecutors said in a statement. The target was a shelter housing asylum seekers, near the town of Borna, some 30 km (19 miles) from the eastern city of Leipzig. |
| Ethiopia scraps plan for capital area that sparked protests | |  The Ethiopian government has cancelled plans to set up a new economic zone around the capital, the state broadcaster said on Wednesday, after weeks of protests against the move that opponents said would displace farmers. A government masterplan to create the zone in Oromiya region around Addis Ababa had sparked some of the worst civil unrest in Ethiopia in a decade and highlighted challenges facing the nation as it seeks to industrialise its agrarian economy. The Oromo People Democratic Organisation (OPDO), the regional party that is part of the EPRDF coalition that rules the Horn of Africa country, decided to scrap the plan after a three-day meeting, the state broadcaster announced.
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| Interview: Sean Penn lied about 'El Chapo' trafficking claim - lawyer | |  By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hollywood star Sean Penn lied when he reported that Mexican kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman told him he is the world's foremost drugs trafficker, and he should be called to testify, one of Guzman's lawyers said on Wednesday. "I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world.
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| U.S. House to try again to seek Iran deal clampdown | |  The U.S. House of Representatives plans to reconsider legislation to restrict President Barack Obama's ability to lift sanctions on Iran under an international nuclear deal after its passage was cancelled on Wednesday when too few members voted. Obama, a Democrat, has promised to veto the measure, saying it would kill the landmark agreement. New House speaker Paul Ryan has been trying to keep votes closer to their allotted times rather than hold them open for members who take too long to come to the chamber.
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| BP to be sued in UK by families of Algerian gas plant attack victims | |  The families of two BP employees killed in the 2013 In Amenas gas plant attack in Algeria have filed a lawsuit in London's High Court against the company, accusing it of failing to take reasonable steps to protect its workers. BP, one of three partners with Norway's Statoil and Algeria's Sonatrach in the In Amenas joint venture plant, said it understood proceedings against certain BP entities had been issued in the London court. "Our clients have now commenced court proceedings to help them secure the justice they seek following the deaths of Carlos and Sebastian," said Clive Garner, leading the case at law firm Irwin Mitchell on behalf of the families of BP employees Carlos Estrada Valencia, 44, and Sebastian John, 26, who were both killed during the attack.
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| Coe denies Russian doping was covered up | |  IAAF president Sebastian Coe says there has been no cover up of Russian doping cases despite the latest leaked documents appearing to show that officials of athletics' governing body were discussing how to suppress news of positive tests. "There is no cover up here," Coe, who was a vice president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for seven years before becoming president in August, told CNN in an interview on Wednesday. The athletics chief, in a separate interview with Sky News, also denied knowledge of IAAF officials discussing Russian doping problems as early as 2009 and of internal IAAF notes obtained by the Associated Press proposing some Russian dopers be sanctioned while other, less well-known athletes be allowed to disappear from the sport unpunished.
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| South Korea calls for 'bone-numbing' sanctions on North for nuclear test | |  By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea warned North Korea on Wednesday that the United States and its allies were working on sanctions to inflict "bone-numbing pain" after its latest nuclear test, and called on China to do its part to rein in its isolated neighbour. With tension high on the border after the North's fourth nuclear test on Wednesday last week, South Korean forces fired shots towards what Yonhap News Agency said was a suspected North Korean drone.
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| Wanted - an inspiring new anthem for English sports teams | |  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - The 19th century courtyards of Britain's parliament echoed to the strains of Hubert Parry's "Jerusalem" on Wednesday in one of the loudest public shows of support for a possible new anthem to be played at English sports events. One lawmaker has challenged the tradition of playing "God Save the Queen" before England teams take to the football or rugby fields, saying the anthem is about Britain, which includes Scotland and Wales, and not specifically about England.
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| Chile, other Latin American FAs, fined for homophobic chanting by fans | | | Chile's Football Association has been fined 70,000 Swiss francs ($69,410) because of four cases of homophobic chanting by supporters during 2018 World Cup qualifying matches, FIFA said on Wednesday. Proceedings against the Honduras FA for similar offences were also under way, it said. |
| Merkel's coalition partners want faster asylum process for Moroccans, Algerians after sex attacks | |  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition partners proposed fast-tracking asylum applications by Moroccans and Algerians to enable quicker deportations if they are rejected, following sexual attacks on women blamed on migrants. Justice Minister Heiko Maas said more foreign criminals would be expelled once new restrictions are rolled out in the wake of the crowd assaults on women on New Year's Eve in Cologne and other German cities. Complaints from over 600 women range from sexual molestation to theft and police say their inquiries are focused on illegal migrants from North Africa as well as asylum seekers.
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| Pakistani TV station attacked with explosives, one wounded | |  Attackers on a motorcycle lobbed grenades and opened fire at a Pakistani television station on Wednesday, wounding one person, and left behind pamphlets linked to Islamic State, the station said. The attack on the ARY News Islamabad office was the second such assault on media premises in as many months by the militant group claiming a connection with Islamic State's self-declared province of Khorasan in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The pamphlets left behind said "Islamic State Khorasan Province" claimed responsibility for attacking media that it accused of "siding with the apostate army and government of Pakistan in their global crusade against Islam".
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| Congo's Catholic Church set to cancel pro-democracy march in blow to opposition | | | Catholic leaders in Democratic Republic of Congo, where the church has often criticised President Joseph Kabila, expect to cancel a march next month, saying it has been hijacked by partisan interests. Opposition parties and activist groups, hoping to piggyback off the Church's popularity among the 40 percent of citizens who identify as Catholic, have urged supporters to take to the streets on Feb. 16 to demand that Kabila leave power when his mandate ends this year. Kabila's ruling party, the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), has also called on its members to march in support of the president on the same day. |
| Anti-immigrant "Soldiers of Odin" raise concern in Finland | | | By Jussi Rosendahl and Tuomas Forsell HELSINKI (Reuters) - Wearing black jackets adorned with a symbol of a Viking and the Finnish flag, the "Soldiers of Odin" have surfaced as self-proclaimed patriots patrolling the streets to protect native Finns from immigrants, worrying the government and police. On the northern fringes of Europe, Finland has little history of welcoming large numbers of refugees, unlike neighbouring Sweden. A group of young men founded Soldiers of Odin, named after a Norse god, late last year in the northern town of Kemi. |
| Supreme Court lets Italian marine delay return for murder trial | |  The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed one of two Italian marines facing murder charges over the deaths of two Indian fishermen to stay in his home country until April 30 following heart surgery. The decision defuses a possible judicial standoff after an Italian senator said the day before that Massimiliano Latorre would not return to face trial as he had been due to by this Friday, having earlier been allowed home for medical treatment. "We allow him to stay in Italy until April 30 on health grounds," a three-judge bench of India's highest court said in its order.
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| Soccer's scandal-plagued FIFA dumps its once-powerful secretary general | |  By Joshua Franklin ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer body FIFA said on Wednesday it had fired Secretary General Jerome Valcke, a move that comes amid alleged corruption involving World Cup ticket sales and a number of swirling scandals at the sport's governing authority "The FIFA Emergency Committee decided, on 9 January 2016, to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA Secretary General with immediate effect," the Zurich-based organisation said in a statement. It gave no reason for the dismissal but Valcke's lawyer in New York, Barry Berke, was defiant on behalf of his client. "Jerome Valcke is proud of all that was accomplished for the game of football during his long tenure as Secretary General, including two of the most successful World Cups in history in South Africa and Brazil," he said.
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