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| Pakistani paramilitary force raids home of New York Times reporter | | | By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani paramilitary force raided the home of the New York Times' national correspondent on Tuesday in what officials called a routine search operation for a terrorism suspect. The search at the Islamabad home of Salman Masood came more than two years after Pakistan expelled the Times' bureau chief, Declan Walsh, during national elections. A team of the paramilitary Rangers force arrived at Masood's house at around 7:30 a.m. (0230 GMT), he said, adding that the officers said they needed to search the home for a "terror suspect." Pakistan's interior ministry said in statement that the raid was "in no way reasonable or acceptable", but did not elaborate why. |
| Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinians in West Bank | | | Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday including one the military said had tried to stab a soldier, as four months of tensions simmered. The Palestinian Health Ministry said a 21-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli army gunfire during a confrontation between troops and protesters in the town of Beit Jalla, near Bethlehem. In a separate incident, a military spokeswoman said troops fatally shot a Palestinian who got out of a car and tried to stab a soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron. |
| Burundi court to issue verdict on coup plotters this week | |  A Burundi court will announce its verdict this week in the trial of the former defence minister and 27 others accused of being behind a foiled coup in May, a Justice Ministry official said on Tuesday. The former minister, Cyrille Ndayirukiye, and five other generals are among the group on trial for seeking to topple President Pierre Nkurunziza, who plunged the nation into a crisis last year over his re-election for a third term. Justice Ministry spokeswoman Agnes Bangiricenge told Reuters the verdict by the court in Gitega, a town about 100 km (60 miles) east of Bujumbura, would be announced on Thursday.
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| Obama's last State of the Union to set final goals, promote legacy | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will present an agenda for his final year in office and beyond on Tuesday in his last State of the Union address, aiming to paint an optimistic vision of America despite worries about immigration, terrorism and economic inequality. The speech to a joint session of Congress will be one of Obama's few remaining chances to capture and hold the attention of millions of Americans before he is eclipsed by his would-be successors competing to win November's presidential election. Scheduled for 9 p.m. (0200 GMT on Wednesday), Obama's speech will try to generate support for some of his favored issues such as a Pacific trade pact, tighter gun laws and closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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| Sunni mosques in east Iraq attacked after IS-claimed blasts | | | By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least seven Sunni mosques and dozens of shops in eastern Iraq were firebombed on Tuesday, security sources and local officials said, a day after 23 people were killed there in two blasts claimed by Islamic State. Ten people were also shot and killed in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, security and hospital sources said. The rise of the Islamist militant group Islamic State, which follows a Sunni jihadist ideology, has exacerbated a long-running sectarian conflict in the country, mostly between the Shi'ite majority and minority Sunnis. |
| FIFA ethics panel chamber to appeal bans for Platini, Blatter | |  FIFA ethics investigators said on Tuesday they planned an appeal that could extend eight-year bans on world soccer body president Joseph "Sepp" Blatter and European soccer boss Michel Platini, raising the possibility of lifelong exclusion. Blatter and Platini were both banned from soccer last month for ethics violations, leaving the global game leaderless as it seeks to dig itself out from beneath a slew of corruption cases. The two escaped potential lifetime bans demanded by the committee's investigatory arm when the panel's adjudicatory chamber found no evidence of bribery linked to a 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million) payment FIFA made to Platini in 2011, with Blatter's approval.
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| China formally arrests secretly held rights lawyers for subversion | | | China formally arrested several Chinese human rights lawyers on suspicion of subverting state power after months of secret detention, one of their colleagues said on Tuesday, the latest move by authorities to crack down on dissent. President Xi Jinping's administration has tightened control over almost every aspect of civil society since 2012, citing the need to buttress national security and stability. As many as 38 lawyers and activists associated with the Beijing Fengrui law firm have been swept up in the crackdown and held since July under a procedure which allows for six months of secret detention, Human Rights Watch has said. |
| British police say 56 women and girls went to Syria last year | | | Counter-terrorism police said on Tuesday 56 women and girls were thought to have left Britain to go to Syria last year as they unveiled a film urging mothers not to take their families to live in a war zone. About 800 British citizens are thought to have travelled to Syria, many to join the Islamic State militant group, since the outbreak of civil war. There have been several high-profile cases among them including three teenage girls from London who were believed to have left the country for Syria last February, while in July police said a family of 12 - three sisters and nine children - were also feared to have joined IS. |
| Bangladesh seeks death penalty for Islamist convicted of war crimes | |  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - The Bangladesh government on Tuesday filed a review petition with the Supreme Court seeking the death penalty for a top Islamist leader convicted of war crimes during the country's independence war in 1971. A war crimes tribunal set up in 2010 has sparked violence and drawn criticism from opposition politicians, including leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, that it is victimising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's political opponents.
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