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| No concrete clues of "attack targets" in Germany after Istanbul bomb - minister | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday that the security situation in Germany had not changed after a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people, mainly German tourists, in Istanbul on Tuesday. "We know Germany is also a target for terrorists and so a general danger certainly cannot be denied but at the moment there are no concrete indications of attack targets but the authorities are very, very alert," he told broadcaster ARD. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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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 President Barack Obama's final State of the Union speech, but the Republican presidential front-runner held the center of attention 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 mogul 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 defense on Tuesday of establishment politics, a plea for optimism and a quest for common ground.
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| Suspected suicide blast kills at least 14, injures 20 near Pakistan polio centre | |  A suspected suicide bomb blast on Wednesday killed at least 14 people close to a polio eradication centre in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, police said, with most of those killed policemen detailed to guard vaccination workers. "It was a suicide blast, we have gathered evidence from the scene," Ahsan Mehboob, police chief of Pakistan's province of Balochistan, told Reuters. "The police team had arrived to escort teams for the polio campaign." Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where polio remains endemic, the World Health Organization says.
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| Mexico not investigating Sean Penn, Kate Del Castillo directly | |  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is not directly investigating the actors Sean Penn or Kate Del Castillo for meeting with drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, but it will look into the circumstances of their meeting, government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said on Tuesday. The secret meeting between Hollywood star Penn and the world's most-wanted drug boss in early October was essential to finding the fugitive, Mexico's attorney general said on Monday. (Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Writing by Elinor Comlay; Editing by Simon Gardner)
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| President Obama's final State of the Union address | |  President Barack Obama knocked Republican presidential candidates for anti-Muslim rhetoric and accused critics on Tuesday of playing into the hands of Islamic State in a speech aimed at setting an optimistic tone for his last year in office. Obama, delivering his last State of the Union speech to Congress before leaving office next year, said it was fiction to declare the United States was in economic decline or getting weaker on the international stage. In a direct slap at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Obama said insulting Muslims hurt the United States and "betrayed" its identity.
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| Obama knocks Republicans for anti-Muslim rhetoric, seeks to set 2016 tone | |  By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama knocked Republican presidential candidates for anti-Muslim rhetoric and accused critics on Tuesday of playing into the hands of Islamic State in a speech aimed at setting an optimistic tone for his last year in office. Obama, delivering his last State of the Union speech to Congress before leaving office next year, said it was fiction to declare the United States was in economic decline or getting weaker on the international stage. In a direct slap at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Obama said insulting Muslims hurt the United States and "betrayed" its identity.
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| Italian marine will not return to India for trial - senator | |  One of two Italian marines accused of murdering Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala almost four years ago will not be returning to India to face trial after being allowed home temporarily for medical treatment, a senator said on Tuesday. India had granted Massimiliano Latorre, who suffered a stroke while in New Delhi in 2014, a period of leave in Italy for medical treatment, but he was supposed to return by Friday. It was not clear when or if Latorre would return to India.
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| As relations thaw, some Iranian prisoners in U.S. hope for early release | | | By Joel Schectman and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vahid Hosseini struggled to make it in the United States after he left Iran 25 years ago. Then, in 2008, Hosseini found a more lucrative activity: buying industrial equipment from dozens of American companies and shipping it to Dubai, from where it was forwarded to Iran. Hosseini told Reuters he knew he was violating U.S. economic sanctions against his home country but thought of it as a minor infraction. |
| China's anti-graft drive gaining ground, president says | |  China's three year anti-corruption drive has shown good results and the ruling Communist Party remains determined to fight graft this year, President Xi Jinping was quoted as saying in state media on Wednesday. Xi began his sweeping campaign against deep-rooted graft upon assuming power three years ago, warning, like others before him, that the problem is so severe it could affect the party's grip on power. Since then, dozens of senior officials have been jailed, including former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, once one of China's most powerful politicians and jailed for life last year.
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| U.S. House backs broader N.Korea sanctions; S.Korea calls on China | |  By Tony Munroe and Patricia Zengerle SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously to pass legislation to broaden sanctions over North Korea's nuclear program, while South Korea called on China to play a key role in the response to the North's nuclear test last week. Meanwhile, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an expansion of the size and power of his isolated country's nuclear arsenal, state media reported on Wednesday. Last week's nuclear test was North Korea's fourth, although the United States and experts doubt the North's claim that it was of a more powerful hydrogen bomb, as the blast was about the same size as that from an atomic bomb test in 2013.
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| IAAF under fire as more Russian doping allegations surface | |  Athletics' governing body came under renewed fire on Tuesday following disclosures that top officials were aware of a potentially serious doping problem among Russian athletes as far back as 2009. The Associated Press published a copy of a letter from Pierre Weiss, then the general secretary of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), to Valentin Balakhnichev, the former Russian athletics president who was banned from the sport for life last week. In the letter, dated October 14, 2009, Weiss described the results of blood tests taken at that year's world championships in Berlin and the world half-marathon championships in Birmingham, England.
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| Fearing third escape, Mexico moves drug boss Chapo constantly | |  By Lizbeth Diaz and Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Deeply concerned that the world's most notorious drug kingpin, Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, could escape for a third time, Mexico has beefed up security at his prison, reinforcing the floor of his cell and placing a guard on his door 24/7. Guzman, captured on Friday six months after a brazen prison break via a mile-long tunnel that burrowed right up into his cell, is now being held in isolation in another part of the prison, a Mexican security source said. The improved security measures also include reducing the number of inmates, quadrupling the number of cameras on the site and moving Guzman randomly, without warning, to different parts of the prison, Mexico government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez told Reuters.
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| Coal India plans biggest tech overhaul to check rampant theft | |  By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Coal India Ltd is making its biggest tech overhaul in four decades to check rampant theft and shed its image as an inefficient behemoth, spurred by an impending opening up of the sector to private firms for the first time since the 1970s. Coal India's productivity is estimated at just one-eighth of its technologically advanced rivals in the United States, and as much as a fifth of its annual output is stolen, costing the company up to $1 billion each year. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, Coal India has raised output at a record pace, helped by accelerated environmental clearances, though this has prompted criticism that the world's third-largest carbon emitter is not doing enough to check climate change.
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