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| U.S. House backs broader North Korea sanctions, after nuclear test | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously on Tuesday to pass legislation that would broaden sanctions over North Korea's nuclear program, days after Pyongyang announced it had tested a powerful nuclear device. The measure passed by 418-2, with overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats, and Senate leaders said they expected to consider a similar bill shortly. The House bill had been introduced in early 2015, but was not brought up for a vote until after Pyongyang announced last Wednesday it tested a hydrogen bomb.
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| U.N. war crimes investigators gathering testimony from starving Syrian town | |  By Lisa Barrington and Stephanie Nebehay BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - Residents of a besieged Syrian town have told U.N. investigators how the weakest in their midst, deprived of food and medicines in violation of international law, are suffering starvation and death, the top U.N. war crimes investigator told Reuters on Tuesday. An aid convoy on Monday brought the first food and medical relief for three months to the western town of Madaya, where 40,000 people are trapped by encircling government forces. Another United Nations official who oversaw the aid delivery described on Tuesday how he saw malnourished residents, particularly children, some of whom were little more than skeletons and barely moving.
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| U.N. envoy on Syria to meet major powers on Wednesday - statement | |  The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria will meet ambassadors from major powers in Geneva on Wednesday, ahead of planned peace talks set for Jan. 25. Staffan de Mistura was already expected to meet senior U.S. and Russian envoys in the Swiss city on Wednesday. A brief statement issued by his office said that he would also then meet the ambassadors from all five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - Britain, China and France as well as those of Russia and the United States.
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| In Taiwan's south, calls for independence from China entrenched as poll looms | |  By James Pomfret TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - In a gritty suburb of Tainan in southern Taiwan, a city known for its fierce anti-China sentiment, Huang Hsien-ching was stacking election flyers and inspecting campaign trucks rigged up with megaphones before Saturday's island-wide elections. As a rookie candidate for the fledgling Free Taiwan Party - one of a number of smaller, radical groups advocating independence from China - Huang, a family doctor, says he's put $30,000 of his savings and his career on the line to try to fight back against what he sees as an increasingly assertive China. "More and more people want independence in Taiwan," said Huang, 61 with a buzz cut, in his campaign office fronted by a giant billboard of himself holding his arm aloft with the logo of a bird in flight.
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| Senate to consider legislation on North Korea sanctions, Iran - McConnell | |  The U.S. Senate will soon consider a bill to impose sanctions on North Korea following its test of a nuclear device, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday. "We anticipate that it will come out of the Foreign Relations Committee very soon, and I intend to schedule floor time on it shortly," McConnell told reporters. The Senate will also look at legislation to clamp down on Iran over its missile testing, he said.
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| Head of Marseille Jews urges them not to wear kippa after attack | |  Jews in Marseille should avoid wearing the kippa in the streets, the head of the Jewish community in the southern French city said on Tuesday, a day after a teenager attacked and slightly injured a teacher there who wore the traditional brimless cap. The teenager, a Turkish citizen of Kurdish origin who was armed with a machete and a knife, said he had acted in the name of the militant Islamic State group, French prosecutors said. "Not wearing the kippa can save lives and nothing is more important," Zvi Ammar told La Provence daily.
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| Ahead of speech, Obama has regrets over U.S. political divisions | |  By Jeff Mason and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama voiced regret for failing to unite Washington since taking office on a wave of hope in 2009, as he prepared to give a State of the Union speech on Tuesday to launch his final year in the White House. Asked about his inability to heal America's political divisions, Obama told NBC's "Today" show, "It's a regret." The president planned to speak optimistically about America's future in his speech in Congress, one of his few remaining chances to capture and hold the attention of millions of Americans before the Nov. 8 election of a new president who will take office next January. The Democratic president will give his final State of the Union address as campaign rhetoric for November's presidential election intensifies with candidates fighting over illegal immigrants, wage inequality and violence.
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| Briton, five Germans charged with running doping lab | | | A British man and five Germans have been charged with producing significant amounts of doping substances for athletes in an underground laboratory and distributing the drugs across Germany, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The Munich prosecutors say a 45-year-old British national has been running an underground laboratory in Waldkraiburg, near Munich, since 2009. Purchasing the required substances in countries outside Europe, he sold the drugs online to customers across Germany, earning about 120,000 euros ($130,000), the indictment said. |
| Mexican kingpin 'Chapo' tried to trademark his name - local TV | |  Before his brazen jailbreak last year, notorious drug boss Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman instructed his lawyers to trademark his name, giving Mexican authorities their first clue he wanted to make a film of his life, local media said on Tuesday. The world's most wanted drug kingpin, Guzman was recaptured last week in northwest Mexico and is now back in the same maximum security prison be escaped from in July via a tunnel that burrowed right up into his cell. During his previous 17 month stint behind bars, Guzman asked his lawyers to begin the process of trade-marking his name with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola said.
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| Ohio wanted man sends 'better' mug shot to police Facebook page | | | By Kim Palmer CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Ohio man wanted on a drunk driving charge was so dissatisfied with the mug shots that police put on their Facebook page, he posted a "better photo" of himself in a car wearing shades. The Lima Police Department posted two photographs of Donald "Chip" Pugh, 45, last week after a warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to appear in court on a misdemeanor drunk driving charge. "He has not turned himself in," Lt. Andy Green, spokesman for the police department, said on Tuesday. |
| Obama to offer optimistic vision in last State of the Union | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will voice optimism in a State of the Union speech on Tuesday, his last before he is eclipsed by would-be successors campaigning on concerns about illegal immigration, terrorism and economic inequality. The televised speech, in Congress, will be one of Obama's few remaining chances to capture and hold the attention of millions of Americans before the election of a new president in November who will take office next January. Scheduled for 9 p.m. ET (0200 GMT on Wednesday), Obama's speech is expected to stick to themes he hopes will define his legacy but steer clear of new legislative proposals that his fellow Democrats are laying out on the presidential campaign.
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