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| From fast to slow lane: Mexico's 'Chapo' stole clunker of a getaway car | |  By Dave Graham LOS MOCHIS, Mexico (Reuters) - Immensely rich from flooding the United States with cocaine, Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman could afford the fastest cars on earth - but in an ironic twist of fate, the one he hijacked as he tried to avoid recapture was a clunker. Guzman and a top henchman stole a white Volkswagen Jetta at gunpoint as they emerged from a drainage tunnel on Friday after crawling a mile through an underground drain from a house they were using. Guzman ditched the car after driving around a mile, and stole a second vehicle, a red Ford Focus.
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| President Obama's final State of the Union address | |  (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made a brief appearance on Facebook on Tuesday as he finalised the text of his last State of the Union address. "There's a lot of work that still needs to be done," Obama said, adding that he wanted to make sure that the American people understood his proposals.
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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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| 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. |
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