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| Prosecutors seek to salvage case against Kenya's vice president | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - International prosecutors said on Tuesday they still had enough evidence to prove charges against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto over post-election violence even though half a dozen witnesses have withdrawn their testimony. Ruto and his co-accused, broadcaster Joshua arap Sang, stand accused of stoking ethnic tensions to unleash an orgy of violence that drove their political opponents from their homes after a 2007 presidential election. Lawyers for the two men want judges to throw out the charges of crimes against humanity brought against them, saying the loss of the six witnesses who withdrew their testimony had fundamentally undermined the case.
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| Germany to speed up deportations after Cologne attacks | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - German ministers outlined plans on Tuesday to speed up the deportation of foreigners who commit crimes, responding to sexual attacks on women by migrants in Cologne which have deepened doubts about the country's open-door refugee policy. The assaults on New Year's Eve, which are the subject of an ongoing investigation, have emboldened right-wing groups and unsettled members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party, raising pressure on her to crack down forcefully on migrants who commit crimes.
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| Americans become judge and jury in true crime TV obsession | | | By Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) - True crime has never felt quite so gripping. The popularity of long, complex documentaries like "Making a Murderer" and "The Jinx," and the radio podcast "Serial" are putting an immersive and realistic twist on TV crime staples and spurring heated debate about the shortcomings of the U.S. judicial system. A much-anticipated, 10-episode TV series on the O.J. Simpson murder trial, which still fascinates and polarizes Americans 20 years on, will start on the FX channel in February. |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
| 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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| 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. |
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