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| Wanted - an inspiring new anthem for English sports teams | | | By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - The 19th century courtyards of Britain's parliament echoed to the strains of Hubert Parry's "Jerusalem" on Wednesday in one of the loudest public shows of support for a possible new anthem to be played at English sports events. One lawmaker has challenged the tradition of playing "God Save the Queen" before England teams take to the football or rugby fields, saying the anthem is about Britain, which includes Scotland and Wales, and not specifically about England. |
| Chile, other Latin American FAs, fined for homophobic chanting by fans | | | Chile's Football Association has been fined 70,000 Swiss francs ($69,410) because of four cases of homophobic chanting by supporters during 2018 World Cup qualifying matches, FIFA said on Wednesday. Proceedings against the Honduras FA for similar offences were also under way, it said. |
| Interview: "El Chapo" lawyer says Sean Penn should testify about drug lord article | |  A lawyer for drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman said that actor Sean Penn should be called to testify in court about an article he wrote after a meeting with the Mexican capo, adding that he would never have claimed to be world's top trafficker. In an interview with Reuters, lawyer Juan Pablo Badillo said he was sure that Guzman did not say that.
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| Merkel's coalition partners want faster asylum process for Moroccans, Algerians after sex attacks | |  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition partners proposed fast-tracking asylum applications by Moroccans and Algerians to enable quicker deportations if they are rejected, following sexual attacks on women blamed on migrants. Justice Minister Heiko Maas said more foreign criminals would be expelled once new restrictions are rolled out in the wake of the crowd assaults on women on New Year's Eve in Cologne and other German cities. Complaints from over 600 women range from sexual molestation to theft and police say their inquiries are focused on illegal migrants from North Africa as well as asylum seekers.
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| Pakistani TV station attacked with explosives, one wounded | |  Attackers on a motorcycle lobbed grenades and opened fire at a Pakistani television station on Wednesday, wounding one person, and left behind pamphlets linked to Islamic State, the station said. The attack on the ARY News Islamabad office was the second such assault on media premises in as many months by the militant group claiming a connection with Islamic State's self-declared province of Khorasan in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The pamphlets left behind said "Islamic State Khorasan Province" claimed responsibility for attacking media that it accused of "siding with the apostate army and government of Pakistan in their global crusade against Islam".
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| Congo's Catholic Church set to cancel pro-democracy march in blow to opposition | | | Catholic leaders in Democratic Republic of Congo, where the church has often criticised President Joseph Kabila, expect to cancel a march next month, saying it has been hijacked by partisan interests. Opposition parties and activist groups, hoping to piggyback off the Church's popularity among the 40 percent of citizens who identify as Catholic, have urged supporters to take to the streets on Feb. 16 to demand that Kabila leave power when his mandate ends this year. Kabila's ruling party, the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), has also called on its members to march in support of the president on the same day. |
| Behind both Obama and Haley speeches, Trump looms | |  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump was not in the room during U.S. President Barack Obama's final State of the Union speech, but the Republican presidential front-runner was a looming presence 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 billionaire 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 of establishment politics, a plea for optimism and a quest for common ground.
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| Anti-immigrant "Soldiers of Odin" raise concern in Finland | | | By Jussi Rosendahl and Tuomas Forsell HELSINKI (Reuters) - Wearing black jackets adorned with a symbol of a Viking and the Finnish flag, the "Soldiers of Odin" have surfaced as self-proclaimed patriots patrolling the streets to protect native Finns from immigrants, worrying the government and police. On the northern fringes of Europe, Finland has little history of welcoming large numbers of refugees, unlike neighbouring Sweden. A group of young men founded Soldiers of Odin, named after a Norse god, late last year in the northern town of Kemi. |
| Supreme Court lets Italian marine delay return for murder trial | |  The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed one of two Italian marines facing murder charges over the deaths of two Indian fishermen to stay in his home country until April 30 following heart surgery. The decision defuses a possible judicial standoff after an Italian senator said the day before that Massimiliano Latorre would not return to face trial as he had been due to by this Friday, having earlier been allowed home for medical treatment. "We allow him to stay in Italy until April 30 on health grounds," a three-judge bench of India's highest court said in its order.
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| Soccer's scandal-plagued FIFA dumps its once-powerful secretary general | |  By Joshua Franklin ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer body FIFA said on Wednesday it had fired Secretary General Jerome Valcke, a move that comes amid alleged corruption involving World Cup ticket sales and a number of swirling scandals at the sport's governing authority "The FIFA Emergency Committee decided, on 9 January 2016, to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA Secretary General with immediate effect," the Zurich-based organisation said in a statement. It gave no reason for the dismissal but Valcke's lawyer in New York, Barry Berke, was defiant on behalf of his client. "Jerome Valcke is proud of all that was accomplished for the game of football during his long tenure as Secretary General, including two of the most successful World Cups in history in South Africa and Brazil," he said.
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| China says detained Swedish citizen on national security charges | | | BEIJING/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish man detained in China last week was suspected of acts detrimental to the country's national security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday in its first comments on the case against the foreign human rights and legal reform advocate. The Swedish Foreign Ministry said it had summoned China's ambassador over the case on Jan. 8, a meeting that also touched on the disappearance of a Swedish citizen in Thailand, who is one of several missing publishers and book vendors with business in Hong Kong. "We take a serious view on the fact that the embassy has not yet been allowed to visit the Swedish citizen detained in China," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anna Ekberg said. |
| Ten Germans killed in Istanbul suicide bombing, Berlin says | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of Germans killed in Tuesday's suicide bombing in Istanbul has risen to ten from nine, a spokeswoman for the German foreign ministry said on Wednesday. One German citizen was seriously wounded in the blast and had since died, spokeswoman Sawsan Chebli told a news conference in Berlin. Seven Germans are still recovering from their injuries, five of them in intensive care, she added. (Reporting by Michael Nienaber and Michelle Martin; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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| France dissolves Muslim groups linked to radical Paris mosque | |  The French government on Wednesday banned three religious groups linked to a mosque in the east of Paris that was closed in December for being at the heart of a jihadist recruitment network, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. Cazeneuve said the groups tied to the Lagny-sur-Marne mosque, where guns, munitions and jihadist documents were found, had been dissolved because "their leaders over the last few years had incited hatred and called for jihad". France, which is in a state of emergency, has clamped down on individuals and places of worship - including "organisations cultuelles" - with links to radical Islam since attacks by Islamic State militants in Paris in November that killed 130 people.
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