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| Syrian government says considering humanitarian moves | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of Syria's delegation at peace talks in Geneva branded the opposition as terrorists backed by foreign powers on Sunday, but said his government was considering humanitarian moves as demanded by the opposition delegation. "We don't deal with terrorists," Bashar al-Jaafari told reporters in Geneva. "There are foreign powers endorsing foreign agendas, aiming at making political pressure on the Syrian government by using terrorism as a political weapon. ...
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| Odds are against dismissal of Cosby's sex assault case - experts | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Cosby's lawyers may face difficulty in convincing a Pennsylvania judge this week to throw out sexual assault charges in light of what the disgraced comedian's defense team characterizes as a decade-old non-prosecution deal, legal experts said. Cosby is due back in court in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, after the 78-year-old entertainer was charged last month with sex assault in 2004. The alleged victim says Cosby had plied with alcohol and drugs.
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| Tanzania launches manhunt after poachers kill British helicopter pilot | | | Tanzanian authorities have launched a manhunt after poachers shot down a helicopter and its British pilot during an operation to track down elephant killers, officials said on Sunday.British pilot Roger Gower was tracking poachers on Friday in the Maswa Game Reserve when his helicopter was hit by an AK-47 rifle fired from the ground, Tanzania's tourism and natural resources minister, Jumanne Maghembe, said. The mission had been a collaboration between the Friedkin Conservation Fund and the Tanzanian government, which has struggled to respond to what conservation groups say has been an explosion of "industrial-scale" poaching in recent years. "The government has launched a manhunt to find those responsible for this attack," Maghembe told reporters. |
| Twelve people dead after fire at a sewing room in Moscow | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twelve people were found dead after a fire in a sewing room in Moscow, Russia's Investigative Committee said on Sunday. The committee, which has opened a criminal case over the fire, said the blaze broke out late on Saturday. It was investigating possible causes, including a technical problem or deliberate arson. Interfax news agency said that according to preliminary information, among the 12 people dead was a small child. The rest were workers from Central Asia. (Reporting by Katya Golubkova; Editing by Angus MacSwan) |
| Attacks on Iraq's Sunnis could constitute war crimes - rights group | | | The abduction and killing of scores of Sunni civilians in eastern Iraq this month and attacks on their property by Iranian-backed Shi'ite militiamen could constitute a war crime, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday. Shi'ite militiamen deployed this month in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, after two blasts killed 23 people near a coffee shop where they often meet. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks which it said had targeted Shi'ites. |
| Americans among militant suspects detained in Saudi Arabia - paper | | | Nine Americans are among 33 suspects detained on terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia over the past week, the English-language daily Saudi Gazette reported on Sunday citing an unnamed source. It reported that four Americans were detained on Monday and another five in the following days, along with 14 Saudis, three Yemenis, two Syrians, an Indonesian, a Filipino, a United Arab Emirates citizen, a Palestinian and a citizen of Kazakhstan. Saudi Arabia in 2014 declared Islamic State a terrorist organisation and has detained hundreds of its supporters. |
| FBI negotiates with defiant Oregon refuge holdouts | |  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - The FBI negotiated with four armed occupants at a remote federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Saturday while the holdouts in a video posted online expressed their mistrust of the government and reluctance to leave. One of the four protesters remaining at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge said in a darkly lit video posted on Friday that he wanted to be assured he would not be arrested if he left. Tensions in the standoff remained high four days after Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, 54, a spokesman for the group that seized buildings at the refuge on Jan. 2, was killed by police during the arrests of occupation leader Ammon Bundy and several other protesters as they traveled on a highway.
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| Leading China pastor probed for suspicion of embezzling funds - church authorities | |  By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's leading Christian pastors Gu Yuese is being probed for suspicion of embezzling funds, state-backed church authorities in Zhejiang province said, a move that comes after the pastor opposed a campaign to remove crosses from atop churches. "We feel deeply shocked and filled with regret," the government-backed Hangzhou Christian Council said in a statement on its website regarding Gu's investigation, adding that the investigation was due to his individual conduct. It said it had been notified by a "relevant department", but did not say who was conducting the investigation.
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| Suu Kyi allies to form Myanmar ruling party after decades of struggle | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - After decades of struggle, hundreds of lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi's camp will form Myanmar's ruling party on Monday, with enough seats in parliament to choose the first democratically elected government since the military took power in 1962. The National League for Democracy (NLD) won some 80 percent of elected seats in November's historic vote, but the junta-drafted constitution means it will have to share power with the army that for years has suppressed, often brutally, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and her allies. The first sitting of the NLD-dominated parliament is another step in Myanmar's drawn-out transition which started with the election and will go on until the NLD government officially starts its term in April.
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