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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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| Spain's Rajoy aims for vote on new government by end-January | |  Spain's acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy aims to seek backing in parliament to form a government by the end of January, an official from his centre-right People's Party said on Wednesday. Proposals to form a new government will need to be voted on by Spanish lawmakers, pushing parties to try and form alliances before then to ensure they will get the support they need. The PP won the most votes in a Dec. 20 election but fell well short of a majority and is attempting to forge pacts so that it can remain in power.
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| South Korea calls for "bone-numbing" sanctions on North for nuclear test | |  By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea warned North Korea on Wednesday that the United States and its allies were working on sanctions to inflict "bone-numbing pain" after its latest nuclear test, and called on China to do its part to rein in its isolated neighbour. With tension high on the border after the North's fourth nuclear test on Wednesday last week, South Korean forces fired shots towards what Yonhap News Agency said was a suspected North Korean drone.
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| Barcelona's Neymar to appear in court as defendant in fraud case | |  Barcelona forward Neymar has been ordered to appear in a Spanish court next month as one of the defendants in a fraud case brought by Brazilian investment fund DIS. The firm alleges it was the victim when Barca signed the player, third in the latest world football player of the year poll, from Brazilian club Santos. A judge in Madrid, acting on a request from the state prosecutor, ordered Neymar, his parents, former Barca president Sandro Rosell, incumbent Josep Maria Bartomeu and two former Santos officials to present themselves on Feb. 1 and 2.
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| No signs Germans were target of Istanbul attack - minister | |  Germany's interior minister said on a visit to Istanbul that there were no indications that Germans had been deliberately targeted in Tuesday's suicide bomb attack in the city. "Based on what we know so far from the investigation, there are no indications that the attack was explicitly targeting Germans," Thomas de Maiziere said at a news conference with his Turkish counterpart. De Maiziere added that he saw no reason for people to change plans to travel to Turkey following the attack, which killed 10 tourists, including nine Germans.
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| China arrests most prominent woman rights lawyer for subversion | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have formally arrested China's most prominent woman human rights lawyer, accusing her of subverting the state, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights. The lawyer, Wang Yu, was taken into custody last July and accused the next month of inciting subversion and "causing a disturbance". On Wednesday, Wang's mother received a notice, dated Monday, from police in the northern city of Tianjin, said Wang's lawyer, Li Yuhan.
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| Suicide bomber kills at least 15 outside Pakistan polio centre | |  Two militant groups - the Pakistani Taliban and Jundullah, which has links with the Taliban and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State - separately claimed responsibility for the attack. "It was a suicide blast, we have gathered evidence from the scene," Ahsan Mehboob, the provincial police chief told Reuters. "The police team had arrived to escort teams for the polio campaign." Ahmed Marwat, who identified himself as a commander and spokesman for Jundullah, said his group was responsible.
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| Hackers bring down Thai websites over British murders verdict | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - International hacking movement Anonymous said it attacked hundreds of Thai government websites on Wednesday over death sentences handed down to two migrant workers for the murder of two British tourists. A court sentenced Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 22, to death on Dec. 24 after finding them guilty of murdering tourists Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in 2014. Witheridge had been raped and bludgeoned to death, according to police, and Miller suffered severe head injuries and was left to drown in the surf.
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