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| Ukrainian government hangs by thread as confidence vote looms | |  By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Western-backed government faced collapse on Tuesday after President Petro Poroshenko called on the prime minister to resign, deepening the crisis in a country fighting a recession and a separatist insurgency. Ukraine's international backers have invested much money and political capital backing the government in its stand-off with Moscow after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 following the ousting of Kiev's pro-Russian president by protesters. Poroshenko said Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk's government had lost public support and committed "more mistakes than achievements", though he added that Ukraine should try to avoid disruptive snap elections.
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| U.N. envoy discusses ceasefire, aid with Syrian foreign minister - spokesman | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations will test the commitment of Syria's government to allow access for humanitarian aid on Wednesday, the UN Syria envoy said, indicating the world body is preparing to attempt to reach areas that have been cut off. Staffan de Mistura met Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem twice in Damascus on Tuesday at a time when government forces have been advancing rapidly with the aid of Russian air strikes, and just days before an internationally agreed pause in fighting is due to take effect. "The access to these areas is done by convoys, coordinated by the UN country team ... It is clear it is the duty of the government of Syria to want to reach every Syrian person wherever they are and allow the UN to bring humanitarian aid, de Mistura said.
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| Eagles of Death Metal to give Paris concert for attack survivors | |  By Anca Ulea and Antony Paone PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. band Eagles of Death Metal, on stage when Islamic State attacked their venue and killed 89 people in Paris last November, expressed sympathy with those too traumatised to attend their concert at another Paris hall on Tuesday. With armed police on guard, workers hung the band's name in big red letters outside the Olympia concert hall in Paris. The three militants who attacked the crowd at the Bataclan were part of a co-ordinated assault in which 130 people died in the French capital.
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| Athletics Kenya CEO to temporarily step aside over bribery allegations | | | By Edwin Waita NAIROBI (Reuters) - Athletics Kenya's chief executive has asked to step aside for 21 days pending an investigation into allegations that he sought bribes to reduce the doping bans of two Kenyan athletes who failed drugs tests, the federation said on Tuesday. Isaac Mwangi last week dismissed as "fabrication" accusations by Joy Sakari and Francisca Koki Manunga that he had asked each athlete for $24,000 to reduce their four-year bans. The two runners were caught doping in August at the world championships in Beijing, where Kenya topped the medals table. |
| Egypt court clears policeman over 2011 torture, killing case | | | An Egyptian court on Tuesday cleared a former security officer charged with torturing to death an Islamist detainee suspected of bombing a church in Alexandria shortly before the 2011 uprising. The verdict is the latest in a series of cases highlighting growing concerns over police brutality and impunity amid a crackdown by Egyptian security forces on political dissent. The officer, Hossam al-Shenawy, was accused of using violence to extract a confession from Sayyid Bilal, a follower of the puritan Salafi approach to Islam. |
| Britain, France decry Russia's role in Syria after "war crimes" | |  LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Britain and France criticised Russia's role in Syria's war on Tuesday and said Moscow must stop the conflict rather than fuelling it, after missile strikes killed dozens of civilians on Monday. Almost 50 civilians were killed when missiles hit at least five medical facilities and two schools in rebel-held areas of Syria on Monday, according to the United Nations, which called the attacks a blatant violation of international law. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed Russia for at least one of the missile strikes, when civilians and children were killed in a school and hospital in the town of Azaz, calling it an "obvious war crime".
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| Syria govt has duty to allow convoys, "tomorrow we test this" - de Mistura | |  The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Tuesday that the Assad government had an obligation to allow the world body to deliver humanitarian aid to all Syrians and that this would be tested on Wednesday. Staffan de Mistura, in a statement issued in Geneva after his second meeting of the day with Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moualem in Damascus, said they had discussed the priority issue of humanitarian access to areas besieged by all parties to the conflict.
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| Germany shuts down Islamic centre in Bremen, raids apartments | | | The northern German city-state of Bremen shut down an Islamic cultural centre on Tuesday after police raided it and the apartments of 12 of its members on suspicion of associations with Islamist militants. Bremen Interior Minister Ulrich Maeurer said The Islamic Association Bremen was closely linked to a similar cultural organization that was banned after some of its members joined the Islamic State (IS) insurgent group in Syria. Police also searched a car repair shop in Delmenhorst, just outside Bremen. |
| Americans kidnapped in Iraq last month released - Iraqi media | | | Three U.S. citizens who were kidnapped in Baghdad last month have been released, an official in Iraq's Interior Ministry and a senior government source said on Tuesday. U.S. and Iraqi sources said at the time that they were being held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, though Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi later dismissed the likelihood of Iranian involvement. "The three Americans were released in an area near Yousifiya, south of Baghdad. |
| Israeli police briefly detain Washington Post bureau chief in Jerusalem | |  Israeli border police briefly detained the Washington Post's bureau chief in Jerusalem and a Palestinian colleague on Tuesday while they were conducting interviews at an entrance to the walled Old City. William Booth and the newspaper's West Bank correspondent, Sufian Taha, were taken to a police station and held for about 40 minutes before being released, the Foreign Press Association in Israel (FPA) said in a statement protesting against their detention. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, called it "a regrettable incident" and praised Booth as "an excellent journalist".
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| Cameron defends EU deal as lawmakers offer no guarantees | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - David Cameron fended off changes on Tuesday to a draft deal he has cut to help keep Britain in the EU, as the European parliament said it could not guarantee to pass the reforms. Fresh from talks in Paris the night before, where President Francois Hollande pressed French demands for changes in a text it fears will give British banks an unfair advantage, the British prime minister met EU executive chief Jean-Claude Juncker and leaders of the EU legislature. Two days before a summit where all sides hope to seal an agreement, Cameron made no public comments during his stay in Brussels and one person present at one of the meetings said he seemed very stressed.
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| U.S. will sign Paris Agreement and stick to it - Stern | |  By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change this year regardless of the Supreme Court's decision to put a chunk of President Barack Obama's environmental action on hold, the U.S. climate envoy said on Tuesday. Todd Stern also said that Obama's successor, even if it is a Republican, would be unlikely to scrap the Paris deal as to do so would have negative diplomatic implications. The U.S. Supreme Court this month put on hold regulations to curb carbon dioxide emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants, prompting speculation the United States and other nations could delay formal signature of the Paris Agreement, reached in December.
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| Pope to visit Mexican state ravaged by brutal drug violence | |  By Philip Pullella and Christine Murray MORELIA (Reuters) - Pope Francis takes his Mexican tour to the country's gang-infested heartland on Tuesday to bolster a message of peace and reconciliation in the face of a decade of bloodletting that the government has been unable to stop. Gang wars over the lucrative methamphetamine trade have torn the western state of Michoacan apart. Widespread kidnapping and extortion by gangs have sparked an uprising by vigilante groups.
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| Bahrain frees four American journalists - lawyer | | | By Yara Bayoumy DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain has freed an American journalist and her camera crew after accusing them of participating in an illegal gathering, and they are expected to fly out of the country shortly, the group's lawyer said on Tuesday. Bahraini lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi and media campaign group Reporters Without Borders identified the four as U.S. journalist Anna Day and three members of her camera crew, all of them U.S. citizens. Bahrain's public prosecution office did not name those arrested, but said it had ordered the release of four Americans after interrogating them. |
| Exclusive: Indonesia plans tougher anti-terrorism laws after Jakarta attack | |  By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has drawn up plans for tougher anti-terrorism laws following last month's militant attack on the capital, including detention without trial for up to three months compared with a week now, government sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The proposals are likely to draw fire from human rights activists, who have warned against jeopardising hard-won freedoms over nearly two decades since the end of authoritarian president Suharto's rule. President Joko Widodo's government moved quickly to reform the country's 2003 anti-terrorism law after Jan. 14, when four men attacked Jakarta's business district with guns and explosives.
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| Egyptian investigator in Italian's death has prior conviction linked to death of detainee-court documents, sources | |  By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - A senior Egyptian police officer investigating the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni has a prior conviction in connection with the torture and death of a detainee, according to security and judicial sources and court documents seen by Reuters. Regeni, 28, disappeared on Jan. 25, the fifth anniversary of the 2011 uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. Khaled Shalaby, now head of Criminal Investigations in Giza and one of the investigators in the Regeni case, and three others were charged in 2000 with torturing and killing a detainee inside a police station in Alexandria, according to the security and judicial sources and documents.
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| Supreme Court asks RBI to submit names of loan defaulters | |  The Supreme Court has asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to provide the names of corporate loan defaulters with outstanding debt of at least 5 billion rupees ($73.11 million), as well as details of restructured assets. The RBI would need to provide the information within two months, though it could keep details under "sealed cover", a directive from the Supreme Court said. The directive comes in the wake of a public interest litigation suit seeking to look into loans made by Housing & Urban Development Co Ltd to some companies.
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| EU Parliament's approval of UK deal not guaranteed - head | |  The European Parliament would not block a deal to help keep Britain in the European Union but may not back it fully, its president said on Tuesday, as British Prime Minister David Cameron prepared a final push to secure support for the deal. Cameron must hammer out differences with fellow EU leaders at a summit on Thursday over a plan to reform Britain's relationship with the European Union. If Britain subsequently votes to stay in the EU, the European Parliament would still need to approve key elements of the deal.
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| Ukraine's Western-backed government faces vote that could dissolve cabinet | |  By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's biggest political party said on Tuesday it will rate the performance of Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk's government as "unsatisfactory" in an imminent vote that could precipitate a collapse of the coalition government and snap elections. Parliament could vote as early as Tuesday on a report that reviews the government's performance in 2015 and its agenda for this year. If the government loses, lawmakers need 150 signatures in parliament to hold a no confidence vote, which could lead to national elections if the coalition cannot agree on a new cabinet.
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| U.N. rights boss urges China to release lawyers, treat HK booksellers fairly | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The top United Nations human rights official urged China on Tuesday to release all lawyers detained since July, including 15 arrested last month, saying it was wrong to prosecute or sanction them for their work. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also voiced concern for five missing booksellers from Hong Kong and urged Beijing authorities to ensure a "fair and transparent procedure" for their cases and allow family and lawyer visits. "We are seeing a very worrying pattern in China that has serious implications for civil society and the important work they do across the country," Zeid said in a statement, voicing fears that a Chinese draft law on non-governmental organisations would curb freedoms of expression and assembly.
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