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| Palestinian activist's U.S. immigration fraud conviction vacated | | | By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. appellate court on Thursday vacated the conviction of a Palestinian activist charged with immigration fraud for failing to tell U.S. authorities she had been imprisoned in Israel for a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed two people. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 68, has said her confession to the bombing was the result of severe torture by the Israeli military, including rape and electric shocks. The 6th Circuit U.S. Appellate Court opinion said a lower court should have allowed expert testimony that Odeh was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to torture in prison, and did not know her statements to immigration officials were false. |
| Nevada governor rules himself out of Supreme Court consideration | |  Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval said on Thursday he did not want to be considered for the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but said the notion was "beyond humbling." "Earlier today, I notified the White House that I do not wish to be considered at this time for possible nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States," the Republican governor said in a statement. "The notion of being considered for a seat on the highest court in the land is beyond humbling and I am incredibly grateful to have been mentioned," he added.
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| Turkish newspaper expects release of editors in case that drew condemnation | |  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's top court ruled on Thursday that detaining two journalists from an opposition newspaper had violated their rights, and the newspaper's acting editor-in-chief said their release was expected soon. The arrest of Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul last November drew international condemnation and revived concern about media freedom in Turkey under President Tayyip Erdogan.
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| Sandoval does not want to be considered for high court - Reid aide | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval on Thursday informed Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid that he no longer wanted to be considered for the open Supreme Court justice job that President Barack Obama hopes to fill, according to a Reid aide. The aide said Sandoval, a Republican, telephoned Reid early Thursday afternoon. (Reporting By Richard Cowan; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| On eve of FIFA election, key African vote is hard to call | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Africa could hold the key to FIFA's presidential election, but sharply conflicting versions emerged on Thursday of who would get the continent's 54 votes in the contest for the new head of world soccer. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) last month backed Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain as its candidate in Friday's election to replace disgraced FIFA president Sepp Blatter in the wake of a major corruption scandal. On the eve of the vote, CAF vice-president Suketu Patel said he expected virtually all the African football associations to follow the recommendation.
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| Argentine investigator says Nisman death points to murder | |  By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine prosecutor who died last year just days after accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran's alleged role in the bombing of a Jewish centre was apparently murdered, an official investigating the case said on Thursday. Alberto Nisman was found shot dead in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment 13 months ago. "The evidence up to this point supports the hypothesis that Alberto Nisman was the victim of the crime of homicide," Ricardo Saenz, district attorney for the Buenos Aires Criminal Appeals Court, wrote in a recommendation that the case be handed over to federal authorities and pursued as a murder investigation.
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| Africa could hold key as FIFA rivals make last pitches | |  By Simon Evans, Mike Collett and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - The five men vying for the leadership of world football's scandal-hit governing body made their final pitches on Thursday in a contest that could hinge on who secures the bulk of Africa's 54 votes. Delegates from more than 200 countries will elect a new president on Friday to succeed Sepp Blatter of Switzerland, two days after Blatter and European football chief Michel Platini lost their appeals against bans for ethics violations. Whoever takes over from Blatter, who ran FIFA for 17 years like a globe-trotting head of state, will inherit a very different job with a focus on crisis management, after dozens of international football officials were indicted in the United States last year for racketeering, money-laundering and bribery.
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| Italian killing highlights assault on academic freedom in Egypt | | | By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - When a colleague in Holland asked historian Pascale Ghazaleh this month whether to send a group of students to Egypt, her response was a resounding 'No'. The killing of Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni, who disappeared on Jan. 25, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-rule, has sent a chill through the academic community in Egypt and beyond. Scholars in Egypt say they have long worked under threat of arrest or deportation, but the gruesome nature of Regeni's death has raised fears that the pursuit of knowledge will fall victim to the toughest assault on freedom in Egypt's modern history. |
| Exclusive - Ally of Ukrainian president accused of meddling in prosecution | |  By Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - An ally of Ukraine's president has been accused by a former Ukrainian prosecutor of interfering in law enforcement. A representative of Ihor Kononenko, a business partner of President Petro Poroshenko and member of parliament of his political party, declined to comment on the allegation, made in a Reuters interview by ex-prosecutor Vitaliy Kasko. The representative, Taras Pastushenko, the spokesman for Poroshenko's party in parliament, cited an ongoing investigation into separate allegations by the economy minister as the reason why Kononenko would not comment.
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| Conciliator Rouhani seeks gains for moderates in Iran polls | |  (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist trying to open Iran after years of sanctions, and his allies carry the hopes of many Iranians for greater freedoms on Friday when the country holds elections for parliament and the Assembly of Experts. Rouhani is expected to win re-election to the assembly, the body that chooses the Islamic Republic's supreme leader. On the same day, his allies are seeking to wrest control of parliament from hardliners bent on blocking an increase in Western influence after a 2015 nuclear deal Rouhani orchestrated with major powers.
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| Biden to introduce Lady Gaga at Oscars, highlight effort against sexual assault | |  Vice President Joe Biden will take the stage at the Academy Awards show on Sunday to introduce Lady Gaga for her performance of "Til It Happens to You," an Oscar-nominated song about sexual assault on college campuses from the film "The Hunting Ground." Biden is a long-time advocate against sexual assault who authored the Violence Against Women Act. Biden will attend the awards show with his wife, Jill.
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| BBC culture allowed star to commit sex crimes, but top staff unaware - report | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's globally respected broadcaster, the BBC, was told on Thursday it was guilty of serious failings in its handling of Jimmy Savile, a celebrated TV and radio showman revealed after death to have been one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders. Warnings about Savile's conduct went unheeded for decades, a damning report by a former judge said on Thursday. The report said there had been - and still was - a prevailing, macho culture at the publicly-funded broadcaster in which staff were fearful of making complaints, especially about its top stars known internally as "The Talent".
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| Apple CEO: Unlocking San Bernardino iPhone would be 'bad for America' | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple chief Tim Cook on Wednesday said that complying with a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters would be "bad for America," and set a legal precedent that would offend many Americans. "Some things are hard, and some things are right, and some things are both - this is one of those things," Cook told ABC News in his first interview since the court order came down last week.
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| French teacher to stand trial over charges of making up Islamic State attack | | | A teacher at a Jewish school in the southern French city of Marseille will stand trial in April after investigators concluded that he falsely reported being stabbed by Islamic State supporters, the prosecutors said on Thursday. Five days after the Nov. 13 attacks in which Islamic State militants killed 130 people in Paris, Marseille teacher Sylvain Saadoun had said he had been stabbed by three people, one of them wearing an Islamic State T-shirt. In December, another teacher in a district near Paris said he had been assaulted by an Islamic State supporter, causing classes to be cancelled and an anti-terrorism investigation. |
| Italian Senate approves diluted civil union bill | | | The Italian Senate approved on Thursday a watered-down bill allowing civil unions for same-sex and heterosexual couples, with the government using a confidence motion to ram the contested legislation through the upper house. To overcome opposition from within his own centre-left coalition, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had to strip out the most controversial part of the text, which would have granted unmarried couples some adoption rights. If he had lost the vote, Renzi would have had to resign. |
| Political future of heavyweight Rafsanjani may rest on Iran poll | |  Elections on Friday for the body that selects Iran's supreme leader could be the last hurrah for Iran's best known political grandee, former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has loomed large in the history of the Islamic Republic. If Rafsanjani is unable to muster the votes to secure his seat on the Assembly of Experts, it could signal the beginning of his exit from political life in Iran. Few have wielded such influence in modern Iran as the 81-year-old, but since 2009 he and his family have faced criticism from hardliners over their support for the opposition movement which lost that year's disputed election to former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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| Sports tribunal CAS rejects Champagne's FIFA voting booth request | |  Sport's highest tribunal has rejected FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne's urgent request for transparent voting booths and independent scrutineers at Friday's election for the head of the global soccer body. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said it rejected on Thursday the request which Champagne filed on Wednesday. Rival FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan's request for Friday's election to be postponed because of an issue with the voting booths had also been rejected by CAS.
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| Indonesia orders re-arrest of international school teachers charged with sex abuse | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the acquittal of two teachers from Canada and Indonesia on charges of sexually abusing kindergarten children at an international school in Jakarta, extended their jail sentences and ordered their re-arrest. The Canadian embassy in Jakarta called the Supreme Court's decision "unjust" and said the case had not been handled transparently. "The outcome of this case has serious implications for Indonesia's reputation as a safe place for Canadians to work, travel and invest as well as for Canada's long history of cooperation with Indonesia," it said in an online statement.
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| Senator John McCain wants hearing on possible F-16 sale to Pakistan | |  U.S. Senator John McCain on Thursday urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold a hearing on the possible sale of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters he was concerned about the timing of the Obama administration's decision to approve the sale of the fighter jets to Pakistan, and potential consequences for U.S. relations with India. "I would rather have seen it kicked over into the next administration," McCain said.
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| FIFA election to go ahead but Blatter told to stay away | |  By Brian Homewood and Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA will proceed with an election to pick a new president on Friday to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter and vote on a set of reforms aimed at restoring its credibility after the worst graft scandal in its history. One candidate had sought to have the vote on a new president delayed but sport's highest tribunal threw out his request, clearing the way for FIFA to hold its planned Extraordinary Congress in Zurich. FIFA urged members to approve its reforms at the congress, including term limits for top officials and disclosure of their earnings, to rebuild trust after several dozen officials were indicted in the United States and a criminal investigation was begun in Switzerland.
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| FIFA's Rogues' Gallery - banned, fined or suspended | | | Following is a list of high-ranking officials to have been implicated or punished in the bribery and corruption crisis that has engulfed FIFA. President of FIFA for more than 17 years, banned for eight years by the Ethics Committee he created to help clean up FIFA's image when it found him guilty of a conflict of interest by paying European soccer boss Michel Platini 1.3 million pounds ($1.86 million) for work done a decade earlier. At one stage seemed destined to succeed Blatter as FIFA president, but the payment he received from FIFA also landed him with an eight-year ban, reduced to six on appeal. |
| Malaysia blocks access to news portal for violating media law | | | Malaysia blocked access to a widely read news portal on Thursday, the latest in a series of clampdowns on media organisations that have published reports critical of the government and Prime Minister Najib Razak. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said in a statement that the Malaysian Insider had breached laws under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. The Malaysian Insider has published several reports on the scandal around 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and investigations into $681 million deposited into Prime Minister Najib's personal accounts. |
| U.N. to announce new round of Syria talks - envoy | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations will name a date on Friday for Syria's warring parties to return to the negotiating table for a second round of talks, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. De Mistura abruptly aborted a first round of talks on Feb. 3 and urged countries in the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), led by the United States and Russia, to do more preparatory work.
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| FIFA reforms would leave new president powerless - Bility | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - The African leader prevented from going for FIFA's top job, after failing an integrity check, says delegates must reject proposed reforms at soccer's scandal-hit global body as they would leave the president powerless. Liberian FA chief Musa Bility, one of the most outspoken leaders in African football, also predicted half of the continent's votes in Friday's FIFA presidential election would go to Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan rather than Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa of Bahrain. FIFA's 209 member national associations (FAs) each hold one vote in the poll that will choose a replacement for Sepp Blatter who has been banned for six years due to ethics violations.
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| Pakistan's largest opposition party wants army chief to stay when term ends | |  By Mubasher Bukhari and Syed Raza Hassan LAHORE/KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's largest opposition party has asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government to extend the term of the powerful army chief when he retires in November, party officials said on Thursday. Last month, army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif, widely popular for launching operations against militants in several parts of the country, broke a precedent of generals seeking to extend their terms and said he would step down when his three-year one ends. "Move on Pakistan," a new political party formed by influential businessmen in the country's rich Punjab province, has campaigned for his service to be extended.
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