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| Republican presidential contender Rubio nabs big endorsement before crucial primary | | Thursday, February 18, 2016 1:00 AM | |
|  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson CHARLESTON, S.C./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, viewed as a possible Republican vice presidential candidate, endorsed U.S. Senator Marco Rubio on Wednesday for their party's 2016 White House nomination, three days before the state's presidential primary. "If we elect Marco Rubio, every day will be a great day in America," Haley said, with Rubio at her side at an event in Chapin, South Carolina. Haley's endorsement gave Rubio, 44, a valuable ally to try to sway voters in South Carolina, the third contest after Iowa and New Hampshire to pick a party nominee for the Nov. 8 presidential election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama.
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| Bill Cosby sued woman, attorneys who accused him of sex assault - NY Times | | Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:51 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - Bill Cosby has sued a woman whose allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted her sparked the only criminal charges against the disgraced comedian over his running sexual assault scandal, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The lawsuit, which was filed under seal in a federal Pennsylvania court, named Andrea Constand and her attorneys, Dolores Troiani and Bebe Kivitz, the Times reported. The newspaper said the lawsuit alleges they breached an agreement in a previous civil suit brought by Constand which was resolved out of court with a confidential settlement. ...
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| At Mexico-U.S. border, Pope slams hell faced by migrants | | Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:34 AM | |
|  By Philip Pullella and Gabriel Stargardter CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday railed against immigration policies that force many underground and into the hands of drug gangs and human smugglers, praying at Mexico's border with the United States in what was once one of the world's deadliest cities. Overlooking the Rio Grande that separates the two countries, it was the closest the pope came to the U.S. border during his six-day visit to Mexico. "We cannot deny the humanitarian crisis," the pope said on the last day of a six-day visit to Mexico.
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| Police raid Madrid office of China's biggest bank | | Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:01 AM | |
|  Spanish police raided the Madrid offices of China's biggest bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), on Wednesday as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering, the Interior Ministry said. The investigation by police, the Spanish tax agency and Europol involves funds handled by a criminal group acting in Spain which the Ministry says passed through the bank and were transferred to China.
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| Murders in Honduras drop 12 percent in 2015 as drug bosses extradited - group | | | Homicides in Honduras fell 12 percent in 2015 thanks in part to the capture and extradition to the United States of drug cartel bosses, a United Nations-backed organisation said on Wednesday. In the last two years, Honduras says it has extradited eight gang leaders to the United States. Since taking office in 2014, President Juan Hernandez' ramped-up military offence against drug traffickers and gangs has dramatically driven down the homicide rate. |
| U.N. Yemen envoy says divisions over truce preventing peace talks | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations special envoy for Yemen said on Wednesday he was unable to call another round of peace talks because the warring parties are deeply divided over whether there should be a ceasefire to coincide with a new round of negotiations. "Deep divisions persist that prevent me from calling for the next round of talks," U.N. Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the U.N. Security Council. A Saudi Arabia-led coalition began a military campaign in March to prevent Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to former Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh, from taking complete control of Yemen.
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| Dissidents fearful as Thailand, once a haven, favours China | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall BANGKOK (Reuters) - One night last month, Liu Xuehong stood weeping outside the gates of the United Nations headquarters in Bangkok, begging the guards to let her in. The Chinese dissident had received a threatening call from an anonymous Chinese official, and feared that she, like other asylum seekers in Thailand, would be snatched away by agents of China or deported by a Thai junta increasingly allied to it. "We still live in fear here." Liu is one of hundreds of Chinese who have fled for Thailand, say human rights groups.
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| U.S. CEO group wants Pacific trade deal but could work with Trump | |  The captains of corporate America want congressional approval for a new Pacific trade deal this year, but the head of their main lobbying group said on Wednesday they could find a way to be comfortable with tariff-promoter Donald Trump if the Republican front-runner became president. The Business Roundtable, a lobby group that represents major corporate chief executive officers, has made the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a top priority for this year and believes the trade deal could have enough bipartisan support in Congress to win approval, according to Caterpillar Inc Chief Executive Doug Oberhelman, the group's new chairman. The Roundtable, a lobbying group for corporate CEOs, is also pushing for comprehensive tax reform this year as an antidote to inversion deals that have allowed U.S. companies to establish headquarters overseas.
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| White House rebuts Supreme Court hypocrisy charge against Obama | |  By Ayesha Rascoe and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House tried to defuse Republican charges of hypocrisy against President Barack Obama over Supreme Court nominees on Wednesday as liberal activists swung into action and the top Senate Democrat predicted a Republican "cave-in." The White House turned up the heat on the Republican-led Senate to allow fair hearings and a timely vote on Obama's impending selection to fill the court vacancy left by Saturday's death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. The Democratic president's nominee could change the balance of power on the top U.S. court - Scalia's death left it with four conservative and four liberal justices - and a monumental fight is brewing over Obama's pick for the lifetime appointment.
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| Maldives opposition leader jailed for 12 years for role in protests | | | By Daniel Bosley MALE (Reuters) - A Maldives court has sentenced an Islamist opposition leader to 12 years in jail, convicting him on terrorism charges related to a speech that protested the imprisonment of the islands' first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed. Best known as an exotic tourist destination, the Indian Ocean archipelago has been roiled by political unrest since Nasheed was ousted in disputed circumstances in 2012. Under pressure from foreign governments, President Abdulla Yameen's government released Nasheed last month to let him seek medical treatment in London. |
| S&P cuts Brazil deeper into junk territory in blow to Rousseff | |  By Alonso Soto BRASILIA (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's downgraded Brazil's credit rating deeper into junk territory on Wednesday, citing its failure to curb its fiscal deficit, in a surprise blow to President Dilma Rousseff`s bid to haul the economy out of its worst recession in decades. S&P cut Brazil's sovereign credit rating to BB from BB+ with a negative outlook, just five months after becoming the first agency to strip the country of its coveted investment grade. Fitch ratings followed suit in December.
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| Argentina judge releases ex-soccer official in FIFA probe | |  A judge in Argentina on Wednesday ordered the release of a former top South American football official who has been charged by U.S. justice officials with involvement in a FIFA bribery racket. Meiszner, the former secretary general of the South American regional CONMEBOL football federation, had surrendered to Argentine police in December, but requested to be put under house arrest due the state of his health. "We requested the suspension of arrest because we considered that certain issues were not clear," Meiszner's lawyer told local radio station Radio 10.
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| Blast hits Turkish cultural centre in Sweden | | | An explosion severely damaged part of a building that housed a Turkish cultural association in a Stockholm suburb late on Wednesday but no one was injured, police said. It had been locked since earlier in the evening," a police spokesman said. |
| In Mexican border city, Pope criticizes business 'slave drivers' | | By Philip Pullella and Gabriel Stargardter CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a scathing critique of capitalism on a trip to Mexico's border with the United States, saying that God will hold accountable "slave drivers" who exploit workers. "The flow of capital cannot decide the flow of people," he said in Ciudad Juarez, a gritty industrial city next to El Paso, Texas where many international companies have factories that export goods to the United States. In a speech to business leaders and labour representatives, Latin America's first pope assailed the "prevailing mentality (that) advocates for the greatest possible profits, immediately and at any cost." On the last day of a six-day visit to Mexico, the Argentine pontiff decried "the exploitation of employees as if they were objects to be used and discarded," saying the best investment business can make to help society is in people and families.
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| U.S. Republicans chide Apple over order on shooter's phone | |  Prominent U.S. Republicans criticized Apple Inc on Wednesday for opposing a government request for help hacking into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers, calling the issue tough but important to boosting national security. The technology company late on Tuesday said it was opposing a court order to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation break into an iPhone that belonged to the male shooter, Rizwan Farook, before the deadly Dec. 2 attacks in San Bernardino, California. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the demand threatened the security of Apple's customers.
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| White House hopeful Rubio nabs big endorsement before crucial primary vote | | By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson SUMMERVILLE, S.C./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, viewed in Republican circles as a possible U.S. vice presidential candidate, will endorse U.S. Senator Marco Rubio for their party's 2016 White House nomination on Wednesday, three days before her state's presidential primary, said a source familiar with the situation. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley, 44, seized the spotlight in January when in the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech she set herself apart from the party's presidential candidates by calling for tolerance on immigration and civility in politics. Rubio, 44, from Florida, hopes to get a boost from South Carolina voters, where Republicans on Saturday hold their third contest after Iowa and New Hampshire to pick a party nominee for the Nov. 8 presidential election.
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| Brazil's Rousseff bolstered by allied whip victory in house | |  President Dilma Rousseff's main coalition partner, the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PDMB), re-elected a key ally of hers as its leader in the lower house of Congress on Wednesday, enhancing her chances of blocking impeachment. Leonardo Picciani was confirmed as PMDB house whip in a 37-30 vote, defeating a rival backed by Rousseff's arch-enemy Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who took up an opposition request to impeach the president in December. Picciani's re-election brought some relief for the embattled president because he is expected to pick pro-Rousseff PMDB members to sit on a committee that must decide whether there are grounds for her impeachment.
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| English FA backs Infantino for FIFA president | |  Gianni Infantino has won the support of the English Football Association in his effort to win next week's FIFA presidential election, chairman Greg Dyke said on Wednesday. Five candidates will be standing on Feb. 26 to replace outgoing president Sepp Blatter, banned for eight years amid a widening graft scandal that has shaken world soccer's ruling body. "We decided we would back Gianni Infantino," Dyke told Sky Sports television following a board meeting.
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| Mobiles banned from FIFA voting booths to ensure secrecy | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Mobile phones and cameras will be banned from polling booths at next week's FIFA presidential election to ensure each vote remains secret, one of the candidates said on Wednesday. Frenchman Jerome Champagne said he raised the issue with the electoral committee because he was concerned some voters had come under pressure to photograph their ballot papers to prove they had taken part. FIFA's 209 member national associations (FAs) each hold one vote.
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| U.S. appeals court upholds Apple e-book settlement | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Apple Inc's $450 million settlement of claims that it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected a challenge by e-books purchaser John Bradley to the fairness, reasonableness and adequacy of Apple's class-action antitrust settlement with consumers and 33 state attorneys general. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan had approved the settlement in November 2014.
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| Turkey's Erdogan says to fight forces behind Ankara bombing | |  Turkey's fight against "pawns" carrying out attacks and the forces behind them will grow more determined, President Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement on Wednesday, after a car bomb killed at least 28 people in the capital Ankara. "We will continue our fight against the pawns that carry out such attacks, which know no moral or humanitarian bounds, and the forces behind them with more determination every day," Erdogan said in a statement. A car laden with explosives detonated next to military buses near the armed forces' headquarters on Wednesday.
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| U.S. extremist groups surge in 2015, research group says | | | Extremist groups proliferated in the United States in 2015, a U.S. research group said on Wednesday, as ideologically driven violence and incendiary political rhetoric created fertile conditions for white supremacists and other fringe actors. The Southern Poverty Law Center said the number of far-right "hate groups" grew to 892 in 2015 from 784 the year before, spurred by battles over the Confederate flag, gay marriage, immigration and Islamic terrorism. The SPLC also reported an increase in armed citizen militias, to 998 in 2015 from 874 the year before, as anti government activists were energized by land-use clashes with the federal government in the West and fears the Obama administration may tighten gun laws. |
| San Bernardino County approved FBI search of shooter's iPhone - document | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - San Bernardino County authorities owned the Apple iPhone seized from a vehicle used by the San Bernardino shooters and gave federal investigators permission to search the phone's contents, a government court filing showed. The iPhone 5C is the subject of a federal court order on Tuesday demanding that Apple Inc help the U.S. government to unlock it, reopening a debate on the legal, political and technological repercussions. Rizwan Farook, who along with his wife Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in a shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California last December, was assigned the phone by the county health department he worked for, prosecutors said in the document filed on Tuesday.
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| Scores of dismembered bodies found in Colombian jails | | | Remains of at least 100 dismembered prisoners and visitors have been found in drain pipes at a jail in Colombia's capital that houses drug traffickers, Marxist rebels and paramilitaries, investigators said on Wednesday. Body parts were found at La Modelo jail in Bogota, one of the Andean nation's biggest penitentiaries, as well as in jails in the cities of Popayan, Bucaramanga and Barranquilla, said Caterina Heyck, an investigator at the attorney general's office. |
| Belgium find video of nuclear official in search for Paris attack clues | |  Belgian investigators searching houses linked to suspects in the Islamist militant attack on Paris in November found a video tracking movements of a man linked to the country's nuclear industry, prosecutors said on Wednesday. La Derniere Heure newspaper reported earlier that police hunting for Belgian links to the shootings and suicide attacks that killed 130 people in Paris found information suggesting that Islamic State militants, who claimed responsibility for the carnage, was also looking into targeting a nuclear power plant. The newspaper said investigators carrying out house searches in December found a video lasting several hours showing footage of the entrance to a home in the north of Belgium.
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