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| Supreme Court refuses to intervene in JNU student leader's arrest | |  By Aditya Kalra and Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday refused to consider a bail plea from a left-wing student leader whose arrest for sedition triggered demonstrations in universities across the country against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling nationalist group. Rivals said the government was trying to crush dissent after it ordered police to detain Kanhaiya Kumar, the head of the Jawaharlal Nehru University students union, for commemorating the anniversary of the execution of a Kashmiri separatist. The top court suggested Kumar, 28, approach the lower Delhi High Court for bail, saying it didn't have to intervene in the case and that lower courts were qualified to handle a bail application.
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| FIFA faces day of reckoning as threats mount | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - The spotlight at next week's FIFA Congress will fall on the presidential election - but the real key to the future of soccer's beleaguered governing body is embedded in a document with the unglamorous title "Draft statutes - Congress 2016". U.S. prosecutors have continued to call FIFA a victim of corrupt individuals. National team competitions depend on a calendar agreed between FIFA and the clubs, which commit to release players to their national teams on certain dates.
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| Factbox: Main reforms to be voted on by FIFA Congress | |  World soccer's governing body, FIFA, is expected to pass wide-ranging reforms at a Congress in Zurich next Friday, when a new president will also be elected. The organisation has been making global headlines since last May, when authorities arrested FIFA officials and others in Zurich on corruption charges. Since then, its president, Sepp Blatter, has been banned from the sport for eight years for ethics violations, along with European soccer chief Michel Platini.
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| Fighting at U.N. compound in South Sudan kills 18 - MSF | | | By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - Fighting at a United Nations compound sheltering people fleeing conflict in South Sudan has killed 18 people, including two Medicins Sans Frontieres workers, the international medical aid group said. South Sudan descended into civil war in December 2013 when a row between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar ended with fighting that often occurred along ethnic fault lines. The U.N. peacekeeping mission, UNMISS, had said on Thursday fighting the night before between youths sheltering in the U.N. compound in Malakal had killed five and wounded 30 after violence erupted between two ethnic groups. |
| Apple likely to invoke free-speech rights in encryption fight | |  By David Ingram and Dan Levine NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc will likely seek to invoke the United States' protections of free speech as one of its key legal arguments in trying to block an order to help unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, lawyers with expertise in the subject said this week. Apple will now have until Feb. 26 to send a reply, a person familiar with matter told Reuters. The tech giant and the Obama administration are on track for a major collision over computer security and encryption after a federal magistrate judge in Los Angeles handed down an order on Tuesday requiring Apple to provide specific software and technical assistance to investigators.
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| Pope says Trump 'not Christian' in a sign of global concern | |  By Emily Flitter NEWBERRY, S.C. (Reuters) - Pope Francis forcefully injected himself into the U.S. presidential campaign on Thursday, assailing Republican candidate Donald Trump's views on U.S. immigration as "not Christian" in a sign of growing international concern at the billionaire businessman's election prospects. Trump struck back. Francis told reporters during a free-wheeling conversation on his flight home from a visit to Mexico: "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." Trump has accused Mexico of sending rapists and drug-runners across the United States' southern border and has vowed if elected president to build a wall to keep out immigrants who enter illegally.
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| Factbox: British PM Cameron's key battles in Brussels | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron was arguing on Friday with his EU peers on the following outstanding issues in a draft reform package to help him campaign to keep Britain in the European Union: EURO ZONE One of only two EU states to neither use the euro nor be bound to adopt it in time, Britain stands alone in insisting there will never be just one currency in the bloc, and Cameron demanded safeguards, particularly for London's financial sector, against being harmed by decisions taken by the euro zone. Other states want Britain to need support from other states to trigger that move and tighter wording to ensure it has no veto.
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| South Korean prosecutors raid Volkswagen office in emissions probe | |  South Korean prosecutors on Friday searched the local office of Volkswagen AG and sister firm Audi AG as part of a probe into an emissions case, a spokesman for the German carmakers' local unit said, confirming media reports. Volkswagen and Audi face a flurry of legal complaints globally after Volkswagen admitted in September to falsifying U.S. emissions tests on some of its diesel cars. Yonhap News Agency said investigators from the Seoul Supreme Prosecutors' Office raided the office and the house of an unidentified senior company official on Friday.
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| Hundreds protest in Cairo over police shooting | |  Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Cairo security directorate on Thursday night after a policeman shot dead a man in the street, in the latest outburst of anger over alleged police brutality in Egypt. A statement from the Cairo security directorate said the policeman had shot dead a driver after an argument and was forced to flee a mob of local people who attempted to catch and kill him. Footage posted on social media showed hundreds of people massing outside the security directorate to protest the death.
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| Biden says Obama won't be able to pick the 'most liberal jurist' | |  By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama cannot select the most liberal possible candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court and should seek a "consensus" pick who could attract Republican support, Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday. A fierce political fight is brewing as the Democratic president prepares to name a successor to conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Saturday. Obama's nominee could change the court's balance of power.
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