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| Obama weighs Republican Nevada governor for U.S. Supreme Court | |  By Jeff Mason and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, a Republican and former federal judge, is being considered by President Barack Obama for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, a source close to the process said on Wednesday, as Obama sought to overcome Senate Republican resistance to any nominee. The source, who asked not to be identified, said Sandoval met on Monday in the U.S. Capitol with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, at which time Reid asked the governor whether he would be interested in being considered for the high court job. An intense political fight has erupted since the Feb. 13 death of long-serving conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
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| Ahead of election, Iran's leader warns of Western 'plot' | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's top leader warned voters on Wednesday the West was plotting to influence elections pitting centrists close to President Hassan Rouhani against conservative hardliners in a contest that could shape the Islamic Republic for years to come. In remarks reflecting an abiding mistrust of Rouhani's rapprochement with the West, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he was confident Iranians would vote in favour of keeping Iran's anti-Western stance on Friday in the first elections since last year's nuclear accord with world powers. Rouhani's allies, who hope the deal will hasten Iran's opening up to the world after years of sanctions, have come under increasing pressure in the election campaign from hardliners who accuse them of links to Western powers including the United States and Britain.
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| Burkina Faso's ex-president becomes citizen of Ivory Coast | |  Ivory Coast said on Wednesday it has granted citizenship to Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore, potentially dashing hopes he could be extradited to his neighbouring native country for his role in a high-profile murder case. Burkina Faso issued an arrest warrant against Compaore in December for the murder of former president and military leader Thomas Sankara, who was assassinated 30 years ago in a case that has famously gone unsolved. The naturalization decree, published in the Ivory Coast's official journal for January, accorded Compaore and his son Paul Francois Ivoirian citizenship.
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| Bourbon vessel attacked off Nigeria, two kidnapped | | | French oil services company Bourbon said on Wednesday that one of its vessels was attacked off the coast of Nigeria on Feb. 23 and two crew members from Nigeria and Russia are considered to have been abducted by the assailants. "Bourbon will continue to disclose any new information when available and verified, but will not make any further comment," the company said. Bourbon operates a fleet of light, fast cruisers called Surfers that are used to move professionals to offshore oil and gas sites, especially in West Africa. |
| Nevada's Republican governor being vetted for Supreme Court - Washington Post | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican governor of Nevada is being vetted by the Obama administration as a possible nominee for the Supreme Court, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the process. Brian Sandoval, a moderate Republican of Mexican ancestry, is in his second term leading the Western U.S. state. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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| Backlash after UK justice minister says EU deal reversible | |  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's deal on new terms for its membership in the European Union could be undone by the European Court of Justice despite support from all member states, according to Justice Secretary Michael Gove, a senior figure among those who want Britain to leave the bloc. Gove faced a barrage of contradictory opinion, with Prime Minister David Cameron's Downing Street office, Attorney General Jeremy Wright and European Council President Donald Tusk among those saying he was wrong. Considered a policy heavyweight in the British cabinet, Gove is a close friend and political ally of Cameron, but the men are on opposite sides of the debate before a June 23 referendum on whether Britain should stay quit the EU.
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| Gang guilty of sex crimes in English town at centre of abuse scandal | |  Five people were convicted on Wednesday of multiple sex crimes against young girls in Rotherham, the northern English town which hit the headlines two years ago when it was revealed that as many as 1,400 children had been abused by gangs. The group, which included three British Asian brothers, their uncle and two white women, systematically carried out the sexual exploitation of 15 victims, aged between 11 and 21, over a period of 16 years from 1987, prosecutors said. The physical and psychological suffering these girls have endured is unthinkable," Peter Mann from Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said.
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| FIFA appeal panel upholds but shortens Blatter, Platini bans | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA's appeal committee has upheld bans on longtime President Sepp Blatter and European football head Michel Platini for ethics violations but reduced them to six years from eight, it said on Wednesday. "The FIFA Appeal Committee, chaired by Larry Mussenden (Bermuda), has partially confirmed the decisions taken by the adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee on 17 and 18 December 2015 regarding Joseph S. Blatter and Michel Platini respectively, whose bans have been reduced from eight to six years," it said in a statement. ...
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| Iran opposition figure Karoubi to vote in elections - son | |  Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi, under house arrest since 2009, will cast his vote in elections on Friday, his son said in a Facebook posting, a move that may provide a boost to reformist candidates close to President Hassan Rouhani. This would be the first time that Karoubi will vote in any election since his arrest.
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| Italy seeks more access to Egyptian probe into student murder | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Wednesday said Egyptian investigators should hand over the evidence they had uncovered in the death of an Italian graduate student who was tortured and killed in Cairo. Giulio Regeni, 28, disappeared in January and his battered body was found in a ditch at the beginning of this month. Egypt invited Italian investigators to take part in the probe, but judicial sources in Rome say the collaboration has been limited.
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| FIFA urges members to approve term limits, other reforms to regain trust | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA urged its members on Wednesday to vote through reforms this week including term limits for top officials and disclosure of their earnings, in a bid to rebuild trust in soccer's governing body. The federation will hold a congress this Friday and vote on a set of reforms it has drawn up to get its house in order after an unprecedented graft scandal that has engulfed its top officials and seen dozens indicted in the United States. "The eyes of the world are on us this week after one of the most challenging times in our history," acting FIFA president Issa Hayatou told its executive committee, according to a statement from the organisation on Wednesday.
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| Hungary protest prevents unveiling of statue for anti-Jewish WW2 politician | | | A group of around 100 protesters prevented the unveiling of a statue of a Hungarian politician in Budapest on Wednesday, saying he promoted racist views during World War Two. The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Religious Communities also objected, saying in a statement that Gyorgy Donath's anti-Semitic views meant he was unworthy of the statue, erected only a few steps away from Budapest's Holocaust Memorial Center. "The disgraceful political role of Gyorgy Donath cannot be ignored even if he became victim of communism in a show trial in which he was sentenced to death," the Jewish community said. |
| U.N. says poised for huge Syria aid effort, if the door opens | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations is ready for a huge aid effort if the warring Syria parties stop fighting, but even then aid workers will proceed carefully and assess the safety of each delivery, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. "We are now standing by, our warehouses are full of aid supplies, aid agencies are alerted, and are stocking all the goods in the warehouses waiting for the signal," said Iyad Nasr, regional spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian aid office. Syria's war has killed over 250,000 people and left 4.5 million hard to reach with humanitarian aid, the U.N. says.
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| Egypt's Sisi, for first time, says Russian plane was brought down by terrorists | |  By Mostafa Hashem CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's president said on Wednesday a Russian plane that crashed in Sinai last year was downed by terrorists seeking to damage its tourism industry and ties with Moscow - the first official indication from Cairo that foul play lay behind the disaster. Whoever downed the Russian plane, what did he mean? Moscow stopped all civilian flights to Egypt, a popular destination for Russian tourists, after the Russian airplane crashed in Sinai on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people aboard.
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| FIFA opens formal ethics proceedings against Bedoya and Jadue | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer body FIFA said its ethics committee on Wednesday opened formal adjudicatory proceedings against former soccer executives Luis Bedoya and Sergio Jadue. "The chairman of the adjudicatory chamber has studied the reports (submitted by the investigatory chamber) carefully and decided to institute formal proceedings against the two officials," FIFA's adjudicatory chamber said in a statement without giving further details. ...
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| U.S. training African police to counter new jihadist threats | |  By Emma Farge THIES, Senegal (Reuters) - Ahead of a drill to teach West African police about forensics by blowing up a car filled with crash test dummies posing as suicide bombers, FBI agents met an unexpected question: why bother to investigate if the militants are already dead? The query from a Senegalese officer demonstrates the steep learning curve for the region's security forces if they are to keep pace with increasingly brazen and sophisticated jihadists moving in from the north-central Sahara and possibly Libya. Since Islamic State's entry into Libya last year, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has responded with a series of attacks to bolster its claim of primacy in the western Sahara.
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