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| Ukraine coalition loses majority after second party quits | | | Ukraine's Samopomich party has quit the ruling coalition, one of its leaders Oleh Berezyuk said on Thursday, increasing pressure on Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk to find new allies or risk the collapse of the government. The announcement came just a day after another party led by former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko quit the coalition. The government survived a no confidence motion in parliament on Tuesday, but some critics have said this is because lawmakers backed by Ukraine's powerful businessmen swung the vote by leaving the chamber without casting a ballot. |
| Iraq sentences 40 to death over Islamic State's mass killing of captured soldiers | | | An Iraqi court sentenced 40 captured members of Islamic State to death on Thursday for the killing of hundreds of soldiers after their capture by the ultra-radical militant group as it swept across northern Iraq in 2014, a judicial spokesman said. The slaughter of 1,700 soldiers after they fled from an ex-U.S. army base outside the northern city of Tikrit has become a symbol of Islamic State's brutality and the Sunni insurgent group's sectarian hatred of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim majority. A Baghdad criminal court issued the death sentences based on what Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, said were convictions on terrorism charges. |
| China needs more power to crack down on polluters - minister | |  China needs more powers to crack down on polluting companies and local governments that protect them, the country's environment minister said on Thursday. Beijing has identified pollution as a top priority as it tries to reverse the damage done by decades of untrammelled growth, but the Ministry of Environmental Protection has long struggled to impose its will on growth-obsessed local authorities and polluting state-owned firms. A revised environmental protection law came into effect at the start of last year with the aim of strengthening inspectors' powers and increasing the range of punishments for lawbreakers.
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| U.N. aims to air drop food to ISIS-besieged city in eastern Syria - Egeland | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations plans to make its first air drops of food aid in Syria, to Deir al-Zor, an eastern town of 200,000 besieged by Islamic State militants, the chair of a U.N. humanitarian task force said on Thursday. U.N. aid agencies do not have direct access to areas held by Islamic State, including Deir al-Zor, where civilians face severe food shortages and sharply deteriorating conditions. Jan Egeland, speaking to reporters in Geneva a day after U.N. aid convoys reached five areas, some besieged by government forces and others by rebels, said the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) had a "concrete plan" for carrying out the Deir al-Zor operation in coming days.
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| Government must help Kenya through doping scandal - Keino | |  The chairman of Kenya's national Olympic committee has urged the country's government to act urgently to stave off the threat of an Olympic ban because of its doping record. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Sebastian Coe warned Kenya on Thursday that it faced a ban from the Games if the World Anti-Doping Agency was to declare it non-compliant.
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| Kenya says has killed head of intelligence for Somalia's Islamist insurgency | | | By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has killed the commander of an elite unit within Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist insurgency, a man blamed for masterminding a deadly attack on a Kenyan military camp in southern Somalia last month, the Kenyan military said on Thursday. Kenyan troops, working under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), killed Mohamed Karatey, al Shabaab's deputy commander and head of intelligence, at a graduation ceremony for insurgent fighters on Feb. 8, the Kenya Defence Forces said in a statement. |
| Murder law applied wrongly for 30 years, says Britain's top court | | | Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a key part of the law often called "joint enterprise", which allows people to be convicted of murder even if they did not strike the fatal blow, had been misinterpreted for three decades. The ruling could lead to a rush of appeals, although the court warned that its decision did not mean that all past convictions in which the specific point of law at issue played a part should be overturned. The appeals were considered together because both hinged on the joint enterprise issue. |
| Bulgaria to use army to help guard border in migrant crisis | |  Bulgaria's parliament voted on Thursday to let its army assist police in guarding the Balkan country's borders to avoid a refugee influx that has overwhelmed some of its neighbours. Over 30,000 migrants entered Bulgaria, which is outside the European Union's passport-free Schengen travel, last year, nearly three times more than in 2014. A bill on amendments and supplements to Bulgaria's Defence and Armed Forces Act was passed unanimously at first reading, with lawmakers authorizing troops to help handle any migrant wave in "extraordinary and crisis circumstances".
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| MSF seeks independent probe into bombing of Syria hospital | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The Medecins Sans Frontieres medical charity called on Thursday for an independent investigation into air strikes that killed 25 people at an MSF-backed hospital in north Syria early this week. MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said the attack was probably carried out by Syrian and Russian forces as part of an offensive. Russian-backed Syrian government troops have been pushing toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.
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| Life bans recommended for former Chile, Colombia soccer bosses | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer's chief ethics investigator has recommended life bans for the former presidents of the Colombian and Chilean football federations after finding cases of misconduct under FIFA rules, including on bribery and corruption. Colombia's Luis Bedoya, a former FIFA executive committee member, and Chile's Sergio Jadue have already pleaded guilty in the United States to racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. FIFA's ethics committee said on Thursday that chief investigator Cornel Borbely's own investigation had uncovered what it deemed to be violations of six articles of its code of ethics, including one on bribery and corruption.
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| Rouhani allies face tough challenge in votes to shape Iran | |  By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) - Iranians will shape the future of the Islamic republic for at least a decade when hardline and moderate candidates battle next week in elections for parliament and the body which will choose the country's next supreme leader. Allies of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, buoyed by Iran's nuclear deal, hope to gain influence, but moves by hardliners to block moderate candidates and disillusion over Rouhani's stalled reforms leave them with an uphill task. The hardline Guardian Council, which vets candidates and laws, blocked thousands of mostly moderate hopefuls from standing in the Feb. 26 parliamentary election.
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| South Korea cites North threat in calling for tough 'terror' law | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Seeking to push through a sweeping "anti-terrorism" law that has been blocked by opposition parties, South Korea's government cited on Thursday the heightened risk of North Korea instigating "terror attacks". The call from President Park Geun-hye's office for parliament to pass the new security bill follows a week of tough comments and action by her government in response to North Korea's test launch of a long-range rocket this month and its fourth nuclear test last month. The ongoing tension with the North is looming as an election issue ahead of parliamentary polls in April, when Park's Saenuri Party is expected to retain its majority.
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