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| Exclusive: Indonesia plans tougher anti-terrorism laws after Jakarta attack | | | By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has drawn up plans for tougher anti-terrorism laws following last month's militant attack on the capital, including detention without trial for up to three months compared with a week now, government sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The proposals are likely to draw fire from human rights activists, who have warned against jeopardising hard-won freedoms over nearly two decades since the end of authoritarian president Suharto's rule. President Joko Widodo's government moved quickly to reform the country's 2003 anti-terrorism law after Jan. 14, when four men attacked Jakarta's business district with guns and explosives. |
| U.N. envoy discusses ceasefire, aid with Syrian foreign minister - spokesman | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Syria envoy held talks with Syria's foreign minister on Tuesday aimed at securing a cessation of hostilities and "unhindered" delivery of humanitarian aid to areas besieged by all parties, a U.N. spokesman said. Staffan de Mistura was due to meet Walid al-Moualem a second time later in the day in Damascus to discuss resuming peace talks scheduled for Feb. 25, after a first round was suspended last week, U.N. spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said. "The reason he suspended them was, as you know, that cities were still being bombed, people were still being starved on the ground." World powers agreed in Munich on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered, but the deal does not take effect until the end of this week and was not signed by any warring parties.
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| Bahrain to free U.S. citizens accused of illegal gathering - lawyer | | | Bahrain's public prosecution office said on Tuesday it had accused four U.S. nationals of participating in an illegal gathering but ordered them freed pending further investigation. The media campaign group Reporters Without Borders said on Monday that a U.S. journalist and three members of her camera crew had been detained in Bahrain on Sunday, and urged their release. |
| Egyptian investigator in Italian's death has prior conviction linked to death of detainee-court documents, sources | |  By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - A senior Egyptian police officer investigating the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni has a prior conviction in connection with the torture and death of a detainee, according to security and judicial sources and court documents seen by Reuters. Regeni, 28, disappeared on Jan. 25, the fifth anniversary of the 2011 uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. Khaled Shalaby, now head of Criminal Investigations in Giza and one of the investigators in the Regeni case, and three others were charged in 2000 with torturing and killing a detainee inside a police station in Alexandria, according to the security and judicial sources and documents.
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| Supreme Court asks RBI to submit names of loan defaulters | |  The Supreme Court has asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to provide the names of corporate loan defaulters with outstanding debt of at least 5 billion rupees ($73.11 million), as well as details of restructured assets. The RBI would need to provide the information within two months, though it could keep details under "sealed cover", a directive from the Supreme Court said. The directive comes in the wake of a public interest litigation suit seeking to look into loans made by Housing & Urban Development Co Ltd to some companies.
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| EU Parliament's approval of UK deal not guaranteed - head | |  The European Parliament would not block a deal to help keep Britain in the European Union but may not back it fully, its president said on Tuesday, as British Prime Minister David Cameron prepared a final push to secure support for the deal. Cameron must hammer out differences with fellow EU leaders at a summit on Thursday over a plan to reform Britain's relationship with the European Union. If Britain subsequently votes to stay in the EU, the European Parliament would still need to approve key elements of the deal.
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| Athletics Kenya CEO to temporarily step aside over bribery claims - source | | | Athletics Kenya (AK) chief executive Isaac Mwangi will temporarily step aside pending an investigation into claims that he asked for bribes to reduce the doping bans of two athletes who failed drugs tests, an AK source told Reuters on Tuesday. A member of the federation's executive committee said Mwangi had asked for an investigation into allegations by Joy Sakari and Francisca Koki Manunga that Mwangi had asked each athlete for $24,000 to reduce their four-year bans. Athletics Kenya is due to hold a press conference in Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday afternoon. |
| Ukraine's Western-backed government faces vote that could dissolve cabinet | |  By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's biggest political party said on Tuesday it will rate the performance of Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk's government as "unsatisfactory" in an imminent vote that could precipitate a collapse of the coalition government and snap elections. Parliament could vote as early as Tuesday on a report that reviews the government's performance in 2015 and its agenda for this year. If the government loses, lawmakers need 150 signatures in parliament to hold a no confidence vote, which could lead to national elections if the coalition cannot agree on a new cabinet.
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| U.N. rights boss urges China to release lawyers, treat HK booksellers fairly | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The top United Nations human rights official urged China on Tuesday to release all lawyers detained since July, including 15 arrested last month, saying it was wrong to prosecute or sanction them for their work. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also voiced concern for five missing booksellers from Hong Kong and urged Beijing authorities to ensure a "fair and transparent procedure" for their cases and allow family and lawyer visits. "We are seeing a very worrying pattern in China that has serious implications for civil society and the important work they do across the country," Zeid said in a statement, voicing fears that a Chinese draft law on non-governmental organisations would curb freedoms of expression and assembly.
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| Opposition raises concerns with PM Narendra Modi over student protests | |  Indian opposition leaders raised concerns on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi over widening protests on university campuses, as the heated political atmosphere again threatened to stall reforms in parliament. Lawmakers convene on Feb. 23 for a session in which the government will present its annual budget and try to enact key economic reforms, including the biggest overhaul of taxes since independence in 1947.Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said the government was ready to discuss all major issues, including the protests, after opposition lawmakers raised the issue with Modi at an all-party meeting aimed at preparing the ground for the upcoming session. "The government is always willing to walk the extra mile to accommodate the views of opposition parties and take up a discussion on each and every issue," Naidu said.His comments came against the backdrop of the biggest Indian nationwide student protests in a quarter of a century that followed the arrest of a student leader at a rally to mark the anniversary of the execution of a Kashmiri separatist.
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| FIFA hears Blatter appeal against eight-year ban | |  Banned FIFA president Sepp Blatter was at the headquarters of soccer's governing body on Tuesday for a hearing to appeal against his eight-year suspension from the sport. Blatter, 79, was banned in December along with European soccer boss Michel Platini over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2 million) made to the Frenchman in 2011 by FIFA with Blatter's approval for work done a decade earlier. FIFA's ethics committee, which imposed the bans on Blatter and Platini, said the payment, made at a time when the former was seeking re-election, lacked transparency and presented conflicts of interest.
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| French ex-president Sarkozy questioned by judges on funding | |  Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, a potential candidate in 2017, was taken for questioning by investigating magistrates on Tuesday about a scandal over excess spending in his unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign. A judicial source said Sarkozy, leader of the centre-right opposition Republicans, had been notified in advance that the summons could lead to his being placed under formal examination, which would be a prelude to a possible trial. Sarkozy has repeatedly denied knowledge of dual accounting and some 18 million euros ($20.1 million) in false invoices issued by the Bygmalion event-organisation company that meant his campaign costs were more than double the legal limit.
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| Belgium detains 10 people in IS recruitment investigation | | | Belgian police raided homes in Brussels on Tuesday and detained 10 people on suspicion of operating a recruitment ring for militant group Islamic State. "Our investigation points to several persons having left for Syria to join Islamic State," Belgium's federal prosecutors said in a statement. Belgium has one of the highest per capita rates of participation in militant groups such as Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. |
| China warns U.S. of "serious consequences" over Washington plaza name | | | China's Foreign Ministry warned the United States on Tuesday there would be "serious consequences" if a plaza in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington was named after a pro-democracy dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner. By unanimous voice vote, the U.S. Senate on Friday backed a plan to name the plaza after Liu Xiaobo, jailed for 11 years in 2009 on subversion charges for organising a petition urging an end to one-party rule. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the move ran "contrary to the basic norms of international relations" and China was resolutely opposed to it. |
| Top officials escape assassination attempt in Yemen's Aden - security source | | | The governor and security director of the southern Yemeni city of Aden escaped a gun attack on their convoy on Tuesday, a security official said, the latest in a string of militant attacks on the government. Al Qaeda and Islamic State militants have taken advantage of 10 months of civil war in Yemen to expand their presence in Aden, where the embattled government is based. |
| Chinese Uighur suspects deny Bangkok bomb charges in court | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two Chinese ethnic Uighur men on Tuesday appeared at a Thai military court and denied all charges against them for involvement in a bombing that killed 20 people in Bangkok last year. Most of those killed in the Aug. 17 explosion at the Erawan shrine near a busy Bangkok intersection were foreigners. "I am an innocent Muslim," Yusufu Mieraili, one of the two suspects, told the court.
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| Insight: Not in my backyard? Mainstream Scandinavia warily eyes record immigration | |  Across the border in the far northern Swedish town of Kalix, a traditional bastion of centre-left politics, over 100 residents signed a petition against plans to turn a 19th century country house into a reception centre for unaccompanied minors. The debate among these liberal Scandinavian stalwarts would have been unheard of a year ago, underscoring how concern about a record influx of immigrants is percolating into the Nordics' mainstream from the populist fringes. A record 163,000 refugees arrived in Sweden and the far right is vying for top spot in polls.
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