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| France and Belgium tighten security cooperation post attacks | |  France and Belgium vowed on Monday to intensify cooperation in the fight against Islamist radicals, including a more rapid exchange of information on potential militants and efforts to prevent forgery of documents. Two and a half months after the Paris attacks that killed 130 people, the two countries' prime ministers sought to improve ties strained by French accusations that neighbour Belgium had overlooked jihadists preparing to attack the French capital. "The threat is at unprecedented levels," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told a joint press conference in Brussels after the meeting, which also included ministers of justice and heads of security services.
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| U.N. envoy says up to big powers to bring about Syria ceasefire | |  By John Irish and Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations special envoy to Syria on Monday handed the responsibility of agreeing ceasefires across Syria to major powers, saying his remit was only to hold talks on a U.N. resolution on elections, governance and a new constitution. Announcing the "official" start of peace talks to end the almost five-year civil war, Staffan De Mistura also said that if the government released women and children prisoners it would be a positive signal to pursue discussions in Geneva. "There was a message ...that when the Geneva talks actually start, in parallel there should be the beginning of a serious discussion about ceasefires," he told reporters after a two-hour meeting with the Saudi-backed, opposition High Negotiation Committee (HNC) at U.N. headquarters in Geneva.
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| Syrian opposition awaits government reply on humanitarian steps | | | Syria's opposition delegation at Geneva peace talks is waiting for the government negotiators to respond to a U.N. proposal on humanitarian steps "to end the suffering" in Syria, opposition spokesman Salim al-Muslat said on Monday. "I believe we received very positive messages from the special envoy and tomorrow he will have a meeting with the regime side and we will see wait for a reply from him," he said, after a two hour meeting with U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura. |
| Lodging tax would help fund 2021 championships | |  (Reuters) - A proposed increase in Oregon's state lodging tax could be a significant source of income for the 2021 IAAF world championships, officials say. Organisers of the multi-million dollar event in Eugene say they hope to ask state tourism officials for $25 million from a lodging tax increase over the next six years. The tax would be doubled to 2 percent of room costs under a bill scheduled to be introduced in the Oregon Legislature this month and would provide additional funding for tourism endeavours across the state.
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| U.S. presses Russia on humanitarian access in Syria - U.S. official | | | Two senior U.S. State Department officials, Anne Patterson and Michael Ratney, told Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov in Geneva on Monday that Moscow needed to do more to help humanitarian access in Syria, a U.S. official said. "Assistant Secretary Patterson underscored the need to work towards a political transition as outlined in U.N. Security Council Resolution 2254 and urged Russia to use its influence with the Asad regime to push for full humanitarian access to all Syrians in need," a U.S. official said. |
| Saudi Arabia says 375 civilians killed on its border in Yemen war | |  By William Maclean and Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Mortars and rockets fired at Saudi Arabian towns and villages have killed 375 civilians, including 63 children, since the start of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen in late March, Riyadh said on Monday. Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, told Reuters that the Houthi militia and army forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh had fired more than 40,000 projectiles across the border since the war began. In a measure of how fierce the fighting on the frontier continues to be, nearly 130 mortars and 15 missiles were fired by the Houthis and Saleh's forces at Saudi border positions on Monday alone, Asseri said in an interview in Riyadh.
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| White House welcomes Facebook move to block private gun sales | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday welcomed Facebook Inc's move last week to prohibit users from using its services to coordinate person-to-person private sales of firearms. "Obviously, we welcome steps from private entities like Facebook," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at a press briefing, following Facebook's announcement on Friday. ...
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| German gov't rejects "absurd" remark of populist party leader on shooting migrants | |  By Joseph Nasr and Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's government rejected on Monday as "absurd" a suggestion from the leader of an increasingly popular opposition right-wing party that police be given powers to use firearms against illegal migrants. Support for the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has jumped amid deepening public unease over Merkel's open-door policy for refugees from Syria and elsewhere after some 1.1 million people entered Germany last year. Asked about AfD leader Frauke Petry's suggestion on the use of firearms against migrants, Merkel's chief of staff Peter Altmaier said: "This proposal is inhuman and absurd.
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| Graphic testimony kicks off sex assault trial of Canada radio star | |  By Andrea Hopkins TORONTO (Reuters) - The first witness in the sexual assault trial of former Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi said on Monday he pulled her hair and punched her in the head, then called a taxi for her as she cried, kicking off a celebrity trial that has gripped Canada. The former host of Q, an internationally syndicated Canadian Broadcasting Corporation music and arts program, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. If convicted of sexual assault, he faces a maximum jail sentence of 18 months, while a choking charge carries a potential life sentence.
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| Cologne steps up security for carnival after attacks at New Year | |  By Michelle Martin COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - As Cologne gears up for its annual carnival, authorities said on Monday they would put more police on duty, light dark areas and use video surveillance to make people feel safe after assaults on women at New Year shocked the nation. More than any other incident, the attacks fuelled growing criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to open Germany's doors to more than a million migrants. Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker said city officials had done everything they could to make people feel secure during the Feb. 4-9 carnival but safety could never be 100 percent guaranteed.
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| German-Russian ties feel Cold War-style chill over rape case | |  By Andreas Rinke and Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - Moscow's intervention in an alleged rape case involving a German-Russian girl has heightened suspicions in Berlin that it is trying to stir up trouble, with a view to weakening Chancellor Angela Merkel. The case of the 13-year-old, named only as Lisa F., became the focus of political intrigue after she told police that she had been kidnapped in east Berlin last month by migrants who raped her while she was held for 30 hours. Senior German officials believe Russia is trying to erode public trust in Merkel using immigration, an issue which has badly damaged her opinion poll ratings and divided European Union governments over who should accommodate asylum seekers pouring in over the past year.
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| Suicide bomber strikes outside police office in Afghan capital | |  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself after joining a queue to enter a police office in Kabul on Monday, killing 20 people and wounding at least 29 in the worst such attack this year. The Afghan capital was hit by a series of suicide attacks last month as the Taliban stepped up their campaign against the Western-backed government. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that 20 people had been killed and 29 others wounded in the bombing.
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| UN rights boss urges Turkey to probe shooting by security forces | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' top human rights official urged Turkey on Monday to investigate the shooting of unarmed people 10 days ago in its largely Kurdish southeast and said any members of the security forces committing rights abuses should be prosecuted. Southeastern Turkey has seen its worst violence in two decades since a 2-1/2-year ceasefire with militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) collapsed last July, reviving a conflict in which 40,000 people have been killed since 1984. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein was referring to an incident on Jan. 20, in which 10 people were wounded in the town of Cizre when their group, including two opposition politicians, came under fire while rescuing people hurt in earlier clashes.
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