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| Republican Sandoval withdraws as possible U.S. Supreme Court pick | |  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, a moderate Republican, took himself out of consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday as Senate Republicans dug in on their vow not to act on any nominee by President Barack Obama. Asked if the White House was disappointed by Sandoval's decision, Obama spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters, "He's obviously entitled to make decisions about his own career." Sandoval's name surfaced as a possible nominee on Wednesday, but Senate Republicans quickly said they still would not hold hearings or vote on any Obama nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the Feb. 13 death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
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| 19 retired U.S. generals, admirals back Clinton's stance on Guantanamo | |  (Reuters) - A group of 19 retired U.S. generals and admirals on Thursday backed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's position on the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo and torture and called for an end to the "dangerous rhetoric" from her Republican opponents. "The Republican candidates have turned this into a game to see who can seem toughest. Republican candidates have opposed an Obama administration plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
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| Highlights of draft U.N. North Korea sanctions resolution | |  (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday proposed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that would dramatically tighten sanctions on North Korea following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and missile launch. Here is an overview of the draft resolution circulated to the 15-member council: CONVENTIONAL ARMS The draft resolution targets North Korea's conventional arms capabilities by closing a gap in the arms embargo that had allowed small arms and light weapons to be sent to North Korea. North Korea would instead be subjected to a full arms embargo on all weapons.
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| FIFA faces $108 million deficit for 2015 - finance overseer | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Soccer's scandal-hit governing body FIFA is facing a shortfall of $108 million for the last financial year as a result of its "falling credibility", a member of its audit and compliance committee said on Thursday. FIFA is in the throes of a corruption scandal that has engulfed top officials and last year saw several dozen international officials indicted in the United States for racketeering, money-laundering and bribery. In July, former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said that it was difficult to renew sponsorship deals and that no major deals would be announced until the election of a new president to replace Sepp Blatter on Feb. 26.
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| FIFA aims to start afresh with vote to replace Blatter | |  By Simon Evans, Mike Collett and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Crisis-hit world football governing body FIFA faces one of the most important days in its 112-year history when it elects a new leader on Friday hoping to usher in a fresh era after decades of tawdry controversy. Delegates from more than 200 countries will vote for a new president to succeed Sepp Blatter, two days after the disgraced Swiss and European football chief Michel Platini lost their appeals against bans for ethics violations. A wide-ranging set of reforms, which are designed to prevent corruption, will be voted on before the FIFA election and are expected to be passed.
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| Iran votes in contest likely to shape post-sanctions era | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians go to the polls on Friday to vote for the first time since last year's nuclear deal in elections that could determine whether the Islamic Republic continues to emerge from diplomatic and economic isolation after years of sanctions. The contest will pit supporters of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, who championed the nuclear deal and is likely to seek a second presidential term next year, against conservatives deeply opposed to detente with Western powers. Most reformist candidates have been barred by a hardline clerical vetting body, along with many moderates, but their supporters have called on voters to back Rouhani's allies and keep the conservatives out.
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| Apple CEO: Unlocking San Bernardino iPhone would be 'bad for America' | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple chief Tim Cook on Wednesday said that complying with a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters would be "bad for America," and set a legal precedent that would offend many Americans. "Some things are hard, and some things are right, and some things are both - this is one of those things," Cook told ABC News in his first interview since the court order came down last week.
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| Turkish editors expected to be freed, still face trial | |  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's top court ruled on Thursday that detaining two journalists from an opposition newspaper had violated their rights and an advocacy group called for the charges against them, which carry a life sentence, to be dropped. The arrest of Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul last November drew international condemnation and revived concern about media freedom in Turkey under President Tayyip Erdogan. "The constitutional court has ruled that there is a rights violation.
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| Scandal-hit CONCACAF votes for reform package | | | By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - Scandal-plagued CONCACAF, the football confederation for North and Central America and the Caribbean, on Thursday voted for wide-ranging reforms after being warned by its lawyers of serious consequences if it failed to change its structure. Miami-based CONCACAF, one of the six confederations within FIFA, has been at the centre of the scandal at world football's governing body, which has seen 41 individuals and entities indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice. FIFA is due to vote on its own reform plans on Friday, before electing a new president to replace the banned Sepp Blatter. |
| Democratic senators raise concerns about Charter-Time Warner Cable tie-up | |  Five Democratic U.S. senators, including presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, told the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission on Thursday that they had "significant concerns" about Charter Communications Inc's planned acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc and Bright House Networks. The senators, who also included Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, Ron Wyden and Al Franken, said in a letter to the agencies that are reviewing the proposal that the deal would create "a nationwide broadband duopoly," with Charter and Comcast Corp in nearly two-thirds of U.S. high-speed broadband homes.
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| "You saved my life" - Paris attack survivors seek solace with Bataclan security man | |  By Pauline Mevel PARIS (Reuters) - Thirty-five-year-old Didi saved scores of lives on Nov. 13 when Islamic State militants attacked the Bataclan concert hall where he was in charge of security. Like other survivors of the attacks, in which 90 were killed, she sought him out for weeks to say "Thank you." "It was very important, it was key for me to feel better and move on with life. Didi, who has not been back to work since the attacks, is constantly on the phone with survivors.
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| Palestinian activist's U.S. immigration fraud conviction vacated | | | By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. appellate court on Thursday vacated the conviction of a Palestinian activist charged with immigration fraud for failing to tell U.S. authorities she had been imprisoned in Israel for a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed two people. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 68, has said her confession to the bombing was the result of severe torture by the Israeli military, including rape and electric shocks. The 6th Circuit U.S. Appellate Court opinion said a lower court should have allowed expert testimony that Odeh was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to torture in prison, and did not know her statements to immigration officials were false. |
| Czech ministry allows extradition of Ivory Coast national to U.S. | | | The Czech justice minister has allowed the extradition of Ivory Coast citizen Faouzi Jaber to the United States, where he is accused of trying to sell arms and drugs with the aim of harming U.S. interests. Jaber was part of a trio of men arrested in Prague in 2014. The other two, Lebanese nationals Khaled Merebi and Ali Fayad, were released earlier this month in what was widely speculated in the media to be a swap for Czechs missing in Lebanon. |
| Nevada governor rules himself out of Supreme Court consideration | |  Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval said on Thursday he did not want to be considered for the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but said the notion was "beyond humbling." "Earlier today, I notified the White House that I do not wish to be considered at this time for possible nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States," the Republican governor said in a statement. "The notion of being considered for a seat on the highest court in the land is beyond humbling and I am incredibly grateful to have been mentioned," he added.
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| Sandoval does not want to be considered for high court - Reid aide | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval on Thursday informed Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid that he no longer wanted to be considered for the open Supreme Court justice job that President Barack Obama hopes to fill, according to a Reid aide. The aide said Sandoval, a Republican, telephoned Reid early Thursday afternoon. (Reporting By Richard Cowan; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| On eve of FIFA election, key African vote is hard to call | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Africa could hold the key to FIFA's presidential election, but sharply conflicting versions emerged on Thursday of who would get the continent's 54 votes in the contest for the new head of world soccer. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) last month backed Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain as its candidate in Friday's election to replace disgraced FIFA president Sepp Blatter in the wake of a major corruption scandal. On the eve of the vote, CAF vice-president Suketu Patel said he expected virtually all the African football associations to follow the recommendation.
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| Argentine investigator says Nisman death points to murder | |  By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine prosecutor who died last year just days after accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran's alleged role in the bombing of a Jewish centre was apparently murdered, an official investigating the case said on Thursday. Alberto Nisman was found shot dead in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment 13 months ago. "The evidence up to this point supports the hypothesis that Alberto Nisman was the victim of the crime of homicide," Ricardo Saenz, district attorney for the Buenos Aires Criminal Appeals Court, wrote in a recommendation that the case be handed over to federal authorities and pursued as a murder investigation.
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| Italian killing highlights assault on academic freedom in Egypt | | | By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - When a colleague in Holland asked historian Pascale Ghazaleh this month whether to send a group of students to Egypt, her response was a resounding 'No'. The killing of Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni, who disappeared on Jan. 25, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-rule, has sent a chill through the academic community in Egypt and beyond. Scholars in Egypt say they have long worked under threat of arrest or deportation, but the gruesome nature of Regeni's death has raised fears that the pursuit of knowledge will fall victim to the toughest assault on freedom in Egypt's modern history. |
| Exclusive - Ally of Ukrainian president accused of meddling in prosecution | |  By Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - An ally of Ukraine's president has been accused by a former Ukrainian prosecutor of interfering in law enforcement. A representative of Ihor Kononenko, a business partner of President Petro Poroshenko and member of parliament of his political party, declined to comment on the allegation, made in a Reuters interview by ex-prosecutor Vitaliy Kasko. The representative, Taras Pastushenko, the spokesman for Poroshenko's party in parliament, cited an ongoing investigation into separate allegations by the economy minister as the reason why Kononenko would not comment.
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| Conciliator Rouhani seeks gains for moderates in Iran polls | |  (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist trying to open Iran after years of sanctions, and his allies carry the hopes of many Iranians for greater freedoms on Friday when the country holds elections for parliament and the Assembly of Experts. Rouhani is expected to win re-election to the assembly, the body that chooses the Islamic Republic's supreme leader. On the same day, his allies are seeking to wrest control of parliament from hardliners bent on blocking an increase in Western influence after a 2015 nuclear deal Rouhani orchestrated with major powers.
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| Biden to introduce Lady Gaga at Oscars, highlight effort against sexual assault | |  Vice President Joe Biden will take the stage at the Academy Awards show on Sunday to introduce Lady Gaga for her performance of "Til It Happens to You," an Oscar-nominated song about sexual assault on college campuses from the film "The Hunting Ground." Biden is a long-time advocate against sexual assault who authored the Violence Against Women Act. Biden will attend the awards show with his wife, Jill.
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| BBC culture allowed star to commit sex crimes, but top staff unaware - report | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's globally respected broadcaster, the BBC, was told on Thursday it was guilty of serious failings in its handling of Jimmy Savile, a celebrated TV and radio showman revealed after death to have been one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders. Warnings about Savile's conduct went unheeded for decades, a damning report by a former judge said on Thursday. The report said there had been - and still was - a prevailing, macho culture at the publicly-funded broadcaster in which staff were fearful of making complaints, especially about its top stars known internally as "The Talent".
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| French teacher to stand trial over charges of making up Islamic State attack | | | A teacher at a Jewish school in the southern French city of Marseille will stand trial in April after investigators concluded that he falsely reported being stabbed by Islamic State supporters, the prosecutors said on Thursday. Five days after the Nov. 13 attacks in which Islamic State militants killed 130 people in Paris, Marseille teacher Sylvain Saadoun had said he had been stabbed by three people, one of them wearing an Islamic State T-shirt. In December, another teacher in a district near Paris said he had been assaulted by an Islamic State supporter, causing classes to be cancelled and an anti-terrorism investigation. |
| Italian Senate approves diluted civil union bill | | | The Italian Senate approved on Thursday a watered-down bill allowing civil unions for same-sex and heterosexual couples, with the government using a confidence motion to ram the contested legislation through the upper house. To overcome opposition from within his own centre-left coalition, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had to strip out the most controversial part of the text, which would have granted unmarried couples some adoption rights. If he had lost the vote, Renzi would have had to resign. |
| Political future of heavyweight Rafsanjani may rest on Iran poll | |  Elections on Friday for the body that selects Iran's supreme leader could be the last hurrah for Iran's best known political grandee, former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has loomed large in the history of the Islamic Republic. If Rafsanjani is unable to muster the votes to secure his seat on the Assembly of Experts, it could signal the beginning of his exit from political life in Iran. Few have wielded such influence in modern Iran as the 81-year-old, but since 2009 he and his family have faced criticism from hardliners over their support for the opposition movement which lost that year's disputed election to former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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