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| Four on death row in Saudi Arabia for terrorism - newspaper | |  Death sentences against four Saudi men convicted of terrorism have been confirmed by 13 judges, a Saudi newspaper reported, raising the possibility of a new round of executions two months after 47 people including a prominent Shi'ite cleric were put to death. International rights groups said the families of three young Shi'ite Muslim men feared their sons, arrested for involvement in anti-government protests while under the age of 18, were among those facing the death penalty. One is a nephew of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the cleric whose execution in January led to a rupture of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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| 'Dog Whisperer' Millan defends methods amid probe over cruelty to a pig | |  Popular U.S. television dog trainer Cesar Millan, known as the "Dog Whisperer," said on Friday he understands why he is being investigated for animal cruelty but stands by his training methods, as thousands signed a petition demanding his show be canceled. Millan told People magazine that he is happy to cooperate with the investigation over a February 26 episode of the Nat Geo WILD TV series, "Cesar 911" in which Millan uses a pig to train a French bulldog terrier mix called Simon, who had killed two pigs in the past. A change.org petition signed by more than 10,000 people on Friday called Millan's methods inhumane, saying he "used the pig as a bait for the dog all for 'entertainment' purposes." It asked Nat Geo WILD to cancel his show.
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| White House narrows search to three, including Indian-American, for U.S. Supreme Court | |  By Julia Edwards and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The White House has narrowed its search for a U.S. Supreme Court nominee to three federal appeals court judges, Sri Srinivasan, Merrick Garland and Paul Watford, a source familiar with the selection process said on Friday. Srinivasan, an Indian-American who served under presidents of both parties before President Barack Obama named him as an appellate judge, and Garland, considered but passed over for the Supreme Court twice before by Obama, are considered the leading contenders, according to the source and two other sources close to the process.
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| Reporter files criminal charge of battery against Trump campaign chief | |  A reporter for the conservative website Breitbart News filed a criminal complaint on Friday against Republican presidential election front-runner Donald Trump's campaign manager, saying he grabbed her arm at a rally with such force that he left bruises. A police report released on Friday showed that the reporter, Michelle Fields, said she was the victim of battery on Tuesday night at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, where Trump spoke after that day's contests in the race to nominate the party's candidate for the November 8 presidential election. The accusation prompted a flurry of exchanges between Trump's campaign and Fields.
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| Big audience for panel with Dalai Lama despite Beijing protest | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama took part in a panel of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Geneva on Friday, addressing a full auditorium about Chinese repression in his native Tibet despite Beijing having urged people to shun the event. China wrote this week to diplomats and U.N. officials calling on them not to attend the panel at Geneva's Graduate Institute, saying it opposed the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's appearance at all venues due to his "separatist activities". Some of these (Chinese) hardliners, that part of brain is missing," the crimson-robed Dalai Lama, 80, told the audience of students and diplomats.
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| U.N. adopts resolution on combating sex crimes by peacekeepers | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Friday backed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's recommendations to repatriate peacekeeping units where there are grounds to suspect their personnel have engaged in widespread sexual exploitation and abuse. The United Nations last week reported 99 allegations that U.N. staff took part in sexual exploitation or sexual abuse in 2015.
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| Group that hounded Dalai Lama disbands after Reuters exposes Chinese backing | |  By David Lague and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The Buddhist group leading a global campaign of harrassment against the Dalai Lama has called off its demonstrations and disbanded, according to a statement on its website. The announcement comes after a Reuters investigation revealed in December that China's ruling Communist Party backs the Buddhist religious sect behind the protests that have confronted the Dalai Lama in almost every country he visits. Reuters found that the sect had become a key instrument in China's campaign to discredit the Tibetan spiritual leader.
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