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| U.S. strikes Islamic State chemical weapons capabilities - Pentagon | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has carried out air strikes that it believes have degraded Islamic State's chemical weapons capabilities, the Pentagon said on Thursday, adding the intelligence for the strikes was gathered from a militant captured by U.S. commandos. "We believe that the information we've been able to obtain will allow us to conduct additional operations," said Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook, adding the intelligence came from the "the information we learned from this individual." (Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati and Phil Stewart, editing by G Crosse) |
| Foreign captives held by Philippines militants appeal for help | | | Three foreigners kidnapped by militants in the Philippines nearly six months ago have appealed to their governments for help to secure their release, as their al Qaeda-linked captors issued a one month deadline for their demands to be met. The three foreign men, who Philippine authorities have identified as two Canadians and a Norwegian, were shown in a video clip, along with a Filipino woman kidnapped with them, crouching on the ground with gunmen standing over them. "To the Canadian prime minister and to the Canadian people in the world, please, do as needed to meet their demands, within one month or they will kill me, they will execute us," said one of the men who identified himself as John Ridsdel, a Canadian mining consultant. |
| Irish post-election stalemate persists, with no PM elected | |  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Enda Kenny lost a parliamentary vote to re-elect him as Irish prime minister on Thursday, as expected, and will assume the role in a caretaker capacity while his Fine Gael party attempts to form a new government. Ireland has become one of several euro zone countries facing a prolonged political stalemate following its inconclusive parliamentary election on Feb. 26. Kenny's centre-right party fell 29 seats short of the 79 needed for a parliamentary majority.
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| Iran executions hit 20-year high in 2015, U.N. investigator says | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran executed nearly 1,000 prisoners last year, the highest number in two decades, and hundreds of journalists, activists and opposition figures languish in custody, a United Nations investigator said on Thursday. Ahmed Shaheed, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, voiced particular concern about executions for crimes committed by children under 18. There had been a "staggering surge in the execution of at least 966 prisoners last year - the highest rate in over two decades", Shaheed told a news briefing. |
| Bulgaria takes step towards mandatory voting in elections | |  Bulgaria's parliament paved the way for the introduction of compulsory voting in elections on Thursday, passing a draft bill to amend the electoral code at its first reading. The centre-right government believes making it mandatory for Bulgarians to vote will curb electoral fraud and boost the legitimacy of the Balkan country's political institutions. European Union member Bulgaria has had five governments in less than three years.
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| Kosovo buying body scanner to stop MPs taking teargas into parliament | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's government is buying a body scanner to try to stop opposition legislators smuggling teargas canisters into parliament and releasing them as they have done in every session for the past six months. In their latest protest against a 2015 EU-brokered deal with Serbia, opposition members of parliament on Thursday released two canisters, threw a glass of water at Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and aimed red lasers at the interior minister's face. With security measures so far having failed to stop the protests, the government plans to buy a new body scanner, of the type used at international airports to detect explosives.
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| Police search for shooters in Pittsburgh-area execution-style murders | | | Police in western Pennsylvania were searching on Thursday for two suspects who ambushed a backyard party near Pittsburgh the previous night, killing five people execution-style and wounding three others. One gunman armed with a 40-caliber handgun shepherded victims from the home's yard toward an alley where a second gunman armed with "an AK-47 type" rifle shot them in the head, said Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. "The murders were planned, calculated, brutal," said Zappala. The motive for the fatal shooting of four women and one man in a residential neighborhood of Wilkinsburg, about 8 miles (13 km) east of the city, was still unknown, but authorities were exploring whether it might be drug-related, Zappala said. |
| Italy prosecutor to go to Cairo to investigate student's killing | |  Italian prosecutors investigating the torture and killing of an Italian student in Cairo will travel there to meet Egyptian magistrates, Rome's chief prosecutor said on Thursday. The announcement came as the European Parliament backed a resolution saying disappearances and torture have become increasingly common in Egypt, calling on Cairo to cooperate fully with Italy. Chief prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone met Egypt's ambassador to Italy, Amr Helmy, and accepted an invitation to meet soon with Cairo magistrates investigating the killing, Pignatone said in a statement.
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| Obama: Republican 'crack up' not my fault | |  President Barack Obama said on Thursday the turmoil in the Republican Party, with anti-establishment candidates leading the party's presidential nomination race, is not the result of actions he has taken as president. "What I'm not going to do is to validate some notion that the Republican crack up that's been taking place is a consequence of actions that I've taken," Obama said at a news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "There are thoughtful conservatives who are troubled by this, who are troubled by the direction of their party," Obama said.
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| Cruz, Rubio want to send more prisoners to Guantanamo | |  White House hopefuls Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and 13 other Republican U.S. senators on Thursday demanded that Islamic State fighters be sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which would boost its population as President Barack Obama moves to close it. The lawmakers introduced a resolution expressing the need to detain the fighters at the controversial military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after reports that U.S. special operations forces had captured leaders of the militant group. "There should be no confusion in the minds of our enemies that, if captured, they will be sent to the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay to be interrogated," Rubio said in a statement.
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| ATP chief Kermode re-appointed, says integrity paramount | |  Protecting the integrity of tennis is paramount if the sport is to continue reaping the benefits of a golden era, ATP Executive Chairman Chris Kermode said on Thursday. Tennis has enjoyed boom times in the past decade with men's tennis in particular cashing on rivalries between the likes of all-time greats Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. With commercial revenues and prize money soaring, the ATP World Tour attracting a record 1 billion viewers in 2015 and the London Tour Finals an unqualified success, the sport looks to be in rude health.
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| India, Bahrain agree on action to curb human trafficking, help victims | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India and Bahrain have agreed to take steps to curb human trafficking and cooperate more closely on the rescue and repatriation of victims, an official statement said on Thursday. The memorandum of understanding is expected to be signed when Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh visits Bahrain in early April, and follows an anti-trafficking pact between India and Bangladesh last year, India's government press bureau said. South Asia, with India at its centre, is the fastest-growing region for human trafficking in the world, and the second-largest after Southeast Asia, according to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime.
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| UN rights boss warns against collective expulsions of migrants | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - The top United Nations human rights official voiced concern on Thursday that the EU-Turkey draft deal on migrants may lead to "collective and arbitrary expulsions" which are illegal under international law. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, in his main annual speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council, called on the EU bloc to adopt a "much more rights-compliant and humane set of measures" at its March 17 session. "Any returns of people must be in conformity with international human rights standards," he said. ...
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| China blasts U.S. "rape and murder" at U.N. Human Rights Council | | | By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - China strongly rejected U.S.-led criticism of its human rights record at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday, saying the United States was hypocritical and guilty of crimes including the rape and murder of civilians. "The U.S. is notorious for prison abuse at Guantanamo prison, its gun violence is rampant, racism is its deep-rooted malaise," Chinese diplomat Fu Cong told the Council, using unusually blunt language. "The United States conducts large-scale extra-territorial eavesdropping, uses drones to attack other countries' innocent civilians, its troops on foreign soil commit rape and murder of local people. |
| Rajya Sabha passes bill to regulate real estate sector | |  The Rajya Sabha passed a bill on Thursday to regulate the real estate sector, protect home buyers and ensure the timely execution of projects with an aim to boost investor confidence and stamp out illegal practices. The new rules, applicable to residential and commercial developments, will make it mandatory for all projects and brokers to be registered with the real estate regulator who will oversee transactions and settle disputes. Over the years the sector has acquired a degree of notoriety which needs to be addressed to enable enhanced flow of investments, Venkaiah Naidu, minister of housing and urban poverty alleviation said in parliament when tabling the bill.
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| Insight: How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said. The hackers breached Bangladesh Bank's systems and stole its credentials for payment transfers, two senior officials at the bank said. Four requests to transfer a total of about $81 million to the Philippines went through, but a fifth, for $20 million, to a Sri Lankan non-profit organisation was held up because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO, Shalika Foundation.
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| Presidency beckons for Suu Kyi confidant after two months in party | |  By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Until two months ago, Htin Kyaw was not even a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD). Now, he is the favoured presidential candidate of Myanmar's ruling party, on course to become the country's first head of state who is not a former top-ranking member of the military since the 1960s. Htin Kyaw has risen to prominence for one reason: he is among Nobel peace prize laureate Suu Kyi closest friends, and she trusts him to run the country as her proxy.
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| Myanmar's NLD names Suu Kyi confidant as presidential candidate | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) has proposed a close friend of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as its presidential candidate, ending a four-month wait for the identity of the president expected to rule in her name. The NLD nominated Htin Kyaw, who joined the party just two months ago, as its lower house candidate. The wildly popular Suu Kyi and the NLD won a landslide electoral victory in November, but she is barred from holding the presidency herself under a junta-drafted 2008 constitution because her children are not Myanmar citizens.
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| U.S. leads dozen countries demanding China free activists | |  Twelve countries criticised China's human rights crackdown in a joint statement delivered at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday and called on Beijing to release detained Chinese and foreign activists. "These actions are in contravention of China's own laws and international commitments," said U.S. Ambassador Keith Harper, who read out the statement backed by Australia, Japan and nine European countries.
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| Turkey detains 10 suspected Islamic State members in raids | | | Turkish police detained 10 suspected members of Islamic State in raids in the mainly Kurdish city of Bingol in southeastern Turkey, and accused them of recruiting and preparing an attack, security sources said on Thursday. Islamic State, the militant organisation which controls large areas of neighbouring Syria and Iraq, has been blamed by the Turkish authorities for carrying out four bomb attacks in the NATO member state since June. This week Turkey blamed Islamic State in Syria for cross-border artillery fire that killed two people. |
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