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| Barcelona soccer star Messi gets 21 months for tax fraud, unlikely to serve time | |  Barcelona's Argentinian soccer star Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and fined 2 million euros ($2.2 million) after being found guilty of three counts of tax fraud, a court in the Spanish city said on Wednesday. The court handed the same jail sentence to the Argentine soccer player's father, Jorge, and fined him 1.5 million euros. Messi, 29, and his father were accused by the Spanish tax office of defrauding the government of 4.2 million euros ($4.7 million) in tax between 2007 and 2009.
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| British PM Cameron says important to learn Iraq lessons | |  Prime Minister David Cameron said the government needed to learn the lessons from what went wrong in the build-up to Britain's joining the invasion of Iraq, in his initial response to a long awaited inquiry on the war. Cameron, the outgoing Conservative prime minister, was answering questions in parliament on the Chilcot report into mistakes made by the government of the-then Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair ahead of the Iraq war in 2003.
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| Britain's Tony Blair says will take full responsibility for Iraq war failings | |  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he would take full responsibility for the failings made in the build up to the invasion of Iraq when he responds to a long-awaited inquiry later on Wednesday. Inquiry Chairman John Chilcot said earlier on Wednesday that Blair's case for military action had been over-hyped. "The report should lay to rest allegations of bad faith, lies or deceit," Blair said in an initial response.
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| Iraq inquiry slams Blair over legal basis for war | |  By Michael Holden and William James LONDON (Reuters) - A British inquiry into the Iraq war strongly criticised former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his government on Wednesday for joining the U.S.-led invasion without a satisfactory legal basis or proper planning. Blair responded that he had taken the decision to go to war in Iraq "in good faith", that he still believed it was better to remove Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and that he did not see that action as the cause of terrorism today, in the Middle East or elsewhere. The long-awaited inquiry report stopped short of saying military action was illegal, a stance that is certain to disappoint Blair's many critics.
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| Factbox: Key findings of British inquiry into Iraq war | |  Britain's decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003 had a "far from satisfactory" legal basis and ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's case for military action was over-hyped, a long-awaited inquiry into the conflict concluded on Wednesday. The point had not been reached where military action was the last resort." AL QAEDA Blair was warned about the threat of increased al Qaeda activity as a result of the invasion, the report said.
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| Sierra Leone diplomat freed after kidnapping in northern Nigeria | | | By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's deputy high commissioner in Nigeria has been released four days after being kidnapped in the northern state of Kaduna, officials of the two West African countries said. Major-General Alfred Nelson-Williams, who was abducted on Friday while travelling from Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to Kaduna state, was freed on Tuesday at around 4 p.m. (1500 GMT). Kidnapping for ransom is a common problem in parts of Nigeria, Africa's biggest energy producer and most populous country. |
| Turkey seeks militants linked to Istanbul attack near Syrian border - media | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities are seeking two suspected Islamic State militants thought to be linked to last week's Istanbul airport attack and believed to be in hiding near the border with Syria, a Turkish newspaper said on Wednesday. Turkey has jailed a total 30 suspects pending trial over the triple suicide bombing at Ataturk Airport, which killed 45 people and wounded hundreds, the deadliest in a series of bombings this year in Turkey. President Tayyip Erdogan has said Islamic State militants from the former Soviet Union were behind the attack.
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| Legal case for Britain's 2003 Iraq invasion "unsatisfactory" - UK inquiry | |  Britain's decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003 had a "far from satisfactory" legal basis and ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's case for military action was over-hyped, a long-awaited inquiry into the conflict concluded on Wednesday. The intelligence about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction which Blair used to justify joining the U.S.-led invasion, which led to the removal of Saddam Hussein and the deaths of 179 British soldiers, was flawed but went unchallenged, inquiry chairman John Chilcot said. There was no imminent threat from Saddam in March 2003 and the chaos in Iraq and the region which followed should also have been foreseen, he added.
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| Pistorius defence team say will not appeal six-year sentence | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will not appeal a six-year prison sentence given by a South African High Court judge on Wednesday for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, his defence team said. Pistorius will serve "between half and two thirds of the sentence" before he can apply for parole, said Andrew Fawcett, Pistorius' instructing attorney. (Reporting by TJ Strydom; Editing by James Macharia)
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| Pistorius jailed for six years for murder of girlfriend | |  By TJ Strydom and Tanisha Heiberg PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius was sent to prison for six years on Wednesday for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, the latest twist in a trial that has gripped the world. The state and large sections of the South African public had called for him to receive no less than the prescribed minimum 15-year sentence for murder, saying Pistorius had shown no remorse for the killing. Judge Thokozile Masipa disagreed, accepting the defence's arguments for a lesser punishment.
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| Pope consoles parents of American student killed in Rome | |  Pope Francis on Wednesday consoled the parents of a 19-year-old American university student whose body was found in the Tiber River, who police suspect was murdered. The Vatican said Francis had met the parents of Beau Solomon privately and expressed his deepest sympathy and "closeness in praying to God for the young man who died so tragically".
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| Islamic State says Dhaka cafe slaughter a glimpse of what's coming | |  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Islamic State has warned of repeated attacks in Bangladesh and beyond until rule by sharia, Islamic law, is established, saying in a video last week's killing of 20 people in a Dhaka cafe was merely a glimpse of what is to come. Five Bangladesh militants, most from wealthy, liberal families, stormed the upmarket restaurant on Friday and murdered customers, the majority of them foreigners, from Italy, Japan, India and the United States, before they were gunned down. "What you witnessed in Bangladesh ... was a glimpse.
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| Australian PM Turnbull in reach of hollow election victory | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Embattled Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday pulled within striking distance of the votes needed to form a narrow majority government in a cliffhanger election that has left the country in limbo and his leadership in doubt. "The government is still on track to form a majority government," Treasurer Scott Morrison told Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) radio. Electoral officials are counting 1.5 million postal and absentee votes that will be crucial to the result of Saturday's poll, which saw a swing against Turnbull's conservative coalition government and the rise of populist independents.
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