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| Two pro-Kurdish lawmakers in Turkey arrested on terrorism charges - sources | | | A Turkish court ordered the arrest of two lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on Monday, security sources said, bringing the total of jailed deputies from the Turkish opposition group to 12. HDP's Adana deputy Meral Danis Bestas was detained by police at her home in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, while Ayhan Bilgen, the head of the party's parliamentary group chief, was taken by security forces at the city's airport. Both are accused of being members of an armed terrorist organisation, sources said. |
| House Republicans prepare to kill five Obama-era regulations | |  By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Republicans were set on Monday to begin the process of killing five Obama-era rules on corruption, the environment, labour and guns under the first real test of a law intended to keep regulation in check. Republicans put as much urgency on limiting what they consider overregulation that stifles economic growth as they do on overhauling the tax code and dismantling the Affordable Care Act, according to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can use simple majority votes to stop recent regulations in their tracks.
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| Trump to announce U.S. Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday night | |  By Ayesha Rascoe and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said he will announce his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as he looks to quickly put his stamp on the court by restoring its conservative majority, even as Democrats geared up for a Senate confirmation fight. Trump, set to fill the lingering vacancy on the nation's highest court left by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, said on Monday he will reveal his choice at the White House at 8 p.m. on Tuesday (0100 GMT on Wednesday), two days earlier than previously planned.
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| Pakistan orders house arrest for alleged brain of 2008 Mumbai attacks | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Mubashar Bukhari ISLAMABAD/LAHORE (Reuters) - Pakistan on Monday ordered Hafiz Saeed, accused by the United States and India of masterminding the 2008 attacks on the Indian financial capital Mumbai that killed 166 people, to be placed under house arrest. Saeed's continued freedom has long infuriated Islamabad's arch-foe India. The United States has offered $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Saeed, who heads the Muslim charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).
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| Democrats, U.S. allies pressure Trump on travel ban | |  By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats and some foreign nations, including key U.S. allies, put pressure on President Donald Trump on Monday over his ban on entry to America by refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, Chuck Schumer, said he would bring legislation on Monday evening seeking to end the ban, although the measure stood little chance of being passed by the Republican-led Congress. "We should repeal this, and then we should sit down in a careful, thoughtful way to figure out ways we need to tighten up things against terrorism," the senior New York senator told NBC News, noting that some Republican lawmakers also had spoken out against Trump's action.
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| Loopholes in U.S. lobbying laws undercut reforms, two watchdog groups argue | | | By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of registered Washington, D.C. lobbyists is at its lowest level in 18 years, mainly because more lobbyists are not registering not because there are fewer lobbyists, two watchdog groups said on Monday. President Donald Trump has lashed out at the U.S. capital's army of influence experts in his vows to "drain the swamp." On Saturday, Trump signed an executive order implementing a five-year ban on members of his administration working as lobbyists. Such measures in recent years have not done much to reduce the ranks of lobbyists, but they have driven them under cover, Andre Delattre, executive director for the consumer advocacy group U.S. Public Interest Research Group, said in a statement. |
| Trump adding CIA back to National Security Council - White House | | | President Donald Trump will amend his recent National Security Council reorganization to add the CIA to the group, the White House said on Monday. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the CIA had not been part of the national security forum since 2005, but he said Trump was making the change out of respect for Director Mike Pompeo and others at the agency. Susan Rice, President Barack Obama's national security adviser, on Sunday tweeted to ask why the CIA was not part of the group. |
| Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to using Twitter to help Islamic State | | | (Reuters) - A 20-year-old Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty on Monday to posting the names of approximately 100 U.S. military members online and exhorting his Twitter followers to kill them in an effort to support Islamic State. An Arizona man was found guilty at trial on Monday of helping a New York City college student travel to Syria, where he died fighting for Islamic State. Aziz used his Twitter account to release names, addresses, photographs and military branches for the U.S. service members, according to an indictment. |
| Wrestling - U.S. team plan to compete in Iran despite travel ban | | | (Reuters) - U.S. wrestlers plan to be at next month's World Cup in Iran despite that country's claim that it would ban American visitors in retaliation to President Donald Trump's controversial immigration order, USA Wrestling said on Monday. The U.S. freestyle team's participation in one of the most prestigious wrestling events has been in doubt given the fallout from Trump's executive order last week to ban travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran. The two nations have long had a congenial relationship in wrestling but Iran said on Saturday that it would stop American citizens from entering the country, in retaliation to what it called "hostile policies" of the U.S. government. |
| Trump signs executive order to slash regulations | |  By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that will seek to dramatically pare back federal regulations by requiring agencies to cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced. Trump's latest executive action will prepare a process for the White House to set an annual cap on the cost of new regulations. For the rest of fiscal 2017, the cap will require that the cost of any additional regulations be completely offset by undoing existing rules.
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| Quebec mosque shooting 'lone wolf' attack - Canadian authorities | |  By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - Police were investigating a single suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed six people, with a second person who was arrested now considered a witness, authorities said on Monday. The suspect in the attack on Sunday evening prayers was Alexandre Bissonnette, a French-Canadian university student, according to a source familiar with the matter. Police declined to give details of those arrested or possible motives for the shooting at the mosque, the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec.
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| State of Washington says to sue to stop Trump immigration order | | | The state of Washington will challenge U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order banning immigration from some Muslim-majority states in federal court, Attorney General Bob Ferguson said on Monday. Washington will be the first state to take on the executive order that went into effect on Friday, heightening the legal stakes surrounding the order that has sparked a global backlash. Washington state Governor Jay Inslee, a Democrat, said it was important for the Trump administration to face lawsuits from the state itself, and not just cases filed by individuals who have been impacted by the order. |
| British PM May says U.S. close ally, Trump invitation stands | |  Britain takes a different approach to President Donald Trump on immigration restrictions but the United States is a close ally and an invitation for a state visit still stands, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday. Trump's executive order barring refugees and people from seven mainly Muslim countries has caused a global outcry, and in Britain over 1.3 million people have called for his state visit to be cancelled. "The United States is a close ally of the United Kingdom, we work together across many areas of mutual interest and we have that special relationship between us.
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| Don't let Trump embarrass our queen, say 1.3 million Britons | |  By Alistair Smout and Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Well over a million people in Britain have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's planned state visit to be cancelled to avoid embarrassing Queen Elizabeth, in a grassroots backlash against his immigration policies. The invitation to make a state visit, which will involve lavish displays of royal pageantry and a banquet hosted by the monarch, was conveyed by May when she visited Trump in Washington last week. May came under pressure to cancel the visit after Trump issued an executive order barring Syrian refugees from the United States and suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, stirring protests at home and abroad.
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| Third migrant dies in a week in harsh Greek camp conditions | |  By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) - The third migrant to perish in a week was found dead in his tent on Monday on Greece's Lesbos island, raising alarm about the grim winter conditions in overcrowded camps that critics have denounced as deplorable. Another migrant who shared his tent was critically ill and taken to hospital. The death at the island's Moria camp follows those of a 22-year-old Egyptian and a 46-year-old Syrian who shared a tent and died days apart.
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| University student sole suspect in shooting at Quebec mosque - source | |  TORONTO (Reuters) - University student Alexandre Bissonnette is the sole suspect in a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed six worshippers on Sunday night, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. A second person being held in connection with the shooting is now considered a witness and not a suspect, the source said. (Reporting by Allison Lampert in Quebec City; Writing by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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| Shooting suspect pleads not guilty in deadly Florida airport attack | |  By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - A 26-year-old Iraq war veteran pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal charges accusing him of opening fire in the baggage claim area of a Florida airport this month in an attack that killed five people. Esteban Santiago, 26, wore shackles and a red jail jumpsuit at his arraignment hearing in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, near the airport where the Jan. 6 shooting occurred. U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer read aloud the 22 criminal counts Santiago faces, emphasizing the names of those killed.
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| Los Angeles police solve 1976 murder of singer Bill Medley's ex-wife | | | Police and prosecutors scheduled a press conference on Monday to announce that they had solved the 1976 murder in Los Angeles of the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley, saying the killer was identified through familial DNA testing. Karen Klaas, 32, was attacked at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Hermosa Beach on the morning of Jan. 30, 1976. Familial DNA testing involves using a national DNA database to search for people who may be related to the suspect. |
| Colombia's FARC rebels march one last time, to demobilisation camps | | | Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels are on the move one final time, traveling by boat, road and on foot across jungle and mountains to demobilisation camps, as part of a deal to end more than 50 years of war, guerrillas and the government said. Just under 4,400 Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fighters are currently making their way to more than two dozen rural camps scattered around the country, accompanied by officials from the United Nations and the government. The remainder of an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 FARC fighters are already at or near the demobilization sites, where U.N. personnel are responsible for collecting weapons from the guerrillas. |
| Canadian PM says mosque shooting a "terrorist attack on Muslims" | |  By Kevin Dougherty QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Six people were killed and eight wounded when gunmen opened fire at a Quebec City mosque during Sunday night prayers, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a "terrorist attack on Muslims". Initially, the mosque president said five people were killed and a witness said up to three gunmen had fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre. "Six people are confirmed dead - they range in age from 35 to about 70," Quebec provincial police spokeswoman Christine Coulombe told reporters, adding eight people were wounded and 39 were unharmed.
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| Trump signs executive order to slash regulations | |  President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that will seek to dramatically pare back federal regulations by requiring agencies to cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced. There will be regulation, there will be control, but it will be normalized control," Trump said as he signed the order in the Oval Office, surrounded by a group of small business owners. Trump's latest executive action will prepare a process for the White House to set an annual cap on the cost of new regulations, a senior official told reporters ahead of the signing.
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| Romania will amend decrees that could weaken anti-graft effort | | | Romania's government will probably amend proposed decrees that critics say would weaken a drive against corruption, the country's justice minister said on Monday, although he declined to say exactly what would be changed. The government had planned to issue emergency decrees, which unlike bills passed by parliament would take effect immediately, to reduce the sentences for some offences and grant pardons to those convicted of others . Roughly 100,000 Romanians rallied in the capital, Bucharest, and in other cities on Sunday to protest the plans, which had raised concern they will weaken a crackdown on corruption. |
| UK foreign minister Johnson defends Trump state visit plan | |  LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Boris Johnson on Monday defended the decision to invite U.S. President Donald Trump to London for a state visit, amid criticism prompted by Trump's immigration policies. "It is totally right that the incoming president of our closest and most important ally should be accorded the honour of a state visit, and that is supported by this government" Johnson told parliament. (Reporting by Kylie Maclellan, writing by William James, editing by Stephen Addison)
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| Ex-tycoon Batista jailed in graft probe on return to Brazil | |  By Pedro Fonseca and Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Eike Batista, once Brazil's richest man and most flamboyant national booster, was detained by federal police on Monday on allegations of bribing a former governor, putting an end to his brief stint as an international fugitive. Batista, a brash entrepreneur whose meteoric rise and fall made him the poster boy of Brazil's decade-long boom before the global commodities crash, flew overnight from New York to Rio de Janeiro, where police had raided his luxury home on Thursday. The 60-year-old businessman, who has sold or forfeited his stakes in the energy, mining and logistics empire known as EBX Group, was once married to a Carnival queen and is the son of a former chief executive officer of mining company Vale SA. Five years ago, he had a net worth exceeding $30 billion and was considered one of the world's 10 richest people.
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| Austrian coalition pledges face veil ban, curbs on foreign workers | | | By Francois Murphy and Kirsti Knolle VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's coalition government promised on Monday to ban Muslim face-covering veils and to restrict eastern European workers' access to the labour market, in a package of policies aimed at countering the rise of the far-right Freedom Party. The anti-Islam Freedom Party (FPO) has topped opinion polls for months, boosted by the influx of more than a million migrants into Europe in the past two years and concerns over their impact on jobs and security. Last month the FPO candidate came close to winning Austria's presidential election. |
| Trump immigration order is "highly controversial" - UK foreign minister | |  The executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries is a highly controversial policy, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told parliament on Monday. Johnson said he had received assurances from the U.S. embassy that the order would make no difference to British passport holders, irrespective of their country of birth or whether they held a second passport. "This is, of course, a highly controversial policy, which has caused unease and, I repeat, this is not an approach that this government would take," Johnson said.
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| Argentina changes immigration law to limit entry, ease deportation | | | Argentina changed its immigration law to make it easier to deport foreigners who commit crimes and to prohibit individuals with criminal records from entering the country, according to a post in the government's official bulletin on Monday. The measure cited "recent acts of organized crime" and noted that the percentage of foreigners in the country's corrections system had grown in recent years, reaching 21.35 percent of the prison population in 2016. Under the revamped law, foreigners who commit a "malicious" crime will be expelled from the country and prohibited from returning for at least eight years. |
| Indonesia names Islamist leader a suspect for insulting state ideology | | | By Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police on Monday named the leader of an Islamist group, the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), as a suspect over allegations that he insulted the secular state ideology in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country. Police in the province of West Java had been investigating Habib Rizieq over allegations that he made defamatory comments in 2014 about one of Indonesia's founding fathers, Sukarno, and questioned the legitimacy of the state ideology Pancasila. |
| Israel postpones vote on bill legalising settlement outposts | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's government postponed a vote in parliament on Monday on a bill retroactively legalising about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land, a measure the attorney-general has said is unconstitutional. The legislation, which is backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, had been expected to pass in an evening session, but a filibuster threat from the opposition and discussions over its final wording slowed its progress. Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right lawmaker who helped draft the bill, said the vote had been postponed and would probably be held on Tuesday.
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