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| Kidnapped Iraqi woman journalist released unharmed after a week | | | Iraqi journalist Afrah al-Qaisi, known in her country for criticising the government in satirical articles for local media, has been released unharmed after being kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad a week ago. The head of the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, Ziyad al-Ajili, said on Wednesday the kidnappers had returned the car, telephone, laptop and gold jewelry they took when they broke into her home and that she drove back overnight around midnight. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi telephoned Qaisi to check on her well-being after her release, his media office said. |
| South Carolina church gunman to address jurors at sentencing trial | | | By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Jurors who found white supremacist Dylann Roof guilty of federal crimes tied to the killings of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church will hear directly from him on Wednesday as the sentencing phase of his death penalty trial begins. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ruled on Monday that Roof, 22, was mentally fit to stand trial and act as his own lawyer as prosecutors make the case that he should be executed for the 2015 massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Roof's strategy for the sentencing phase is unclear. |
| Feature: Behind fence, Mexico's notorious Juarez is wary of Trump's wall | |  By Frank Jack Daniel CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexicans overwhelmingly say they oppose the wall U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to build along their northern border. After the border got tighter, Cabada said, "the narco traffickers had to battle much harder to cross their drugs into the United States, and a lot ended up staying here." The increased local supply of drugs changed social dynamics in the city and addiction and petty crime soared, he said.
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| Death penalty trial of triple Massachusetts murderer comes to close | | | Lawyers for a Massachusetts man who admitted to murdering three people in a week long 2001 rampage are due in federal court in Boston on Wednesday to make their last arguments to the jury that will determine whether he will be executed. Gary Lee Sampson, 57, could be the second person sentenced to death by a federal jury in Massachusetts in two years, a rarity in a state whose laws do not allow the death penalty for state-level crimes. Sampson pleaded guilty to murdering two men who picked him up while he was hitchhiking in Massachusetts and a third man in New Hampshire more than a decade ago. |
| Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter in killing of immobile Palestinian assailant | | | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A military court convicted an Israeli soldier of manslaughter on Wednesday over his fatal shooting of a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant in the occupied West Bank last March. Sentencing of 20-year-old Sergeant Elor Azaria will be handed down at a later date. Hundreds of far-right protesters demonstrated in support of Azaria outside a military base in central Tel Aviv where the verdict was handed down. (Reporting by Jeffrey Heller) |
| Erdogan says nightclub attack being exploited to divide Turks | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that linking lifestyle differences with the attack at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day was a deliberate attempt to divide the nation and that the state never meddled in how people lived. "There is no point trying to blame the Ortakoy attack on differences in lifestyles," Erdogan said in a speech to local administrators at the presidential palace in Ankara. "Nobody's lifestyle is under systematic threat in Turkey.
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| French trial of Equatorial Guinea leader's son postponed until June | | | A French court on Wednesday postponed the corruption trial of the son of Equatorial Guinea's president until June 19, bringing proceedings to a halt two days after they had begun. The lawyer for Teodorin Obiang had asked for the hearing to be suspended on the grounds that his client, who was summoned to trial three weeks ago, had not been given enough time to prepare his defence in a complex case. Obiang, eldest son of President Teodoro Obiang and a vice-president of Equatorial Guinea, is accused of buying palatial Parisian properties and exotic cars with money plundered from his country, a small oil-rich state on Africa's west coast. |
| Two wounded, one dead after rare gun rampage in China | | | A government official was suspected to have carried out a rare shooting rampage in China on Wednesday in which two officials were wounded when a gunman burst into a meeting and opened fire, the Xinhua news agency reported. The shooting happened at an exhibition centre in Panzhihua city in Sichuan province. The gunmen fired multiple shots at city leaders assembled there before fleeing, Xinhua reported. |
| Armed men linked to Muslim rebels free more than 150 from Philippine prison | | | Around 100 armed men with links to Muslim rebels stormed a prison in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, killing a guard and freeing more than 150 prisoners, some of them Islamic militants, officials said. The Southeast Asian, majority Roman Catholic nation has for decades been plagued by insurgency by Muslim rebels in its southern islands. The gunmen opened fire at guards at the North Cotabato District Jail in Kidapawan, prison warden Peter Bongat said on radio. |
| Elections in five states to begin next month in test for Modi | |  The election commission on Wednesday scheduled five state polls for the next two months that will test support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's gamble to abolish high-denomination banknotes. Voting in Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state that is home to 200 million people, will begin on Feb. 11 and finish on March 8, chief election commissioner Nasim Zaidi told reporters. Polls will also be conducted in the states of Goa, Manipur, Punjab and Uttarakhand in February and March, with votes in all five elections tallied on March 11, Zaidi said.
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| Thai leaders say general election on track for this year | |  Thai Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said on Wednesday a general election will be held this year after doubts were raised by a member of the national legislative assembly. What the National Legislative Assembly has said is their problem," Prawit, who is also defence minister, told reporters in Bangkok. A member of the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly said on Monday the election would have to be delayed until 2018 to allow time to pass laws needed to hold it.
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| Chinese ex-mayor to be prosecuted for "discipline breaches" | | | The former mayor of the Chinese port of Tianjin has been expelled from the Communist Party and will be prosecuted for "serious discipline breaches", the party's anti-graft watchdog said on Wednesday. Huang Xingguo, 63, was placed under investigation on suspicion of the same charge, which is a euphemism for corruption, in September 2016, while he was acting party chief for the city. Since assuming office four years ago, President Xi Jinping has waged battle against deep-seated graft, warning, as others have before him, the problem is so serious it could undermine the party's grip on power. |
| Turkey says identity of Istanbul attacker established, manhunt goes on | |  Turkey has established the identity of the gunman who killed 39 people in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, its foreign minister said, and further arrests were made on Wednesday, but the attacker himself remains at large. The gunman shot dead a police officer and a civilian at the entrance to the exclusive Reina nightclub on Sunday then opened fire with an automatic rifle inside, reloading his weapon half a dozen times and shooting the wounded as they lay on the ground. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
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| Turkish foreign minister calls on Iran to stop truce violations in Syria | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on Iran to exert pressure on Shi'ite-backed militias and the Syrian government to stop violating a ceasefire in Syria, warning it was putting planned peace talks in peril. Turkey is working with Russia on the question of sanctions for those who violate the ceasefire deal, which was brokered by Ankara and Moscow, Cavusoglu said in a televised interview with the state-run Anadolu news agency. ...
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| Turkey extends emergency rule to maintain purge of Gulen supporters - deputy PM | |  Turkey's parliament voted overnight to extend emergency rule by three months in a move which the government said was needed to sustain a purge of supporters of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating July's failed coup, state media said. Emergency rule, first imposed in Turkey after an attempted putsch on July 15 and then extended in October, enables the government to bypass parliament in enacting new laws and to limit or suspend rights and freedoms when deemed necessary. The extension, effective from Jan. 19, comes as Turkey reels from a series of attacks by Islamist or Kurdish militants, most recently on Sunday when a lone gunman shot dead 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub during New Year celebrations.
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| Video of New Year attack on woman in Bengaluru prompts police probe | |  Police in India's technology hub of Bengaluru said on Wednesday they had begun investigating reports of a New Year's assault on a woman after a video emerged showing the attack by two men, as bystanders watched. It had widely been regarded as safer for women than New Delhi, which is often labelled the country's rape capital, for the many sex crimes reported there.
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| Turkey detains 5 in connection with Istanbul nightclub attack - AA | |  Turkish police have detained five Islamic State suspects in the western city of Izmir in connection with the gun attack in an Istanbul nightclub which killed 39 people on New Year's Day, the state-run Anadolu agency said on Wednesday. Anadolu reported on Tuesday that 14 people had been detained over the attack, which Islamic State has claimed, while NTV reported that two foreign nationals had been detained at Istanbul's main Ataturk airport.
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| Civil rights activists arrested protesting Trump's Attorney General pick | |  (Reuters) - Police in Alabama arrested six civil rights activists staging a sit-in at Senator Jeff Sessions' office on Tuesday to protest his nomination for U.S. Attorney General, criticizing his record on voting rights and race relations. Sessions, 70, has a history of controversial positions on race, immigration and criminal justice reform. Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had vowed to occupy Sessions' Mobile, Alabama office until the conservative Republican lawmaker either withdrew as a candidate or they were arrested.
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| Judge dismisses case against former wrestling star in 1983 death | | | A judge on Tuesday ended a murder case against ex-professional wrestler Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka in Pennsylvania, after ruling him mentally incompetent to stand trial over the 1983 death of his girlfriend, media reports said. Lehigh County Judge Kelly L. Banach granted a request from Snuka's attorney to end the case, The Morning Call newspaper said. In June, Banach had found Snuka, 73, incompetent to stand trial. |
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