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| Brazil prisoners clash with police where 26 inmates were butchered | |  By Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police used rubber bullets and tear gas on Tuesday to break up a renewed clash between drug gangs in a prison where 26 inmates were butchered by rivals in recent days. Major Eduardo Franco, spokesman for police in the state of Rio Grande do Norte where the Alcaçuz prison is located, said authorities managed to keep the rival gangs apart and so far prevent another massacre. Brazil has been hit by a wave of deadly gang clashes in prisons in the north and northeast regions of the country since Jan. 1.
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| Rolls-Royce shares jump on profit upgrade, bribery settlement | |  By Sarah Young and Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Rolls-Royce leapt on Tuesday after the British maker of engines for planes and ships finalised a 671 million-pound ($831 million) deal to settle a lengthy bribery investigation and said 2016 profits beat previous expectations. The agreement draws a line under investigations by British, U.S. and Brazilian authorities into alleged criminal conduct spanning three decades, at least seven jurisdictions and three of the company's business sectors. Coupled with an upbeat profit forecast, it removes a cloud over the business and comes as a boost to CEO Warren East who, since joining in mid-2015, has led a drive to slash costs and restructure the group following a series of profit warnings.
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| Iraqi forces push Islamic State further back in Mosul - military | |  By Isabel Coles and John Davison MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces pushed deeper into Islamic State-held districts in eastern Mosul and army units fought the insurgents inside a military base in the city's north, officials said during the day on Tuesday. On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the military had begun "movement" against Islamic State in the west of Mosul without specifying what action was being taken there. Three months after the start of the U.S.-backed campaign, Islamic State has been driven out of about three quarters of the eastern districts of its Iraqi stronghold, ceding large areas along the Tigris River, which bisects Mosul from north to south.
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| Florida nightclub gunman's wife accused of misleading police | |  By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, last year was due in court on Tuesday, accused of misleading authorities investigating the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. A federal indictment unsealed on Tuesday showed Noor Salman, 30, who was arrested on Monday in California, is charged with obstructing justice and aiding and abetting husband Omar Mateen's attempt to provide material support to a terrorist organization. Salman, who media reports said had been living in the San Francisco area, was to appear in federal court in Oakland, California, on Tuesday.
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| Two soldiers killed in fresh Ivory Coast unrest | | | By Ange Aboa ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Two soldiers were killed in fresh unrest in Ivory Coast's capital Yamoussoukro and gunfire erupted in other cities on Tuesday, signaling further upheaval inside the security forces just as it seemed the government settled a mutiny in the army. The unrest appeared to have started in Yamoussoukro, where residents said armed men in uniform broke into the armoury at the Zambakro military training camp and also looted weapons from two police stations. An instructor at the camp said it was started by soldiers training for deployment as U.N. peacekeepers in Mali who were protesting at the government's payment of bonuses to a group of mostly former rebels to end a mutiny earlier this month. |
| Popular British TV drama to feature female genital mutilation plotline | | | By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Popular British period drama "Call the Midwife" is to feature female genital mutilation (FGM) in a storyline about a pregnant Somali woman living in east London in the 1960s. Campaigners against FGM welcomed the news, saying the mainstream show would help boost awareness of the widely condemned practice which has long been shrouded in secrecy. It's amazing," said British activist Hibo Wardere whose FGM prevention work includes training medical staff. |
| Trump accuses civil rights leader Lewis of lying about inauguration | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump extended his war of words with African-American civil rights leader John Lewis on Tuesday, accusing the Democratic congressman of lying when he said Trump's inauguration would be the first that he would miss. "John Lewis said about my inauguration, 'It will be the first one that I've missed.' WRONG (or lie)! He boycotted Bush 43 also because he 'thought it would be hypocritical to attend Bush's swearing-in....he doesn't believe Bush is the true elected president.' Sound familiar!" Trump said in a pair of posts on Twitter.
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| Nearly 40 traffickers convicted in Karnataka in rare success for prosecutors | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly 40 people were found guilty on Tuesday of buying and selling girls in Karnataka, signalling a rare victory for prosecutors in a country where fewer than two in five trafficking cases ends in a conviction. Human traffickers, pimps and brothel owners were among the 39 people convicted by a district court in Ballari with sentencing due on Wednesday, according to prosecutor Rathod Ramsingh, who said he hoped the verdict would deter others. "Normally only the pimps get picked up but this time everyone involved in buying, selling and reselling of these girls has been found guilty," Ramsingh told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. |
| Canada's Trudeau questioned in ethics probe over Bahamas holiday | |  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday he has been questioned by the country's ethics watchdog in an unprecedented probe into a Bahamian holiday he took with the Aga Khan. The investigation into the vacation over the New Year's holiday could hurt Trudeau, who came to power in 2015 promising accountability and transparency in government. Trudeau, more popular than any recent prime minister, has taken a hit with the electorate amid allegations he broke official rules by taking a private helicopter ride to Bell Island, a Bahamas resort owned by the Aga Khan.
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| UK's May says final EU exit deal will be put to a vote in parliament | |  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would put the final agreement on Britain's exit from the European Union to a vote in parliament. May said there would have to compromises in the negotiations but it was important to provide "as much certainty as possible" and there would be proper scrutiny. "When it comes to parliament, there is one other way I would like to provide certainty," she said in a speech in London. ...
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| Youth wrestled to ground after trying to slap French ex-PM Valls | |  A youth reached out apparently to slap former prime minister Manuel Valls when he was on an election tour in France's Brittany region on Tuesday and was wrestled to the ground by a security guard, a video by local media showed. Valls, 54, who was walking past a group of people in the town of Lamballe after coming out of the municipal offices, appeared to first shake hands with the youth who said something and then appeared to try to slap the former prime minister. As Valls recoiled, a security guard seized the youth, in a choke-hold, pushed him back against a fence and then forced him to the ground, the video aired by Le Telegramme showed.
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| After convicted paedophile arrested, Maneka Gandhi calls for sex offenders register | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi says India needs to establish a national register of sex offenders, after police arrested a convicted paedophile who confessed to abducting and raping "hundreds" of girls for over a decade. Sunil Rastogi, a 38-year-old tailor was arrested on Saturday by police investigating sexual assaults on three girls aged between nine and ten in eastern Delhi in January and December. Gandhi, minister for women and child development, suggested that attacks may have been prevented if her proposal for a national register of sex offenders had been implemented.
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| Lawyers demand release of U.N. judge imprisoned in Turkey | | | By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Lawyers at a U.N. court urged Turkey on Monday to release a judge who is being held in connection with July's coup attempt, saying his detention was delaying a genocide case. Turkey did not attend a hearing in The Hague on Monday about Akay's situation and declined to make submissions on his detention, which the court views as illegal because of the diplomatic immunity he enjoys as a U.N. judge. Turkey was a strong early backer of the international courts set up in the 1990s to try mass crimes from the Yugoslav wars and the Rwandan genocide, but it has become more unilateral under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. |
| Italian conservative leads in vote to head EU parliament | |  By Francesco Guarascio STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Italian conservative Antonio Tajani established a strong lead on Tuesday in voting for the next president of the European Parliament, which can block or amend EU laws and will have the final say on whether to approve a Brexit deal with Britain. If no candidate in the 751-seat chamber wins a majority in a third afternoon vote, the top two will contest a decisive fourth round on Tuesday evening. The last-minute withdrawal of centrist Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister, strengthened the hand of Tajani and underlined how mainstream, pro-EU parties are trying to keep a grip against a vocal eurosceptic minority.
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| Top German court rejects bid to outlaw far-right NPD party | |  By Madeline Chambers and Ursula Knapp BERLIN/KARLSRUHE (Reuters) - Germany's Constitutional Court on Tuesday said the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) resembled Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, but ruled against banning it because it was too weak to endanger democracy. Germany's 16 federal states had pressed for the ban amid rising support for right-wing groups that has been stoked by popular resentment over the influx of large numbers of migrants. While the court said the NPD's aims, viewed by Germany's intelligence agency as racist, anti-Semitic and revisionist, violated the constitution, it said there was insufficient evidence that it could succeed and this made a ban impossible.
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| Rejection of Brexit deal by UK parliament won't stop EU exit - minister | |  Britain will still leave the European Union even if parliament votes against the final terms of the deal, Brexit minister David Davis told parliament on Tuesday. During a speech setting out her Brexit priorities earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May said she would put the final agreement on Britain's exit from the European Union to a vote in parliament.
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| Turkey seeking decades in jail for heads of pro-Kurdish opposition | |  Turkish prosecutors are seeking jail sentences of up to 142 years for the two leaders of the main pro-Kurdish opposition party on charges including managing a terrorist organisation, according to the court indictment seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Turkish authorities in November arrested the two leaders of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as part of a terrorism investigation, drawing strong international condemnation over what rights groups say is a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan. Prosecutors are seeking up to 142 years in jail for Selahattin Demirtas and up to 83 years for his co-leader, Figen Yuksekdag.
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| Turkey says captures nightclub attacker who acted for Islamic State | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have captured the gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, an Uzbek national they said was trained in Afghanistan and had clearly acted on behalf of Islamic State. The suspect, named by Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin as Abdulgadir Masharipov, was caught in a police raid late on Monday in a hideout in an outlying Istanbul suburb after a two-week manhunt. Masharipov, who was captured with four others, had admitted his guilt and his fingerprints matched those at the scene, Sahin told a news conference.
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| Nearly 200 more child workers freed as crackdown continues in south India | | | By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly 200 child workers, some as young as eight, were rescued from bangle factories in Hyderabad in southern India over the last week, as part of a crackdown that will continue until the end of the month, police said on Tuesday. Most children rescued were aged between 8 and 14 and came from the poor states of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam, said officials who are part of "Operation Smile", a national movement to tackle child labour and missing children. "We are investigating the nexus between the employers and the traffickers," said Swathi Lakra, additional commissioner of police in Hyderabad, who is monitoring the rescue operations. |
| Uganda minister says Congo's former M23 rebels not welcome | |  By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Former Congolese rebels who have lived in disarmament camps in Uganda since 2013 are not welcome in the country and are not Uganda's problem, a state minister told Reuters on Tuesday. Okello Oryem, state minister for international affairs, said he didn't know and didn't care if rebels were missing from the camps following reports that some fighters may have crossed the border into neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this weekend. "The responsibility for M23 lies squarely with the government of the DRC and the U.N., squarely with them, not the government of Uganda." The reports of rebel movements come at a time of mounting opposition to Congolese President Joseph Kabila after he decided to stay in office beyond his mandate, which expired last month.
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| "Draconian" EU security laws target Muslims - Amnesty International | | | By Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A raft of new counterterrorism laws across Europe discriminate against Muslims and refugees, spreading fear and alienation, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday. The human rights group sounded the alarm over security measures adopted over the past two years in 14 EU nations, including expanded surveillance powers. During that period, militant attacks have killed some 280 people in France, Belgium and Germany. |
| Former Yara legal chief sentenced to 7 years for corruption | | | A Norwegian appeals court sentenced the former chief legal officer of fertiliser-maker Yara International, Kendrick Wallace, to seven years in prison in a bribery case, it said on Tuesday. The Borgarting Appeal Courts, a regional court in southeast Norway, upheld 71-year-old Wallace's guilt in December. Wallace, an American, had originally been convicted to 2-1/2 years in prison by a lower court. |
| Norwegians shun Breivik hearing; killer's only visitor is paid "friend" | |  By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik's massacre of 77 people still haunts Norwegians, yet ever fewer care about the neo-Nazi locked in a cell where his only "friend" is paid to visit. Most of the 10 seats in an Oslo court for the public to watch a case about his prison conditions have been empty as Breivik sits glumly in a black suit, the first flecks of grey in his beard, appearing by video-link from a high-security jail. The Norwegian state is appealing against a lower court ruling in 2015 that it breached a ban on "inhuman and degrading treatment" under the European Convention on Human Rights by keeping Breivik, 37, in near-isolation since the 2011 killings.
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| UK court to approve Rolls-Royce settlement with fraud office | | | A UK court said it would approve a proposed agreement between Britain's Serious Fraud Office and Rolls-Royce which will allow the British aero-engine company to pay to settle a bribery probe. The court said on Tuesday that it planned to approve the deal, known as a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) which was announced on Monday, in a written judgement at 1600 GMT. Rolls-Royce's agreement to pay around 671 million pounds ($827 million) to British, U.S. and Brazilian authorities, helps to remove a cloud which has hung over the company since 2013, although the penalties involved were bigger than analysts had expected. |
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