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| Obama commutes 209 prison sentences, issues 64 pardons | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners and pardoned 64 individuals on Tuesday, the White House said. With his term in office set to end on Friday, Obama has now commuted the sentences of 1,385 people and granted a total of 212 pardons. (Reporting by Ayesha Rascoe and Roberta Rampton; editing by Diane Craft)
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| Obama commutes sentence of intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence analyst who is serving 35 years in prison for passing classified files to WikiLeaks, the White House said. Manning, formerly known as U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, was born male but revealed after being convicted of espionage that she identifies as a woman. She accepted responsibility for leaking the material, has said she was confronting gender dysphoria at the time of the leaks while deployed in Iraq. ...
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| Italian conservative Tajani wins race to head European Parliament - lawmakers | |  STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Italian conservative Antonio Tajani on Tuesday won the race to become the next head of the European Parliament. Lawmakers said Tajani secured 351 votes, compared to 282 ballots cast for his fellow Italian and socialist rival in the contest, Gianni Pittella. (Reporting by Francesco Guarascio, Writing by Gabriela Baczynska, Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| Italian conservative Tajani is new EU parliament speaker amid surging eurocepticism | |  By Francesco Guarascio STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Antonio Tajani of Italy was elected president of the European Parliament on Tuesday, consolidating a conservative grip on key EU institutions as the mainstream right and left struggle to unite against insurgent eurosceptics. The new speaker, 63, a former EU commissioner and an ally of former premier Silvio Berlusconi, succeeds German Social Democrat Martin Schulz at a time of crisis for the European Union. Britain wants a divorce deal that needs the legislature's blessing while old adversary Russia and old ally the United States both pose new threats to EU survivors holding together.
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| Rolls-Royce to pay more than $800 million to settle bribery charges - U.S. | |  By Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rolls-Royce Plc agreed to pay authorities more than $800 million to resolve charges of bribing officials in six countries in schemes that lasted more than a decade, the U.S. Justice Department and UK Serious Fraud Office said in statements on Tuesday. The company admitted to paying officials at state-run energy companies in Kazakhstan, Thailand, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Angola and Iraq more than $35 million in order to win contracts, the Justice Department said. Among the bribes, Rolls-Royce paid a Brazilian official $1.6 million through a middleman to win numerous oil equipment contracts from Petrobras , U.S. authorities said.
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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 northeastern 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. |
| U.N. warns of famine risk in Somalia amid worsening drought | |  By Neha Wadekar Katy Migiro MOGADISHU/NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somalia risks slipping back into famine, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as worsening drought has left millions of people without food, water or healthcare in a country crippled by decades of war. Five million Somalis, or more than four out of 10 residents, do not have enough to eat because of poor rains and fighting between the Islamist militant group al Shabaab and Somalia's African Union-backed government. It was caused by drought, conflict and a ban on food aid in territory held by al Shabaab.
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| Samsung scion Lee faces court hearing on arrest warrant | |  Jay Y. Lee, the 48-year-old leader of the Samsung Group, is due to appear at a court hearing on Wednesday when a judge will decide whether to issue an arrest warrant over his alleged role in a corruption scandal that has rocked South Korea. A special prosecutor on Monday said it would seek a warrant to arrest the third-generation leader of the country's largest conglomerate on suspicion of bribery, embezzlement and perjury. Lee, questioned last week for 22 straight hours at the prosecutor's office in Seoul, has denied wrongdoing.
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| Deutsche Bank signs $7.2 billion deal with U.S. over risky mortgages | |  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank has signed a $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over its sale of toxic mortgage securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, the government agency said on Tuesday. Deutsche's agreement represents the largest resolution for the conduct of a single entity in misleading investors in residential mortgage-backed securities, the department said in a statement. "Deutsche Bank did not merely mislead investors: it contributed directly to an international financial crisis," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in the statement.
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| Italy sentences two former South American leaders to life in prison for Operation Condor murders | | | By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - A Rome court on Tuesday handed down eight life sentences for the murder of 23 Italian citizens in a conspiracy, known as Operation Condor, in which South American dictatorships hunted down and killed thousands of dissidents in the 1970s and 1980s. It is the first time an Italian court has ruled a conspiracy existed between the governments of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia to help find and assassinate each others' political opponents. |
| Youth wrestled to ground after slapping French ex-PM Valls | |  A youth slapped 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, video showed. Valls, 54, was walking past a group of people in the town of Lamballe after coming out of its municipal offices. 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, a video aired by local newspaper Le Telegramme showed.
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| U.S. Senate Democrat leader attacks Price on ethics charge | |  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services may have broken the law by making a stock purchase just before he introduced legislation that would have benefited the firm, the Senate's leading Democrat charged on Tuesday. A confirmation hearing for Tom Price, a Republican congressman and orthopaedic surgeon from Georgia, was scheduled for Wednesday before the Senate health committee. If confirmed, he would be a key player in carrying out Trump's plans to overhaul Democratic President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.
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| Quarter of Republicans would keep Obamacare - Reuters/Ipsos poll | |  By Jilian Mincer NEW YORK (Reuters) - About a quarter of U.S. Republicans do not want to see Obamacare repealed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. Trump and his fellow Republicans, who control Congress, have promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, but a majority of Americans, including 25 percent of Republicans polled, do not want it to be repealed. Only one in five Americans would repeal the law immediately, the poll found.
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| Senate Democrats ask Trump attorney general pick to recuse himself from Russia probes | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine Democratic senators asked President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions, on Tuesday to recuse himself from any FBI or Justice Department investigation into Russia's efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. The request was signed by every Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel responsible for confirming Sessions' appointment. It comes amid growing concern in the U.S. Congress about what U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded was hacking and other actions by Russia during the election campaign aimed at tilting the November vote in Trump's favour, and about potential personal or financial connections between Trump associates and Moscow.
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| Brazil's Workers Party backs Lula for president despite corruption trial | |  Brazil's Workers Party plans to field former two-term leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the 2018 elections despite his facing five separate corruption trials, the party's leader said on Tuesday. Lula, who led Brazil from 2003 to 2010, is still one of Brazil's most popular politicians, though his prestige has been tarnished by graft charges. "Lula does not need to be nominated.
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| Trump election prompts U.S. mothers to warn children about assault - poll | | | By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mothers in the United States are teaching their children about sexual consent and assault following President-elect Donald Trump's boasts about groping women, according to research published on Tuesday. Roughly two in five U.S. women think that women are more likely to feel unsafe and men more likely to feel entitled to treat women as sexual objects since Trump was voted into office on Nov. 8, the poll by PerryUndem, a nonpartisan Washington-based research firm, showed. As a result of his election, 50 percent of women, and 35 percent of men, who are parents, say they are teaching their children about consent or sexual assault issues, the polling showed. |
| 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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| 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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| 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. |
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