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| Legal battles to test Trump and his immigration ban | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban faced on Monday the first of several crucial legal hurdles that could determine whether he can push through the most controversial and far reaching policy of his first two weeks in office. On Monday, the government has a deadline to justify the executive order temporarily barring immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries and the entry of refugees after a federal judge in Seattle blocked it with a temporary restraining order on Friday. The uncertainty caused by a judge's stay of the ban has opened a window for travelers from the seven affected countries to enter the United States.
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| Teenager pleads guilty to stabbing U.S. tourist to death in London | | | A teenager who suffered from mental health issues pleaded guilty on Monday to killing a U.S. tourist during a stabbing rampage in London last August. Zakaria Bulhan, 19, a Norwegian of Somali origin who was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, killed retired teacher Darlene Horton, 64, and wounded five others during the knife attack in London's Russell Square. Horton was on holiday in the British capital with her husband Richard Wagner, an eminent psychology professor at Florida State University, when she was killed. |
| Supreme Court orders seizure of Sahara's Aamby Valley property | |  Supreme Court on Monday ordered the seizure of the Aamby Valley hill city estate owned by the embattled Sahara conglomerate which has been ordered to repay billions of dollars to investors in bonds that were ruled to have been mis-sold. Lawyers for Sahara told the Supreme Court that they had deposited about 110 billion rupees ($1.6 billion) with the capital markets regulator for the repayment, and owed another 140 billion rupees. The Aamby Valley development in western India is spread over more than 10,000 acres and includes luxury resort accommodation and an 18-hole golf course.
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| France's Fillon to launch campaign fight back against scandal | |  By Richard Balmforth and Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon will fight back on Monday against the fake job scandal that threatens his campaign, a source close to him said. Fillon "plans to tell the truth to the French people", when he speaks at his campaign headquarters at 4 pm (1500 GMT). Fillon has come under pressure to quit the race since a newspaper, Le Canard enchaine, published a report on Jan. 25 alleging that his wife Penelope was paid hundreds of thousands of euros in state money for work she may never have done.
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| Kremlin says it wants apology from Fox News over Putin comments | |  The Kremlin said on Monday it wanted an apology from Fox News over what it said were "unacceptable" comments one of the channel's presenters made about Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump. Fox News host Bill O'Reilly described Putin as "a killer" in the interview with Trump as he tried to press the U.S. president to explain more fully why he respected his Russian counterpart. O'Reilly did not say who he thought Putin had killed.
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| Hungary court orders retrial in toxic red sludge case | |  By Krisztina Than GYOR, Hungary (Reuters) - A Hungarian court ordered a retrial on Monday over the spill of toxic red sludge in 2010 that killed 10 people in one of the country's worst environmental disasters. Monday's verdict by a court in the city of Gyor overturned that ruling and ordered a retrial. "The court ... annuls the Veszprem court ruling dated January 28, 2016," judge Csilla Zolyomi told a packed courtroom in Gyor.
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| Memorial in Philippines for South Korean whose murder stunted drugs war | |  The Philippines held a memorial on Monday for a South Korean businessman whose kidnapping and murder by rogue anti-narcotics police prompted a shock suspension of police from President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. Diplomats, government officials and members of the South Korean community were joined by more than 100 uniformed police at the ceremony to mark the death of Jee Ick-joo, which caused the biggest scandal of Duterte's seven-month-old presidency. Mourners in black stood before a portrait of Jee placed on a stage covered in white flowers at a Christian service for a man whose death led to a Duterte taking police off the front lines of his anti-drugs campaign, his administration's signature policy.
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| Tata Sons' former chairman Mistry voted off the board | |  Shareholders at Tata Sons Ltd, the Indian conglomerate's holding company, have voted to remove estranged former chairman Cyrus Mistry as a director. Although Mistry's family has an 18.4 percent stake in Tata Sons, its single-largest shareholder, the majority holding is controlled by a group of trusts chaired by Tata family patriarch Ratan Tata. "The shareholders of Tata Sons Ltd, at the extraordinary general meeting held today, passed, with the requisite majority, a resolution to remove Mr. Cyrus P. Mistry as a director of Tata Sons," the company said in a statement on Monday.
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| Romania's justice ministry scraps plan to amend criminal code - Digi24 | | | Romania's justice ministry scrapped plans for a bill on changing the criminal code, Digi24 TV said on Monday, after days of mass protests against a decree on graft forced the governement to drop its own plans to decriminalise some graft cases. "The ministry is not seeking to draft a bill to change and amend law No. 286/2009 regarding the criminal code and the law No. 135/2010 regarding the criminal procedure code," the ministry said in a statement, according to Digi24 TV. |
| "We woke up in 1989": Romanian graft decree turned back the clock | |  By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - When fire tore through a Bucharest nightclub in 2015, victims were rushed to the city's Floreasca hospital - but its newly-built, multi-million-euro burns unit was standing idle and could help no one. Sixty-four people eventually died and the Social Democrat government was brought down within days by popular anger over the failure to enforce fire-safety regulations at the Colectiv nightclub, a failure blamed on endemic corruption and negligence. The reins of government were handed temporarily to a team of technocrats and Romania's special anti-corruption prosecutors turned their sights on the burns unit.
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| British government says will not allow lawmakers to block Brexit | |  Lawmakers seeking to change Theresa May's Brexit strategy will not be able to block Britain from leaving the European Union, May's spokeswoman said on Monday before a debate on possible amendments to legislation in parliament. "We think there should be a straighforward bill about giving the government the power to deliver on the decision of the British people," the spokeswoman told reporters, adding that parliament will have a vote on the final deal with the EU. "We are not going to allow there to be attempts to remain inside the EU or rejoin it through the back door." The bill, which would give the prime minister permission to trigger the Brexit process, faces pressure from pro-EU lawmakers who are seeking greater transparency and oversight about her negotiating strategy, and more say on the final exit deal.
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| Romanian ruling party reaffirms support for PM Grindeanu's government | |  BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu's government had the full support of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), party leader Liviu Dragnea said on Monday, a day after the cabinet bowed to mass protests and scrapped a decree decriminalising some graft offences. "The government has no reason to resign, it was legitimately elected," PSD leader Dragnea told reporters after a party meeting. (Reporting by Luiza Ilie; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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| Senior Chinese health official to attend Vatican summit | | | A top Chinese health official will attend a conference at the Vatican on organ trafficking this week, a state run newspaper said on Monday, with the visit coming as China and the Holy See try to improve ties. Pope Francis would like to heal a decades-old rift with China where Catholics are divided between those loyal to him and those who are members of a government-controlled official church. The Global Times, published by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, said on its website that Huang Jiefu, a former vice-minister of health and the current head of the China Human Organ Donation and Transplant Committee, would attend for China. |
| Youtube comments could bring tougher sentence for U.S. woman in Bali suitcase murder | |  Prosecutors in Indonesia are examining online video comments by a U.S. woman jailed for 10 years over the 2014 murder of her mother on the resort island of Bali to decide if they justify a stiffer sentence, authorities said on Monday. Heather Mack, originally from Chicago, was tried and convicted alongside then-boyfriend Tommy Schaefer in the murder of her mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in a taxi outside a luxury hotel.
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| China to try former secret police official for bribery | | | China will prosecute a former high ranking official in its secret police for suspected bribery, the state prosecutor said on Monday, taking a step that will almost certainly result in a conviction. Ma Jian, once a vice minister at China's Ministry of State Security, is the most senior security official to be investigated since former domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang was ensnared in a graft scandal and jailed for life in 2015. Ma, who was put under investigation in January 2015, was expelled from the party in December after it accused him of abuse of power, taking bribes and interfering in unspecified law enforcement activities. |
| Philippine agency running drugs war says army to play only support role | | | By Martin Petty and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops will only provide back-up in the war on drugs and not patrol the streets or play any kind of leading role, the head of an anti-narcotics agency that has been given charge of the campaign said on Monday. Last week, President Rodrigo Duterte suspended the national police from the anti-drugs war that has killed over 7,600 people in seven months after a South Korean businessman was kidnapped and killed by members of a police drugs squad. "They (troops) will be in support of PDEA agents," the agency's director general, Isidro Lapena, said in an interview. |
| Romania to draft new criminal bill after protests stop decree | |  Romania's justice minister said he will publish details of a new bill on the criminal code on Monday, a day after the government scrapped an earlier decree following the biggest mass protests since the 1989 overthrow of Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. Hundreds of thousands of Romanians had protested in the capital Bucharest and dozens of other cities against the decree that would have effectively shielded some officials from prosecution on corruption charges. The government has said the decree, hastily adopted late on Tuesday was designed to bring the criminal code into line with recent constitutional court rulings.
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| Turkey says detains 748 Islamic State suspects in weekend operations | | | Turkey detained 748 Islamic State suspects in weekend operations in 29 provinces, the interior ministry said, in its biggest round-up targeting the jihadist group in Turkey. Turkish police seized numerous documents, digital materials, two guns, four rifles and ammunition in the operations, the statement said. Thirty-nine people, mainly foreigners, were killed at New Year when an Islamic State militant opened fire inside the Reina night club in Istanbul. |
| Afghan diplomat shot dead at consulate in Pakistan's Karachi | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI (Reuters) - An Afghan diplomat was shot dead on Monday in the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi in what was described as a personal dispute, Pakistani officials said. The consulate's third secretary was killed by a private guard, who had been arrested, police official Saqib Ismail told Reuters.
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| Samsung Group to disband its corporate strategy office after probe ends | |  By Se Young Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Group said it will disband its corporate strategy office after a special prosecution probe ends, setting a timeline on a pledge to wind up a power centre that has been criticised for its role in South Korea's graft scandal. The strategy office, comprised of some 200 elite staff hand-picked from affiliates of the nation's top conglomerate, is the vehicle through which the founding Lee family makes key decisions such as restructuring and investments for new businesses, insiders and analysts say. It has been under intense scrutiny as the South Korean special prosecutor's office probed the smartphones-to-biopharmaceuticals business empire as part of a wider investigation into the scandal that threatens to permanently unseat President Park Geun-hye.
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| Thailand says royal insult suspects in Laos made death threats against PM | |  Thai people wanted for breaking a law on insulting the monarchy have issued death threats against the Thai prime minister, from Laos where they have fled to avoid arrest, Thailand's top security officer said on Monday. Last month, Thailand pressed Laos over the extradition of Thai fugitives accused of lese majeste, or royal insult, which carries a jail term of up to 15 years for each offence. Thailand's military government says there are up to six Thai suspects in Laos who it is seeking.
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| Deleted postings about missing Chinese billionaire hint at tensions | |  By Julie Zhu and Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scores of China social media postings about a well-connected billionaire who went missing from a Hong Kong hotel have been deleted, pointing to what appears to be heightened sensitivity in Beijing over the case of Xiao Jianhua. Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Xiao, one of China's richest men who has close ties to some of its leaders and their relatives. The case has echoes of the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers more than a year ago who had published books critical of China's leaders.
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