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- Four hostages taken, two released at Delaware prison
- U.S., Mexican officials meet in Mexico, discuss security - sources
- White House says has updated guidance for green card holders
- Congo's Tshisekedi leaves legacy of democratic struggle, unfulfilled promise
- Congo's main opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, dies at 84
- Record number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in UK last year
- Exclusive - Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam: sources
- U.S. Senate support for Trump education nominee weakens
- Five hostages taken, one released at Delaware prison
- U.S. Senate confirms Tillerson as secretary of state
- Romanians rally in biggest anti-corruption protest in decades
- Trump urges Republicans to 'go nuclear' to defend high court pick
- Brazil's Senate picks Temer ally to head upper chamber
- Suspect in Canada mosque shooting sought money, scouted site
- As private lawyer, Trump high court pick was friend to business
- Florida nightclub gunman's widow knew of his plan: U.S. prosecutors
- Libyan officials criticise U.S. travel ban, doubt over February conference
- Serbia's authorities order lockdown at a migrant camp
- Germany arrests Tunisian asylum-seeker linked to Tunis museum attack
- White House says has updated guidance for green card holders
- Rio's murder rate soared last year despite calm during Olympics
| Four hostages taken, two released at Delaware prison | | Thursday, February 02, 2017 3:11 AM | |
|  Inmates at a Delaware prison were still holding two correctional staff members hostage on Wednesday night after releasing two others during an uprising at the facility, state officials said. One of the released hostages, an officer, was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Delaware State Police spokesman Sergeant Richard Bartz told reporters. All those held at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna were state Department of Correction employees.
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| U.S., Mexican officials meet in Mexico, discuss security - sources | | Thursday, February 02, 2017 2:59 AM | |
| | By Alexandra Alper MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican delegation met U.S. military officials in southern Mexico on Tuesday to discuss security initiatives, sources said on Wednesday, as the two countries seek to find common ground in tough negotiations over trade, security and immigration. Lori Robinson, chief of the U.S. Northern Command, and Kurt Tidd, head of the Southern U.S. Command, attended the session, two people familiar with the matter said. It was one of the first known meetings between U.S. and Mexican officials since Donald Trump became U.S. president in January. |
| White House says has updated guidance for green card holders | | Thursday, February 02, 2017 1:00 AM | |
|  The White House said on Wednesday it has issued updated guidance on President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration clarifying that legal permanent residents, or green card holders, do not require a waiver to enter the United States. "They no longer need a waiver because if they are a legal permanent resident they won't need it anymore," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said at a news briefing.
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| Congo's Tshisekedi leaves legacy of democratic struggle, unfulfilled promise | | Thursday, February 02, 2017 12:49 AM | |
| | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - The dates below the framed black-and-white photograph of Etienne Tshisekedi in the reception hall of the prime minister's offices in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa, testify to a fraught and complicated relationship with power. Tshisekedi, who died on Wednesday in Brussels at 84, was named prime minister four times of the country then known as Zaire, between 1991 and 1997. Nicknamed "the Sphinx" for not speaking much but causing a lot of trouble when he did, Tshisekedi was a crusading voice for political pluralism and democracy in Congo, whose politics since independence in 1960 from Belgium has been marred by foreign intervention, civil war, coups and authoritarian rule. |
| Congo's main opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, dies at 84 | | Thursday, February 02, 2017 12:49 AM | |
|  By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's veteran opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, has died in Brussels aged 84, his party said on Wednesday. Tshisekedi stood up to Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the country then known as Zaire, for more than three decades before Mobutu was overthrown by Rwanda, Uganda and other forces. Tshisekedi was set to take the top post in a transitional council agreed in December under a deal to pave the way for Kabila to leave power in 2017 and refrain from running for a third term as president.
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| Record number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in UK last year | | Thursday, February 02, 2017 12:04 AM | |
| | Britain saw a record number of anti-Semitic incidents last year, fuelled by issues such as xenophobia following the EU referendum and allegations of anti-Jewish sentiment in the opposition Labour Party, an advisory body said on Thursday. The Community Security Trust (CST), which advises Britain's estimated 260,000 Jews on security matters, said it had recorded 1,309 incidents in 2016, the highest number since it began collecting figures 33 years ago. "Whilst Jewish life in this country remains overwhelmingly positive, this heightened level of anti-Semitism is deeply worrying and it appears to be getting worse," David Delew, the CST's chief executive, said in a statement. |
| Exclusive - Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam: sources | |  By Julia Edwards Ainsley, Dustin Volz and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States.
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| U.S. Senate support for Trump education nominee weakens | |  By Lisa Lambert and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public refusals on Wednesday by two U.S. Senate Republicans to support Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's pick for education secretary, raised the possibility of a rare congressional rejection of a Cabinet nominee. In an ominous sign for Trump, Republican senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski said they would not vote for DeVos, a billionaire philanthropist and charter-school advocate.
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| Five hostages taken, one released at Delaware prison | | (Reuters) - Prisoners took five hostages at a Delaware prison on Wednesday, later releasing one and entering into negotiations with state and federal authorities while continuing to hold the remaining four, police said. All five hostages were state Department of Correction employees, and the one who was released was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Sgt. Richard Bratz, a spokesman for Delaware State Police, told reporters. Armoured vehicles, SWAT teams and emergency medical personnel all converged on the prison, the News Journal of Delaware reported, and aerial video from WPVI television showed dozens of uniformed officers amassed in formation.
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| U.S. Senate confirms Tillerson as secretary of state | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate confirmed Rex Tillerson as President Donald Trump's secretary of state on Wednesday, filling a key spot on the Republican's national security team despite concerns about the former Exxon Mobil Corp chief executive officer's ties to Russia. Fifty-six senators backed Tillerson, and 43 voted no. Every Republican favoured Tillerson, along with four members of the Democratic caucus, Senators Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Manchin and Mark Warner as well as Angus King, an independent.
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| Romanians rally in biggest anti-corruption protest in decades | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas and Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - More than 250,000 Romanians demonstrated on Wednesday against a government decree decriminalising some graft offences, seen as the biggest retreat on reforms since the country joined the European Union in 2007. Romania's top judicial watchdog, the Superior Magistrates' Council (CSM), earlier in the day filed a constitutional court challenge to the decree unveiled by the new Social Democrat government of Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu. The number of protesters rose to a new high in the evening, reaching 130,000 to 150,000 outside the cabinet building in Bucharest.
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| Trump urges Republicans to 'go nuclear' to defend high court pick | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Senate Republicans to "go nuclear" and impose a rule change to force a simple majority vote on confirmation if Democrats block his U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, as Democrats manoeuvred for a hard fight. Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge from Colorado seen as a conservative intellectual, began holding private meetings with senators, starting with top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, to drum up support for his nomination a day after Trump picked the 49-year-old for a lifetime job on the country's top court.
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| Brazil's Senate picks Temer ally to head upper chamber | | | Brazil's Senate elected an ally of President Michel Temer as its new leader on Wednesday, providing key support in the upper chamber for proposed reforms to restore fiscal discipline. Senator Eunicio Oliveira, 64, was elected Senate president by a vote of 61-10, despite accusations that he took a bribe of 2.1 million reais ($670,000) from a defendant in a sweeping graft investigation. Oliveira was leader of Temer's Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) in the Senate. |
| Suspect in Canada mosque shooting sought money, scouted site | |  By Allison Lampert QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The suspect in the shooting rampage at a Canadian mosque visited the site before Sunday's massacre, asking for money and scouting the scene before returning with guns and killing six men as they prayed, a member of the mosque said. Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, was charged in court on Monday with six counts of premeditated murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon after Sunday evening's massacre at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec. Members of the mosque were shocked to find the man that had been seen twice outside the centre in the days before the shooting was the same slightly built French-Canadian that police said was the lone attacker in the shooting.
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| As private lawyer, Trump high court pick was friend to business | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As a lawyer in private practice for a decade, President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch often fought on behalf of business interests, including efforts to curb securities class action lawsuits, experience that could mould his thinking if he is confirmed as a justice. Gorsuch, a conservative federal appeals court judge from Colorado nominated by wealthy businessman Trump on Tuesday, could turn out to be a friend to business, having represented the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in fending off securities class actions, one of the most hotly contested areas of corporate law.
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| Florida nightclub gunman's widow knew of his plan: U.S. prosecutors | |  By Curtis Skinner OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - The widow of the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history knew he was planning an attack and concocted a cover story for him, federal prosecutors said in a California court on Wednesday. Prosecutors revealed new details about their case against Noor Salman, 30, as they argued she should remain jailed on charges stemming from the June 2016 shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu did not immediately rule, instead ordering psychiatric and psychological tests for Salman.
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| Libyan officials criticise U.S. travel ban, doubt over February conference | | | By Aidan Lewis TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's U.N.-backed government has criticised U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary ban on its nationals and those of six other countries entering the United States, which put in question attendance at a high-profile conference on Libya planned in Washington for mid-February. The executive order by Trump comes at a time of uncertainty over U.S. policy in Libya, which remains mired in the chaos that followed the NATO-backed 2011 uprising against long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi. |
| Serbia's authorities order lockdown at a migrant camp | | | The Serbian authorities on Wednesday imposed restrictions on the movements of migrants in a camp near Belgrade, after three men allegedly attacked a woman and her children near the refugee centre, a minister said. The migrants will now need permission to leave the camp, a set of former army barracks in the town of Obrenovac, just outside Belgrade, said Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin, who is also in charge of refugee centres. "We are introducing tougher measures ... they will have to return to the camp by a certain time and they will be issued identification documents," Vulin said, according to the Tanjug news agency. |
| Germany arrests Tunisian asylum-seeker linked to Tunis museum attack | |  By Patricia Uhlig and Michelle Martin WIESBADEN, Germany/BERLIN (Reuters) - A 36-year-old Tunisian asylum-seeker arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack in Germany is also wanted in his homeland over a deadly 2015 assault on a Tunis museum favoured by Western tourists, German officials said. The Tunisian is suspected of recruiting for Islamic State in Germany since August 2015 and building up a network of supporters with the aim of carrying out a terrorist attack, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office said in a statement.
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| White House says has updated guidance for green card holders | | | The White House said on Wednesday it has issued updated guidance on President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration clarifying that legal permanent residents, or green card holders, do not require a waiver to enter the United States. "They no longer need a waiver because if they are a legal permanent resident they won't need it anymore," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said at a news briefing. |
| Rio's murder rate soared last year despite calm during Olympics | | | The homicide rate in Rio de Janeiro climbed by 20 percent in 2016 from the previous year, as violence soared in the Brazilian metropolis amid rising unemployment and sharp cuts in public security budgets as the country struggles through a recession. According to state security statistics released on Wednesday, 5,033 people were murdered in Rio during the year, up from 4,200 in 2015. The figures confirm growing concerns in Rio, a city and surrounding state home to more than 16 million people, that hard-won gains in security over the past decade are quickly backsliding along with Brazil's economy, now in its worst recession on record. |
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