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- U.S. courts hear challenges to Trump travel ban
- French soldier shoots, wounds machete-wielding attacker at Paris Louvre
- Fed's Evans defends Wall Street reforms, invokes mother-in-law
- Myanmar's Suu Kyi vows to investigate crimes against Rohingya - U.N.'s Zeid
- 'El Chapo' lawyers complain about strict New York jail conditions
- "We woke up in 1989": Romanian graft decree turns back the clock
- More than 100,000 visas revoked amid Trump travel ban - reports
- U.S. Republicans kill energy sector disclosure, emissions rules
- U.S. CEOs meet with Trump amid tension over travel ban, taxes
- Trump aide cites 'massacre' that never occurred to defend immigrant ban
- Freed from jihadists, Mosul residents focus fury on Iraqi politicians
- Congo police clash with sect, kill at least eight, activists say
- France's Hollande praises soldiers who shot attacker at Louvre
- Turkish authorities release veteran Kurdish politician after 2 months
- Russia seeks suspended sentence for opposition leader Alexei Navalny
- Myanmar's Suu Kyi vows to investigate crimes against Rohingya - U.N.'s Zeid tells Reuters
- Myanmar's probe of lawyer's killing beset by leaks, confusion
- Conservative Fillon fights to remain in French presidential race
- Louvre visitors learn of attack by loudspeaker, told to sit
- Pakistan denies identity papers to family of doctor who helped trace bin Laden
- Turkey says Greek military exercise on Aegean island breached international law
- Philippines scraps communist truce, Duterte tells troops 'be ready to fight'
- Eleven arrested during protest against conservative comedian at NYU
- Italy's Renzi signals willingness to ditch push for early vote
| U.S. courts hear challenges to Trump travel ban | |  By Scott Malone and Dan Levine BOSTON/SEATTLE (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston expressed skepticism on Friday about a civil rights group's claim that President Donald Trump's order banning citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States represented religious discrimination. The hearing was one of a series of legal challenges to the measure the new Republican president signed last week, which blocked people holding passports from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The order also temporarily stopped the entry of all refugees into the country and indefinitely halted the settlement of Syrian refugees.
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| French soldier shoots, wounds machete-wielding attacker at Paris Louvre | |  By Michel Rose and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - A French soldier shot and wounded a man armed with machetes and carrying two bags on his back on Friday as he tried to enter the Paris Louvre museum in what the government said appeared to have been a terrorist attack. Initial indications were that the man, who was hovering between life and death after being shot, was an Egyptian who arrived in France at the end of January, a source close to the investigation said. The man shouted Allahu Akbar (God is greatest) and rushed at police and soldiers before being shot and seriously wounded near the museum's shopping mall, police said.
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| Fed's Evans defends Wall Street reforms, invokes mother-in-law | |  By Ann Saphir OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (Reuters) - Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans on Friday defended the sweeping Wall Street reforms that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to rethink, saying they are helping protect against a new financial crisis. "I think that many of the things that we've been able to achieve have been extremely helpful for better ensuring financial stability," Evans told reporters after a fundraiser for Prairie State College in Olympia Fields, Ill. "I think the more and better capital of the banking industry has been extremely useful." Trump on Friday plans to order a review of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms, with an eye to rolling back regulations he sees as slowing the economy. Fed Chair Janet Yellen has resisted any weakening of the bank rules, though she has also said that some changes could be made to reduce the regulatory burden on small banks.
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| Myanmar's Suu Kyi vows to investigate crimes against Rohingya - U.N.'s Zeid | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The top United Nations human rights official said Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi promised on Friday to investigate U.N. allegations of atrocities against Rohingya Muslims. Security forces and police have committed mass killings and gang rapes and burned villages in northern Rakhine state, a U.N. investigation published on Friday found.
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| 'El Chapo' lawyers complain about strict New York jail conditions | | | Lawyers for Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman complained on Friday that he was being subjected to excessive conditions of confinement in a federal jail and that his wife was not being allowed to visit him. The arguments came in federal court in Brooklyn at a hearing for Guzman, who has pleaded not guilty to charges that he ran the world's largest drug-trafficking organization during a decades-long career. Guzman's wife, Emma Coronel, flew from Mexico to attend the hearing, which his lawyers said was the first time she had seen him since his surprise extradition two weeks ago. |
| "We woke up in 1989": Romanian graft decree turns back the clock | |  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. Corrupt procurement practices are rife in Romania's public sector, particularly hospitals, and prosecutors say they stand to get worse under a decree that the Social Democrats – voted back into office in December – issued on Feb. 1.
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| More than 100,000 visas revoked amid Trump travel ban - reports | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 100,000 visas have been revoked in the wake of the Trump administrations recent travel ban on citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries, according to media reports on Friday. The Washington Post reported the figure, citing a government attorney at a federal court hearing in Virginia. NBC News' Washington affiliate also reported the number from the hearing. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Eric Walsh) |
| U.S. Republicans kill energy sector disclosure, emissions rules | |  By Lisa Lambert and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans on Friday repealed a securities disclosure rule aimed at curbing corruption at oil, gas and mining companies and voted to ax emissions limits on drilling operations, part of a push to remove Obama-era regulations on the energy industry. In a 52-47 vote, the Republican-controlled Senate approved a resolution that wipes from the books a rule requiring companies such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron Corp to publicly state the taxes and other fees paid to foreign governments. The House of Representatives already has passed the measure.
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| U.S. CEOs meet with Trump amid tension over travel ban, taxes | |  By Emily Stephenson and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chief executives of major U.S. companies huddled with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday as the business community is increasingly split over how to respond to his policies, especially a travel ban announced last week. Trump kicked off the meeting with CEOs including Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase & Co and Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo Inc, saying the group would discuss peeling back banking rules and declaring that companies would bring new jobs to the United States.
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| Trump aide cites 'massacre' that never occurred to defend immigrant ban | | | A Trump administration aide corrected herself on Friday after a wave of criticism for referencing a 2011 "massacre" in Kentucky that never occurred to defend President Donald Trump's temporary ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. During an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday, White House counselor and spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway said Trump's recent executive order was justified in part because of the "Bowling Green massacre" of 2011, which never took place. |
| Freed from jihadists, Mosul residents focus fury on Iraqi politicians | | | By Michael Georgy MOSUL (Reuters) - As raw sewage gushed out of a crater made by an airstrike against Islamic State in Mosul, seething residents who sold their clothes to survive had a sobering message for Iraqi politicians boasting of military advances against the group. "If things don't change Islamic State will just come back. Mosul residents will support whoever can help them." A former traffic policeman, he said he had not worked since Islamic State swept into the city in 2014, leaving him no choice but to sell his clothes for food. |
| Congo police clash with sect, kill at least eight, activists say | | | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday killed at least eight members of a separatist religious sect, local activists said, escalating tensions in a normally peaceful part of a conflict-ravaged country. The police opened fire on members of Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) as they approached the morgue in the town of Kimpese to recover the bodies of fellow members killed in protests last month, Jonas Lukoki, the provincial coordinator of the New Civil Society, told Reuters. Another local activist in Kimpese said that the police had killed at least eight BDK members. |
| France's Hollande praises soldiers who shot attacker at Louvre | |  PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande praised the soldiers who shot and wounded an attacker at the Louvre museum in Paris on Friday, preventing what he said looked like a terrorist act. "This operation undoubtedly prevented an attack whose terrorist nature leaves little doubt," Hollande said at a meeting of EU leaders in Malta. (Reporting by Richard Balmforth; writing by Michel Rose)
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| Turkish authorities release veteran Kurdish politician after 2 months | | | Turkish authorities have released a veteran Kurdish politician and mayor in the southeastern province of Mardin held for more than two months as part of a terrorism investigation, sources in his party said on Friday. Ahmet Turk, 74, was detained on Nov. 21 in a crackdown which saw dozens of elected mayors removed from municipalities in the largely Kurdish southeast over suspected militant links and replaced with state-appointed administrators. Turk, who was first elected in 1973 to represent Mardin in the national parliament and served as a lawmaker until 2015, is one of the best-known figures in the Kurdish political movement in Turkey and his detention drew widespread criticism. |
| Russia seeks suspended sentence for opposition leader Alexei Navalny | |  Russian prosecutors said on Friday they were seeking a suspended five-year sentence for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is on trial for embezzlement, a punishment that would stop him from running for the presidency in 2018. Navalny, who denies wrongdoing and says the case is politically-motivated, has said he intends to challenge Vladimir Putin at next year's presidential election. Putin is expected to run, but has not yet said whether he will take part or not.
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| Myanmar's Suu Kyi vows to investigate crimes against Rohingya - U.N.'s Zeid tells Reuters | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - The top United Nations human rights official said on Friday that Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has promised to investigate allegations of systematic and widespread violence against Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein was speaking in an interview with Reuters after his office issued a report based on accounts from 220 Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh since a counter-insurgency operation began on Oct. 9 in Rakhine. "I did speak to Aung San Suu Kyi about an hour and a half ago. ...
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| Myanmar's probe of lawyer's killing beset by leaks, confusion | |  By Shwe Yee Saw Myint and Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's national police chief has taken personal charge of an investigation into the killing of a prominent lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party, police sources said, after leaks and conflicting comments by officers about its progress. The killing of Muslim advocate Ko Ni, 63 - shot in the head on Sunday in front of onlookers while he held his grandson outside Yangon's international airport - has rocked the commercial capital, where acts of political violence are rare. Tens of thousands turned out for Ko Ni's funeral, and the public is closely watching how authorities investigate a killing the civilian president's office has called an attempt to destabilise the state.
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| Conservative Fillon fights to remain in French presidential race | |  Francois Fillon clung to his place as France's conservative presidential candidate on Friday amid worsening opinion poll ratings and speculation about his ability to carry on after accusations his wife got public money for work she did not do. Police carried out searches at the Senate in connection with the fake job allegations on Friday, looking in particular for information concerning payments there to Charles and Marie, two of Fillon's children, the public prosecutor said. Senate President Gerard Larcher, named by some politicians as a desirable substitute if Fillon bowed out, took to Twitter to deny a report in news publication L'Obs that he was about to withdraw his support for the current presidential contender.
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| Louvre visitors learn of attack by loudspeaker, told to sit | |  By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Visitors to the Louvre learned by loudspeaker announcement of Friday's attempted attack on the Paris museum and there was no panic, witnesses said, though some children cried as guards directed people to sit tight together and away from windows. A French soldier shot and wounded a man armed with a machete and carrying two bags on his back as he tried to enter the world-renowned museum in what the government said appeared to have been a terrorist attack. "(The announcement) came over the loudspeakers that are dotted around," said Paul Lecher, 68, a retired Parisian and frequent Louvre visitor.
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| Pakistan denies identity papers to family of doctor who helped trace bin Laden | | | By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan has denied identity cards to the family of Shakeel Afridi, the jailed doctor believed to have helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden in 2011, blocking college enrolment for his children, their lawyer said on Friday. Afridi was accused of treason after word spread that he had helped the CIA collect DNA samples of the bin Laden family, paving the way for a secret U.S. Navy Seal raid that killed the al Qaeda leader in the town of Abbottabad. Now his 19-year-old daughter and 21-year-old son have been denied national identity cards, essential documents for Pakistanis, said Qamar Nadeem, the family's lawyer in the northwestern city of Peshawar. |
| Turkey says Greek military exercise on Aegean island breached international law | | | Turkey accused Greece on Friday of breaching international law by carrying out a military exercise on an island in the Aegean Sea, in an escalating row between the two NATO allies. The Turkish foreign ministry said it was aware of Greek media reports that Greek special forces had parachuted onto Kos and said the exercise was a breach of a 1947 treaty that banned all such training on the island. A Greek defence ministry source confirmed there had been a scheduled exercise at the beginning of the week involving parachutists. |
| Philippines scraps communist truce, Duterte tells troops 'be ready to fight' | |  By Martin Petty and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine government will withdraw from a ceasefire with communist rebels on Friday, President Rodrigo Duterte said, as he ordered soldiers to prepare to fight and declared there would be no peace with the insurgents for a generation. Duterte was angered by the deaths of six soldiers and the abduction of three since the New People's Army (NPA) halted its unilateral ceasefire on Wednesday.He complained that despite making multiple concessions to the communists, the NPA's demands were "just too huge". The conflict between the government and the NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), has raged since 1968 and killed more than 40,000 people.
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| Eleven arrested during protest against conservative comedian at NYU | | | (Reuters) - Eleven people have been arrested outside New York University during a heated protest against a conservative comedian who gave a speech at the school, police said on Friday. A group that organized the protest against Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes said he was known for using incendiary language, according to local media. McInnes said on Twitter he had been sprayed with pepper spray, but "being called a Nazi burned way more." The protesters face charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and criminal mischief after they were taken into custody during a demonstration against McInnes, who made an appearance at the university late on Thursday, a New York City Police Department spokesman said. |
| Italy's Renzi signals willingness to ditch push for early vote | |  Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi signalled willingness on Friday to shelve a drive for early elections that is tearing apart his Democratic Party (PD) as it faces a strong challenge from eurosceptic populists. Renzi, who resigned after his proposal to change the constitution was rejected in a referendum last year, has been pushing for a vote by June, around a year ahead of schedule. "Elections can't be the 'second half' after the referendum.
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