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| Trump says he would like to speed up NAFTA talks | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his concerns about the North American Free Trade Agreement partners on Thursday and said he would like to speed up talks to either renegotiate or replace the deal. After a meeting with key lawmakers in the Oval Office, Trump said Wilbur Ross, his pick for Commerce Secretary, would lead the negotiations. (Reporting by Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton)
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| Colombia's ELN rebels free hostage, opening way for peace talks | | | Colombia's second-biggest rebel group, the ELN, freed a politician it held captive for almost 10 months on Thursday, meeting a government requirement for delayed peace talks with the group to begin. The National Liberation Army released Odin Sanchez, 62, to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which will accompany him on a flight to Quibdo, in northwestern Choco province, a government official told reporters. President Juan Manuel Santos had conditioned talks with the 2,000-strong ELN, considered a terrorist group by the United States and European Union, on it freeing hostages. |
| U.S. makes sanctions exceptions for some transactions with Russian intelligence agency | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department said it will allow companies to do some transactions with Russia's Security Service (FSB), despite cyber-sanctions put in place by former President Barack Obama. U.S. intelligence agencies accused the FSB of involvement in hacking of Democratic organizations during the 2016 presidential election. (Reporting by Joel Schectman) |
| Britain will try to negotiate amicable EU divorce - Brexit paper | |  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will do its utmost to negotiate a divorce deal with the European Union that is mutually beneficial, Brexit minister David Davis said on Thursday, setting out the government's strategy in an official policy document. The publication of the "White Paper" is part of an attempt by Prime Minister Theresa May to keep lawmakers on side as she launches Britain's formal divorce talks with the EU.
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| Syrian musician says Trump immigration order insults humanity | |  By Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian musician Kinan Azmeh has toured the world for years to international acclaim but his planned return on Thursday to his home in the United States has been thrown into uncertainty. The clarinettist and composer, who won standing ovations in Beirut on Wednesday night at the final concert of his latest tour, is a green card holder based in New York. "Any way you look at it, it's an insult to humanity, to all of us," the 40-year-old musician told Reuters.
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| Crackdown on bush refineries unsettles Nigeria's oil heartland | |  Nerves are on edge now that the military has started sending boats, jeeps and helicopters to destroy hundreds of such facilities in the country's main oil region. The government wants to prevent theft from oil company pipelines and so has turned its attention to shutting down the illicit refineries - makeshift, blackened structures of pipes and metal tanks hidden in oil-soaked clearings - that process the stolen crude. Authorities have spent the last eight months holding peace talks with the militants, whose attacks in the Delta temporarily reduced Nigeria's oil output by a third last year.
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| U.N.'s court says it can rule on Somalia-Kenya boundary case | | | By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The United Nations' highest court ruled on Thursday it has the authority to adjudicate in a maritime boundary dispute between Kenya and Somalia over stretches of the Indian Ocean potentially rich in oil and gas. Somalia asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to rule on the maritime boundaries between the two coastal nations in 2014 after negotiations over the 100,000 square kilometre stretch of sea floor broke down. |
| U.S. hopes to have border wall finished within two years - official | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Thursday he hoped to have a wall along the southern U.S. border with Mexico finished within two years, according to an interview with Fox News. "The wall will be built where it's needed first, and then it will be filled in. That's the way I look at it," Kelly said in the interview. "I really hope to have it done within the next two years." He added he thought funding from Congress for the massive project would come "relatively quickly." (Reporting by Doina Chiacu)
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| Polish opposition accuses ruling party of power grab in Warsaw | | | Warsaw's mayor vowed on Thursday to fight a proposal to expand the city's electoral boundaries, amid angry accusations that it is part of a plan to rig elections in the ruling party's favour. Law and Justice (PiS) lawmakers this week filed a draft bill that would add 32 communities to the capital. The nearly 2 million residents of the current Warsaw would end up with 18 representatives, while the new additional communities, with a combined population of less than 1 million, would get 32. |
| Romanian government stands ground in face of graft backlash | |  By Luiza Ilie and Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's government on Thursday rejected calls to withdraw a decree that critics say marks a major retreat on anti-corruption reforms, standing its ground in the face of huge nationwide protests. After 250,000 people hit the streets on Wednesday evening, cracks in government unity emerged in the morning with the resignation of a cabinet minister and a call from a vice-president of the ruling party for the decree to be rescinded. "The government and the parties that back it are determined to exercise the executive and legislative power granted by the citizens," he told reporters after a meeting of senior party officials and Grindeanu.
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| Trump says his travel ban needed to ensure U.S. religious freedom | |  By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump defended his order to temporarily bar entry to people from seven majority-Muslim nations, which has come under intense criticism at home and abroad, saying on Thursday it was crucial to ensuring religious freedom and tolerance in America. Trump, speaking at a prayer breakfast attended by politicians, faith leaders and guests including Jordan's King Abdullah, said he wanted to prevent a "beachhead of intolerance" from spreading in the United States. Trump's executive order a week ago put a 120-day halt on the U.S. refugee program, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely and imposed a 90-day suspension on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
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| Poland publishes list of Auschwitz guards to show they were German | |  Poland has published the names of some 8,500 guards and commanders who worked at Auschwitz, as part of a government drive to remind the world the death camp was run and staffed by Germans. The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, has complained that some foreign media have referred to Auschwitz and similar camps set up in German-occupied Poland as "Polish concentration camps", possibly giving the impression that Poland was a partner in crime of Adolf Hitler, rather than a victim. The list of Auschwitz staff, published online by the government-affiliated Institute for National Remembrance (IPN), includes camp personnel's places of birth, service numbers, dates of arrival and departure and photographs.
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| Fillon bid for French presidency in chaos as MPs call on him to quit | |  By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Pressure on French presidential candidate Francois Fillon to quit the race mounted on Thursday as some lawmakers in his own camp urged him to drop his scandal-tainted bid in order to save the conservatives from defeat. With opinion polls showing the conservatives that their candidate may be fatally damaged, some senior members of The Republicans urged him to pull out now to give the party time to find a good replacement. Fillon, 62, denied wrongdoing after Le Canard Enchaine newspaper reported the former prime minister had paid his wife hundreds of thousands of euros for work she may not have done.
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| Merkel presses Turkey's Erdogan to uphold freedom of opinion | |  By Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the importance of freedom of opinion in talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, during a visit meant to help improve frayed ties between the two NATO allies. In her first trip to Ankara since a failed military coup in Turkey last July, Merkel said she had discussed Syria and Iraq with Erdogan and that they had agreed on the need for closer cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Germany and Turkey have been at odds over Ankara's crackdown on dissidents since the abortive July 15 coup, as well as its claims - rejected by Berlin - that Germany is harbouring Kurdish and far-leftist militants.
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| Delaware prison officer dead, one in hospital after uprising | |  Police stormed a prison building in Delaware on Thursday to end an 18-1/2-hour hostage standoff by prisoners that left one corrections officer dead and another injured. The officers, who had been held as hostages, were removed at about 5 a.m. from the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in the town of Smyrna after state police officers retook the prison's C Building, Delaware's Department of Correction said in a statement. It was not immediately clear how the male correctional officer died.
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| Video shows French reporter dragged off as he questions Le Pen | | | A video showing a reporter being grabbed by security men and hustled away after asking a question of National Front leader Marine Le Pen circulated on the Internet on Thursday amid confusion over the circumstances of the incident. It was not clear what had happened beforehand in a room at a convention centre where Le Pen was encircled by reporters and camera crews covering her presidential election campaign. According to the National Front, it was not responsible for the reporter's ejection from the business forum she was visiting. |
| Factbox: Key points from Britain's Brexit White Paper | |  The British government has published a "White Paper" policy document, setting out its plans for coming negotiations on leaving the European Union. The 77-page paper reiterated the 12 priorities already set out by Prime Minister Theresa May including that Britain would seek a comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU but not an unlimited transitional status. The white paper can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-united-kingdoms-exit-from-and-new-partnership-with-the-european-union-white-paper ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: "That agreement may take in elements of current Single Market arrangements in certain areas as it makes no sense to start again from scratch when the UK and the remaining Member States have adhered to the same rules for so many years.
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| Deutsche Bank lags rivals with quarterly loss | |  By Arno Schuetze FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank fell further behind its Wall Street rivals in 2016, lagging their strong rebound in bond trading in the last three months of the year and increasing pressure on CEO John Cryan ahead of an expected strategy update this spring. Germany's flagship lender posted on Thursday a net loss of 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in the final quarter of 2016 as legal costs for past misdeeds weighed heavily on results. Analysts had expected the bank to post a loss of 1.16 billion euros.
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| U.S. watchdog agency to review implementation of Trump travel ban | |  A watchdog agency at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it is planning to review how President Donald Trump's immigration executive order to temporarily suspend travel from seven majority-Muslim nations was implemented. The review of Friday's order was being planned "in response to congressional request and whistleblower and hotline complaints," the DHS's Office of Inspector General said in a statement late Wednesday. The watchdog agency would also look at "DHS' adherence to court orders and allegations of individual misconduct on the part of DHS personnel," the statement said. "If circumstances warrant, the OIG will consider including other issues that may arise during the course of the review." The order triggered widespread protests and caused confusion for travelers around the world.
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| In Congo, Tshisekedi's death undermines chances of 2017 transition | |  By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - The death on Wednesday of Congo's opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi leaves opponents of President Joseph Kabila seriously weakened in their bid to force Kabila to quit power after he defied constitutional term limits to stay on last year. Democratic Republic of Congo has never experienced a peaceful transition of power and Kabila's refusal to stand down when his final term expired in December has raised fears the chronically unstable country could slide back into civil war. Despite his 84 years and failing health, Tshisekedi known as "the Sphinx" for his sparse but profound statements, remained the undisputed leader of the opposition to Kabila.
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| Congolese police fire tear gas at protesters in Kinshasa | | | KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese police fired tear gas on Thursday at more than 100 anti-government protesters gathered near the home of late opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi in the capital Kinshasa, a Reuters witness said. Police in a jeep aimed tear gas at members of Tshisekedi's Union for Democracy and Social Progress while a plume of smoke rose from a nearby vehicle, the witness added. (Reporting by Benoit Nyemba; Writing by Emma Farge; editing by Richard Lough) |
| One prison officer dead after Delaware hostage situation - officials | |  (Reuters) - One male prison officer is dead and a female colleague has been hospitalized after they were held hostage overnight by inmates at a prison in Delaware, state officials said on Thursday. The hostages were removed by police at about 5 a.m. local time from James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, a men's prison in the town of Smyrna, where an uprising began midday on Wednesday, the state Department of Correction said in a statement. (Reporting by Laila Kearney)
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| Turkey orders 177 police detained, extending post-coup crackdown - Anadolu | | | Turkish authorities ordered the detention of 177 police officers, the state-run Anadolu agency said on Thursday, widening a crackdown against people accused of links to a failed coup in July. The government has accused the network of cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the coup, and says it made use of ByLock in the attempt. Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, has denied the charge and condemned the coup. |
| NATO helping Western Balkans resist foreign influence - Stoltenberg | |  By Maja Zuvela SARAJEVO (Reuters) - NATO is helping Western Balkan governments build up intelligence and defence bodies to resist foreign, especially Russian, political influence, alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. Stoltenberg, speaking during a visit to Sarajevo, said the alliance was aware of reports of increased Russian influence in the Balkans and of Russian intervention in political processes in Montenegro. "We are following that very closely, we work with partners, including Montenegro, to help them strengthen their intelligence capacities and defence institutions," Stolteneberg said, answering a journalist's question.
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| Romania's justice minister hands over duties to deputy until Feb. 7 - agency | | | BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Justice Minister Florin Iordache, who brought in the corruption decree that sparked protests by tens of thousands of Romanians, has handed over his duties to his deputy until Feb. 7, state news agency Agerpres said. Constantin Sima will deal with "the intense activity required by the 2017 budget adoption", Agerpres news agency quoted a ministry official as saying. (Reporting by Radu Marinas; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Thailand hopes for upgrade in U.S. human trafficking report | | | By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has stepped up prosecutions for human trafficking and hopes its status will be upgraded in the annual U.S. Trafficking in Persons report, the foreign minister said on Thursday. The report, which ranks countries based on anti-trafficking efforts, matters to Thailand's junta as it tries to fully normalise relations with Washington and to show it is tackling tough issues better than previous civilian administrations. Last year, Thailand's status was upgraded a notch to Tier 2 "Watch List". |
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