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| Kerry to press Arabs to back campaign against Islamic State | |  By Jason Szep AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will press Arab leaders on Thursday to support President Barack Obama's plans for a new military campaign against Islamic State militants including help with greater overflight rights for U.S. warplanes. In a strong measure of support, Saudi Arabia has agreed to host training camps for moderate Syrian rebels who are part of Obama's broad strategy to combat the militants, who have taken over a third of both Syria and Iraq, U.S. officials said. ...
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| Pistorius faces justice as judge starts verdict | |  By Stella Mapenzauswa PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who became one of the biggest names in world athletics, faced justice on Thursday as a South African judge started her verdict in his murder trial, a decision that could put him behind bars for 25 years. In a fitting reminder of how South Africa has changed in the 20 years since apartheid, the fate of Pistorius, a wealthy white man from privileged roots, rests in the hands of a 66-year-old black woman from Soweto, Judge Thokozile Masipa. ...
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| Pistorius trial: judge says allegations of police contamination of evidence insignificant | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Judge Thokozile Masipa said while reading her verdict in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius on Thursday that defence claims that police contaminated evidence and removed items from the crime scene "paled into insignificance". Pistorius, the double amputee who became one of the biggest names in athletics, shot dead his model and law graduate girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. The state has called for a verdict of premeditated murder, which could carry a sentence of 25 years in prison. ...
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| Al Qaeda-backed group releases video of kidnapped U.N. peacekeepers | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-backed militant group that seized 45 U.N. peacekeepers two weeks ago on the Golan Heights has posted a video in which the hostages, from the South Pacific nation of Fiji, say they expect to be released soon. The video, which was posted on the Nusra Front's Twitter and YouTube accounts on Wednesday but was apparently recorded a day earlier, appears to show the troops in a good condition, at points smiling and waving at the camera. ...
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| Philippines' Aquino seeks more power for govt to avert electricity crisis | |  MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino said he would ask Congress to allow the government to enter into energy supply contracts, for the first time since the industry was privatised in 2001, to avert a looming power shortage next year. The country, which needs 600 megawatts (MW) of new power supply before March, is set to face rolling brownouts in 2015 on the main Luzon Island - home to its manufacturing and booming call centre industries as well as more than half of its 100 million people. ...
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| Indonesia's Widodo wants to overturn law curbing anti-graft drive-adviser | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Yayat Supriyatna JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian president-elect Joko Widodo wants the top court to overturn legislation that makes it more difficult to investigate lawmakers for graft, an adviser said, referring to a law passed with little publicity in one of the world's most corrupt countries. Widodo's team echoes the concerns of civil society groups that have challenged a law requiring investigators to get approval from a special parliamentary council before investigating lawmakers for corruption or other crimes. ...
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| Syrian opposition coalition says ready to partner against Islamic State | | | ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's Western-backed National Coalition opposition on Thursday said it was ready to work with the United States against Islamic State militants after President Barack Obama authorised U.S. air strikes for the first time in Syria. Saying it had "long called for this action" and had repeatedly warned about Islamic State, the coalition called again for its military wing, the Free Syrian Army, to receive support to form a "reliable and well-equipped force." "We urge the U.S. ... |
| China's Communist Party expels former aide to retired security chief | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has expelled a former aide to retired security chief Zhou Yongkang and accused him of taking bribes, the government said on Thursday, the latest move against people close to Zhou as part of a graft probe. Li Chongxi has already been sacked as head of an advisory body to the legislature in the southwestern province of Sichuan, and his expulsion from the party paves the way for his formal prosecution. ...
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| Former FBI director Mueller to lead probe of NFL's handling of Ray Rice case | |  By Steve Ginsburg REUTERS - A former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller III, will lead a probe into the National Football League's handling of former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice's domestic violence case, the league said on Wednesday. The announcement comes within hours of a report by the Associated Press that a law enforcement official sent a video to the league in April that showed Rice knocking out his then-fiancee in an elevator. ...
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| U.S. lawmakers embrace fight against Islamic State, some question Obama plan | |  By David Lawder and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers say they are on the verge of taking a "war vote" as they consider whether to back President Barack Obama's campaign to destroy Islamic State, and despite broad support for action many fear being drawn into a quagmire. The White House wants Congress to approve $500 million to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels to battle Islamic State militants, a show of confidence for administration officials as they try to form an international coalition. The beheadings of two U.S. ...
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