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| Obama invites Texas student arrested for homemade clock to White House | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas teenager taken away in handcuffs this week for bringing to his Dallas-area school a homemade clock that staff mistook for a bomb won a personal invitation from President Barack Obama on Wednesday to visit the White House. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was accused of making a hoax bomb, police in Irving said. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said he is Muslim and the case serves as an example of the climate of hate and manufactured fear around the religion.
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| Refugees see last chance for Europe before winter closes route from Turkey | | | By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Syrians and other migrants thronged a small park in central Istanbul on Wednesday, hoping for a last chance to reach Europe before poor weather makes their favoured route from Turkey to Greece too dangerous to undertake. "It is time to go, while the door to Europe is open," said Zopir, 20, who fled the Syrian town of Deir al-Zor three years ago and now wants to reach Europe before his wife, eight months pregnant, gives birth. "I am afraid, but I am ready." Zopir scraped together 8,000 euros ($9,000) for their trip, which begins in and near the park in Aksaray, a working-class district of Istanbul, by hiring a "dealer": a front man for smugglers who help refugees reach the Aegean coast. |
| Ex-broker pleads guilty in napkin-eating insider trading scheme | | | A former Morgan Stanley stockbroker pleaded guilty on Wednesday to insider trading, over a scheme in which an accomplice showed him stolen stock tips on napkins and Post-its in Grand Central Station and then ate the evidence. Vladimir Eydelman, 43, admitted to securities fraud, tender offer fraud and conspiracy charges before U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp in Trenton, New Jersey, federal prosecutors said. |
| Somali-American to plead guilty to trying to help Islamic State | | | A Somali-American man from Minnesota is expected to plead guilty in connection with a federal investigation into recruiting of young people by Islamic State militants, according to a filing in U.S. federal court on Wednesday. Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman is scheduled to appear in court in Minneapolis at midday on Thursday for a change-of-plea hearing and would become the second defendant in the case to enter a guilty plea in September. Hanad Musse, 19, pleaded guilty last week before U.S. District Judge Michael Davis to conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State. |
| South Africa studying court ruling on Bashir - Foreign Minister | |  South Africa's government is studying a court's rejection of its bid to appeal a ruling that authorities erred in letting Sudan's wanted leader leave the country despite a court order barring him from doing so, South Africa's foreign minister said. A South African court on Wednesday threw out the appeal bid on grounds Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir did not have diplomatic immunity against a global arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Al-Bashir, who was in South Africa for an African Union (AU) summit in June, was allowed to depart for Khartoum even though a Pretoria court had issued an order banning him from leaving.
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| GM to settle U.S. criminal case over ignition switches - source | |  By David Ingram, Nate Raymond and Joseph White NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co has agreed to sign a deferred-prosecution agreement to end a U.S. government investigation into its handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to 124 deaths, a source told Reuters. The company will pay less than the $1.2 billion that Toyota Motor Corp paid to resolve a similar case, the source said. The deal means GM will be charged criminally with hiding the defect from regulators and in the process defrauding consumers, but the case will be put on hold while GM fulfills terms of the deal, the source said.
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| Obama upbeat on prospects for Pacific trade deal | |  U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he was confident Pacific Rim nations could nail down an agreement on a free-trade pact this year although approval by the U.S. Congress was not guaranteed. Speaking to a group of corporate executives, Obama said trade ministers should soon have an opportunity to close a deal on the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership. "I'm confident that we can get it done, and I believe we can get it done this year," Obama told the Business Roundtable.
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| Key U.S. Democrats object to new Republican Iran measure | | | U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Ben Cardin, senior Democrats who oppose the nuclear agreement with Iran, will vote against a Republican effort to require new conditions before President Barack Obama could lift any sanctions under the deal, aides said on Wednesday. After Senate Democrats twice blocked a disapproval resolution meant to kill the nuclear agreement, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced amendments to the measure that would bar Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran unless it recognises Israel's right to exist and releases American prisoners. |
| Burkina leaders must be freed immediately - U.N. joint statement | | | DAKAR (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's presidential guard should immediately release leaders of the interim government, including President Michel Kafando, the United Nations, African Union and regional bloc ECOWAS said in a joint statement on Wednesday. The statement in French said that perpetrators from the elite military unit had violated the West African country's constitution and would be held responsible for their acts. (Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Daniel Flynn) |
| Only handful of U.S.-trained Syrian rebels still fighting - general | |  By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Only four or five U.S.-trained Syrian rebels are still fighting in Syria, a top U.S. general told Congress on Wednesday, a stark admission of setbacks to a fledgling military programme that critics have already pronounced a failure. The U.S. military began training in May for up to 5,400 fighters a year, in what was seen as a test of President Barack Obama's strategy of having local partners combat Islamic State militants and keep U.S. troops off the front lines. U.S. officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that a review is underway that could result in scaling back and reenvisioning the programme.
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| Libya's Tripoli govt captures Russia-flagged tanker smuggling oil | | | Military forces allied with Libya's self-declared government in Tripoli said on Wednesday they had captured a Russian-flagged oil tanker and its crew trying to smuggle oil from the port of Zawara. Twafik Alskir, a senior official with Tripoli-allied naval forces said 11 Russian crew had been detained. Libya is caught up in a conflict between two rival governments - one internationally recognised, and the other self-declared after its forces took over Tripoli last year. |
| Obama warns China on cyber spying ahead of Xi visit | |  By Roberta Rampton and Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for an international framework to prevent the Internet from being "weaponised" as a tool of national aggression, while holding out the prospect of a forceful U.S. response to China over hacking attacks. With Chinese President Xi Jinping set to visit Washington next week, Obama told a group of company chief executives that cybersecurity would be a major focus in his talks with Xi, a topic that has become a point of friction in U.S.-Chinese relations. A person briefed on the White House's thinking said on Tuesday the United States does not plan to impose sanctions on Chinese entities for economic cyber attacks ahead of Xi's visit to avoid what would be seen as a diplomatic disaster.
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| Anglican Church to discuss looser global ties due to internal splits | |  The Archbishop of Canterbury has called a meeting of leading bishops to discuss loosening the Anglican Church's global structure due to growing differences over homosexuality and female bishops. The Anglican Communion, the world's third largest Christian body with 80 million members, has been split between the more liberal churches of North America and Britain, where women are now allowed to become bishops and same sex couples can marry, and their more conservative counterparts in Africa. In 2013, senior African Anglican leaders denounced the Church of England's decision to allow celibate gay bishops, warning this would only widen divisions within the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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| Yemeni government returns to Aden after months in exile - spokesman | | | By Mohammed Mukhashaf and Mohammed Ghobari ADEN/SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah returned to the southern port of Aden on Wednesday in a step towards restoring a government on home soil after months of working from exile with Gulf Arab allies to combat Houthi domination of the country. Government spokesman Rajeh Badi said Bahah, who is also vice president, was accompanied by seven ministers when he arrived in Aden, which loyalist fighters backed by Saudi-led troops recaptured from Iranian-allied Houthi forces in July. "Khaled Bahah and the ministers who arrived with him are in Aden to stay permanently," Badi said. |
| Burkina's presidential guard takes leaders hostage - parliament head | |  OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's presidential guard (RSP) has "taken hostage" President Michel Kafando, Prime Minister Isaac Zida and other ministers, the head of a transitional parliament said on Wednesday. "The RSP's countless disruptions are a serious attack on the Republic and its institutions," Moumina Cheriff Sy said in a statement sent to journalists, confirming reports that cabinet members had been detained during a meeting. He added that military chiefs are now attempting to negotiate with members of the RSP. ...
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| SEC drops Onyx insider trading lawsuit against Dubai men | | | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to drop a lawsuit accusing two Dubai men of insider trading in Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc while the cancer drugmaker was mulling a takeover bid by Amgen Inc . Without explanation, the SEC asked U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan to dismiss its case against Dhia Jafar and Omar Nabulsi without prejudice, and lift a $2.55 million asset freeze on two accounts they held at Citigroup, according to a Tuesday court filing. The request came even after Oetken in June had rejected the defendants' argument that a decision last December by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals narrowing the definition of insider trading required the dismissal of the SEC's case. |
| UNHCR urges Hungary to allow access for refugees, Serbia can't cope | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency voiced shock on Wednesday at Hungary's turning back of refugees and preventing them from entering the European Union with water cannons and tear gas, noting that many were Syrian families. Antonio Guterres, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, urged Hungarian authorities to ensure "unimpeded access" for people as they flee wars and persecution. ...
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