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| Japan opposition tries to halt vote on contentious security bills | | Thursday, September 17, 2015 2:28 AM | |
|  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese opposition lawmakers were battling on Thursday to prevent a vote on security bills that could allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's agenda to ease the limits of the pacifist constitution. The policy shift, which Abe says is vital to meet challenges such as a rising China, has sparked huge public protests and sharply eroded popular support for the premier. Opponents argue it violates the constitution and fear it could ensnare Japan in U.S.-led conflicts.
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| Rapper Rick Ross loses 'Everyday I'm hustlin'' copyright claim | | Thursday, September 17, 2015 1:08 AM | |
|  By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rapper Rick Ross cannot copyright the words "Everyday I'm hustlin'," a U.S. judge has ruled, putting an end to his claim against music group LMFAO for selling T-shirts with the similar catch-phrase "Everyday I'm shufflin'." In a ruling released on Tuesday in Miami federal court, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said Ross's slogan, a prominent part of his 2006 debut hit "Hustlin'," is a short expression that courts have repeatedly said cannot be copyrighted. Williams' order puts a dent in a copyright infringement lawsuit that Ross, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II, filed against LMFAO in 2013. Ross alleged the Los Angeles-based electropop duo, made up of Stefan Gordy and Skyler Gordy, copied "Hustlin'" for their own 2010 chart-topping "Party Rock Anthem," which contains the lyric "Everyday I'm shufflin'." The hip hop star said LMFAO's song was "an obvious attempt to capitalise on the fame and success of Hustlin'." He also sued Kia Motors for using "Party Rock Anthem" in an advertising campaign.
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| GM to pay $900 million, settle U.S. criminal case over ignition switches - sources | | Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:41 AM | |
|  By David Ingram, Nate Raymond and Joseph White NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co has agreed to pay $900 million and sign a deferred-prosecution agreement to end a U.S. government investigation into its handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to 124 deaths, two sources told Reuters. 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, one source said. The company's expected $900 million payment, confirmed by a second source, is less than the $1.2 billion that Toyota Motor Corp paid to resolve a similar case.
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| First Irish gay marriages due this year as challenge defeated | | Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:30 AM | |
|  Gay couples in Ireland should be able to marry before the end of the year after the country's Supreme Court refused to allow an appeal following an unsuccessful legal challenge to May's landmark same-sex marriage referendum. Ireland became the first country to adopt gay marriage via a popular vote, with the backing of 62 percent of voters, signalling a major change in attitudes in what was once a strongly Catholic and socially conservative society.
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| Amnesty urges Cameroon to investigate abuses in Boko Haram fight | | Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:24 AM | |
| | Amnesty International urged Cameroon on Wednesday to investigate the death of 25 prisoners and disappearance of 130 people after raids by security forces, raising concern about possible abuses arising from a crackdown on Islamist Boko Haram militants. Amnesty said that the Nigerian insurgent group had committed war crimes in neighbouring northern Cameroon by having killed at least 380 civilians since the start of last year. In one attack in October, Boko Haram shot or slit the throats of at least 30 people in the border town of Ambchide, Amnesty said. |
| UK urges student body not to oppose anti-radicalisation reforms | | Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:09 AM | |
| | By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain urged the National Union of Students on Thursday not to undermine government efforts to prevent young Britons being radicalised on university campuses, criticising the body's opposition to new regulations against extremism. Earlier this year the high-profile Islamic State militant known as 'Jihadi John' was unmasked as Mohammed Emwazi, a graduate of the University of Westminster. "All public institutions have a role to play in rooting out and challenging extremism," Prime Minister David Cameron said ahead of the first meeting of an anti-extremism task force, which he was due to chair later on Thursday. |
| U.S. SEC drops Onyx insider trading lawsuit against Dubai men | | Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:05 AM | |
| | By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit accusing two Dubai men of insider trading in Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc while the cancer drugmaker was mulling a takeover bid by Amgen Inc . U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan granted the SEC's request to end its two-year-old case against Dhia Jafar and Omar Nabulsi without prejudice, and lift a $2.55 million asset freeze on two accounts they held at Citigroup. The SEC did not explain why it wanted the dismissal, which it requested in a Tuesday court filing. |
| 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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