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| Two stolen Andy Warhol prints handed to L.A. police - attorney | | Wednesday, September 16, 2015 2:58 AM | |
| | By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two of the nine Andy Warhol prints stolen from a Los Angeles movie business in a theft that went unnoticed for years have been turned over to police, an attorney for a man who had the artwork said on Tuesday. Attorney Harland Braun said he arranged to have police come to his office on Monday and pick up Warhol prints titled "Siberian Tiger" and "Bighorn Ram," which he said were among three prints his client bought several years ago from a man involved in commercial construction. Braun represents Bryan Calvero, who he said works at apparel company Crooks & Castles and was named in court documents in the theft case. |
| Ending child labour by 2025 farcical as India plans to allow family work | | Wednesday, September 16, 2015 2:30 AM | |
|  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thirteen-year-old Sumaila has no time to go to school. It hurts my eyes and my fingers get sore," said Sumaila, sitting cross-legged on the floor of a centre for child workers run by a charity in the south Delhi slums of Madanpur Khader.
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| U.S. Senate Democrats again block Iran nuclear deal disapproval | | | U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday, for the second time in a week, blocked legislation meant to kill an Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration and other world powers with Tehran. By a vote of 56-42, the Republican-majority Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed in the 100-member chamber to advance the legislation. The result was similar to last week's procedural vote on the Iran measure but two Republicans opposed to the deal, presidential candidates Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham, did not vote on Tuesday. |
| FIFA received no profit sharing from 2005 contract - letter | |  By Mark Hosenball ZURICH (Reuters) - Soccer world governing body FIFA was due half of the advertising revenue from a 2005 media deal it signed with a Caribbean soccer organisation but did not receive any of it, according to a termination letter sent by FIFA. The contract was signed between FIFA and the Caribbean Football Union and involved media rights in parts of the Caribbean for the 2010 and 2014 World Cup competitions. In the July 2011 letter, reviewed by Reuters, two FIFA officials wrote to the Caribbean Football Union to say they had expected FIFA to receive 50 percent of all revenue from the sale of broadcast sponsorship and TV commercials.
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| Court rejects ban on Muslim veil at Canadian citizenship ceremonies | | | An appeals court rejected the Canadian government's ban on face coverings worn by some Muslims during citizenship ceremonies, the Canadian Press reported on Tuesday. In response, the ruling Conservative party said the government was considering all legal options following the court ruling in Ontario. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, facing a tight three-way battle to remain in power, has defended the ban arguing that he believed the niqab, a face covering veil worn by some Muslims, was rooted in an "anti-women" culture. |
| Mali militias withdraw from key town but expand northwards - U.N. | | | Mali's pro-government militias have withdrawn from the flashpoint town of Anefis but are pushing northwards to another settlement, the United Nations mission (MINUSMA) said on Tuesday. Mediators are struggling to make armed groups in Mali's desert north abide by the terms of a U.N.-backed June peace deal which seeks to turn the page on decades of Tuareg rebellions since independence from France in 1960. The departure of the Platform coalition from Anefis comes after weeks of pressure from Western donors, MINUSMA and even from the Malian government following a series of clashes there last month that killed at least 20 people. |
| Suspect in shooting of girlfriend and Mississippi professor left behind apology note | | | A Mississippi college instructor suspected of gunning down his live-in girlfriend and a professor colleague before taking his own life, left behind a note of apology, police said on Tuesday. Police said Lamb, 45, shot and killed Amy Prentiss, 41, at the home they shared in Gautier, Mississippi, before driving 300 miles (480 km) to Delta State, where he fatally shot Ethan Schmidt, an assistant professor of American history. |
| U.S. making plans for Syrian migrants - Homeland Security chief | |  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is developing a plan right now for taking in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, within existing budget constraints, Secretary Jeh Johnson told Reuters on Tuesday. While some lawmakers have expressed concern about opening a pipeline into the United States for terrorists, the White House last week made the first specific U.S. commitment to increase acceptance of refugees from the war-torn country. Johnson said on Tuesday that the security review and background checks for refugees would mainly fall to Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) within his agency.
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| Argentine judge, 97, to step down after president leaves office | |  A 97-year-old Argentine Supreme Court judge who has clashed with the government over his ability to do his job presented his resignation on Tuesday, but it will only take effect the day after President Cristina Fernandez leaves office. Earlier this year, Fernandez's government questioned Carlos Fayt's ability to continue in his post, with senior officials calling for medical tests to evaluate his mental and physical health. Fayt insisted he was in good health and government opponents accused Fernandez's administration of seeking to replace him with a judge more sympathetic to it, amid a raft of high profile graft investigations and accusations of political interference in the judiciary.
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| GE to move U.S. jobs overseas in fight over export credits | |  By David Lawder and Lewis Krauskopf WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Electric Co said on Tuesday it will move as many as 500 U.S. power turbine manufacturing jobs to Europe and China because it can no longer access U.S. Export-Import Bank financing, reigniting a congressional battle over the suspended institution's future. The largest U.S. industrial conglomerate said France's COFACE export agency has agreed to support some of GE's global power project bids with a new line of credit in exchange for moving production of some heavy-duty gas turbines to Belfort, France, along with 400 jobs. No U.S. facility will close, a GE spokeswoman said.
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| Colombia's president says Venezuela gestures could solve border spat | |  Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday there had been important gestures made from Venezuela that could help facilitate a meeting with its President Nicolas Maduro in a bid to end a dispute between the two governments. The neighbouring countries have been at odds in the past weeks since Maduro's socialist government closed several major border crossings and deported 1,400 Colombians in what he said was a crackdown on smuggling and crime. As many as 18,000 Colombians have left Venezuela, many claiming they were beaten before wading rivers and crossing bridges with their belongings on their backs.
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| Refugees seek new routes as Hungary seals border | |  (Reuters) - As Hungary threw up the barriers to stop thousands of refugees trekking over its border from Serbia and into the European Union, undeterred migrants on the roads simply began to think of other routes to take. The Hungarian decision might relieve pressure on itself, but also meant that new countries on the migrants' maps would be drawn into the crisis. "Maybe we'll try Croatia, then Slovenia and from there to Vienna and Germany," said Emad, a refugee from the Syrian capital Damascus as he entered Macedonia from Greece.
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| Homeland Security websites vulnerable to cyber attack - audit | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. department charged with protecting government computers needs to secure its own information systems better, according to an audit released on Tuesday that showed lapses in internal systems used by the Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security also needs to establish a cyber training programme for analysts and investigators, the audit said, with officials from several agencies blaming short-term budget allocations from Congress for their training cuts. "We identified vulnerabilities on internal websites at ICE and USSS that may allow unauthorised individuals to gain access to sensitive data," according to the report by the Office of the Inspector General for DHS.
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| British-Bahraini asks Swiss to probe Bahrain attorney general for torture | | | A British-Bahraini man who says he was tortured in Bahrain in 2010 has filed a criminal complaint in Switzerland against Bahrain's attorney general, who was visiting Zurich for an international conference, the man's supporters said on Tuesday. Four activist groups urged Swiss prosecutors to take up the politically sensitive case lodged against Ali Bin Fadhul Al-Buainain by Jaafar Al-Hasabi in the canton of Berne. "The Swiss authorities have the opportunity to show they take the UN Convention against Torture seriously and to apply their national law accordingly," said Wolfgang Kaleck, general secretary of the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. |
| White House says does not back U.S. House bill to repeal oil export ban | | | The White House said on Tuesday it does not support a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal the 40-year-old ban on exports of crude oil. "This is a policy decision that is made over at the Commerce Department, and for that reason, we wouldn't support legislation like the one that's been put forward by Republicans," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at a briefing. "The administration believes that the American people are better served by making sure that we pursue the kind of approach that also invests in renewable energy," he said. |
| Serie A team's balcony spectators raise safety fears | | | Police are concerned about the safety of people cramming on to balconies to get a free view of Serie A team Frosinone's home matches. A number of people watched Frosinone's match on Saturday against AS Roma from the balconies of a neighbouring building which give a bird's-eye view of the action at the Stadio Comunale Matusa. "Nothing has escaped the attention of the local police, not even the numerous presence of the public on the balconies overlooking the sports field," said the local police authority in a statement. |
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