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| Huckabee sued for playing 'Eye of the Tiger' at Kim Davis rally | | Friday, November 20, 2015 3:42 AM | |
|  By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - The co-writer of 1980s hit "Eye of the Tiger" has filed a federal lawsuit against Republican Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign for playing the song at a rally for Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to sign gay marriage licenses. Frank Sullivan, a guitarist and founding member of the band Survivor, sued Huckabee for President for unauthorized public performance of the song. Sullivan, who filed the suit in federal court in Illinois, where he lives, asked that Huckabee's campaign be prohibited from unauthorized performances of the song and asked a federal judge to determine damages.
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| U.S. House passes bill to slow Syrian refugees despite Obama veto threat | | Friday, November 20, 2015 3:28 AM | |
|  By Megan Cassella and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama's program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them. The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people, was approved on a vote of 289-137, with 47 of Obama's 188 fellow Democrats breaking with the White House to support it. It would require that high-level officials - the FBI director, the director of national intelligence and homeland security secretary - verify that each Syrian refugee poses no security risk.
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| China says 28 "terrorists" killed after coal mine attack | | Friday, November 20, 2015 3:13 AM | |
| | BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese security forces in the far western region of Xinjiang killed 28 "terrorists" from a militant group that carried out an attack at a coal mine in September in which 16 people died, the regional government said on Friday. The news was carried in the official Xinjiang Daily and on the Xinjiang government's news website. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore) |
| Syrians flee war to brave smugglers' gauntlet in volatile Latin America | | Friday, November 20, 2015 3:12 AM | |
|  By Gustavo Palencia and Dave Graham TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A group of five Syrians paid smugglers $10,000 each to travel through multiple countries before being detained for carrying false Greek documents in Honduras, their epic journey exposing a little-known southern smuggling route for Syrians fleeing war in their homeland. "He is a young man, he wants to earn a living, and what will he do in Syria, it's so dangerous," said his brother-in-law Issa Amissa, speaking to Reuters from the United Arab Emirates. About 10 percent of Syria's population is Christian, followers of some of the world's oldest Orthodox churches.
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| FBI director says no credible threat of Paris-type attack in U.S. | | Friday, November 20, 2015 2:59 AM | |
|  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday there was no credible threat of an attack on U.S. soil similar to the ones last week in Paris and that his agency had taken terrorism investigations "up a notch." Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch discussed U.S. counterterrorism efforts with reporters as security concerns mounted following the killing of 129 people in Paris last Friday in attacks claimed by the Islamic State militant group. "We are not aware of any credible threat here of a Paris-type attack and we have seen no connection at all between the Paris attackers and the United States," Comey said.
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| Swedish police say arrest man suspected of planning terrorist attack | | Friday, November 20, 2015 2:58 AM | |
| | Swedish police on Thursday arrested a man suspected of planning a terrorist attack after a manhunt that saw security tightened across the country days after the attacks in Paris that killed 129 people. Security police left the country's terrorist risk assessment level at its highest ever, four on a scale of five, meaning there is a high probability that "persons have the intent and ability to carry out an attack". On Wednesday, Sweden's Security Police (SAPO) said they had concrete information about a possible attack. |
| Greek police arrest 10 over forged papers for migrants | | Friday, November 20, 2015 2:53 AM | |
| | Greek police said on Thursday they had arrested 10 foreigners for supplying forged passports and registration documents to refugees and other migrants arriving in the country. European Union interior ministers are expected to agree on Friday to tighten checks at the external borders of the passport-free Schengen area, a draft document seen by Reuters shows. The falsified documents were mostly used to allow the migrants to travel from Greece by plane. |
| Liberia president says ritual killings on the rise | | Friday, November 20, 2015 2:47 AM | |
|  Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday vowed to crack down on those responsible for a rise in ritual killings in the West African country as it seeks to emerge from the shadow of an Ebola epidemic. In some areas of central Africa, body parts are prized for their supernatural powers and are used in black magic ceremonies. Local media have reported at least 10 related murders in Liberia since the summer.
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| Fake pesticides endanger crops and human health in India | | Friday, November 20, 2015 2:27 AM | |
|  By Krishna N. Das FARIDABAD, India (Reuters) - Millions of unsuspecting Indian farmers are spraying fake pesticides onto their fields, contaminating soil, cutting crop yields and putting both food security and human health at risk in the country of 1.25 billion people. The use of spurious pesticides has exacerbated losses in the genetically modified (GM) cotton crop in northern India after an attack by whitefly, a pest, say officials. If unchecked, some of India's roughly $26 billion in annual farm exports could be hit.
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| Exclusive: U.S. probes Bosch in VW cheating scandal - sources | |  By Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are investigating German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH [ROBG.UL] over its role in Volkswagen AG's massive scheme to cheat U.S. emission standards, according to people familiar with the matter. Federal prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice are examining whether Bosch, the world's largest auto supplier, knew or participated in Volkswagen's years-long efforts to circumvent U.S. diesel emissions tests, the people said. Bosch built key components in the diesel engine used in six Volkswagen models and one Audi model that the automaker has admitted to rigging to defeat emissions tests.
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