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| Five Syrians caught in Honduras heading for U.S. freed from jail | | | Five Syrian men caught in Honduras trying to reach the United States last month on fake Greek passports were freed from jail on Tuesday, after they agreed to pay a fine in exchange for the charges against them being dropped, a court spokeswoman said. Caught in Tegucigalpa's Toncontin airport in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, the Syrians had aroused fears in the United States of the possibility of Islamic State fighters entering through the country's southern border with Mexico. Court spokeswoman Barbara Castillo said the men had each agreed to pay a fine of 10,000 Lempiras ($450) for the charges of falsification of documents to be dropped. |
| Chicago police chief out, review launched over black teen's death | |  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's police chief was ousted on Tuesday after days of protest over a white officer's shooting of a black teenager 16 times and the department's refusal to release a video of the killing for more than a year. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced during a news conference that he had asked Garry McCarthy, police superintendent since May 2011, to resign. The mayor also said he was creating a new police accountability task force.
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| Accused killer Durst faces $100 million New York lawsuit in wife's disappearance | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nine months after millionaire Robert Durst appeared to confess on television to killing his wife, her family is suing for $100 million on the unusual grounds they never got to bury their loved one properly. While Durst, 72, was never charged in the 1982 disappearance of Kathleen Durst, he is in custody in New Orleans on a federal gun charge while he awaits extradition to Los Angeles for the 2000 killing of longtime friend Susan Berman. In filing a lawsuit in New York state court on Monday, attorneys for Kathleen Durst's family relied on an obscure bit of common law, known as the right to sepulchre, which gives families the right to bury their relatives properly.
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| 'Visa waiver' travellers would be fingerprinted under Senate bill | | | By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Travellers to the United States from "visa waiver" nations would have to provide fingerprints and photos under a U.S. Senate bill to intensify scrutiny of foreigners, one of several border-tightening measures offered since the Paris attacks. The measure is the latest to propose tightening U.S. border control since the Nov. 13 shootings and bombings in France by Islamic State militants that left 130 people dead, triggering a wave of fear across the United States. The bill was introduced on Tuesday by a bipartisan group of senators led by Democrat Dianne Feinstein and Republican Jeff Flake. |
| Guinea military leader pleads guilty in U.S. to cash smuggling | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sekouba Konate, the general commander of the African Union's security force who served as Guinea's transitional president after a military coup in 2009, pleaded guilty in he United States on Tuesday to bulk cash smuggling and making false statements. Konate, 51, pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. He faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 19. (Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; editing by Grant McCool) |
| U.N. helicopters launch strikes against Congo rebels after deadly raid | | | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N. helicopters launched strikes against Ugandan rebels near the northeastern border of Democratic Republic of Congo in response to attacks that killed dozens of people, the force's top general said on Tuesday. About 30 people were killed on Sunday when Islamist militant fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked military bases near the town of Eringeti. Helicopter gunships fired missiles at ADF positions several miles southeast of Eringeti from about 8 a.m. (0600 GMT), Jean Baillaud, interim force commander for the U.N. mission, MONUSCO, told Reuters, adding he believed rebels suffered losses. |
| Ex-boxing champ Taylor pleads guilty to Arkansas felony charges | |  By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Former world middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor on Tuesday entered guilty pleas in an Arkansas state court to felony charges stemming from three separate cases and is set to face sentencing in April 2016, court officials said. Taylor, 37, had earlier indicated he would contest the charges, which include shooting and wounding a cousin in 2014 near the boxer's home in suburban Little Rock. Taylor pleaded guilty to nine counts, each of which is a D-class felony under Arkansas law.
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| Canadian caught with 51 turtles in his pants pleads guilty in Michigan | | | (Reuters) - A Canadian college student caught at a border checkpoint in August 2014 with 51 live turtles in his pants pleaded guilty to six smuggling charges on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Kai Xu, 27, of Windsor, Ontario, admitted to smuggling or trying to smuggle more than 1,600 turtles of different species out of the United States from April 2014 until his arrest in September 2014. In August 2014, Xu crossed the U.S.-Canada border into Detroit and was watched by U.S. agents as he picked up a package at a parcel centre and appeared to transfer items before heading back to the border, according to a criminal complaint. |
| Al Qaeda Syria wing frees Lebanese in return for jailed Islamists | |  By Tom Perry and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Syrian wing freed 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen on Tuesday in exchange for the release of jailed Islamists including the ex-wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Nusra Front seized the Lebanese 16 months ago during an attack on the Lebanese border town of Arsal, mounted together with the Islamic State jihadist group which is still believed to be holding nine soldiers captured in the incursion. The exchange was brokered by Qatar and cast new light on the Gulf state's channels to the Nusra Front, a powerful player in the Syrian war that has been designated a terrorist group by the United Nations and United States.
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| U.S. nominee to be Myanmar envoy does not see big sanctions changes | |  President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Myanmar said on Tuesday he does not anticipate major changes in U.S. sanctions in the wake of the country's historic election last month. "I would not anticipate, nor recommend any dramatic change," Scot Marciel, currently a deputy assistant secretary of State and former ambassador to Indonesia, said at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a resounding victory in Myanmar's Nov. 8 polls, which were seen as a significant step towards ending decades of military rule.
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| Death penalty still being weighed for accused Charleston church gunman | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is still likely months away from deciding whether to seek the death penalty for a white man accused of killing nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, a prosecutor said on Tuesday. Dylann Roof, 21, faces 33 federal hate crime and firearms charges after authorities said he opened fire on black parishioners during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June. Roof's attorney, David Bruck, has said his client wants to plead guilty but the defence cannot advise him to do so without knowing whether the death penalty will be sought.
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| Bosch sued over alleged role in VW diesel emissions scandal | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH has been accused of conspiring with Volkswagen AG to evade diesel emissions standards in at least 11 million vehicles worldwide in a class action lawsuit filed late on Monday. "Volkswagen's fraudulent scheme was facilitated and aided and abetted by defendant Bosch, which created the software used in Volkswagen's defeat device," said the 56-page lawsuit, which accuses the parties of violating civil racketeering laws and consumer fraud.
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| Montana's Catholic bishops urge state to welcome Syrian refugees | | | Montana's Roman Catholic bishops called on Tuesday for residents of the state to welcome Syrian refugees and warned against a culture of indifference which they said risks dehumanizing people fleeing conflict. Urging Montanans to consider the plight of refugee families from Syria "with an open heart," the bishops also referenced pleas by Pope Francis and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to help the needy and victims of persecution. The open letter came after dozens of Republican state lawmakers wrote to Democratic Governor Steve Bullock urging him to bar Syrian refugees from entering Montana should any be proposed for resettlement there. |
| U.S. defence leaders back congressional war authorisation vote | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the top U.S. military officer, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, said on Tuesday Congress should debate and vote on a formal authorization to use military force against Islamic State. Both told a House of Representatives hearing such a vote would aid the fight against the Islamist group, which has seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, although they stressed they did not feel the administration was legally required to obtain such an authorization. "I absolutely believe that a clear and unequivocal statement of support for the men and women that are prosecuting the campaign and our allies from their elected officials would be absolutely helpful," Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee.
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| Jury selection resumes in Baltimore's Freddie Gray killing trial | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Jury selection resumed on Tuesday in the trial of the first of six police officers charged in the death of a black man from an injury in police custody that triggered rioting and fuelled a U.S. debate on police brutality. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams told a second batch of 75 potential jurors in the trial of Officer William Porter that opening statements could take place in the next few days. The death in April of Freddie Gray, 25, followed police killings of black men in other cities, including New York and Ferguson, Missouri.
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| Suspected Islamists in Paris court in first trial since attacks | | | By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - The trial began in Paris on Tuesday of seven suspected Islamists, including an alleged Islamic State 'executioner' in Syria -- the first such case to go to court since the group killed 130 people in the French capital last month. Six of the men were in court for the opening of their trial on terrorism charges, accused of being part of a network that recruited people to travel to join Islamic State in Syria in 2013. The seventh man, 35-year-old Salim Benghalem, is wanted on an international arrest warrant issued in May 2014. |
| Jailed Libor trader Hayes denied fair trial, lawyer tells London appeals court | |  By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - The judge who sentenced Tom Hayes to 14 years in jail for conspiracy to rig Libor interest rates blocked the defence from presenting key evidence about a banking industry that routinely flouted rules, his lawyer told an appeals court on Tuesday. On the first day of a two-day appeal against the former trader's conviction and sentence, lawyer Neil Hawes told senior judges at London's Court of Appeal that the jury should have been free to consider if Hayes had acted dishonestly against the backdrop of industry practice at the time. Hawes said that during his closing speech in the trial, Judge Jeremy Cooke had prevented him from referring the jury to the culture of the industry in 2006-2010, when he said banks routinely tried to influence benchmark interest rates for commercial reasons.
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| After summit deal, EU considers flying in refugees from Turkey | |  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union executive is drafting a plan to fly limited numbers of refugees from Turkey direct to Europe, EU officials said on Tuesday, following a weekend deal under which Ankara promised to help cut chaotic mass inflows. "It will be a coalition of the willing," an EU official said, while acknowledging that the number of available countries is still unclear, let alone the target figure of refugees.
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| Tunisian woman working for Red Cross in Yemen kidnapped in capital - local officials | | | Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Tunisian woman working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen as she was leaving home for work in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, the ICRC and local officials said. Rima Kamal, the ICRC's Yemen spokeswoman, said the gunmen kidnapped Hawas and a Yemeni man when they intercepted their ICRC vehicle in the morning. |
| Washington state student arrested for making racist threats | | | (Reuters) - Police have arrested a white student from Washington state university suspected of posting a racist threat towards a peer on the anonymous social media platform Yik Yak, officials said on Tuesday. The arrest comes amid heightened tensions on U.S. colleges over allegations of racism on campus as well as violent threats made against black students. Tysen Campbell, a 19-year-old student at Western Washington University, was arrested by campus police on Monday on suspicion of felony malicious harassment over the threat posted last week, the university said in a statement. |
| Indian plan to let kids work in family business is backward step - Satyarthi | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's plans to allow children to work for family businesses and bar teenagers from employment in only a few hazardous industries are 'regressive', Nobel Laureate and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi said on Tuesday. The government wants to amend a three-decade-old law which bans children under 14 from working in 18 hazardous occupations and 65 processes including mining, gem cutting, cement manufacture and hand-looms. If passed by parliament in the coming weeks, the changes will outlaw child labour below 14 in all sectors, stiffen penalties for offenders and expand the age range covered to 15- to 18-year-olds.
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| Sri Lanka to start up special court on alleged war crimes | |  Sri Lanka will set up a special court in the next few weeks to examine alleged war crimes committed in the final phase of its 26-year conflict with Tamil rebels, a top official in charge of reconciliation said on Tuesday. After being elected in August, the island nation's new government signalled it would accept United Nations recommendations to establish a credible judicial process involving foreign judges and prosecutors. "The special court should start its work by the end of this month or by early January," said Chandrika Kumaratunga, who led Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005 and now heads the reconciliation unit of President Maithripala Sirisena's government.
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