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| 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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| Chicago police chief out, inquiry 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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| 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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| Former boxing champ Taylor pleads guilty to Arkansas charges | |  By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Former world middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor entered guilty pleas in an Arkansas state court on Tuesday to felony charges stemming from three incidents, and is set to face sentencing in April, court officials said. Taylor, 37, had earlier indicated he would contest the charges that include shooting and wounding a cousin in 2014 near the boxer's suburban Little Rock home. In January, he was arrested on suspicion of brandishing a pistol to threaten a family during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Little Rock, and in July was charged with battery for assaulting a man at a Little Rock substance abuse treatment centre. In exchange for Taylor's guilty plea, the state dropped a child endangerment enhancement count in the January incident and reduced in severity the charge arising from the July episode. Taylor has offered repeated apologies for his erratic behaviour in recent years. He has vowed to resume his career in the ring, and was granted permission on Tuesday by state court judge, Leon Johnson, to leave the state for training. Following a court-order examination, a state psychiatrist testified in February that Taylor needed psychiatric care and should be monitored for substance abuse in lieu of incarceration.
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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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| Pipe bomb explodes on overpass near Istanbul metro, five hurt - local mayor | |  By Asli Kandemir and Can Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Five people were injured when a pipe bomb exploded on an overpass near an Istanbul metro station on Tuesday, the district mayor said, halting some train operations and heightening security fears in Europe's biggest city. Turkey has been on high alert since more than 100 people were killed by two suicide bombers in the capital Ankara in October, three months after a similar attack at a town near the Syrian border in July left 33 dead. Tuesday's blast near the Bayrampasa metro station came at the height of the evening rush hour, district Mayor Atilla Aydiner told A Haber television.
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| Bulgarian police end check at Sofia airport, explosive not found | |  Bulgarian authorities have found no explosive devices after checking bags found in a Belgian-registered van parked just outside the capital's international airport, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Bulgarian police evacuated part of Sofia's international airport around midday as a police bomb disposal squad, counter-terrorism officers, border guards, fire fighters and medical teams moved in around the vehicle. "No explosive device has been found inside the van," the ministry said in a statement.
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| 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 this weekend that killed dozens of people, the force's top general said Tuesday. Seven civilians were hacked to death in a hospital and more than 20 other people were killed in clashes on Sunday when Islamist fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)attacked military bases around the town of Eringeti. Helicopter gunships fired missiles and rockets 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 in Congo, known as MONUSCO, told Reuters. |
| German court opens way for trial of Auschwitz paramedic | | | A German court on Tuesday permitted the trial of a 95-year-old German man accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The higher court of Rostock in northern Germany deemed Hubert Z. fit for trial, overruling a previous decision by a lower court that considered him too fragile for a legal process. Z., whose last name is confidential due to German privacy laws, was a sergeant in the Nazi SS at Auschwitz from October 1943 to January 1944 and acted as one of the death camp's paramedics from Aug. 15 to Sept. 14, 1944, the indictment said. |
| Danes to vote in EU referendum amid confusion, trust issues | | | By Sabina Zawadzki and Alexander Tange COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danes will decide on Thursday whether to give parliament the power to "opt-in" to certain European Union police and justice policies in a referendum that the "No" campaign has turned into a vote against the 28-member bloc. Danes rejected joining the euro against the advice of all mainstream parties in a 2000 referendum. This is the first time since then that one of the four so-called "opt-outs" from EU integration that Denmark won in 1993 is being put to a vote. |
| Turkish police say cause of blast near Istanbul metro still unknown | | | The cause of a blast near an Istanbul metro station on Tuesday was still unknown and police investigations were underway, a police official told Reuters. Broadcaster NTV reported the blast at an overpass near the Bayrampasa metro station on the European side of the city may have been caused by a bomb, while Haberturk TV said it was believed to have been triggered by a transformer. |
| Explosion on overpass near Istanbul metro may have been bomb - Turkey's NTV | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An explosion that rocked an area near an Istanbul metro station on Tuesday may have been caused by a bomb on an overpass, Turkish broadcaster NTV said. Haberturk TV earlier reported that one person had been killed in the explosion near the Bayrampasa station on the European side of Istanbul. (Reporting by Asli Kandemir; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Nick Tattersall) |
| One dead in blast thought caused by transformer in Istanbul subway - Haberturk TV | | | One person was killed after an explosion at an Istanbul metro station that was apparently triggered by a power transformer on Tuesday, Turkey's Haberturk TV said. A municipal official told Reuters that train operations had been suspended at the Bayrampasa metro station after a loud noise was heard. State-run Anadolu Agency said the explosion happened at an overpass near the metro station. |
| Singapore police re-arrest alleged match-fixer Tan - report | | | Singaporean police have again arrested alleged match-fixer Dan Tan, almost a week after a court in the city state freed him from more than two years of detention, the state-owned Channel NewsAsia (CNA) reported on Tuesday. CNA cited a police statement as saying that Tan was arrested for suspected involvement in criminal activities and investigations are ongoing. Singapore's Court of Appeal had freed Dan Tan, named by the Interpol as "the leader of the world's most notorious match-fixing syndicate", last Wednesday saying his detention without trial was unlawful. |
| U.N. condemns air strike that cut water supplies to Syria's Aleppo | | | An air strike on a water treatment plant in Syria last Thursday cut water supplies for 3.5 million people and while pumping has been partly restored, 1.4 million still have reduced supply, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "In Syria, the rules of war, including those meant to protect vital civilian infrastructure, continue to be broken on a daily basis," UNICEF's representative in Syria, Hanaa Singer, said in a statement. "The air-strike which reportedly hit al-Khafseh water treatment plant in the northern city of Aleppo last Thursday is a particularly alarming example." Singer did not say who was responsible for the air strike. |
| Using ancient Greek play, Spike Lee tackles gun crime in "Chi-Raq" | |  Director Spike Lee hopes his latest film "Chi-Raq", an adaption of ancient Greek play "Lysistrata" looking at Chicago's gun violence, will help make a difference in tackling the problem. The film is named after street slang comparing Chicago, the United States' third largest city, to conflict zones in the Middle East. Its trailer begins with a statement saying "Homicides in Chicago, Illinois, have surpassed the death toll of American special forces in Iraq".
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