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| Egypt orders retrial in graft case against Mubarak-era prime minister | |  An Egyptian court ordered a second retrial on Wednesday in a longrunning graft case against Ahmed Nazif, prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources said. A court sentenced Nazif to five years in jail for graft in July in the first retrial in the case. The second retrial, ordered after Nazif won an appeal against his conviction, begins on Feb. 3.
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| Cameron seeks UK parliament backing for bombing Islamic State in Syria | |  By Kylie MacLellan and Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron is likely to ask parliament to vote on Wednesday to approve British air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria after months of wrangling over whether enough opposition Labour lawmakers would back military action. "This is a contemptible and desperate slur which demeans his office," Corbyn's spokesman said, calling for an apology from Cameron.
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| British police arrest four men in counter-terrorism probe | | | British police arrested four men in the town of Luton on Wednesday on suspicion of plotting acts of terrorism, police said in a statement. The men, all in their 30s, were taken into custody at a London police station. Searches were being conducted at seven addresses in Luton, north of London, and several vehicles were also being searched, police said. |
| In step towards power, Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets president, top general | |  By Aung Hla Tun and Timothy Mclaughlin NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi held direct talks with Myanmar's top general for the first time on Wednesday as her party prepares to form the government in a country where the military retains considerable clout after decades of rule. Earlier in the day, the Nobel laureate also held talks with reformist President Thein Sein to discuss the transfer of power to her National League for Democracy (NLD), which swept a Nov. 8 election. Suu Kyi and armed forces supremo Min Aung Hlaing talked for over an hour at the military chief's office in the capital Naypyitaw.
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| NATO invites Montenegro to join alliance, defying Russia | | | By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO foreign ministers welcomed tiny Montenegro into their fold on Wednesday in the alliance's first expansion since 2009, defying Russian warnings that enlargement of the U.S.-led bloc further into the Balkans was a "provocation". In a scripted session at NATO's headquarters in Brussels, Montenegro's Foreign Minister Igor Luksic strode into the imposing conference hall to loud applause from his peers as NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg declared: "This is the beginning of a very beautiful alliance." NATO diplomats say the decision to invite the Adriatic state of 650,000 people sends a message to Russia that Moscow does not have a veto on NATO's eastwards expansion, even if Georgia's membership bid has been complicated by its 2008 war with Russia. |
| China behind 'massive' cyber-attack on Australian government - ABC | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - A major cyber-attack against Australia's Bureau of Meteorology that may have compromised potentially sensitive national security information is being blamed on China, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Wednesday. The Bureau of Meteorology owns one of Australia's largest supercomputers and the attack, which the ABC said occurred in recent days, may have allowed those responsible access to the Department of Defence through a linked network. The ABC, citing several unidentified sources with knowledge of the "massive" breach, placed the blame on China, which has in the past been accused of hacking sensitive Australian government computer systems.
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| Al Qaeda militants take over two south Yemen towns, residents say | | | By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Al Qaeda fighters retook on Wednesday two southern Yemeni towns they had briefly occupied four years ago, residents and local fighters said. Residents said the militants launched a surprise attack on Zinjibar and Jaar and overcame local forces, then set up checkpoints at the entries to the towns and announced their takeover over loudspeakers after dawn prayers. The capture of the towns highlights how al Qaeda has taken advantage of the collapse of central authority in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been embroiled in an eight-month war against Shi'ite Houthis. |
| Pakistan hangs four convicted of Taliban massacre at school | |  Pakistan executed four men on Wednesday for involvement in the massacre of 134 children at an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar last year, media and security sources said. The hangings were the first executions of civilians convicted by Pakistan's military courts, which were set up after the massacre through a constitutional amendment. The executions were confirmed by three security sources, two of whom are based in Kohat, where the men were hanged early in the morning at the city's civilian-run central jail.
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| North Korean leader's aunt sues defectors in South for defamation | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's aunt and her husband, who acted as guardians when he was a teenager, filed a defamation lawsuit in South Korea on Wednesday against three defectors, seeking 60 million won ($51,612) in damages, her lawyer said. The lawsuit is unusual for North Korea's ruling family, whose members outside the country tend to shun the spotlight, and raises questions about the veracity of statements by defectors from the isolated state. Ko Yong Suk, Kim Jong Un's aunt who defected to the United States in 1998, filed the suit in a Seoul court, accusing defectors of spreading false information that she had the leader's half-brother expelled from North Korea and that she had plastic surgery to hide after defecting, her lawyer said.
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| From curse to catfish - West Africa schools tackle stigma of disability | | | By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Working quietly in a classroom at a primary school in Dakar, nine-year-old blind boy Abdoulaye sits next to the star pupils, who watch and help him, and alert the teacher if he struggles. "At first there were worries and fears, it was an innovation to have all the children together in one class," said teacher Mbaye Sow. "But when you see disabled children coming out of their shell, working and playing with others - it is joyful." Among those singing, dancing and chasing one another around the yard of L'Ecole Malick Diop in Senegal's capital, blind and visually impaired children walk hand-in-hand with their peers in a country where disabilities are widely considered a curse. |
| Insight - U.S. debt limit threat defanged on Wall Street | |  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wall Street trembled when Republicans first began threatening to force the United States into default by not raising the federal debt limit, but after four years of fiscal standoffs, the threat looks increasingly like a bluff and the markets are calling it. A Reuters analysis, tracking short-term Treasury yields, credit default swaps and market volatility data, showed traders are increasingly less likely to respond to repeated ultimatums from Republicans in the U.S. Congress about the debt limit. "It's taken some of the fear out of the market." For now, after five years of fighting, the debt limit battles on Capitol Hill have gone quiet.
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