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| Exclusive - Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves | |  By Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females. The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on the subject, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the sexual slavery of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
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| Barclays in $13.75 million U.S. settlement over mutual funds | | | Barclays Plc will pay more than $13.75 million to settle U.S. regulatory charges that it let retail brokerage customers make unsuitable mutual fund transactions, including more than 6,100 fund switches, over a five-year period. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Tuesday said the London-based bank's Barclays Capital Inc unit will pay more than $10 million in restitution, including interest, to affected customers, and was fined $3.75 million. Barclays did not admit or deny wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlement, which includes a censure. |
| Swiss police find no explosives at shopping centre after bomb threat | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - No explosives were found at a Swiss shopping centre near the northern city of Basel after a bomb threat, police said on Tuesday evening. The centre in Pratteln, Basel-Landschaft, was evacuated after an anonymous caller threatened to detonate a bomb in an underground garage. The caller sounded male and spoke broken German, police official Roland Walter said. Much of Europe has been on heightened alert since the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed more than 100 people. (Reporting by Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Ruben Sprich; Editing by Ruth Pitchford) |
| British couple convicted of preparing London attack | | | A British couple were convicted on Tuesday of plotting an attack in London after the husband sent out tweets asking for advice on which targets he should hit, alerting police to a stockpile of chemicals at their home. Mohammed Rehman, 25, and Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, were found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of engaging in the preparation of terrorist acts, with a view to hitting either a large shopping centre in the capital or the London underground network. Any advice would be appreciated greatly," Rehman said on Twitter, under the name "Silent Bomber". |
| Russia names Boris Nemtsov murder mastermind, allies see cover-up | |  By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police named a Chechen man as the alleged mastermind behind the high-profile murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, but the dead politician's supporters said he was only a low-level figure and that a cover-up was underway. Nemtsov, one of President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics, was shot dead on Feb 27 as he walked across a bridge near the Kremlin. Police investigators said on Tuesday they planned to charge five men with his contract killing including the suspected trigger man, Zaur Dadayev, a former soldier in Chechnya, who initially confessed to the murder before recanting, saying he had been put under pressure.
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| Burkina Faso's first new leader in decades sworn in | |  By Mathieu Bonkoungou OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's constitutional court swore in Roch Marc Kabore as president on Tuesday, making the former prime minister the country's first new leader in almost 30 years following his election last month. The ceremony at an indoor stadium in the capital marks a pivotal moment in a democratic transition in the West African country after veteran leader Blaise Compaore was overthrown in a popular uprising in October 2014. Most of the country's leaders since independence from France in 1960 have come to power through coups, including Compaore in 1987 and his predecessor Thomas Sankara four years earlier.
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| US-led air strikes kill IS leaders linked to Paris attacks | | | A U.S.-led coalition has killed 10 Islamic State leaders in the past month with targeted air strikes, including individuals linked to last month's attacks in Paris, a spokesman for the coalition said on Tuesday. "Over the past month, we've killed 10 ISIL leadership figures with targeted air strikes, including several external attack planners, some of whom are linked to the Paris attacks," said U.S. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State, also known by the acronym ISIL. "Others had designs on further attacking the West." One of those killed was Abdul Qader Hakim, who facilitated the militants' external operations and had links to the Paris attack network, Warren said. |
| Austria turns away hundreds of migrants for lying about nationality | |  Austria has sent hundreds of migrants back to neighbouring Slovenia in the past three days for lying about their nationality in an apparent attempt to improve their chances of being granted asylum, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. Since the summer, hundreds of thousands of migrants have crossed into Austria, the last country on the so-called Balkan route to Germany, the chosen destination for most of the migrants. Many are bussed through Austria straight to the German border.
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| Suspected Muslim rebels kill official, attack police in Thailand's south | | | Suspected Muslim insurgents attacked police and a government office in Thailand's deep south on Tuesday, killing one official as they seized hostages, police said. More than a dozen armed men dressed in black seized 13 civil servants in a local government office in Narathiwat province, police investigator Wongduan Kamsri told Reuters. |
| Three suspected Islamic State members arrested in Turkey -Dogan | | | Three suspected Islamic State members, one a Briton and two Pakistani, were arrested last week in Istanbul following raids carried out by Turkish security forces, Dogan news agency reported on Tuesday. Last month Turkish authorities picked up another Briton saying he was an associate of Islamic State leader "Jihadi John", who is thought to have been killed in a coalition air-strike. Turkey has stepped up its efforts to tackle the militants after the group was blamed for a double suicide attack in Ankara in October that killed 100. |
| German court sentences man to life in Rwanda genocide case | | | A German court sentenced a Rwandan man already behind bars for his role in a 1994 massacre to life in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of the more serious crime of actively participating in genocide. Onesphore Rwabukombe, who has lived in Germany since 2002, was a mayor in Rwanda at the time of the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by dominant Hutu forces in 100 days. Last year a court in Frankfurt ruled that Rwabukombe, a 58-year old ethnic Hutu, had overseen and assisted in the murder of at least 450 men, women and children at the Kiziguro church compound in east Rwanda, and sentenced him to 14 years in jail. |
| Iraq's Abadi visits Ramadi to celebrate Islamic State defeat | |  Iraq's prime minister visited Ramadi on Tuesday, a day after the army took back the western city from Islamic State in the first major success for the U.S.-trained force that fled in the face of the militants' advance 18 months ago. Security sources said Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who arrived by helicopter with a top military officer at the Anbar University complex in the city's southern outskirts, would meet commanders from Iraq's army and counter-terrorism forces, which had spearheaded the offensive. Abadi later announced the visit himself on Twitter.
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