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| Iraqi minister says 'blackmail' behind kidnapping of US citizens | | | Iraq's defence minister said on Thursday the three Americans who went missing in Baghdad last week had been seized by an "organised gang that carries out abductions for blackmail". In an interview with Reuters in Cairo, Khaled al-Obaidi did not elaborate.The three men are employed by a small company that is doing work for General Dynamics Corp, under a larger contract with the U.S. Army, according to a source familiar with the matter. Iraqi intelligence and U.S. government sources said on Tuesday the three were being held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia. |
| Former U.S. Marine held in Iran arrives home | |  (Reuters) - Former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, released by Iran in a prisoner swap last weekend, arrived home on Thursday after more than four years in jail in the Islamic Republic. Hekmati was arrested while visiting relatives in Iran in 2011 and accused of being a U.S. spy. Another former prisoner in Iran, Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, 35, was set to arrive in Atlanta and then fly to Asheville, North Carolina on Thursday to be reunited with members of his family over the next several days, his wife told Reuters.
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| NYC Marathon organizers are sued over lottery to enter race | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The organizers of the New York City Marathon have been sued by two runners who said the use of a lottery to decide who gets to race in the world's largest marathon is illegal. In a proposed class-action lawsuit filed on Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Utah residents Charles Konopa and Matthew Clark said the nonprofit New York Road Runners Inc violated New York's constitution by operating a lottery because only the state itself can run chance-based lotteries.
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| U.S. judge dismisses lawsuit against Bill Cosby by Pennsylvania woman | |  A U.S. federal judge on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania woman against Bill Cosby, which contended the comedian smeared her character when he accused her of lying in claiming he had sexually assaulted her. Renita Hill, 48, a Pittsburgh resident, in October filed the lawsuit for three separate comments made by Cosby and his representatives after she spoke publicly of alleged sexual misconduct in the 1980s. "The three statements do not support a claim for defamation as defined by Pennsylvania law," U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab said in his dismissal ruling, court documents showed.
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| White House reacts to Palin: 'Domestic violence is not a joke' | |  By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House pushed back on Thursday against former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's comments on domestic violence, saying the issues she raised on the campaign trail are some the Obama administration takes "quite seriously." Palin's son was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a woman and carrying a gun while intoxicated, police in the family's Alaska hometown said on Tuesday. In a speech she made Wednesday to support leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Palin linked her son's charges to his experience in the U.S. military and blamed the Obama administration for not doing enough to support its veterans. "And it makes me realise more than ever it is now or never for the sake of America's finest that we have a commander in chief who will respect them." White House spokesman Josh Earnest, asked about the comments at a news briefing on Thursday, said the instinct of many people is to "make light" of some of the rhetoric on the campaign trail, particularly from Palin.
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| Iran-linked groups focus of Baghdad kidnapping probe - U.S. sources | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad, Iraq last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran, U.S. government sources said on Thursday. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Badr Organization are the principle focus of the investigation into the armed kidnapping of the three Americans in the Dora neighbourhood, south of Baghdad, the sources said.
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| Iraqi PM doubts any Iranian link with three missing Americans | |  By David Brunnstrom DAVOS (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that three Americans who disappeared in Iraq last week "just went missing," and he very much doubted any Iranian involvement. Asked by a pool reporter at the start of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Davos if he thought there was an Iranian link to their disappearance, Abadi said: "I don't know about that. The U.S. sources said Washington had no reason to believe Tehran was involved in the kidnapping and did not believe the trio were being held in Iran, which borders Iraq.
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| Islamists bomb, storm restaurant in Somali capital | | | Islamist gunmen stormed a popular beachside restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, setting off two car bombs and battling government soldiers trying to flush them out. Al Shabaab, a militant group which is aligned with al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack on the Beach View Cafe on Mogadishu's popular Lido beach. "We are inside and control the cafe," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, spokesman for al Shabaab's military operations, told Reuters. |
| Singer Don McLean says marriage breakdown behind domestic violence arrest | | | (Reuters) - "American Pie" singer Don McLean said on Thursday his domestic violence arrest this week stemmed from "the very painful breakdown" of his long marriage and asked fans not to judge him. McLean, 70, the singer-songwriter behind tender 1970s hit songs like "American Pie" and "Vincent," was arrested on Monday at his home in Camden, Maine, where he lives with his photographer wife Patrisha. In his first comments, McLean said in a statement on his official website that the past year had been "hard emotional times for my wife, my children and me. |
| Five charged in U.S. with stealing secrets from GlaxoSmithKline | |  Five people, including two former GlaxoSmithKline researchers, were charged with a scheme to steal trade secrets from the British drugmaker for potential sale in China, according to indictments announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia on Wednesday. The indictments include charges of conspiracy to steal trade secrets, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, theft of trade secrets, and wire fraud. The stolen information on drugs for cancer and other serious diseases "potentially could be sold for millions of dollars to rival pharmaceutical companies and it would also be useful information for a start-up pharmaceutical company," the complaint said.
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| Renzi backs Rome's bid for 2024 Olympics as investment | |  By Stephanie Nebehay LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi endorsed Rome's bid to host the 2024 Olympics on Thursday, saying that European countries should invest as much in sports and culture as in security. Renzi led an Italian delegation to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), where he made his pitch to IOC President Thomas Bach and senior officials. "I think this is the time of Rome.
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| Two Guantanamo detainees transferred to Bosnia, Montenegro - Pentagon | | | Two more prisoners in the U.S. fight against al Qaeda were transferred from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to countries that agreed to take them on humanitarian grounds, the Pentagon said on Thursday. Sixteen Guantanamo inmates have been transferred to countries in the Middle East and elsewhere since the start of the year as the administration presses ahead with efforts to try to close the military prison before the end of President Barack Obama's term. The Pentagon notified Congress in December that it was preparing to transfer a total of 17 inmates. |
| Sudanese refugee who walked Channel Tunnel to face trial | |  By Estelle Shirbon CANTERBURY, England (Reuters) - A Sudanese man who walked through the Channel Tunnel from France in an extreme example of the desperate measures refugees are prepared to take to reach Britain will face trial for obstructing a railway, a court was told on Thursday. Abdul Haroun, who is from the war-ravaged region of Darfur, walked for close to 12 hours in near total darkness last August, dodging high-speed trains and evading security cameras, before he was arrested by British police close to the English end of the tunnel at Folkestone. Thousands of migrants are camped out in squalor near the northern French ports of Calais and Dunkirk, seeking clandestine ways to enter Britain such as stowing away on trucks or trains.
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| Three asylum seekers from Syria seek refuge in Arctic Norway church | | | Three Syrian asylum seekers who sought refuge in a church in Arctic Norway on Thursday, fearing that they could be deported back to Russia, can stay in the building, the parish council has decided. Norway's right-wing government has tightened asylum rules in response to the influx of migrants and refugees to Europe, saying some of the 31,000 who arrived last year did not qualify for protection. Measures include sending back to Russia any who have a long-term residence permit there. |
| Bangladesh police: 14 men deported from Singapore are militants | | | Bangladeshi police will charge 14 men with membership of a banned group after Singapore deported them for suspected militant links last year, a senior police official said on Thursday. The suspects were among a batch of 27 construction workers that Singapore accused of having links to Islamist groups including al-Qaeda and Islamic State. Police said they had found no evidence of links to al-Qaeda and Islamic State, but that 14 of the men were members of a banned group blamed for attacks on five secular bloggers, including a publisher, last year. |
| Venezuela opponent's family alleges jail abuse, officials deny it | |  By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - The wife and mother of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez have alleged being subjected to abusive strip searches but Venezuela's government says they are lying and has broadcast secret recordings to discredit them. Venezuela's opposition and the ruling Socialists have long accused each other of manipulating public opinion and Lopez' case is particularly sensitive because he has become an international cause celebre for rights groups. Lopez' wife, Lilian Tintori, said that on a visit to Ramo Verde prison last weekend, guards made her undress, repeatedly open her legs and removed her sanitary pad.
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| Russia's Putin probably approved London murder of ex-KGB agent Litvinenko - UK inquiry | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin probably approved a 2006 Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London, a British inquiry concluded on Thursday, prompting a row with Moscow. Russia, which had declined to cooperate in the inquiry, cautioned pointedly that it could "poison" relations. Britain accused the Kremlin of uncivilised behaviour but did not immediately signal it would take any stronger action.
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