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| Tanzania suspends officials over national ID card project | | | Tanzanian President John Magufuli suspended the head of a national electronic identification-card project and four other officials on Monday, opening the way for a corruption investigation into a public procurement process. Magufuli, who took office late last year, has pledged to root out corruption and inefficiency in Tanzania. On Monday, the president said he had suspended the director general of the National Identification Authority (NIDA), Dickson Maimu, and other officials of the authority pending a graft investigation and an audit of the 179.6 billion-shilling (£57.6 million) that NIDA has so far spent on the project. |
| Ex-cop pleads guilty to murdering Oregon woman found in suitcase | | | By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A former Wisconsin police officer accused of killing two women, stuffing their bodies into suitcases and dumping them on a rural road pleaded guilty on Monday to murder in one of the cases, online court records showed. Steven Zelich, 54, entered guilty pleas in Kenosha County Circuit Court to charges of first-degree reckless homicide with use of a dangerous weapon and hiding a corpse. "We know that there is behaviour here that is extremely dangerous and this was the surest way to be sure that Steven Zelich was not going to be able to end anybody else's life," Graveley said. |
| North Carolina's voter ID law goes on trial | | | By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - Minority voters in North Carolina will have a harder time casting a ballot this presidential election year if a judge allows a law requiring photo identification at the polls to take effect, challengers of the law said in federal court on Monday. "It's a policy question," lawyer Thomas Farr said. Proponents of the measures say they are intended to prevent voter fraud. |
| Swedish NGO worker released by China - Swedish foreign ministry | | | China has released a Swedish man taken into custody earlier this month suspected of acts detrimental to the country's national security, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Peter Dahlin, 35-year-old co-founder of the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group, an organisation that worked with Chinese human rights lawyers, was taken into custody three weeks ago. Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said in a statement she had been informed by Chinese authorities that Dahlin had been released and that she welcomed his release. |
| N.Y. police officer on trial for accidental shooting of black man | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Akai Gurley bled to death in a New York stairwell, the police officer who accidentally shot him was upstairs arguing with his partner about whether to call in the incident, prosecutors said at the start of the officer's trial on Monday. New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang is charged with manslaughter for shooting Gurley in a Brooklyn public housing project on Nov. 20, 2014. "Akai Gurley is dead today because he crossed paths with Peter Liang," Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Marc Fliedner told jurors in an impassioned opening statement. |
| Libya's recognised parliament rejects U.N.-backed unity government | | | By Ayman al-Warfalli BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's internationally recognised parliament voted on Monday to reject a unity government proposed under a U.N.-backed plan to resolve the country's political crisis and armed conflict. The rejection was widely expected, but signalled that mediators still face a steep challenge in winning support for a new government. Since 2014, Libya has had two competing parliaments and governments, one based in Tripoli and the other in the east. |
| Former Maldives' president calls for sanctions against government figures | |  Former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed, freed from jail last week to seek medical care in Britain, called on Monday for sanctions against Maldivian government figures as his lawyer warned a militant attack on tourists was highly likely. Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, was jailed for 13 years on terrorism charges last March after a rapid trial that drew international condemnation. In his first comments since being released, he indicated he would not return before that deadline and called on the international community to impose sanctions against those responsible for human rights abuses in the Maldives.
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| U.N. sees six-month Syria talks starting on Friday | |  Talks on ending the war in Syria are expected to start on Friday and take six months, although invitations have still not been sent due to "intense disagreements", the U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told a news conference on Monday. Governance, a constitutional review and future U.N. sponsored elections would also be priorities, he said.
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| Rwandan police kill suspected Islamic State recruiter | | | A Rwandan man who had been accused of recruiting for the Islamic State was shot and killed in the capital Kigali while attempting to escape police custody, police said in a statement on Monday. Muhammad Mugemangango, a deputy imam at Kimironko Mosque in Kigali, was under investigations for encouraging Rwandan youth to join the Islamic State, which is fighting in Iraq and Syria. After news of Mugemangango's death broke, the country's main Muslim association, Rwanda Muslims, said it planned to circulate messages condemning radicalisation to all of Rwanda's mosques. |
| Five years after Egypt uprising, police -- not activists -- celebrated | |  By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - About 300 people gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday, not to celebrate the instigators of the revolt that five years ago overthrew Egypt's longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak but to praise the police who tried to stop them. In the weeks that followed, hundreds of Mursi's supporters were killed in the streets and thousands were locked up in the bloodiest crackdown in Egypt's modern history.
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| U.S. justices extends ban on mandatory life sentences for juveniles | | | The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that its 2012 decision that barred mandatory life sentences without parole for those under age 18 at the time they committed a crime can be applied retroactively. In a ruling that will affect other inmates in similar positions, the court sided with Henry Montgomery, who was convicted of killing a white sheriff's deputy in 1963 in East Baton Rouge at a time when racial tensions were boiling over. |
| U.N. Syria talks to seek national ceasefire, not with IS and Nusra | | | U.N. mediated talks on ending the war in Syria will push for a countrywide ceasefire, including all parties except the two groups designated as "terrorists" by the United Nations, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Monday. "The condition is it should be a real ceasefire and not just local," De Mistura told a news conference where he also said he hoped to start the peace talks on Jan. 29. |
| EU security chiefs brace for more Islamist attacks | |  Islamic State and other militants are very likely to attempt big new attacks in Europe following those in Paris, the EU's police agency said on Monday, echoing previous warnings by senior security officials. The events in Paris "appear to indicate a shift towards a broader strategy of IS going global, of them specifically attacking France, but also the possibility of attacks against other member states of the EU in the near future", it said. There was "every reason to expect" an attack, by Islamic State or "IS-inspired terrorists or another religiously inspired terrorist group".
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| South African authorities challenge Pistorius' murder conviction appeal | |  South African authorities are challenging Olympian Oscar Pistorius appeal against his conviction for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the national prosecuting authority said on Monday. The Supreme Court of Appeal upgraded the 29-year-old's conviction to murder in December after the state prosecutors appealed the athletes April conviction for culpable homicide in the Pretoria High Court. In the affidavit, prosecutors argue that the Supreme Court of Appeal had correctly found Pistorius guilty.
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