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| Malaysian PM cleared of graft after funds in account declared a Saudi gift | |  By Rozanna Latiff and Emily Chow KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's attorney-general cleared Prime Minister Najib Razak of any criminal offences or corruption on Tuesday, closing investigations into a murky multi-million-dollar funding scandal that his opponents had hoped would bring him down. Najib was buffeted last year by allegations of graft and mismanagement at the debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and by a revelation that about $681 million was deposited into his personal bank account. Najib, who denied any wrongdoing and said he did not take any money for personal gain, welcomed the attorney general's statement.
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| Paris lycees evacuated after 5 receive bomb threat | | | Police intervened at Paris high schools on Tuesday after five of them received a bomb threat by telephone around mid-morning, the Paris education authority said. "The students are in the schoolyard and we are waiting for the bomb squad," said a spokesman at Louis Le Grand in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres area, one of the schools involved, which included some of Paris' best known elite academies. France is on high alert since militant Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in and around Paris on Nov. 13. |
| Qatar FA sues ex-German soccer chief over World Cup 'cancer' remark | | | Qatar's football association is suing former German soccer chief Theo Zwanziger for calling the Gulf nation a "cancer on world football" following its successful World Cup bid, Duesseldorf's regional court`said on Tuesday. Zwanziger, who headed the German football association (DFB) until 2012, was asked in a television interview last year whether the decision to let Qatar host the 2022 World Cup should be reviewed as corruption allegations hit world soccer's governing body FIFA. |
| Head of China's statistics bureau under investigation - watchdog | | | By Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) - The head of China's National Bureau of Statistics is being investigated for alleged discipline violations, the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog said on Tuesday, the latest top official to be implicated in a corruption crackdown. The official, Wang Baoan, was "suspected of serious violation of discipline", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a short statement on its website. In the past, use of such wording about violations has generally referred to corruption. |
| French protests and strikes disrupt airports, roads, schools | |  French riot police and firefighters intervened to clear a busy Paris ring road at rush-hour on Tuesday after taxi drivers angry about competition from private car ride firms threw tyres across the roadway and set them alight. The nationwide protest by licensed taxi drivers coincided with a walkout by air traffic controllers that forced airlines to cut flights by 20 percent, and another protest by teachers that disrupted schooling. The stoppages by air traffic controllers and teachers were part of a wider labour action by state employees, who are being urged by several unions to flex their muscles ahead of talks on long-running wage restraint measures.
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| Dolphin activist detained in Japan says he's a "political prisoner" | |  By Elaine Lies and Ami Miyazaki TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. activist featured in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove", about a gory Japanese dolphin hunt, has been detained in Japan and said on Tuesday he was a political prisoner for his efforts to save dolphins. Ric O'Barry has been held since being denied entry to Japan on Jan. 18 and faces deportation. O'Barry and his lawyer said he is accused of lying to officials about his activities on a previous trip to Japan.
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| Russia says Litvinenko inquiry will hurt ties with Britain | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - An inquiry chaired by a British judge into the death in London of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko will seriously complicate Russian-British ties, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference on Tuesday. The inquiry, which concluded it was probable that senior Kremlin officials ordered Litvinenko's killing, contained groundless accusations and left many questions unanswered, Lavrov said. (Reporting by Andrew Osborn and Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Dmitry Solovyov)
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| Thai election in 2017 even if constitution is rejected - PM | |  By Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will hold a general election in 2017 even if a draft constitution does not pass a referendum this year, the prime minister said on Tuesday. Political instability has haunted Southeast Asia's second biggest economy for the past decade and promises on a return to democracy from the military government, which came to power after a 2014 coup, are closely watched. The government had previously made a new constitution a prerequisite for a general election, but Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said a vote would go ahead in mid-2017, even if it had to be held under an old constitution.
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| Ten Afghan police shot dead in insider attack - official | | | A rogue policeman collaborating with insurgents in southern Afghanistan shot dead 10 colleagues on Tuesday after first poisoning their food, an official said. The latest in a long series of so-called insider attacks took place at a checkpoint in the Chenartu district of the volatile southern province of Uruzgan, district chief Faiz Mohmmad told Reuters. "After the shooting, the policeman and Taliban stole their weapons and burnt the checkpoint and a police vehicle," Faiz Mohmmad said. |
| Kuwaiti court overturns conviction of ruling family member - media | |  An appeals court has overturned a suspended prison sentence against Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, a senior member of the ruling family and a power broker in international sport, local media reported on Tuesday. A court last month convicted Sheikh Ahmad of disrespect to the public prosecutor and attributing a remark to the country's ruler without a special permission from the emir's court. The Gulf Arab state's constitution describes Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah as "immune and inviolable" and quoting him without permission is punishable under Kuwaiti law.
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| Denmark to vote on tough migrant law as Nordic refugee welcome wanes | |  The measures, which also include delaying family reunification to three years, are the latest sign that the Nordic welcome for refugees is waning as large numbers flee war in Africa and Middle East in what is becoming Europe's biggest migrant crisis in decades. The "jewellery bill" is the latest attempt by Denmark's seven-month-old minority centre-right government to curb immigration to a country that took in a record 20,000 refugees last year. Under the bill, refugees could keep possessions amounting to 10,000 Danish crowns ($1,450), raised from 3,000 crowns after criticism from human rights organisations.
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| Bikram yoga founder fined $924k in sexual harassment suit - media | | | The founder of the Bikram yoga practice was ordered to pay $924,500 on Monday to a former legal adviser who said she was fired for investigating sexual misconduct charges against her employer, media reported. Minakshi Jafa-Bodden, the former personal attorney of celebrity yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, was awarded compensatory damages by a Los Angeles jury for claims of discrimination, retaliation and of suffering sexual harassment herself, The Los Angeles Times reported. During the trial, Choudhury had dismissed the accusations and said Jafa-Bodden was let go because she did not have a license to practice law in the United States, the Times and other media reported. |
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