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| Chinese police break silence on missing Hong Kong bookseller | | Saturday, January 30, 2016 3:59 AM | |
|  Chinese police have made their first statement on the fate of one of five missing Hong Kong booksellers, believed by many to have been abducted by mainland agents, acknowledging widespread concerns but offering no fresh information. The disappearances have prompted fears that mainland Chinese authorities may be using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to China from British rule in 1997.
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| Family of slain Oregon protester challenges FBI account of his death | | Saturday, January 30, 2016 2:24 AM | |
|  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - As four armed anti-government protesters held their ground at a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon on Friday, the family of a protester killed by police said he seemed to have been shot in the back with his hands up, although authorities said he was reaching for a gun. Relatives of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, 54, a spokesman for the group that seized buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said he posed no threat and they were not accepting the authorities' assertion that he was armed. The Federal Bureau of Investigation released video on Thursday of state police fatally shooting Finicum, and contended it showed him making a move for a gun in his coat pocket.
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| Rights group sues for details of U.S. counter terrorism effort | | Saturday, January 30, 2016 12:29 AM | |
| | By Dustin Volz and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A civil liberties group said on Friday it has sued the U.S. government for more information about a federal programme that tries to enlist Americans in helping to identify and discourage violent extremism in their communities. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University said it filed the lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan to force the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to release records about their "Countering Violent Extremism" (CVE) programme. Spokespeople for Homeland Security and the Justice Department were not immediately available to comment. |
| Oregon occupation organizer Ammon Bundy, brother denied bail | | | Portland, Ore. (Reuters) - Ammon Bundy, organizer of the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge, will remain in custody pending his trial on felony conspiracy charges, a U.S. District Court judge ruled on Friday. U.S. Magistrate Stacie Beckerman said she believed Bundy might attempt to occupy other federal property if she allowed him to be released on bail before his trial on charges of conspiracy to use force, intimidation or threats to impede federal officers from discharging their duties. Bundy's brother, Ryan Bundy, was also ordered held. ... |
| Kerry says can't comment on content of Clinton emails | | | QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday said he could not comment on private email chains of his predecessor Hillary Clinton, saying they were being withheld at the request of the U.S. intelligence community. "I can't speak to the specifics of anything with respect to the technicalities, the contents ... because that's not our job," Kerry told a news conference in Canada. "We don't know about it, it's in other hands." (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton Writing by David Ljunggren; Editing by Eric Walsh) |
| FBI says video shows slain Oregon occupier reach for jacket pocket | |  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - The FBI released a video on Thursday investigators say shows one occupier of an Oregon wildlife refuge reach for his jacket pocket before being shot dead by law enforcement, after speeding away from a traffic stop where the group's leader was arrested. Authorities said 54-year-old Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona who acted as a spokesman for the occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, was armed when he was stopped by police and killed on Tuesday afternoon. The aerial video taken by a law enforcement aircraft showed Finicum speed away from authorities in a white truck and nearly strike a law officer, while trying to evade a police barricade before barreling into a snowbank and exiting the car.
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| Factbox - How EU offer to Britain's Cameron is shaping up | | | (Reuters) - A draft EU reform package to help keep Britain in the European Union could be circulated on Monday following meetings between Prime Minister David Cameron and top EU officials. The following are key points of what Reuters has been told by sources close to the negotiations could be the proposal European Council President Donald Tusk will send to EU governments after talks over dinner with Cameron in London on Sunday: THE FORM Negotiators will work through the weekend to craft a single document laying out legislative and other measures responding to Cameron's November demands for reforms so he campaigns to keep Britain in the EU in a referendum by the end of next year. Depending on how Friday's talks in Brussels with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker have gone, and on the Cameron-Tusk meeting, the document could set out in more or less detail a classic EU negotiating text, including blank spaces and alternative wordings in brackets, to be haggled over up to and during a summit chaired by Tusk in Brussels on Feb. 18-19. |
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