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| Man arrested with handguns at Disneyland Paris | | | French police arrested a man carrying two handguns at the Disneyland Paris amusement park outside Paris on Thursday, an Interior Ministry official said. A police source said the 28-year-old man of European origin had been carrying the two guns, including an automatic handgun, concealed in a bag that also contained a copy of the Koran religious text. France remains in a state of emergency since Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in a series of jihadist attacks in and near Paris in November. |
| Armed man arrested at Disneyland Paris was carrying a Koran - police source | | | A man arrested on Thursday by French police at a hotel in the Disneyland Paris amusement park is a 28-year-old European who had a two handguns and a Koran in his bag, a police source said. The man was unknown to police prior to the incident and his bag set off a security alarm as he went through a metal detector at the park's New York Hotel, the source said. |
| Syria talks to start on Friday, U.N. envoy's spokeswoman says | |  Talks on ending the war in Syria will begin on Friday, a spokeswoman for the U.N. envoy who is overseeing the process said on Thursday, although opposition groups had not yet announced that they would attend the negotiations in Geneva. "I just confirmed that the talks will start tomorrow," Khawla Mattar, spokeswoman for the office of U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters in response to an email.
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| Mexico says 'affluenza' teen deported, en route to Dallas | |  By Anahi Rama MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ethan Couch, known as the "affluenza" teen after he killed four people in a drunk driving incident in 2013, was deported from Mexico on Thursday, leaving the country aboard a commercial flight headed for Dallas, Mexico's migration department said. Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya, were arrested in Mexico last month following a more than two-week-long manhunt. Couch departed Mexico City at 8:50 a.m. local time (1450 GMT) aboard Aeromexico flight 2682 heading for Dallas, the migration department said.
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| China charges Canadian with spying, stealing state secrets - Xinhua | | | A Canadian citizen detained by China since 2014 has been indicted on charges of spying and stealing state secrets, the Xinhua state news agency reported on Thursday. Kevin Garratt was detained in August 2014 near China's sensitive border with North Korea where he operated a coffee house with his wife, who was also detained for months before being released last year. The case inflamed tensions between Ottawa and Beijing, but Canada has not been able to secure Garratt's release despite expressing concern about the arrest, which happened less than a week after Canada accused Chinese hackers of breaking into a key computer network. |
| U.S. Senate panel approves measure to broaden North Korea sanctions | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved legislation on Thursday to broaden sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear program, human rights record and cyber activities. The committee passed the measure by unanimous voice vote and members said they expected it would be approved by the full Senate and, eventually, signed into law by President Barack Obama. (Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Mohammad Zargham) |
| Lawyer sees possible parallels in deaths of two Russians in UK exile | | | By Michael Holden WOKING, England (Reuters) - A week after a British inquiry ruled that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the murder of an ex-KGB agent in London, a court heard on Thursday that the sudden death of a Russian mafia whistleblower had "potential parallels". Alexander Perepilichny, 44, was found dead near his luxury home on the exclusive gated St George's Hill estate in Weybridge, Surrey, southwest of London, after he had been out jogging in November 2012. Surrey Police said there was no evidence to suggest a third party had been involved, but last May a pre-inquest hearing heard that traces of a rare and deadly poison from the gelsemium plant had been found in his stomach. |
| Ivorian ex-president on trial over "unspeakable violence" | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - War crimes prosecutors accused ex-Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo of orchestrating "unspeakable violence", including murder and gang rape, to cling to power after losing an election, pitching his country into civil war. Rising stiffly on the opening day of his trial at the International Criminal Court, Gbagbo, 70, pleaded not guilty to all charges. Four months of conflict ravaged Ivory Coast, the world's largest cocoa grower, in early 2011 after Gbagbo refused to step down.
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| Gbagbo trial exposes old wounds in Ivory Coast | |  By Ange Aboa and Joe Bavier MAMA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Paul Koudou sat, eyes glued to a tiny television in the Ivory Coast village of Mama, as a court clerk 5,000 km (3,000 miles) away in The Hague read out a list of charges - rape, murder, persecution - against former president Laurent Gbagbo. "It hurts me to see him like that," said Koudou, who looks after the now abandoned residence that Gbagbo owns in his home village, a sprawling 10-room villa still scarred by the bullet holes of a 2011 war that led to the president's downfall. Gbagbo is a man of peace," the 51-year-old lamented, expressing a view of the former leader not universally shared in Ivory Coast.
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| CONMEBOL says it backs Infantino for FIFA president | |  The South American Football Confederation CONMEBOL threw its support behind Gianni Infantino's bid for the presidency of soccer's crisis-hit governing body FIFA on Thursday, days after central American countries pledged to back him. Infantino, a 45-year-old Swiss-Italian, is currently general secretary of European body UEFA and claims to have overwhelming backing from his own continent, making him one of the front-runners in next month's FIFA vote. "The CONMEBOL executive committee has decided to back Gianni Infantino's candidacy and plan of action for the presidency of FIFA," the confederation said in statement.
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| Making case for stronger presidency, Turkey's Erdogan denies personal agenda | |  By Orhan Coskun and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan laid out his case for a new constitution and a more powerful presidency on Thursday, saying it was not a matter of personal ambition but a necessity in a country whose parliamentary system he said was out of date. Erdogan, who won Turkey's first direct presidential election in August 2014, said a head of state elected by the people should have more than a symbolic role. Previously, parliament had picked Turkey's president.
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| Suicide bombers kill four in north Cameroon school | | | Two suicide bombers killed four people at a school in northern Cameroon on Thursday, local officials said, the latest attack in a central African country struggling to contain violence blamed on Boko Haram militants in neighbouring Nigeria. A dozen people were wounded in the twin bombing in the town of Kerawa, Mayor Seiny Boukar Lamine said. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, northern Cameroon has become the scene of increasingly frequent suicide attacks as Boko Haram Islamist militants step up cross-border violence that has also affected Chad and Niger. |
| EU clamps down on corporate multi-billion tax avoidance | |  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission weighed into the row about multinational corporations avoiding tax on Thursday, proposing to clamp down on companies shifting their profits to low-tax countries. Big corporations legally avoid taxes of up to 70 billion euros ($76.10 billion) a year in Europe, a study of the European Parliament has estimated, with global losses from such schemes ranging between $100 billion and $240 billion. This is unacceptable and we are acting to tackle it," the EU tax commissioner Pierre Moscovici said in a statement calling "for fair and effective taxation for all Europeans." Responding to such criticism in Britain, Google agreed last week to pay 130 million pounds ($185 million) in back taxes, but it was seen by many as too little compared with the profits made by the company in Britain.
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| Islamic State claims attack on Yemen president's residence | | | Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for a bomb attack outside the residence of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi which killed seven people. In a statement online, the militant group said the attack was carried out by a suicide car bomber it identified as Abu Hanifa al-Hollandi, suggesting the attacker was Dutch. |
| Israeli campaign against artists draws accusations of 'McCarthyism' | |  By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An ultra-nationalist Israeli group that has campaigned against foreign-funded NGOs broadened its assault to include left-wing artists on Thursday, accusing authors such as Amos Oz and David Grossman of disloyalty to the country. The offensive by Im Tirtzu takes place amid deepening left-right divisions in Israel, with members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government frequently critical of the arts and advocating a more religious-nationalist agenda. Culture Minister Miri Regev, a member of Netanyahu's Likud party, has proposed cutting government funding for any theatre or arts institution whose programmes "subvert the state".
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| "Whistleblower" helps Swiss investigation against FIFA's Blatter | |  An important witness has offered information to help criminal proceedings against long-time president of the world soccer body FIFA, Sepp Blatter, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Thursday. Spokesman Andre Marty said in an interview with TV programme "Morgenmagazin", broadcast on German channel ARD, that it should be clear by the end of 2016 to mid-2017 whether there was evidence to bring a charge against Blatter whose presidency has ended with the worst corruption scandal in FIFA's history. "In the name of the office of the attorney general of Switzerland I can confirm that a witness has given us interesting information that is relevant for the case and should be essential for the investigation," Marty said in an emailed statement.
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| South African racial tensions thwart opposition challenge to ANC | |  By Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A racist Facebook post by a member of South Africa's main opposition party has caused a national furore and left it scrambling to shake off its image of an organisation that chiefly serves the interests of the minority white community. The episode highlighted how racial tensions simmer in the country more than two decades after Nelson Mandela become its first black president, with wealth and income gaps that are still clearly visible along race lines fuelling perceptions of white privilege. It could set back the Democratic Alliance's efforts to attract black votes and present an effective opposition to the African National Congress (ANC), whose hold on power has been virtually untested since the end of apartheid despite rising discontent over an ailing economy and job losses.
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| Most Americans support Obama's contested immigration plan | |  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans say they back a plan that would allow certain illegal immigrants to stay in the country, but support for the idea slips when President Barack Obama's name is attached to the question, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll. The results underscore the polarized nature of the debate over how to overhaul immigration laws and how to address the estimated 11 million people living illegally in the country. In 2014, Obama bypassed the Republican-controlled Congress to issue an executive order to shield more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and offer them work permits, but he was blocked by court challenges from Republican-governed states.
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| Rivalries, squabbles hinder Libya's unity government | |  By Aidan Lewis TUNIS (Reuters) - A month after it was agreed in Morocco, a U.N.-backed plan for a united Libyan government is struggling to take off. Efforts to push the hard-fought compromise through show the enduring regional rivalries and power struggles that have bedevilled Libya since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. While foreign pressure builds to tackle a threat from Islamic State militants, Libya's internationally recognised parliament, based in the east, has rejected a main article in the U.N. accord as well as a proposed list of ministers.
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| Israel reluctant to accuse Islamic State over bar shootings despite hallmarks | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - It appeared to have hallmarks of the first Islamic State attack in Israel: A Muslim citizen opened fire on a Tel Aviv bar days after the militant group threatened the country, and left behind a black ISIS banner. "This really was not a classic ISIS terrorist attack," a security official told Reuters on Thursday after the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency and Justice Ministry issued their findings on the Jan. 1 shooting rampage by Nashat Melhem that killed three people. An Israeli indictment against three Arab citizens for abetting Melhem's escape said he had "sought to help the enemy, including the ISIS group, fight Israel".
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| Britain says will take UN Yemen report "extremely seriously" | |  Britain said on Thursday it would take "extremely seriously" the findings of a United Nations report which says British military ally Saudi Arabia could have committed crimes against humanity in Yemen. A United Nations report on Wednesday said the Saudi-led coalition has targeted civilians in Yemen, documenting 119 sorties "relating to violations of international humanitarian law". The report has put political pressure on the British government which provides training to the Saudi military and has approved billions of pounds worth of military exports to the country.
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