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| Links between slavery, environmental damage are cause for hope, author argues | | | By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Human slavery and environmental destruction go hand in hand, a complex but encouraging combination that could make efforts to eradicate the global woes easier to focus and succeed, a leading expert argues in a new book. Enforcing and funding existing anti-slavery laws, which are universal, will lead naturally to protection of the environment, writes Kevin Bales, author of "Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide and the Secret to Saving the World." "These two problems, this ancient and terrible problem of slavery and this newer concern that we have about climate change, are actually so tightly linked together that the solutions are fitting both of them," Bales told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview this week. |
| Italy's Renzi moves closer towards curbing Senate's power to block change | |  By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Senate gave its final consent on Wednesday to cutting its own powers, taking Prime Minister Matteo Renzi a step closer towards limiting its ability to bring down an elected government and block legislation. Since taking office two years ago, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has staked his political future on the bill to effectively abolish the upper house Senate as an elected chamber. Under the lengthy procedures required for constitutional changes, the Chamber of Deputies must now pass the reform again.
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| U.S. Senate blocks bill for tighter Syrian refugee screening | |  U.S. Senate Democrats narrowly blocked legislation on Wednesday that would slow the entry of refugees from Syria and Iraq into the United States in a contentious vote cloaked in presidential election-year politics. The vote was 55-43, with "yes" votes falling short of the 60 needed to advance the Republican-backed measure in the 100-member Senate. No Republicans voted against the bill, and only two Democrats backed it.
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| As mobile fuels sports betting boom, corruption concerns mount | |  By Matt Siegel and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - The rise of mobile betting is transforming global sports wagering faster than regulators can react, flooding the industry with cash and potentially contributing to corruption scandals like the one roiling world tennis, experts and insiders say. The ubiquity of mobile phones and tablets has helped transformed bookmakers from operators of dingy, smoke-filled betting shops into multi-billion dollar de facto tech firms, pouring resources into developing apps and complex algorithms and marketing to younger and broader demographics. "Technology is everything." The greatest danger for mobile gambling to intersect with corruption lies in the ease of fixing a one-on-one sport like tennis, darts or snooker, according to experts and professional gamblers.
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| Reform uncertainty in Vietnam after PM left off leadership nominations | |  By Martin Petty HANOI (Reuters) - As Vietnam's Communist Party opens its five-yearly Congress on Thursday, the country's progressive prime minister is headed for the political wilderness, an unexpected development that clouds the outlook for reform of the fast-growing economy. Premier Nguyen Tan Dung, widely credited with driving a recent wave of economic liberalisation, has been omitted from nominations for key leadership posts to be agreed at the week-long meeting, several party sources told Reuters. Dung, 66, had been tipped by business leaders and experts as almost certain to become party chief and to install a protege as prime minister, a scenario that would have consolidated his power but which could have tested four decades of consensus rule in a country with no paramount leader.
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| Syria talks may not start on January 25, 'pressure, momentum' needed - U.N. envoy | |  The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Wednesday that peace talks might not start as planned in Geneva on Jan. 25th but that major powers must maintain diplomatic pressure on the warring sides to come to the table. Staffan de Mistura, in an interview on CNN from the Swiss resort of Davos, said he would know on Sunday whether the negotiations could start the next day, but added that they had to be "serious talks about peace" linked to "concrete demonstrations" such as ceasefires and aid convoys. Despite their rift, Iran and Saudi Arabia "probably realise that the time has come to try to find a political solution (on Syria) which will be a compromise", de Mistura said.
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| U.S. Attorney General Lynch seeks funds for expanded gun checks | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A battle over gun ownership between President Barack Obama and the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress kicked off on Wednesday as lawmakers began weighing whether to fund the administration's unilateral moves to tighten background checks on buyers. This month, Obama stirred conservative ire with executive action clarifying that all dealers selling guns, including at shows, flea markets, on the Internet or in stores, are required to get licenses and run background checks on buyers. A Senate appropriations panel that funds Justice Department activities used its first hearing of the year to zero in on the new federal guidance that pits gun rights advocates against gun control organizations energized by a series of high-profile mass shootings.
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| Ecuador says Assange will answer Sweden's questions in days | |  Ecuador, whose U.K. embassy provides refuge to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, will have him answer questions from Swedish authorities about allegations of assault and rape against two women, President Rafael Correa said on Wednesday. Correa told reporters at a briefing that he expects Assange to be questioned by Ecuadorean authorities in the next few days. Assange, an Australian citizen, sought protection in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is alleged to have committed the crimes while on a visit.
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| Moldovan parliament appoints third PM in less than a year | |  By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldovan lawmakers appointed the country's third prime minister in less than a year on Wednesday, backing a man chosen by the president as a compromise candidate in the hopes of ending months of political deadlock. The appointment of Pavel Filip, a member of the main pro-European coalition and a former IT and communications minister in the last government, followed the rejection of two previous candidates. The small ex-Soviet state, Europe's poorest country, has been without a proper government since a no-confidence vote toppled the previous administration in October, after the fraudulent disappearance of $1 billion from the banking system.
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| Amnesty says Kurds waging campaign to uproot Arabs in north Iraq | | | Kurdish forces have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of Arab homes across northern Iraq in what may constitute a war crime, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said in a report published on Wednesday. Amnesty said it found evidence of a "concerted campaign" by the Kurds to uproot Arab communities in revenge for their perceived support of Islamic State, which seized control of about one third of Iraq in the summer of 2014. Kurdish peshmerga forces have since driven the insurgents back in the north of Iraq with the help of air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition, expanding their control to include ethnically mixed territories they claim as their own. |
| Unlikely outsider Juppé is threat to Sarkozy, Hollande's 2017 election bids | |  At the age of 70, former prime minister Alain Juppé has shrugged off a decades-old image of a gray technocrat and a criminal conviction for misuse of public funds to become a serious contender for France's 2017 presidential election. Juppé, prime minister from 1995 to 1997, is in the throes of a comeback campaign to convince the conservative Les Republicains party to nominate him rather than ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy for 2017 in primaries to be held in November. Forty percent of Les Republicains supporters want Juppé to win the November primary, ahead of Sarkozy's 35 percent and far better than all other candidates, a Harris Interactive poll showed.
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| Ten wounded, including opposition politicians, in southeast Turkey shooting | | | Ten people were wounded in Turkey's mostly Kurdish southeast on Wednesday when their group, which included two opposition politicians, came under fire while rescuing people hurt in earlier clashes, officials said. Others among the wounded were sheltering in a house in the town of Cizre, where security forces are enforcing a 24-hour curfew, security sources said. It was not clear who fired on the group of 15 people, which included family members of those hurt earlier, lawmaker Faysal Sariyildiz from the opposition Democratic Peoples' Party (HDP), and the mayor of Cizre. |
| German-Turkish police operation busts Syrian smugglers ring | | | German and Turkish police arrested 15 people suspected of people smuggling in a joint operation to break up a ring believed to have trafficked more than 1,700 Syrian refugees to Europe. The suspects were almost all Syrians, and at least two of the five people arrested in Germany were Syrian asylum seekers, senior police officers told reporters in Potsdam, near Berlin, on Wednesday. "This joint operation to dismantle an international traffickers' ring is the biggest one to date," the president of Germany's Federal Police, Dieter Romann, said. |
| Deutsche CEO predicts cash will be gone in a decade | |  Cash won't be around in a decade, the chief executive of one of Europe's biggest banks predicted on Wednesday. There is no need for it, it is terribly inefficient and expensive," John Cryan, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, said during a discussion on financial technology, known as "fintech". Other predictions made during the panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos included James Gorman, chief executive of Morgan Stanley, who warned against "hysteria" surrounding fintech.
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| Israel arrests two Jewish teens for Jerusalem monastery vandalism | |  Israel has arrested two Jewish youths for anti-Christian graffiti scrawled on a Jerusalem monastery, police said on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an investigation into the latest in a wave of hate crimes. The 16- and 15-year-old males were suspected of involvement in Hebrew curses like "Christians go to hell" that were written in felt-tip pen on the doors and walls of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem's Old City over the weekend, police said. The Benedictine monastery bills itself as a bastion of inter-faith understanding.
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| Kazakh leader calls snap parliamentary poll amid growing economic woes | |  By Olzhas Auyezov ALMATY (Reuters) - Veteran Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev called a snap parliamentary election on Wednesday in an attempt to strengthen his grip on power amid mounting economic hardships caused by the crash in global oil prices. Nazarbayev, who has led the large, energy-rich Central Asian state since 1989, brooks little dissent and has no opponents in the 107-seat lower house of parliament, but the president sees risks of greater public discontent as the economy slows sharply. "The most important thing in this complicated situation is for all of us to realise that we must live within our means, preserve resources and save jobs," he said, adding that Kazakhs had to learn to live with lower commodity prices.
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| Turkish teacher to serve year in prison for insulting President Erdogan | |  A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced a female teacher to almost a year in prison for making a rude gesture at President Tayyip Erdogan at a political rally in 2014, local media reports said on Wednesday. Insulting public officials is a crime in Turkey, and Erdogan, the country's most popular but most divisive politician, is seen by his critics as intolerant of dissent and quick to take legal action over perceived slurs. After a rally in the Aegean city of Izmir in 2014 when he was prime minister, Erdogan lashed out at the female teacher and said she made a gesture at him that typified the rudeness of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).
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