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| Portugal hopes for calmer political waters before presidential vote | |  By Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's stormy political backdrop could shift into calmer waters on Sunday when the country votes for a new president, if the man expected to win outright makes good on promises to build consensus rather than foment divisions. Since November, Portugal has been governed by a shaky alliance of moderate centre-left Socialists backed in parliament by the far left Communists and Left Bloc. According to opinion polls, that is almost certain to be Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, a Social Democrat whose centre-right party was ousted from power by the Socialists.
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| Some 200,000 at risk in Turkey's fight against Kurdish militants - Amnesty | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Security operations in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast have put up to 200,000 people at risk, placing them in the crossfire or cutting them off from emergency and basic services such as water, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday. Round-the-clock curfews amid clashes between security forces and the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have confined people indoors, even forcing some to live with the corpses of dead relatives, for days, it said in a report. "Turkey has never taken an approach that would endanger the lives of innocent citizens," a senior official said on condition of anonymity in response to Amnesty's report.
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| Dreadlocks and poets herald new face of Spanish parliament | |  By Angus Berwick MADRID (Reuters) - When Alberto Rodriguez of Podemos turned up for the new Spanish parliament's first session in the grand chamber in Madrid, his dreadlocks, jeans and scruffy jumper drew a look of disapproval from the staid prime minister, Mariano Rajoy. Such scenes are likely to become commonplace with the end of two-party domination of Spanish politics and a new wave of delegates takes their seats alongside the well-groomed ranks of the old guard. The national election on Dec. 20 left Rajoy's ruling People's Party (PP) without a majority and opened parliament's doors to two new parties, the anti-austerity Podemos and the centrist Ciudadanos.
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| From Dakar to N'Djamena, hotels boost security after Burkina attack | |  By Makini Brice DAKAR (Reuters) - West African hotels from Dakar to N'Djamena are strengthening security, adding armed guards and increasing cooperation with local authorities as a pair of high-profile attacks have exposed a growing Islamist threat to foreign travellers. Al Qaeda fighters killed 30 people on Friday at a hotel and restaurant in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The assault, the country's first militant attack on such a scale, came just two months after Islamist militants killed 20 people at a Radisson hotel in Mali's capital Bamako.
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| Belgium detains two further suspects over Paris attacks | | | Belgium has arrested two more men suspected of links to the Paris attacks on Nov. 13 in which 130 people were killed, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The men, identified as Belgian national Zakaria J., born in 1986 and Moroccan national Mustafa E., born in 1981, were arrested during two house searches on Wednesday and Thursday morning in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, prosecutors said. "Both were arrested due to their possible ties with different suspects in this case," the prosecutor's office said in a statement. |
| LRA used brutality to train child fighters, prosecutors say | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - International prosecutors accused a former Lord's Resistance Army commander on Thursday of using rape and brutality to turn children the LRA had abducted into sex slaves or soldiers for its long campaign against Uganda's government. Dominic Ongwen, himself a former child soldier who rose through the ranks of Joseph Kony's rebel group, is also accused of slaughtering civilians and even ordering cannibalism. Thursday's confirmation of charges hearing is a test for prosecutors who must convince judges that their case, hastily reinvestigated since Ongwen's surrender last January after years on the run, is strong enough to merit a trial.
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| Russia's Putin 'probably' approved London murder of ex-KGB agent Litvinenko - UK inquiry | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin probably approved a 2006 Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London, a British inquiry concluded on Thursday, prompting a row with Moscow. Russia, which had declined to cooperate in the inquiry, described Britain's handling of the case as opaque and biased. Litvinenko, 43, an outspoken critic of Putin who fled Russia for Britain exactly six years to the day before he was poisoned, died after drinking green tea laced with the rare radioactive isotope at London's Millennium Hotel.
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| UK considering more action against Russia over Litvinenko - PM's spokeswoman | |  Britain is considering taking further action against Russia after an inquiry found Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron said. "The conclusion that the murder was authorized at the highest levels of the Russian state is extremely disturbing," the spokeswoman told reporters. "It is not the way for any state, let alone a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, to behave." "In light of the inquiry's findings we are considering what further actions we should take," she said.
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| Ecuador asks Sweden to apply again over Assange interview | |  Ecuador has asked Sweden to submit a new application over the questioning of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London, Swedish prosecutors said on Thursday. The Swedish prosecutor said Ecuador had informed Sweden in a letter that it would conduct the interview of Assange and has asked for a list of questions the Swedish prosecutor wants answered. Assange, 44, took refuge at Ecuador's embassy in London in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations, which he denies, that he committed rape in 2010.
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| Britain to nominate Lagarde for fresh term as IMF boss | |  British finance minister George Osborne said on Thursday he will nominate Christine Lagarde for a second term as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, as support for her candidacy also emerged from other European countries. "At a time when the world faces what I've called a dangerous cocktail of risks, I believe Christine has the vision, energy and acumen to help steer the global economy through the years ahead," Osborne said in a statement. Lagarde has no obvious challengers and has said she is open to serving another term.
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| Three asylum seekers seek refuge in Arctic Norway church | | | Three asylum seekers sought refuge in a church in Arctic Norway on Thursday, a local church official said, as police in the town prepared to return a group of migrants back to Russia. Norway's right-wing government is tightening asylum rules in response to the influx to Europe of migrants and refugees, saying some of the 31,000 who arrived last year did not qualify for protection. Measures include sending back to Russia any who have a long-term residence permit there. |
| Litvinenko murder suspect Lugovoy calls UK inquiry accusations 'absurd' | |  Andrei Lugovoy, one of two Russians named on Thursday by a judge led-British inquiry as the killers of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, said the accusations against him were "absurd", the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. The inquiry into the 2006 killing in London concluded that President Vladimir Putin probably approved a Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Litvinenko. Lugovoy, who represents the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in the Russian parliament, called the British inquiry "a pathetic attempt by London to use a skeleton in the closet for the sake of its political ambitions".
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| Indonesia's porous border triggers alarm bells in fight against militants | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi JAKARTA (Reuters) - The ease with which three separate groups of ethnic Uighur militants sneaked into Indonesia is ringing alarm bells for security forces, who are on high alert for a far deadlier attack than last week's assault on Jakarta. At least 10 Uighurs, who hail from China, arrived in the world's most populous Muslim nation over the last 18 months to join Islamist radicals, exposing an extensive support network ready to welcome wannabe jihadis. Police fear the same network could assist in the return of battle-hardened Indonesian Islamic State fighters from Syria, who could then launch more calculated attacks, similar to that which hit Paris last November.
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| Insight - On U.S. end of Iran prisoner deal, doubts and delays in final hours | |  By Yeganeh Torbati, Joel Schectman and Matt Spetalnick HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When FBI agents arrested Bahram Mechanic in April last year, prosecutors described the Houston-based Iranian-American entrepreneur as an illegal purchasing agent for Iran's military and a threat to national security. When the 69-year-old walked out of a Houston detention center on Sunday before dawn, it was with a pardon from President Barack Obama that was negotiated secretly with Iran over months in exchange for the release of four Americans. The reversal of fortune for Mechanic and six other Iranian men who received clemency in a deal accompanying the lifting of international sanctions on Iran underscores how quickly assumptions about U.S. relations with Tehran have shifted.
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