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| Pentagon to submit plan to Congress for closing Guantanamo prison | | | The Pentagon is expected to submit to Congress on Tuesday President Barack Obama's long-awaited plan for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, setting up a battle with lawmakers who oppose his efforts. Obama, whose pledge to shut the facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba dates back to the start of his presidency in 2009, is seeking to make good on his plan before he leaves office next January. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the administration intended to meet Tuesday's deadline for sending Congress a proposal for closing the facility. |
| Female guard testimony illegally redacted in 9/11 hearing - lawyers | | | The dispute arose over blacked-out testimony by a female guard in October about whether women guards at the U.S. military base in Cuba should be barred for religious reasons from touching Muslim prisoners. The guard, who used the pseudonym Sergeant Jinx, spoke in open court in 2015 about contact between female guards and Guantanamo Bay detainees. Intelligence agencies later scrubbed Jinx's statements from an online transcript that had been available to the public on a government website. |
| Brazil police target Rousseff campaign chief in corruption probe | |  By Caroline Stauffer and Pedro Fonseca SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police said on Monday they obtained an arrest warrant for the architect of President Dilma Rousseff's electoral campaigns, complicating her fight to survive an investigation of her re-election in 2014 and stave off impeachment by Congress. The investigation of campaigner João Santana, known as "the maker of presidents" in Latin America, was part of Brazil's corruption investigation focusing on state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras.
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| Cosby's wife faces questioning in suit by alleged victims | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Bill Cosby's wife of a half-century faced questioning on Monday by lawyers for seven women who accused the comedian of sex assault and sued him for defamation after a federal judge rejected her bid to avoid a deposition. Camille Cosby, who manages her husband's business, was deposed at a hotel in Springfield, Massachusetts. Plaintiffs' lawyer Joseph Cammarata said he intended to "vindicate our clients' interests." "I expect to ask her about her relationship with Mr. Cosby, her relationship to his personal interests, his business interests and matters that are relevant," Cammarata said.
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| Slovakia's Fico expects to win March 5 vote and form government | |  By Tatiana Jancarikova and Jan Lopatka BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Monday he expects to win a March 5 parliamentary election with over a third of the vote, allowing him to form a stable coalition government. Fico told Reuters in an interview he felt he could repeat the election result from 2010, when he won with 34.8 percent -- but this time avoid the consequences of that election, when a broad coalition of centre-right parties edged him out of power. "I see a very realistic chance of forming a stable coalition of two parties," Fico said.
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| Producer Dr. Luke accuses Kesha supporters of 'trial by Twitter' | |  Pop star Kesha's former music producer on Monday hit back at a "trial by Twitter" social media campaign backed by some of the biggest names in the music industry over the singer's bid to extricate herself from a recording contract with a man who she claims raped and manipulated her. Taylor Swift has donated $250,000 to Kesha while Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande are among hundreds who have posted messages on Instagram and Twitter to the fast-growing #FreeKesha campaign.
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| Bulgarian prime minister brushes aside death threats | |  Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has received a letter with death threats, but said he was not worried and suggested the threats were result of his fight against corruption and smuggling. The anonymous letter that was sent to the government office, and contained Borisov's picture, a bullet and threatening messages, media reported on Monday. "When you collect close to 3 billion levs ($1.69 billion) more from the smugglers, these are hurt interests in cigarettes, in liquor, sugar, meat ... when you stop public procurement orders for 1.7 billion and when every day you fire someone ... everyone has their cross to bear," Borisov told reporters.
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| China knows it cannot sustain export-driven growth model - Obama | |  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said China recognised it could not sustain an export-driven growth model indefinitely but that it would take time to change. Speaking to state governors at the White House, Obama urged them to press the U.S. Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact to boost U.S. exports in a region where China is "the 800-pound gorilla." Obama said it was tempting for China to try to solve its short-term problems by dumping state-subsidized goods into the U.S. market but said his administration had made clear to China that would not work, Obama said. "They recognise that they can't forever sustain an export-driven growth model, but it's going to take some time and it's tempting for them to solve short-term problems by just dumping a bunch of state-subsidized goods into the U.S. market," Obama said in response to a question raising concerns about China's exports of iron ore.
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| As pound plunges, UK's Cameron defends EU deal to avert 'Brexit' | |  By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - The pound posted its biggest one-day loss in almost six years on Monday on concerns of a possible British exit from the EU, adding to the pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron as he mounted a defence of his deal to keep the country in the bloc. The fall in the currency, as well as in government bond prices, was triggered by London Mayor Boris Johnson - a senior figure in Cameron's Conservative Party - throwing his support behind the exit campaign. Johnson, one of the country's most popular politicians, gave the "Brexit" camp a much-needed figurehead when he announced his support on Sunday, just days after Cameron struck his deal in Brussels to hand Britain what he called a "special status".
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| Sexwale "open to negotiations and alliances" in FIFA presidential vote | |  By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African FIFA presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale said on Monday he is a realist who is "open to negotiations and alliances" ahead of Friday's vote in Zurich. Sexwale, whose campaign has failed to gain traction, is the first candidate in the process to suggest he could be interested in striking a deal. The millionaire businessman is up against Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, former FIFA deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne, Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein and UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino in the race to lead world soccer's governing body.
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| Syria government, IS commit crimes against humanity - U.N.-backed inquiry | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - War crimes in Syria's five-year-old conflict are widespread and Syrian government forces and Islamic State militants continue to commit crimes against humanity in the face of inaction by the international community, a U.N.-backed panel said on Monday. "Flagrant violations of human rights and international humanitarian law continue unabated, aggravated by blatant impunity," the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry said in its latest report. "Crimes against humanity continue to be committed by government forces and by ISIS (Islamic State).
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| On the border, Austria takes migrant fingerprints, then discards them | |  By Shadia Nasralla and Gabriela Baczynska SPIELFELD, Austria/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - On the Austrian-Slovenia border, one of the last stops on the migrant route to Germany, a policeman explains that after his 12-hour shift taking new arrivals' fingerprints, most are lost minutes after they are taken. "We are not allowed to save the fingerprints," the Austrian policeman, who wanted to remain anonymous, said as he sat in a tent at the Spielfeld border crossing. "We do what we're asked to do." Austria, which saw 700,000 migrants crossing its borders last year, says it is not legally allowed to save and share with other European states more than 90 percent of the fingerprint data it takes of migrants fleeing war and poverty, a potential security problem at a major migrant hub.
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| Notorious Canada serial killer pens book, sparks outrage | | | One of Canada's most infamous serial killers, Robert Pickton, who was convicted in 2007 of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and butchering their remains at his pig farm, has released a book proclaiming his innocence. The book, published on January 29 and available through the online retailer Amazon.com Inc, is listed as a personal memoir by Pickton, 66, who is serving a life sentence at a prison in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Calling himself "the fall guy" on the book's jacket, Pickton notes he is accused of murdering "between 6 and 49 women" and is finally telling his story. |
| Iranian film-maker loses appeal amid pre-vote crackdown | | | By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian film-maker convicted of insulting the Islamic Republic has lost his appeal and now faces jail and lashing, a source said on Monday, as an apparent crackdown on artists and writers intensified ahead of elections this week. Keywan Karimi, 30, was found guilty last year of "insulting the sacred and spreading propaganda" in a documentary about political graffiti in Tehran called "Writing On The City". An appeals court this week confirmed Karimi's six-year sentence, suspending five of them, and condemned him to 223 lashes and a fine for "shaking hands with women and drinking alcoholic drinks," a source close to the issue said. |
| German government condemns anti-migrant protests in Saxony | |  By Tina Bellon BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government on Monday denounced anti-refugee protests that took place in eastern Germany, calling the events in which a group of people hindered asylum seekers from getting off a bus to enter a shelter "deeply shameful". On Thursday night about 100 people blocked entry to a refugee shelter in Clausnitz, a small town in Germany's eastern state of Saxony, with a tractor and two cars, police said. "How cold-hearted, how cowardly one has to be to plant oneself in front of a refugee bus, to swear and to roar in order to scare the people sitting inside, among them several women and children," government spokesman Steffen Seibert said.
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| Jury selection starts in Erin Andrews' $75 mln stalking lawsuit | |  By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Monday for a $75 million civil lawsuit by Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews, who has accused a Nashville hotel of negligence for allowing a stalker to take nude videos of her in her room. Andrews filed the lawsuit in Davidson County Circuit Court after a 2008 incident at the Marriott Nashville at Vanderbilt University in which a man in a neighboring room, David Barrett, rigged peep holes and made videos of Andrews changing clothes. Andrews, who also has appeared on the "Dancing With the Stars" television show, was staying at the hotel while covering a Vanderbilt football game when she worked for ESPN.
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| U.S. businessman jailed in Iran breaks hunger strike - mother | |  An American businessman jailed in Iran since October has broken his hunger strike, his mother wrote on social media on Monday. Siamak Namazi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, was detained in Iran in October while visiting family. Namazi's mother, Effie Namazi, wrote in a Facebook post from Iran on Saturday that she had been unable to meet with her son for some time and had heard through his cellmate's family that he had undertaken a hunger strike.
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