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| Death of former leader Sushil Koirala poses potential problems for Nepal | | | By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, a moderate figure in Nepal's unsettled politics, died on Tuesday, presenting a potential hurdle in attempts to win greater rights for minorities in a new constitution. Koirala, 78, a senior figure in one of Nepal's biggest political dynasties, stood down as prime minister in October. Koirala was head of the centrist Nepali Congress party, the largest opposition group in parliament, and had been expected to face a leadership challenge next month. |
| Actress Gwyneth Paltrow testifies in trial of accused stalker | |  Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow told a Los Angeles court on Monday that she feared for her safety after receiving dozens of letters from a man accused of stalking her for the past 17 years, according to media reports. Paltrow, who read aloud from the letters sent by Dante Michael Soiu, 67, told the jury she found the messages "religious to pornographic to threatening", the California wire agency City News Service (CNS) reported. Paltrow, 43, said Soiu sent her about 70 letters, a cookbook, clothing and other items from 2009 and 2014, CNS reported.
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| New York policeman tearfully describes shooting black man | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A loud, startling sound prompted New York Police Officer Peter Liang to pull the trigger accidentally on his service pistol as he patrolled a pitch-black stairwell, inadvertently shooting dead an unarmed black man, the officer testified on Monday. A tearful Liang took the stand in his manslaughter trial, 14 months after the bullet he fired ricocheted off a wall and buried itself in the chest of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, who was walking one floor below in the dark on Nov. 20, 2014. While Liang debated with his partner whether to call in the shot, fearing he would lose his job, Gurley was on a landing downstairs bleeding to death.
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| Death of former leader poses potential problems for Nepal | |  By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, a moderate figure in Nepal's unsettled politics, died on Tuesday, presenting a potential hurdle in attempts to win greater rights for minorities in a new constitution. Koirala, 78, a senior figure in one of Nepal's biggest political dynasties, stood down as prime minister in October. Koirala was head of the centrist Nepali Congress party, the largest opposition group in parliament, and had been expected to face a leadership challenge next month.
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| Dissident Irish nationalists claim fatal Dublin shooting - BBC | |  Irish nationalists opposed to Northern Ireland's peace process have told the BBC they were behind a fatal shooting last Friday at a Dublin hotel, saying it was retaliation for the killing of an ally in 2012. Another man was shot and killed in north Dublin on Monday evening, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said in a statement. A spokesman for Ireland's police said it was investigating the shooting and could not confirm if the two were linked.
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| Hong Kong riot police fire warning shots in clash with street vendors | |  By Clare Baldwin and Donny Kwok HONG KONG (Reuters) - Riot police fired warning shots on Tuesday to disperse an angry crowd after clashes erupted when authorities tried to move illegal street vendors from a working-class Hong Kong district, the worst street violence since pro-democracy protests in 2014. Protesters prised bricks from the sidewalk to hurl at police, while others toppled street signs and set fire to rubbish bins in Mong Kok, a gritty neighbourhood just across the harbour from the heart of the Asian financial centre. A police spokeswoman said two warning shots were fired into the air, with pepper spray and batons also used to disperse the crowd.
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| PM calls for peace on Haiti's first day with no president | |  PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Protesting Haitians should end weeks of sometimes violent street marches and join a dialogue to create a transitional government, Prime Minister Evans Paul said on Monday, during his first day as the temporary head of the troubled Caribbean nation. Paul was prime minister under former President Michel Martelly, who left office on Sunday without an elected successor after a botched election saw a second round of voting cancelled due to the protests. Under an 11th-hour agreement at the weekend, Paul will stay in office until parliament chooses an interim president.
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| Widow of Islamic State leader charged in death of American - U.S. Justice Dept | | | By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of a deceased Islamic State leader was charged on Monday in federal court in Virginia with conspiracy in the death of American aid worker Kayla Mueller who was killed a year ago while being held hostage in Syria by the militant group, the U.S. Justice Department said. Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, aka Umm Sayyaf, 25, admitted to FBI agents last year that Islamic State head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "owned" Mueller during her captivity at Sayyaf's residence, and that "owning" her was equivalent to enslaving her, according to the complaint. |
| Mass deaths in Syrian jails amount to crime of 'extermination' - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Detainees held by the Syrian government are being killed on a massive scale amounting to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said on Monday. The U.N. commission of inquiry called on the Security Council to impose "targeted sanctions" on high-ranking Syrian civilian and military officials responsible for or complicit in deaths, torture and disappearances in custody, but stopped short of naming the suspects. The independent experts said they had also documented mass executions and torture of prisoners by two jihadi groups, the Nusra Front and Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
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| Pennsylvania woman sentenced to jail in attack on gay couple | | Monday, February 08, 2016 11:37 PM | |
| | A 25-year-old Pennsylvania woman convicted of joining a group attack on a gay couple in a predominantly gay Philadelphia neighborhood was sentenced to five to 10 months in jail, prosecutors said on Monday. A jury in December found Kathryn Knott, of Southampton, Pennsylvania, guilty of the misdemeanor charges of simple assault, conspiracy and two counts of reckless endangerment in the Sept. 11, 2014 beating, the Philadelphia District Attorney' Office said in a statement. Knott's friends, Philip Williams, 24, and Kevin Harrigan, 26, both entered into plea agreements in October. |
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