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| Republican Christie's U.S. presidential campaign in trouble | |  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Chris Christie's U.S. presidential campaign looked to be in trouble on Wednesday amid news reports he would drop his White House bid and narrow the field of rivals facing businessman Donald Trump. A disappointing sixth-place finish in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary raised doubts about the combative New Jersey governor's viability as a candidate for the Nov. 8 election. Businessman Donald Trump has dominated the Republican race and won the party primary in New Hampshire on a wave of voter anger at traditional U.S. politicians.
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| French Foreign Minister Fabius leaves office, wider reshuffle due | |  By Ingrid Melander and John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday he was leaving the government ahead of a reshuffle President Francois Hollande is set to announce in coming days to reshape his team ahead of the 2017 presidential elections. The reshuffle comes at a time when a beleaguered Hollande is suffering a fresh drop in popularity and deep discontent within his party over contested plans to strip French citizenship from people convicted of terrorism. "I will be leaving office," Fabius told reporters, adding that a wider reshuffle, which has been in the works for months, would be announced later this week.
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| U.S. can meet Paris climate deal goals despite court ruling - White House | | | The White House said on Wednesday that it was confident it could meet its obligations under the Paris climate change agreement, despite a court ruling temporarily blocking the administration's limits on power plants' carbon emissions. The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to the Obama administration's climate change agenda on Tuesday when it took the unusual step to delay implementation of the Clean Power Plan until legal challenges to the regulation are completed. The Clean Power Plan was designed to lower carbon emissions from U.S. power plants by 2030 to 32 percent below 2005 levels. |
| Netanyahu's wife abused household staff, Israeli court finds | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara insulted and raged at household staff, creating an abusive working environment at the Israeli prime minister's official residence, a labour court ruled on Wednesday. Allegations of mistreatment levelled by Meni Naftali, a former chief caretaker at the Jerusalem home, were dismissed by the Prime Minister's Office as "evil, skewed gossip" when the civil lawsuit was filed in 2014. Sara Netanyahu has elicited a multitude of headlines in the past over what family spokesmen have decried as an undeserved reputation for imperiousness, and it seemed unlikely the latest case could cause significant political damage to her husband, now in his fourth term as Israel's leader.
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| Turkey's Erdogan chastises U.S. over support for Syrian Kurds | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan upbraided the United States for its support of Syrian Kurdish rebels on Wednesday, saying Washington's inability to grasp their true nature had turned the region into a "sea of blood". Turkey should respond by implementing its own solution, he said, alluding to the creation of a safe zone in northern Syria - something Ankara has long wanted but a proposal that has failed to resonate with the United States and other NATO allies.
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| India drafts new anti-trafficking bill, raises penalty for offenders | |  By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new bill being drafted in India aims to curb the steep rise in human trafficking by unifying several existing laws, raising the penalties for offenders and providing for victims' rehabilitation, government officials said on Wednesday. The bill calls for the creation of an organized crime investigation agency, a special court to deal with trafficking cases and severe penalties for repeat offenders and the trafficking of minors, they said. "Human trafficking in India has taken on many forms, with people being trafficked for forced labour, domestic work and even begging," a senior Women and Child Development Ministry official working on the draft bill told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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| Egyptian court acquits Mubarak-era minister of corruption charges | | | An Egyptian court acquitted former information minister Anas al-Fiqi on corruption charges, state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday, the latest ruling to clear a prominent figure from the era of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. Fiqi, who from 2004 until the 2011 uprising that ended Mubarak's 30-year rule headed the state's sprawling media apparatus, was accused of using his position and influence to illegally make 33.4 million Egyptian pounds ($4.27 million). |
| Sunderland's Johnson admits one count of sexual activity with child | |  England international Adam Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a child, but denied two other charges, when he appeared at Bradford Crown Court on Wednesday. The 28-year-old Sunderland winger, who has played 12 times for England, also admitted one count of grooming a girl under the age of 16, a court official said. Johnson, who began his career at Middlesbrough and also played for Manchester City, joined Sunderland for 10 million pounds in 2012 on a four-year contract.
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| Stalin-era prison chief jailed for 20 years in Romania | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A 90-year-old Stalin-era prison commander faced the rest of his life in prison on Wednesday after Romania's top court dismissed his last appeal against a 20-year jail term for murder and crimes against humanity. Alexandru Visinescu was convicted in July of direct involvement in the deaths of 12 inmates, the first case of its kind since the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in 1989. The last survivor of the jail where Visinescu worked, Valentin Cristea, 85, told Reuters he did not want to comment on the case but added: "I'm now old and sick ... What can I say?
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| Afghan police officer killed after firing on coalition troops | | | An Afghan police officer who was shot during an exchange of gunfire with members of NATO's force in Afghanistan has died, the Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday. NATO force soldiers returned fire, wounding the gunman, said U.S. military spokesman Colonel Michael Lawhorn. No NATO force members were wounded in the exchange, he said. |
| At least six killed at Cameroon funeral by two suicide attackers | | | At least six people were killed and 30 injured in northern Cameroon on Wednesday by two Islamist suicide bombers at a Muslim funeral gathering, two officials in the region said. The attackers were from Boko Haram, the group based in neighbouring Nigeria that has stepped up cross-border attacks in Cameroon's far north despite the setting up of a roughly 9,500-strong regional military task force. One of the officials said the attack in Nguetchewe, about 10 km (6 miles) east of the Nigerian border, is the first known Boko Haram strike in Cameroon at a funeral gathering, although the militants have made an attack on a baptism in the past. |
| Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov says life threatened in Moscow incident | |  Russian opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov said a group of men burst into a Moscow restaurant where he was dining on Tuesday night and threatened him, days after a Kremlin ally issued a video showing him in the cross-hairs of a sniper's rifle. Kasyanov, who filed a police complaint saying his life and safety had been threatened, is a fierce critic of Putin. Kasyanov's liberal opposition Parnas party is planning to contest parliamentary elections later this year.
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