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| Texas judge set to send 'affluenza' teen's case to adult system | |  By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - A Fort Worth juvenile judge is expected to decide on Friday to transfer the case of America's so-called "affluenza" teen to the adult court system, where the 18-year-old could become eligible for release on bond. Tarrant County prosecutors and attorneys for Ethan Couch have said they expect Judge Tim Menikos to transfer probation supervision to adult court for his conviction in juvenile court for killing four people while driving drunk in 2013. A psychologist testifying on Couch's behalf said he was so spoiled that he could not tell right from wrong, describing him as being afflicted with "affluenza." Couch received probation for causing the deaths, spurring outrage, while the affluenza defense was widely ridiculed.
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| Switzerland charges man suspected of supporting Islamic State | | | By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - A 25-year-old Swiss man has been charged with supporting Islamic State, the first time Switzerland has brought a suspected "jihadi traveller" before courts, the attorney general's office said on Friday. It said he was suspected of being bound for the Middle East to join up with Islamic State before his arrest at Zurich airport last year. "This represents the first time in Switzerland in which a suspected 'jihadi traveller' who was arrested before embarking on a trip to a conflict zone has been brought before the courts," Attorney General Michael Lauber's office said in a statement. |
| At least 19 dead in suicide attack in north Cameroon | | | Two suicide bombers killed at least 19 people and injured 50 others in a market in Meme, northern Cameroon, on Friday, military sources told Reuters. Two men walked into the market and blew themselves up, one of the officials based in northern Cameroon said, adding that the number of dead and injured is subject to change. There has so far been no official claim of responsibility for the attack, but officials pointed the finger at Nigeria-based Boko Haram, which has been blamed for a campaign of suicide attacks in neighbouring countries Cameroon, Chad and Niger over the past year. |
| Pakistan lodges case against alleged perpetrators of Pathankot air base attack | |  A Pakistan police spokesman said on Friday a case has been lodged against unnamed perpetrators of a deadly attack on an Indian air base last month that has renewed tensions between the rivals. The Jan. 2 attack on the Pathankot air base, in which seven Indian security personnel were killed, has stalled hopes of revived peace talks between the nations after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to his counterpart Nawaz Sharif in December. India said it gave actionable intelligence to Pakistan in the weeks following the attack, but Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar suggested on Thursday Pakistan was slow to act.
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| U.S. and Russia hold talks on Syria ceasefire ahead of U.N. meeting | |  U.S. and Russian military officials have held talks in Geneva ahead of a wider meeting on Friday aimed at trying to secure a cessation of hostilities in Syria, diplomats said. The unannounced bilateral meeting was aimed at narrowing positions before the two powers jointly chair a United Nations meeting on the issue, they said, declining to give details. "The idea of the whole exercise is for Russia and the United States to have a joint view.
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| Paris fugitive stayed in Brussels three weeks, newspaper says | |  A leading suspect sought in connection with the Paris attacks hid in a Brussels apartment for some three weeks, the Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure (DH) wrote on Friday, citing sources close to the investigation. Salah Abdeslam, whose brother blew himself up in Paris and who returned to Belgium the day after the attacks, is suspected of helping to equip the gunmen and suicide bombers who killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13 and may have taken part himself. Surveillance footage at a petrol station showed him returning by car to Belgium a day later.
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| Supreme Court refuses to intervene in JNU student leader's arrest | |  By Aditya Kalra and Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday refused to consider a bail plea from a left-wing student leader whose arrest for sedition triggered demonstrations in universities across the country against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling nationalist group. Rivals said the government was trying to crush dissent after it ordered police to detain Kanhaiya Kumar, the head of the Jawaharlal Nehru University students union, for commemorating the anniversary of the execution of a Kashmiri separatist. The top court suggested Kumar, 28, approach the lower Delhi High Court for bail, saying it didn't have to intervene in the case and that lower courts were qualified to handle a bail application.
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| FIFA faces day of reckoning as threats mount | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - The spotlight at next week's FIFA Congress will fall on the presidential election - but the real key to the future of soccer's beleaguered governing body is embedded in a document with the unglamorous title "Draft statutes - Congress 2016". U.S. prosecutors have continued to call FIFA a victim of corrupt individuals. National team competitions depend on a calendar agreed between FIFA and the clubs, which commit to release players to their national teams on certain dates.
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