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| Al Qaeda group claims kidnapping of Australians in Burkina Faso | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - The militant group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the Jan. 15 kidnapping of two Australians in northern Burkina Faso, according to an audio statement on Friday. The statement, released on the group's official Telegram channel, also said the group had decided to release one of the captives - a woman - unconditionally. (Reporting by Omar Fahmy; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Ruth Pitchford) |
| Texas 'affluenza' teen transferred to adult jail in Fort Worth | |  By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas teenager who was derided for an "affluenza" defence for killing four people while driving drunk has been transferred to an adult jail on Friday from the juvenile centre where he has been held for more than a week, online jail records showed. Ethan Couch, 18, had been held at the juvenile detention centre in Fort Worth, Texas, since he was deported from Mexico at the end of January. Couch, 18, fled to Mexico in December with his mother after apparently violating the probation deal reached in juvenile court that kept him out of prison for killing the four people in 2013.
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| Italian actor dies after live hanging scene goes wrong | | | An Italian actor has been declared brain dead after being strangled on stage when a hanging scene went wrong in the central region of Tuscany, a judicial source said on Friday. The Teatro Lux in Pisa said in a statement it was closing for 10 days because "following the unthinkable tragedy ... we think it right to suspend all our activities, including shows". Raphael Schumacher, a 27-year-old from northern Italy, had been performing a monologue on adolescent existential unhappiness that ended with a scene of simulated suicide by hanging, local media reported. |
| Colombian leader says received assurances of support from Republican U.S. lawmakers | |  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Friday that Republican members of the U.S. Congress had indicated their continuing support for Colombia's effort to achieve peace with leftist rebels and recover from years of civil war. Asked whether Republicans had backed the administration plan, Santos told reporters at the State Department he "did not hear one single voice" doubting the success of the current U.S. aid effort, Plan Colombia, and he had received "expressions of continuing support." He said he did not receive any formal commitments but hoped Congress would support the new proposal.
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| Exclusive - Obama to propose $2.5 billion tax credit for community college investment | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose a $2.5 billion tax credit over five years for businesses that invest in programs at local community colleges and hire their graduates, administration officials said on Friday. The proposal, dubbed the Community College Partnership Tax Credit, would require businesses to donate funds for equipment, instruction, or internships related to programs in areas such as healthcare, energy and information technology. Employers that hire students from such programs would get a one-time, $5,000 tax credit per individual brought aboard.
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| Huge construction crane collapses in Manhattan, kills one | |  At the time, workers were lowering the crane to secure it as winds approached 25 miles per hour, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference. An investigation was underway and the crane operator was being interviewed, de Blasio said. Manhattan resident David Wichs, 38, was killed in the collapse, police said.
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| Italian student killed in Egypt criticised Cairo govt in articles | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - An Italian student found dead by a roadside in Cairo with cigarette burns and other signs of torture on his body had written articles critical of the Egyptian government, according to the Italian newspaper that published them. Il Manifesto, a left-wing newspaper based in Rome, published Giulio Regeni's final article on Friday, written by the 28-year-old graduate student before his Jan. 25 disappearance. The article describes the difficulties faced by independent unions in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
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| WikiLeaks' Assange calls on Sweden, Britain to allow him freedom after U.N. panel report | |  By Costas Pitas and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on Britain and Sweden on Friday to let him freely leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a U.N. panel ruled he had been arbitrarily detained and should be awarded compensation. Assange, a computer hacker who enraged the United States by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, has been holed up in the embassy since June 2012 to avoid a rape investigation in Sweden. Both Britain and Sweden denied that Assange was being deprived of freedom, noting he had entered the embassy voluntarily.
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| Germany investigates link between Berlin arrests and Paris attacks - police | |  German police said on Friday they were investigating whether two men arrested a day earlier over suspicions they were preparing attacks in Berlin were linked to attacks in Paris last year. "We are investigating whether there is a link to the Paris attacks," police spokesman Stefan Redlich said. Police and special forces on Thursday raided four flats and two offices in Berlin and properties in the northern regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, arresting two Algerian men.
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| U.N. rights boss urges abortion right upheld in Zika outbreak | |  The top U.N. human rights official called on Friday for countries with the Zika virus to make available sexual and reproductive health counselling to women and uphold their right to terminate pregnancies. "Laws and policies that restrict her access to these services must be urgently reviewed in line with human rights obligations in order to ensure the right to health for all in practice," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement.
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| U.N. police base in Mali's Timbuktu retaken from Islamist militants | |  By Adama Diarra and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian troops backed by U.N. helicopters stormed a U.N. police base in the city of Timbuktu and recaptured it from suspected Islamist militants who had seized it hours before on Friday, the United Nations said. Malian Defence Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly told reporters that an army commander was killed in the rescue operation as well as three of the attackers, whom he called terrorists but did not identify. The incident followed a series of bold attacks by al Qaeda militants in West Africa, including a hotel siege in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou last month in which 30 people including many foreigners were killed.
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