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| Russia says arrests seven Islamic State militants over attack plot | | | Russia's FSB security service said on Monday it had arrested seven Islamic State militants in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg who it said had been planning bomb attacks in Moscow, St Petersburg and the Sverdlovsk region. The group included Russian nationals and citizens of Central Asian states, the FSB said in a statement, saying it had charged the group with terrorism, and the illegal possession of weapons and explosives. "It was established that after the terror acts, those detained plan to leave for Syria to take part in military action in the ranks of Islamic State," the FSB said. |
| Before New Hampshire primary, Trump campaign shows mellower side | |  By James Oliphant PLYMOUTH, N.H. (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came to the small town of Plymouth in the New Hampshire mountains on Sunday and promised to lower prescription drug prices, improve education and help heroin addicts get treatment. It was a day after he told a Republican debate audience that he did not want to leave poor people "dying in the streets," and won praise by some pundits for delivering a restrained performance in which he largely avoided skewering his rivals. It is not as if Trump, notorious for his inflammatory, demolition-derby style, has suddenly gone soft.
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| TRAI rules against differential pricing for Internet services | |  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday ruled against differential pricing for Internet services, in a setback to Facebook Inc's plan to roll out free Internet to the masses in Asia's third-largest economy. TRAI said that Internet service providers would not be allowed to discriminate on pricing of data access for different web services. Facebook's Free Basics plan, launched in around three dozen developing countries, offers pared-down web services on mobile phones, along with access to Facebook's own social network and messaging services, without charge.
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| Two shot dead, four wounded after Mississippi Mardi Gras parade | | | Two people were shot dead and four wounded on Sunday following a Mardi Gras parade in a Mississippi Gulf town, media said. Two men, aged 29 and 43, were killed at the event in Pass Christian, a Gulf town of 4,600 about 25 miles west of Biloxi, the Sun Herald newspaper reported on its web site, citing the Harrison County Coroner. Authorities had estimated some 50,000 people had turned out for the afternoon Mardi Gras parade. |
| Myanmar presidential vote to start on March 17 as transition talks drag on | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Aung Hla Tun NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's parliament will begin its election of the new president on March 17, cutting very close to an April 1 deadline, suggesting talks between Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious party and the military are likely to take longer than planned. Senior NLD members had told the media they would hold presidential elections in February, but the parliament on Monday decided the process would start two weeks before the new government is scheduled to begin its term, on April 1. The NLD swept the historic Nov. 8 election, securing some 80 percent of elected seats in parliament, or enough to push through its president.
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| Vatican treasurer may front Australian abuse inquiry remotely - judge | | | By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Vatican's Australian finance controller was cleared on Monday to testify at a child abuse inquiry in his homeland via videolink because of a heart condition, a ruling bound to frustrate victim groups who wanted him to appear in person. Cardinal George Pell, once seen as a contender to become pope, was scheduled to testify at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Dec. 16 but asked to give evidence by videolink instead. The judge chairing the inquiry said he accepted a Jan. 29 medical report saying the former archbishop of Sydney and Melbourne had hypertension and ishcemic heart disease complicated by a previous heart attack, and said he could testify remotely. |
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