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| North Korea says U.S. student confessed to stealing item with propaganda slogan | |  By James Pearson and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.S. student held in North Korea since early January was detained for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his Pyongyang hotel and has confessed to "severe crimes" against the state, the North's official media said on Monday. Otto Warmbier, 21, a student at the University of Virginia, was detained before boarding his flight to China over an unspecified incident at his hotel, his tour agency told Reuters in January. North Korea has a long history of detaining foreigners and has used jailed U.S. citizens in the past to exact high-profile visits from the United States, with which it has no formal diplomatic relations.
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| Iran reformists cheer election gains, conservatives play down shift | |  By Babak Dehghanpisheh BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani and his allies won big gains in elections that could deepen Iran's engagement with the world after his government ended years of sanctions by agreeing to curb its nuclear programme. The outcome in the results for Tehran on Monday was a blow to the conservative Islamic establishment, although it retains decisive power due to Iran's unwieldy dual system of clerical and republican rule. Most of the lawmakers who did not make it to the new parliament strongly opposed the nuclear deal, including Mehdi Koochakzadeh, who called Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif "a traitor", and Roohollah Hosseinian, who threatened to bury the negotiators under cement for agreeing to concessions to world powers.
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| Napoli star held up at gunpoint, robbed in city centre | |  Napoli striker Lorenzo Insigne was held up at gunpoint and robbed as he was driving through crime-plagued Naples over the weekend, his agent said on Monday. Insigne was driving with his wife and two friends late on Saturday when he stopped at a traffic light. As he drove away, the thief asked Insigne, who comes from Naples, to dedicate a goal to him at Monday night's Serie A clash with Fiorentina, local media reported.
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| Pause in Syria fighting largely holding, but some incidents - U.N.'s Ban | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that a cessation of hostilities in Syria was largely holding but that major and regional powers were looking into some incidents that he hoped would be contained. "By and large the cessation of hostilities is holding, even though we have experienced some incidents," Ban told reporters in Geneva after talks with his envoy Staffan de Mistura and before a meeting of the International Syria Support Group. ...
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| Syria ceasefire task force to meet, France wants answers on violations | |  (Corrects to show truce began early on Saturday) By John Irish GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries backing the Syria peace process will meet at 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) in Geneva on Monday as France demanded information about attacks in breach of a cessation of hostilities that came into force early on Saturday. "We have received indications that attacks, including by air, have been continuing against zones controlled by the moderate opposition," French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told reporters at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. France has therefore demanded that the task force charged with overseeing the cessation of hostilities meet without delay." A spokesman for the Saudi-backed opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said the cessation of hostilities was broken by Syria's government 15 times within the first day, and that there were further violations by Russia and Hezbollah, both allies of President Bashar al-Assad.
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| Missing HK booksellers say arrested for sales of banned books in China | |  By Stella Tsang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Four of the five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing in October appeared on Chinese television confirming for the first time they'd been detained for "illegal book trading" in mainland China. The five booksellers - including a British and Swedish national - had been linked to the same Hong Kong publisher and bookstore that specialised in scandalous books on the private lives and power struggles of China's Communist Party leaders. The disappearances have prompted fears that mainland Chinese authorities may be using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to China from British rule in 1997.
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| U.S. Air Force vet one of first to face trial for Islamic State support | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Air Force veteran charged with trying to join the Islamic State is set to go on trial in New York on Monday, one of the first of more than 75 Islamic State-related cases brought against Americans to reach trial. Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, 48, was detained by Turkish authorities in Istanbul in January 2015 after he returned from a year-long stint living in Egypt. U.S. investigators say they found a letter to Pugh's Egyptian wife on his computer declaring his intention to "defend the Islamic States" and saying he had only two options: "Victory or Martyr." They also discovered approximately 180 jihadist videos on his laptop, including one that showed Islamic State militants executing several prisoners, according to prosecutors. |
| Woman charged with murder after brandishing child's severed head in Moscow | | | Russian investigators arrested a nanny and charged her with murdering a young child in her care on Monday after local media broadcast footage of a woman brandishing a severed infant's head near a busy Moscow metro station. Moscow investigators said in a statement the unnamed nanny was from Central Asia and that she was undergoing psychiatric testing to see if she was mentally sound and understood the significance of the crime they said she had committed. Lifenews.ru, an online news portal with close contacts to the police, published video footage of a woman it identified as the nanny. |
| Pakistan praises Oscar for film denouncing "honour killings" | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hailed Sunday's Oscar win for a documentary about the practice of "honour killings", with activists calling for changes in laws to punish those who kill women deemed to have disgraced their families. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's film, "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness", follows the story of a young woman who survived being beaten, shot and thrown into a river by her father and uncle after marrying a man without their approval. "Women like Ms. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy are not only a pride for the Pakistani nation but are also a significant source of contribution towards the march of civilisation in the world," Sharif said in a statement lauding the Oscar win in the category of Best Documentary (Short Subject).
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| Myanmar parliament to change presidential elections date - document | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is likely to speed up elections of the country's president, in a last-minute change following weeks of talks with the military that has stood by the constitution that bars her from assuming the highest office. Myanmar's parliament dominated by the National League for Democracy (NLD), which swept historic elections in November, will change the date of presidential elections, previously set for March 17, according to the agenda for Tuesday's parliamentary session. NLD members and analysts say the party was likely to speed up the vote to end weeks of bickering between the army and the NLD over whether junta-drafted constitution, which bars Suu Kyi from becoming president, should be amended.
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| Turnout in Iran election was 62 percent - state TV | |  Iran said on Monday that counting of votes cast in Friday's twin elections was over and the nationwide turnout was 62 percent. "Counting of the votes is finished .... the participation in Tehran was 50 percent and in the whole country was around 62 percent," said Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli.
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| Indonesia hopes village spending will counter radicalism | | | By Kanupriya Kapoor SERANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia, on alert against rising militancy, will boost the state funds it sends directly to thousands of villages across the Muslim-majority country to reduce poverty and counter radicalism, a senior cabinet minister said on Monday. Indonesia has cracked down on suspected radicals after a militant attack rocked the capital Jakarta last month and announced the presence of Islamic State in Southeast Asia for the first time. The government has more than doubled its budget allocation for the so-called village fund this year to 47 trillion rupiah ($3.51 billion). |
| Dutch find 10 Syrian war crime suspects among thousand of migrants | | | AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch authorities identified about 30 war crimes suspects, a third of them Syrians, among the 59,000 people who applied for asylum last year, the immigration minister said on Monday. Klaas Dijkhoff released the data in a letter amid an increasingly heated debate over immigration, stoked by an increase in arrivals from war zones across the Middle East. He was responding to questions from members of parliament, many of whom have been calling on the government to start sending back migrants who are suspected of atrocities, or break Dutch laws. ... |
| Chinese court upholds life sentence for former Bo Xilai aide | | | A court in northeastern China on Monday upheld a life sentence for a former aide of disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai, saying an initial guilty verdict for bribery should stand, state media reported. Bo was ousted as Communist Party boss of the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing and from the party's decision-making Politburo in 2012. The former aide, Wu Wenkang, was originally sentenced in November 2014, but decided to appeal, according to a document from the court in Changchun city carried by state media outlets, including state radio's website. |
| Syria's war liberates Kurdish women as it oppresses others | |  By Benedetta Argentieri NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nubohar Mustafa is proud of what her leaders and fellow activists have done for Kurdish women in northern Syria. Coming from the self-proclaimed autonomous region of Rojava, wedged between the Turkish border and territory held by Islamic State, Mustafa enjoys freedoms that few women living under the militants' rule could dream of. Polygamy is no longer tolerated, underage marriage is outlawed and violence against women addressed with strict legislation in Rojava, which has been governed by a Kurdish party since Syrian state forces withdrew from most of the area in 2012 - a year after civil war erupted across Syria.
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| Ten children stabbed outside school gate in southern China | | | A knife-wielding attacker stabbed ten school children in southern China on Monday, severely injuring two, before killing himself, state media reported, the latest in a series of school attacks in the country. The attacker stabbed six boys and four girls outside the gate of an elementary school in the city of Haikou, on the southern island province of Hainan, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported on its microblog. The children were taken to hospital, with two being treated for serious injuries that were not life threatening, CCTV said. |
| Former Bayern boss Hoeness given early release from jail | |  Former Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeness has been released from prison on suspension after serving half of his 3-1/2-year jail term for tax evasion, Bavaria's Justice Ministry said on Monday. The former Bayern Munich player, who was sports director for 30 years before taking over as club president in 2009, was convicted in March 2014 for evading 28.5 million euros ($31.14 million) in taxes. The 1974 World Cup winner stepped down from his post at Bayern and started his jail term in June 2014.
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| Former Tepco execs indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster | |  Three former Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) executives were indicted on Monday for failing to take safety measures to prevent the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, a Tokyo District Court official said. The indictments, forced through by a civilian judicial panel, are the first against officials at Tepco and come just before the fifth anniversary of the meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear station north of Tokyo. The three are former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, and former executive vice presidents Sakae Muto, 65, and Ichiro Takekuro, 69.
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