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| Rubio comes under heavy fire at U.S. Republican presidential debate | | Sunday, February 07, 2016 3:41 AM | |
|  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Rising Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio came under heavy attack in a presidential debate on Saturday from rivals who accused him of being too inexperienced for the White House and walking away from an immigration reform plan he championed. In a contentious debate three days ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump also battled with rival Jeb Bush over the use of eminent domain to seize private property and called for a compassionate approach to those who might lose their health insurance if Republicans repealed Obamacare. Polls show Trump leading in New Hampshire, the second of the state-by-state nominating contests to select candidates in the Nov. 8 election, with Rubio coming fast after a surprisingly strong third-place finish on Monday in Iowa, behind U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and Trump. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who are vying with Rubio for support from establishment Republicans in New Hampshire, compared Rubio's experience in the Senate to that of President Barack Obama, who also was a first-term senator when he was elected. "He simply does not have the experience to be president of the United States and make these decisions," Christie said of Rubio.
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| Christie, Bush go after Rubio early in Republican debate | | Sunday, February 07, 2016 3:37 AM | |
|  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie and Jeb Bush went on the attack against rising rival Marco Rubio early in Saturday's presidential debate, accusing him of being too inexperienced for the White House. Christie and Bush, who are vying with Rubio for support from establishment Republicans in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, compared Rubio's experience as a first-term U.S. senator to President Barack Obama, who also was a first-term senator when he was elected.
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| Australian woman freed after kidnap by al Qaeda in Burkina Faso | | Sunday, February 07, 2016 3:35 AM | |
| | An elderly Australian woman kidnapped with her husband in Burkina Faso by a group affiliated to al Qaeda has been freed, neighbouring Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou said on Saturday. Issoufou presented the woman, Jocelyn Elliott, at a news conference in Dosso, southwestern Niger, and said authorities were intensifying efforts to secure the release of her husband. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said on Friday it had kidnapped the couple and would release the woman unconditionally due to public pressure and guidance from al Qaeda leaders not to involve women in war. |
| Critic of Vatican refuses to step down from sex abuse commission | | Sunday, February 07, 2016 3:31 AM | |
|  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A prominent and outspoken British member of a papal advisory commission on sexual abuse by the clergy on Saturday refused to step down despite a no-confidence vote, and said only Pope Francis could dismiss him. A statement issued earlier said that "it was decided" at a commission meeting that Peter Saunders would take a leave of absence. Saunders, head of Britain's National Association for People Abused in Childhood, would now "consider how he might best support the commission's work", it said.
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| El Salvador detains ex-soldiers for 1989 Jesuit priest killings | | | El Salvador said on Saturday it had detained four former soldiers accused of killing six Jesuit priests during the country's civil war, and would keep searching for 12 other suspects who remain at large. In January, the government said it would help arrest former soldiers linked to the 1989 killings after a Spanish judge sent a new petition for the soldiers' arrest to the international police agency Interpol. Prosecutors say Salvadoran soldiers shot the priests at their home at a university to silence their criticism of rights abuses committed by the U.S.-backed army during the 1980-1992 civil war, which claimed an estimated 75,000 lives. |
| Stade de France reopens for first time since Paris attacks | |  Under tight security and in the presence of French President Francois Hollande, the Stade de France opened its gates on Saturday for the first time since the stadium was targeted in the deadly attacks which struck Paris in November. Around 64,000 rugby fans gathered to watch the Six Nations match between France and Italy at the country's biggest sports venue, situated in the Parisien suburb of Saint-Denis. Hollande had been rushed out of the stadium during an international soccer match on the evening of Nov. 13 last year, when coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State on bars, restaurants and a concert hall killed 130 in the French capital.
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| Hundreds more candidates allowed to contest Iran election | |  By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's powerful election vetting body, the Guardian Council, decided on Saturday to allow hundreds more candidates to take part in a parliamentary election this month, in a move that rekindled the hopes of reformists and moderates. Hardliners fear Iranian voters will now be more inclined to reward reformist candidates. Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a close ally of Iran's moderate President Hassan Rouhani, welcomed the decision.
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| Dozens mourn slain Italian student at Cairo embassy | |  Dozens of people gathered at the Italian embassy in Cairo on Saturday to mourn the Italian student Giulio Regeni, whose body was found half naked at a roadside with what a senior Egyptian prosecutor has said were cigarette burns and other signs of torture. Regeni, a Cambridge University doctoral student, went missing in Cairo on Jan. 25, the fifth anniversary of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.
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| Former FIFA watchdog member Watson jailed for seven years | |  By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) - A former member of world soccer body FIFA's financial watchdog has been sentenced to seven years in prison in the Cayman Islands after being found guilty of fraud, his lawyer said. Canover Watson, who was a member of FIFA's Audit and Compliance Committee, was found guilty of five charges related to his time in charge of the Caribbean nation's Health Service Authority (HSA), according to the Cayman Island's Anti-Corruption Commission, which had led the investigation. While the charges were not football-related, the verdict against a man who served on a body which monitored FIFA's finances is another blow to the image of the organisation facing an unprecedented corruption crisis.
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| Critic of Vatican leaves its sexual abuse commission | | By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A prominent British member of a papal advisory commission on sexual abuse by the clergy who has been outspokenly critical of the Vatican has left the group, the Vatican said on Saturday. A statement said that at a commission meeting "it was decided" that Peter Saunders would take a leave of absence. Saunders, head of Britain's National Association for People Abused in Childhood, would now "consider how he might best support the commission's work".
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| Sri Lankan nationalists protest U.N. rights chief's visit on war crimes | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Hundreds of hardline nationalists gathered outside the United Nations' office in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Saturday to protest against a visit by the U.N. human rights chief who will assess Sri Lanka's progress in prosecuting alleged war crimes. The U.N. says both Sri Lanka's military and the Tamil Tiger rebels most likely committed war crimes during a 26-year war which ended in 2009. A U.N. resolution calls for post-war reconciliation and that all alleged war crimes be investigated and tried in special courts by international judges.
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| Suicide bomber kills nine, injures dozens, in Pakistan city of Quetta | |  At least nine people were killed and 35 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a military convoy in Pakistan's western city of Quetta on Saturday, police and hospital officials said. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Muhammad Khurasani told Reuters that the group, also known as the TTP, was responsible for the attack in the capital of the province of Baluchistan. "The suicide bomber was riding a bicycle close to a Frontier Corps vehicle," said senior police official Imtiaz Shah, referring to the branch of Pakistan's paramilitary forces targeted in the attack.
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