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- U.S. Congress passes tougher North Korea sanctions, sends bill to Obama
- Saudi warns U.N., aid workers to leave areas near rebel bases in Yemen
- FIFA ethics committee bans Valcke for 12 years
- Amid WADA concerns, Kenya says stepping up anti-doping fight
- Two teen girls found shot dead at school in Phoenix suburb
- After short, tense meeting, Spain's Socialist head rejects backing Rajoy
- Convoys can go very soon" if Syria's warring parties give nod - Egeland
- Oregon refuge searched for evidence, explosives after occupiers leave
- Thousands of Egyptian doctors protest over alleged police brutality
- Two teenage girls dead in shooting at Arizona high school - police
- Five U.N. peackeepers killed by truck bomb, mortar fire in Mali
- Outlook for Syria peace talks still 'cloudy' - U.N.
- Burberry faces U.S. lawsuit accusing it of deceptive price tags
- U.S. House backs tighter North Korea sanctions, sends bill to Obama
- Islamic State can only be defeated if Assad goes - Saudi minister
- U.N. task force demands immediate aid access in Syria
- Student tortured and killed in Egypt given funeral at home in Italy
- Three Iraqi presidential guards kidnapped near northern town - sources
- Indian children trafficked to United States is a reality, says U.S. diplomat
- If ribs visible, you were candidate for crematorium, Auschwitz survivor tells Nazi trial
- Moscow court rejects lawsuit against Putin from Kremlin critic Navalny - RIA
- Factbox - Athletes risk stiff jail terms, large fines under draft Kenyan anti-doping bill
- EXCLUSIVE - Kenyan anti-doping law to impose stiff jail terms, heavy fines
- Entertainer Rolf Harris to face further sex crime charges
- New app helps young Iranians avoid "morality police"
- Britain says missing Hong Kong bookseller "involuntarily removed" to China
| U.S. Congress passes tougher North Korea sanctions, sends bill to Obama | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation on Friday broadening sanctions to punish North Korea for its nuclear programme, human rights record and cyber crimes, and sent the measure to President Barack Obama to sign into law. Lawmakers said they wanted to make Washington's resolve clear to Pyongyang, but also to the United Nations and other governments, especially China, North Korea's lone major ally and main business partner.
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| Saudi warns U.N., aid workers to leave areas near rebel bases in Yemen | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, which is leading air strikes against rebels in neighbouring Yemen, has warned the United Nations and international aid groups to protect staff by removing them from areas near rebel military bases, according to a letter that was seen by Reuters on Thursday. A short note sent by the Saudi Embassy in London on Friday said the intention was to "protect the international organizations and their employees," presumably from coalition air strikes. The Saudi ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, told Reuters that Riyadh sent the letter because, "We're just concerned for the safety of the U.N. staff and their humanitarian agencies.
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| FIFA ethics committee bans Valcke for 12 years | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke became the latest high-profile football official to be kicked out of the sport when he was banned for 12 years on Friday after causing "considerable financial damage" to its scandal-plagued governing body. Valcke was found guilty by FIFA ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert of misconduct over the sale of World Cup tickets, abuse of travel expenses, attempting to sell TV rights below their market value and destruction of evidence. "Valcke acted against FIFA's best interests and caused considerable financial damage to FIFA, while his private and personal interests detracted him from his ability to properly perform his duties as the Secretary General of FIFA," FIFA's ethics committee said in a statement.
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| Amid WADA concerns, Kenya says stepping up anti-doping fight | |  Kenya has increased efforts to root out doping ahead of the Rio Olympics, the Kenyan athletics federation chief said on Friday, rejecting concerns by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that it is failing to tackle drugs cheats. Isaac Mwangi, chief executive of Athletics Kenya (AK), said a new national anti-doping agency was carrying out more drugs testing and said Kenya would soon pass its first anti-doping laws. "Kenya is doing the best it can," Mwangi told Reuters.
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| Two teen girls found shot dead at school in Phoenix suburb | | | By David Schwartz GLENDALE, Ariz. (Reuters) - Two 15-year-old girls died on Friday in a shooting at a high school in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale and were found with a gun beside them, police said. Glendale police spokeswoman Tracey Breeden said it was too early to determine if the incident at Independence High involved a suicide. |
| After short, tense meeting, Spain's Socialist head rejects backing Rajoy | |  By Angus Berwick MADRID (Reuters) - The head of Spain's Socialist party ruled out on Friday supporting acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy for a second term, support that could have ended the country's political stalemate. Pedro Sanchez, the leader of the Socialists, had met Rajoy for talks to form a government, after elections in December left Rajoy's centre-right People's Party (PP) without a parliamentary majority as newcomer parties grabbed votes from the mainstream. After a half-hour meeting between both leaders, television coverage of which showed Rajoy apparently refusing to shake Sanchez's hand and both avoiding eye contact, Sanchez said he had rejected the proposal of a coalition between the PP and the Socialists.
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| Convoys can go very soon" if Syria's warring parties give nod - Egeland | | | Major and regional powers have pledged to help speed aid deliveries to besieged towns in Syria, but it is a very difficult and complicated process, the chairman of the working group said after its first meeting on Friday. The group, which includes Syria's allies Russia and Iran, had given "excellent feedback" and would meet again on Wednesday, Jan Egeland told reporters after a 3 hour meeting. "I sense now that all of the ISSG (International Syria Support Group) members want to get aid to the besieged areas and also the hard-to-reach areas," he said. |
| Oregon refuge searched for evidence, explosives after occupiers leave | |  By Jimmy Urquhart BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials on Friday were sweeping a wildlife refuge in Oregon for possible live explosives and evidence, a day after the last holdouts in a protest over federal control of Western land surrendered, ending a six-week armed standoff. Federal authorities said the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon would remain closed for several weeks, as agents secured what was now considered a crime scene and scoured it for fugitives or explosives. After their surrender on Thursday, protesters told authorities they left behind booby traps but did not say whether the trip wires and other devices would trigger explosions, a law enforcement official told Reuters.
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| Thousands of Egyptian doctors protest over alleged police brutality | | | Thousands of Egyptian doctors demonstrated in Cairo on Friday in a rare protest at what rights groups call police impunity after two doctors were alleged to have been assaulted in a hospital in the city last month. The Egyptian Medical Syndicate held an emergency meeting on Friday and called for the prosecution of police officers involved in the alleged assault in Matariya, a district of northern Cairo. Protests involving thousands of people on the streets of Cairo have become rare since a strict law was passed allowing for jail sentences of up to seven years for those participating in demonstrations without prior police approval. |
| Two teenage girls dead in shooting at Arizona high school - police | | | Two 15-year-old girls died on Friday in a shooting at a high school in Glendale, Arizona, a police spokeswoman said. The two girls each had a single gunshot wound and the weapon was found beside them, said Glendale police Officer Tracey Breeden at a news conference. |
| Five U.N. peackeepers killed by truck bomb, mortar fire in Mali | | | By Tiemoko Diallo and Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Five U.N. peacekeepers were killed when their base in northern Mali was hit by mortars, gunfire and a truck bomb on Friday, an attack that a local separatist group blamed on Islamist militants. At least 30 people were wounded in the attack in Kidal, a town in an unstable desert region that is home to Islamist groups including al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb which have staged increasingly bold raids in recent months and have targeted the U.N. base several times. "At about 7 a.m. (0700 GMT) the MINUSMA base in Kidal was the target of a complex attack," said Mahamat Saleh Annadif, the Mali representative of the U.N. secretary general, referring to the peacekeeping mission. |
| Outlook for Syria peace talks still 'cloudy' - U.N. | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura is very keen to hold a new round of peace talks after big powers agreed on a "cessation of hostilities", a U.N. spokesman said on Friday, but plans to reconvene the negotiations were still "cloudy". De Mistura abruptly suspended a first round of talks on Feb. 3, saying there was more work to be done by the big powers sponsoring the talks between the Syrian sides, but he hoped to bring them back to the table in Geneva by Feb. 25. The big powers, led by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, struck a deal in Munich early on Friday to start to bring an end to hostilities in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to a handful of besieged Syrian towns as a first step.
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| Burberry faces U.S. lawsuit accusing it of deceptive price tags | |  By Li-mei Hoang LONDON (Reuters) - British luxury fashion brand Burberry is to face a class action lawsuit in the United States, claiming it used misleading price tags at its outlet stores to fool shoppers into believing the goods were being sold at a hefty discount. The company, which manufactures some of its products specifically for its outlet stores, is accused of intentionally presenting false price information on products that have never been sold in its retail stores. Burberry, which is famous for its trench coats and cashmere scarves, said on Friday that it is committed to dealing with all its customers in a transparent and fair manner, including pricing across the business.
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| U.S. House backs tighter North Korea sanctions, sends bill to Obama | | | By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation on Friday broadening sanctions against North Korea, sending the measure to President Barack Obama to sign into law. Lawmakers said they wanted to make Washington's resolve clear to Pyongyang, but also to the United Nations and other governments - especially China, North Korea's lone major ally and main business partner. The sanctions would target not just North Korea but also those who do business with it. |
| Islamic State can only be defeated if Assad goes - Saudi minister | |  Islamic State militants will only be defeated if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is removed from power and this goal will ultimately be achieved, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia said on Friday. Speaking at a security conference in Munich, Adel al-Jubeir called Assad the "single most effective magnet for extremists and terrorists in the region" and said his removal was crucial for restoring stability. "Unless and until there is a change in Syria, Daesh will not be defeated in Syria, period," he added, using the Arab name for Islamic State.
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| U.N. task force demands immediate aid access in Syria | |  Countries backing the U.S.- and Russian-led plan for a cessation of hostilities in Syria have requested access to besieged towns and expect approval from the warring parties without delay, the group's chairman Jan Egeland said on Friday. The "Task Force on Humanitarian Access in Syria" met at the United Nations in Geneva less than 24 hours after it was set up by major and regional powers meeting in Munich. "We have already submitted requests for access to the parties surrounding besieged areas," Egeland said in a statement.
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| Student tortured and killed in Egypt given funeral at home in Italy | | | An Italian student who was tortured and found dead in Egypt last week was given a funeral in his hometown on Friday and Italy's prime minister once again insisted that those responsible be caught and punished. Crowds of mourners attended the funeral in Fiumicello, northern Italy, for Giulio Regeni, 28, whose body was found half-naked by a road in Cairo. The service was held in a municipal gym after Regeni's family declined a state funeral, Italian media said. |
| Three Iraqi presidential guards kidnapped near northern town - sources | | | Three members of Iraq's presidential guard were kidnapped on Friday near a checkpoint run by Shi'ite militiamen close to the northern district of Tuz Khurmatu, police and a local official said. Four other people, including a government employee, were killed in separate incidents, the police said, in and around the district - about 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad - where violence has flared in recent months. Kurdish and Shi'ite Turkmen paramilitary forces have been uncomfortable allies against Islamic State since driving the ultra-hardline Sunni militants out of towns and villages in the area in 2014 with the support of U.S.-led airstrikes. |
| Indian children trafficked to United States is a reality, says U.S. diplomat | | | By Nita Bhalla SILIGURI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cases of Indian children being smuggled to the United States are a reality, a U.S. diplomat said on Friday, reacting to a media report that police had busted an international child trafficking racket operating in the southern city of Bengaluru. Police on Tuesday said they had arrested 16 members of a gang suspected of sending at least 25 children from the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat illegally to the United States using fake documents in order to acquire visas. Craig L. Hall, U.S. Consul General in Kolkata, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation he was not aware of this case as the visas had reportedly been acquired from the U.S. consulate in Chennai but said there had been similar cases in the past. |
| If ribs visible, you were candidate for crematorium, Auschwitz survivor tells Nazi trial | |  By Elke Ahlswede DETMOLD, Germany (Reuters) - Three survivors spoke on Friday of the smell of burnt bodies and piles of the dead at Nazi Germany's Auschwitz death camp, one of whose former guards stands accused of helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people. "If your ribs were visible, you were a candidate for the crematorium," said Leon Schwarzbaum, a 94-year-old survivor who lost 35 family members during the Holocaust. Hanning, sounding weak, was heard only once in court when asked how he was doing by judge Anke Grudda.
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| Moscow court rejects lawsuit against Putin from Kremlin critic Navalny - RIA | |  A Moscow court has rejected a lawsuit filed against Russian President Vladimir Putin by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the RIA news agency quoted a spokeswoman for the court as saying on Friday. The suit cited a Reuters investigation which reported that Kirill Shamalov, Putin's son-in-law, is a major shareholder in petrochemicals producer Sibur, which received the funding from Russia's National Wealth Fund at an unusually low interest rate last year. When asked about Navalny's legal action, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday the Russian leader was unaware of the suit.
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| Factbox - Athletes risk stiff jail terms, large fines under draft Kenyan anti-doping bill | |  Kenyan athletes, sports officials and medics face up to three years in jail or heavy fines if convicting of doping offences under a draft law to be submitted to parliament, according to the official who has overseen the bill. Follows are its main points:- * Anyone found in possession of, stocking or distributing prohibited substances will be liable for a fine of at least 1 million shillings ($9,832.84) or three years in jail. * Anyone who defies a summons, refuses to comply with orders of the anti-doping agency or gives false information to it will be liable for a fine of at least 3 million shillings or at least three years, or both, and forfeiture of their trading licence.
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| EXCLUSIVE - Kenyan anti-doping law to impose stiff jail terms, heavy fines | |  Kenyans convicted of doping offences will face at least three years in prison and heavy fines under a draft law to be submitted to parliament, the chairman of a government-backed anti-doping task force told Reuters. Under the bill, anyone caught possessing, stockpiling or distributing banned substances could instead be fined up to 1 million shillings ($9,830), more than seven times average per capita income in Kenya. "All sports bodies were taken through it and their comments noted," Moni Wekesa, who chairs the National Task Force of Anti-Doping, told Reuters.
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| Entertainer Rolf Harris to face further sex crime charges | |  Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris, currently serving a six-year jail term for child sex crimes, is to be charged with seven more indecent assault offences dating back 45 years, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Friday. Harris, a household name in his native Australia and adopted home Britain, was jailed in 2014 for repeatedly abusing young girls over decades when he was a popular host on children's television. The CPS said they had decided to take further action after police had gathered more evidence.
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| New app helps young Iranians avoid "morality police" | |  By Sam Wilkin DUBAI (Reuters) - A new smartphone application that helps Iranians dodge the Islamic Republic's "morality police" is proving popular with the young, tech-savvy population but has quickly fallen foul of the authorities. The Gershad app allows users who spot checkpoints set up by the morality police, who enforce Islamic dress and behaviour codes, to tag their location on a Google map with an icon of a bearded man, enabling others to steer clear of them. The app was blocked by the authorities soon after it was released for Android devices on Monday but many Iranians bypass Internet restrictions by using a Virtual Private Network.
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| Britain says missing Hong Kong bookseller "involuntarily removed" to China | |  By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday a missing Hong Kong seller of gossipy books on China's leaders had likely been "involuntarily removed" to China from Hong Kong, constituting a "serious breach" of a longstanding bilateral treaty between the U.K. and China. China's Foreign Ministry condemned the British report as "gesticulation", although it made no direct mention of the missing bookseller. In a six-monthly report to parliament on the state of freedoms in the former British colony, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond wrote that Lee Bo, a British passport holder who disappeared from Hong Kong in late December, was probably taken to China against his will.
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