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| If the pope can retire, why can't Japan's elderly emperor? | |  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI did it. Dutch Queen Beatrix did it. Public broadcaster NHK reported last month that Emperor Akihito, 82, wanted to abdicate "in a few years", something unprecedented in modern Japan.
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| U.S. weighs dangers, benefits of naming Russia in cyber hack | | | By Warren Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wary of a global confrontation with Russia, U.S. President Barack Obama must carefully weigh how to respond to what security experts believe was Moscow's involvement in the hacking of Democratic Party organizations, U.S. officials said. Publicly blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin's intelligence services would bring instant pressure on Washington to divulge its evidence, which relies on highly classified sources and methods, U.S. intelligence officials said. |
| No ransom paid or shots fired in Brazil kidnap rescue - governor | |  By Andrew Downie SAO PAULO (Reuters) - No ransom was paid and no shots were fired to free the kidnapped mother-in-law of Formula One empresario Bernie Ecclestone, the governor of Sao Paulo state said on Monday, a day after the 67-year old was freed in a police raid. Aparecida Schunk was rescued on Sunday evening nine days after being seized at her home. The leader of the kidnap gang, who local newspapers said wanted 120 million reais ($36.5 million) in ransom, was a pilot who had worked for Ecclestone's family, according to news magazine Veja.
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| U.S. indicts ex-Venezuelan anti-narcotics agency leaders on drug charges | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors announced an indictment on Monday against two former top officials at Venezuela's anti-narcotics agency, including one who became the head of the country's national guard, over allegations that they took part in a cocaine distribution scheme. The indictment, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, charged Nestor Reverol, the ex-general director of the anti-narcotics agency and onetime commander of Venezuela's National Guard, and Edylberto Molina, a former sub-director of the drug agency who later became a Venezuelan military attaché posted in Germany.
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| Bergdahl's lawyers ask for charges to be dropped over McCain comments | |  (Reuters) - The legal team for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl on Monday asked to have the charges against the former prisoner of war dismissed, arguing comments made by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain violated his due process rights. Defence attorneys argued in a motion filed on Monday that comments made by McCain and the committee's general counsel, Steve Barney, have unduly influenced his case. The filing quotes McCain as saying last October: "If it comes out that (Bergdahl has no punishment, we're going to have a hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee." "I am not prejudging, OK, but it is well known that in the searches for Bergdahl, after - we know now - he deserted, there are allegations that some American soldiers were killed or wounded, or at the very least put their lives in danger, searching for what is clearly a deserter," McCain added.
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| Former L.A. county sheriff withdraws guilty plea in corruption probe | |  By Phoenix Tso LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Monday withdrew his guilty plea to a charge of lying to investigators, opting instead to face trial in a corruption case that clouded his final years as chief custodian of the nation's largest jail system. Both prosecutors and defence lawyers have cited Baca's recent Alzheimer's disease diagnosis in their reasoning for a seeking a relatively light sentence. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson gave Baca and prosecutors time during a court recess on Monday to negotiate an alternative he might find acceptable, but the two sides failed to come to terms during three hours of talks.
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| U.S. general seeks to soothe Turkey ties strained by coup purge | |  By Nick Tattersall and Gareth Jones ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) - America's highest-ranking military officer sought on Monday to soothe strained ties with NATO ally Turkey, which was angered by the West's response to a failed military coup and an apparent U.S. reluctance to hand over the cleric it says was responsible. The fallout from the abortive coup on July 15, in which more than 230 people died as mutinous soldiers commandeered fighter jets, helicopters and tanks, has deepened a rift between Ankara and its Western allies. President Tayyip Erdogan and many Turks have been frustrated by U.S. and European criticism of a government crackdown in the aftermath of the attempted putsch in a country vital to the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State and to stopping illegal migration to Europe.
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| Criminal investigation underway into 2015 Colorado mine spill | |  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Federal investigators said on Monday they have opened a criminal probe into the 2015 spill of some 3 million gallons (11 million litres) of toxic wastewater from a defunct Colorado gold mine that was triggered by a contractor with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). At the urging of congressional leaders, the EPA's Office of Inspector General is investigating the rupture from the Gold King Mine above Silverton, Colorado, that fouled waterways in three states and Native American lands, the agency said in a statement. "Based on requests from several members of the House and Senate, the OIG is conducting both a programme evaluation and a criminal investigation of the Gold King Mine spill," the EPA said in a statement.
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| U.S. judge questions North Carolina transgender bathroom law | |  By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A U.S. judge weighing whether to halt a North Carolina law that restricts bathroom access for transgender people in government buildings and public schools questioned at a hearing on Monday what problem the measure fixed and how it would make restrooms safer. Republican lawmakers cited privacy and security concerns when North Carolina in March became the first U.S. state to require transgender people to use single-sex government-owned public restrooms and changing facilities that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate. During a hearing in which he heard arguments over whether to grant a court order to block the law while litigation over its legality continues, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, sounded sceptical about the law's intent and logistics.
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| Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill for support in Khan controversy | |  By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign appealed to Capitol Hill for support on Monday as his attacks on the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq drew sharp rebukes from fellow party members. Trump's criticism of Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan, who took the stage at last week's Democratic convention, sparked growing concern and dismay from Republican lawmakers responding to the latest Trump outburst to blindside his party colleagues. Republican Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and the most prominent veteran in Congress, along with the commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, joined the chorus of condemnation, reflecting the highly regarded place the military and its veterans hold with many in the United States.
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| Texas allows guns in college classrooms under new law | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A new law went into effect in Texas on Monday that allows certain students to bring guns into classrooms, with supporters saying it could prevent mass shootings and critics saying the measure will endanger safety on campuses. The so-called state "campus carry" law allows people 21 and older with a concealed handgun license to carry pistols in classrooms and most buildings throughout public universities, including the University of Texas system, one of the nation's largest with an enrolment of more than 214,000 students. The law took effect as the university held a memorial to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the deadliest U.S. gun incidents on a college campus.
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| University of Texas holds first memorial of 1966 rampage that left 16 dead | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The University of Texas on Monday held its first memorial of a shooting rampage half a century ago that left 16 people dead, with a survivor of the massacre leading a procession across the field where she was hit by the sniper and her unborn child was killed. Claire Wilson James walked past the spot where, at age 18, she spent nearly 90 minutes on the pavement in the hot sun next to her slain boyfriend on Aug. 1, 1966. The Texas tower shooting - so-named because the gunman fired from the university's clock tower - is regarded as the first U.S. mass shooting in a public space and sent shockwaves across the country.
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| Lawsuit filed over videotaped police beating in San Francisco | | | A man whose beating by two San Francisco-area sheriff's deputies was caught on videotape filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the officers, claiming that after the assault officers stole his gold chain and took a "trophy" photo of him. The lawsuit and authorities said Stanislav Petrov fled officers in what was believed to be a suspected stolen car on the night of Nov. 12, 2015. After a high-speed chase across the Bay Bridge, Petrov got out of the car and fled from Alameda County Sheriff Deputies Paul Wieber and Luis Santamaria in a San Francisco alleyway when he was tackled to the ground. |
| U.S. wins ownership of rare 'double eagle' gold coins | | | A federal appeals court on Monday said a cache of exceptionally rare gold coins stolen from the U.S. Mint in the 1930s belongs to the U.S. government, not the Pennsylvania family that possessed it for decades. By a 9-3 vote, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Joan Langbord and her sons Roy and David cannot keep the 10 "double eagle" 1933 $20 gold pieces, estimated to be worth several million dollars each. |
| Ohio man pleads guilty to charges he planned U.S. Capitol attack | |  By Ginny McCabe CINCINNATI (Reuters) - An Ohio man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges he plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol with guns and bombs and that he sympathized with Islamic State militants. In an appearance in federal court in Cincinnati, Christopher Cornell, 22, shackled and dressed in black-and-white striped jail clothes, admitted to the charges of attempted murder of government officials, possession of a firearm to commit a crime and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation. Cornell, of Green Township, Ohio, near Cincinnati was arrested in January 2015 and accused of planning to travel to Washington to attack the U.S. Capitol during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Jan. 20, 2015, prosecutors said, citing the plea agreement.
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| Six killed in car bombing of Turkish police vehicle - security sources | | | Six police officers were killed and four others wounded when a car bomb exploded as a police vehicle passed in southeastern Turkey on Monday in an attack that security sources said appeared to have been carried out by Kurdish militants. The attack was carried out by the members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the sources said. The PKK, listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and European Union, has waged an armed campaign against security forces in the mainly Kurdish southeast since 1984, pushing for Kurdish autonomy. |
| India's low-caste Dalits rally to demand end to 'unclean' jobs | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Members of India's low-caste Dalit community in Gujarat state have pledged to boycott the dirty jobs traditionally thrust upon them in protest over their treatment by upper-caste Hindus, said activists for the marginalised group. Caste-based discrimination was banned in India in 1955, but centuries-old attitudes persist and low-caste Indians still face prejudice in every sector, particularly in rural areas.
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| British anti-slavery data bank gets sluggish response from business | | | By Tom Esslemont LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Only 100 British companies have paid to sign up to a new voluntary slavery database, designed to fund an anti-trafficking helpline, organisers said on Monday. The number is a tiny fraction of around 12,000 UK businesses targeted to join the Transparency in the Supply Chain (TISC) data bank, that allows firms to confidentially admit when they find their suppliers using enslaved workers, its directors said. Funds raised by TISC are destined to cover operational costs of a victims' support helpline run by the anti-trafficking charity Unseen, but signing up is optional. |
| FBI employee pleads guilty to acting as agent of China | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A FBI electronics technician pleaded guilty on Monday to having illegally acted as an agent of China, admitting that he on several occasions passed sensitive information to a Chinese official. Kun Shan Chun, also known as Joey Chun, was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 1997. Chun, who was arrested in March on a set of charges made public only on Monday, admitted in court that from 2011 to 2016 he acted at the direction of a Chinese official, to whom he passed the sensitive information.
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| New York to bar sex offenders on parole from playing Pokemon Go | |  By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York will bar registered sex offenders on parole from playing Pokemon Go over concerns that the wildly popular virtual reality game could help sexual predators lure young victims, state officials said on Monday. Governor Andrew Cuomo has directed the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to restrict the state's 3,000 sex offenders on parole from using Pokemon Go and similar games, Cuomo's office said in a statement. To enforce the rule, the state is requesting Pokemon Go developer Niantic, Inc to cross-reference a list of sex offenders provided by the state with its list of players.
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| Man who stabbed London passenger 'for Syria' jailed for life | |  A man who stabbed a passenger at a London underground train station in December while shouting that he was acting for Syria was jailed for life at a London court on Monday. Muhaydin Mire, 30, of east London, beat his victim, forced him to the ground and kicked his head before attempting to cut his neck, leaving the man with a 12-cm (5-inch) gash that required five hours of surgery. Initially described by police as a "terrorist incident", the attack at Leytonstone station in east London was investigated by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.
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