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| Tech companies to meet on legal challenge to Trump immigration order | |  By Dan Levine and Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of technology companies plans to meet on Tuesday to discuss filing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, said a spokesperson for a company organizing the gathering. Amicus, or friend of the court, briefs are filed by parties who are not litigants in a case but want to offer arguments or information to the judge. Alphabet Inc's Google, Airbnb Inc and Netflix Inc are among the companies invited, a separate person familiar with the situation said.
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| Protests expected after Pakistan detains alleged architect of Mumbai attacks | |  By Mubasher Bukhari and Syed Raza Hassan LAHORE/KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police kept the accused architect of the 2008 Mumbai attacks under house arrest in the eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, manning barricades outside his home as supporters vowed protests. The detention of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed could help ease tensions between nuclear-armed foes Pakistan and India, although New Delhi has not yet responded. The Mumbai attacks brought Pakistan and India to the brink of war after 10 gunmen killed 166 people, including commuters, foreigners and some of India's wealthy elite, in a rampage that included attacks on two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre and a train station.
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| Fired: Trump dumps top lawyer who defied immigration order | |  By Roberta Rampton and Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. It was another dramatic twist in the unusually raucous roll-out of Trump's directive that put a 120-day hold on allowing refugees into the country, an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria and a 90-day bar on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The Friday night ban prompted protests and chaos at airports on the weekend as customs officials struggled to put the order into practise, and the fallout spread to U.S. markets on Monday, where stocks suffered their biggest drop of 2017 and companies affected by the change spoke out against it.
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| USOC say foreign athletes not affected by Trump travel ban | | | The U.S. Olympic Committee said on Monday they were told by the U.S. government that President Donald Trump's ban on visitors from some Muslim-majority countries should not impact athletes traveling to the United States for international events. USOC leaders have received a number of inquiries about the impact of Trump's travel ban and said the U.S. government told them it would work to ensure foreign athletes get expedited access to the United States for international competitions. "We have been specifically asked about the impact that the executive order could have on athletes and officials coming to the United States to compete," said USOC Chairman Larry Probst and chief executive Scott Blackmun. |
| Murder of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley's ex-wife solved | |  By Steve Gorman and Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Investigators have solved the 1976 murder of the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley, using DNA analysis to confirm she was slain by a career burglar who was killed six years later as a prison escapee, police said on Monday. Karen Klaas, a 32-year-old mother of two boys, was attacked in her home in Hermosa Beach, south of Los Angeles, shortly after returning from dropping her younger son off at school on the morning of Jan. 30, 1976. The killing grabbed headlines partly because of her former marriage to Medley, who with Bobby Hatfield made up the singing duo known for such hits as "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'" and "Unchained Melody." Medley and Klaas were married from 1964 to 1970.
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| Quebec suspect seen as nerdy outcast,' fan of France's right-wing Le Pen | |  By Kevin Dougherty QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The French-Canadian student charged in a shooting spree that killed six people at a Quebec City mosque was known in online circles as a supporter of far-right French politician Marine Le Pen and described by a former classmate as a "nerdy outcast." Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, the sole suspect in Sunday night's shooting, was charged on Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. On his Facebook page, he indicated he liked Le Pen, U.S. President Donald Trump, the separatist Parti Quebecois as well as Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party, the Israeli Defense Forces, heavy metal band Megadeth and pop star Katy Perry.
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| Odebrecht pulls out of Panama canal bridge tender amid probe | |  Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, under investigation for paying hundreds of millions in bribes across Latin America, withdrew its bid to build a bridge over the Panama canal, the president of the Central American nation said on Monday. Last week, Panama prosecutors said they had charged 17 people, including several businessmen and former government officials, with money laundering in its bribery case against Odebrecht S.A. Prosecutors have not yet identified the people involved. President Juan Carlos Varela announced Odebrecht's pull-out via Twitter.
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| Despite tough Canadian rules, illegal guns within reach | |  By Rod Nickel and Nia Williams WINNIPEG/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada's gun control laws ban dozens of assault rifles, but some permitted firearms are easily modified for greater damage, and more lax regulations in the United States make smuggled weapons accessible, experts said after a rare Canadian mass shooting on Sunday. A man was charged on Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon in the shooting at a Quebec City mosque. Semi-automatic guns can legally hold magazines up to five rounds in Canada, but many military-style semi-automatics are easily modified to 30 rounds, said A.J. Somerset, an author on gun issues.
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| Exclusive - Trump administration to allow 872 refugees into U.S. this week: document | |  By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has granted waivers to let 872 refugees into the country this week, despite President Donald Trump's executive order on Friday temporarily banning entry of refugees from any country, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document seen by Reuters. A Homeland Security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the waivers, noting that the refugees were considered "in transit" and had already been cleared for resettlement before the ban took effect. The waivers, granted by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), came amid international protests against Trump's rushed executive order.
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| Quebec mosque shooting - A shout, a hail of bullets, then death | |  Abdi was sitting cross-legged on the floor reading the Quran with his friends when the shooting began - a staccato spray of bullets into the crowd of worshippers gathered on Sunday at the mosque in Quebec City, Canada. It was the shout from the doorway that alerted them: "Allahu akbar!" which means "God is greatest!" "We all turned … and that's the point when they started shooting," said Abdi, a 22-year-old student who declined to give his last name, fearing for his safety. Abdi hit the floor, arms over his head and ears.
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| Quebec mosque shooting suspect charged with murdering six people | |  By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said on Monday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called "a terrorist attack." Court documents identified the gunman in the attack on Sunday evening prayers as Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, and charged him with six murder counts and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. The slightly-built Bissonnette made a brief appearance in court under tight security wearing a white prison garment and looking downcast. Prosecutors said all of the evidence was not yet ready and Bissonnette, a student at Université Laval, was set to appear again on Feb. 21.
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| Quebec mosque shooting suspect charged with murdering six people | |  By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said on Monday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called "a terrorist attack." Court documents identified the gunman in the attack on Sunday evening prayers as Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, and charged him with six murder counts and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. The slightly-built Bissonnette made a brief appearance in court under tight security wearing a white prison garment and looking downcast. Prosecutors said all of the evidence was not yet ready and Bissonnette, a student at Université Laval, was set to appear again on Feb. 21.
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| May's Brexit plan likely to survive parliamentary assault | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to leave the European Union is expected to survive weeks of intense parliamentary scrutiny starting on Tuesday, despite pro-EU lawmakers' attempts to force the government to rethink its strategy. May's government is seeking approval for a new law giving her the right to trigger Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the bloc - after the Supreme Court ruled last week that she could not take that decision unilaterally. Some lawmakers will try to use the legislative process to press her to reveal closely-guarded details of her negotiating strategy, give parliament and devolved governments more say over the exit talks, or even block Brexit entirely.
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| Republicans take first steps to kill Obama-era regulations | |  By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Monday continued their drive to loosen U.S. regulation, taking the first step to kill five Obama-era rules on corruption, the environment, labour and guns under the virtually untested Congressional Review Act. Republicans put as much urgency on limiting what they consider over-regulation that stifles economic growth as they do on overhauling the tax code and dismantling the Affordable Care Act, according to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. This is the first time the Republican-led House of Representatives has targeted specific rules since convening on Jan. 3.
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| Medical students, faculty rally to try to save Obamacare | | Monday, January 30, 2017 11:56 PM | |
|  By Bob Chiarito CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hundreds of medical students and faculty members gathered at Northwestern University's school of medicine in Chicago on Monday to voice their opposition to the dismantling of Obamacare. The demonstration was part of a larger White Coats for Coverage effort organised by medical students across the country and came a day before the annual deadline to enrol in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), former President Barack Obama's healthcare law. "The ACA is not perfect, but pulling the rug out from under the feet of our most vulnerable patients is not the answer," Dr. Bruce Henshaw, a faculty member at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, told the group of around 600 people.
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| Exclusive - Trump administration to allow 872 refugees into U.S. this week: document | | Monday, January 30, 2017 11:55 PM | |
| | By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has granted waivers to let 872 refugees into the country this week, despite President Donald Trump's executive order on Friday temporarily banning entry of refugees from any country, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document seen by Reuters. A Homeland Security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the waivers, noting that the refugees were considered "in transit" and had already been cleared for resettlement before the ban took effect. The waivers, granted by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), came amid international protests against Trump's rushed executive order. |
| Canadian police patrol mosques, reach out to Muslims after attack | | Monday, January 30, 2017 11:53 PM | |
|  By Allison Lampert and Alastair Sharp QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police visibly patrolled mosques and schools in Muslim communities in several cities on Monday following the shooting attack at a Quebec City mosque that killed six worshippers. Authorities said a French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in Sunday's shooting that also wounded 17 people and was described by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as "a terrorist attack." While mass shootings have become commonplace in the United States, Canada's neighbour to the south, they are rare in a country with more stringent gun laws. In Quebec City, police cars were stationed in front of various mosques, with officers checking the identification of reporters waiting outside.
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| Quebec mosque shooting suspect charged with murdering six people | | Monday, January 30, 2017 11:49 PM | |
| By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said on Monday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called "a terrorist attack." Court documents identified the gunman in the attack on Sunday evening prayers as Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, and charged him with six murder counts and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. The slightly-built Bissonnette made a brief appearance in court under tight security wearing a white prison garment and looking downcast. Prosecutors said all of the evidence was not yet ready and Bissonnette was set to appear again on Feb. 21.
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| France's Fillon and his wife questioned in 'fake work' probe | | Monday, January 30, 2017 11:47 PM | |
|  By Chine Labbé and Gérard Bon PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon and his wife were questioned for five hours by police investigators on Monday as part of a probe into allegations that Penelope Fillon had been paid for fake jobs. The allegations, which Fillon rejects, are sapping the popularity of the former prime minister and could shake up the April-May presidential contest, for which he has so far been the clear favourite. Fillon said in a statement that he and his wife had provided investigators with information that would help "establish the truth on the work carried out by Mrs Fillon." Such questioning is a normal step in a preliminary probe and not an indication of guilt.
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