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| Trump travel ban unlawful, could lead to torture of refugees - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts said on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on nationals from seven Muslim-majority states contravenes international law and could lead to people denied asylum being sent home to face torture. In a statement, the U.N. experts urged the Trump administration to protect people fleeing war and persecution and uphold the principle of non-discrimination based on race, nationality and religion. "Such an order is clearly discriminatory based on one's nationality and leads to increased stigmatization of Muslim communities," the experts' statement said.
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| NATO calls on Russia to help stop spike in violence in east Ukraine | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Russia on Wednesday to use its "considerable influence" with rebels in eastern Ukraine to end what he described as "the most serious spike in violations" of a shaky truce there in a long time. Speaking to reporters, Stoltenberg said the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine has been violated more than 5,600 times in recent days, leaving some 20,000 people without electricity amid freezing temperatures. ...
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| Russia charges cyber security expert, FSB officers with treason-lawyer | |  Russian authorities have charged two officers in the Federal Security Service and an employee of cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab with committing treason in the interests of the United States, a lawyer representing one of the three said. Ivan Pavlov identified the three as Ruslan Stoyanov, head of Kaspersky's computer incidents investigation team, and two officers working for the FSB's Information Security Centre, Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev. "My client, along with the others, has been charged with state treason and cooperating with U.S. intelligence services," Ivan Pavlov told Reuters.
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| Trump picks conservative judge Gorsuch for U.S. Supreme Court | |  By Lawrence Hurley and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Neil Gorsuch for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, picking the 49-year-old federal appeals court judge to restore the court's conservative majority and help shape rulings on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control, the death penalty and religious rights. The Colorado native faces a potentially contentious confirmation battle in the U.S. Senate after Republicans last year refused to consider Democratic President Barack Obama's nominee to fill the vacancy caused by the February 2016 death of conservative justice Antonin Scalia. The Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, indicated his party would mount a procedural hurdle requiring 60 votes in the 100-seat Senate rather than a simple majority to approve Gorsuch, and expressed "very serious doubts" about the nominee.
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| Vatican worried about Trump immigration order | |  The Vatican said on Wednesday it was worried about U.S. President Donald Trump's moves on immigration, in the Holy See's first comment since his executive order banning travel into the United States by citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries. "Certainly there is worry because we are messengers of another culture, that of openness," the Vatican's deputy secretary of state, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, told an Italian Catholic television station in answer to a question about Trump's order. Becciu, who ranks third in the Vatican hierarchy, was asked about the executive order as well as Trump's promise to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
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| Ex-Indonesia president says he may have been illegally wiretapped | |  By Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - A former Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said on Wednesday he believed his telephone may have recently been illegally tapped by government agencies and he had sought an explanation from his successor, President Joko Widodo. Yudhoyono, who was in office from 2004 until 2014, also denied that he or any of his relatives had backed mass rallies late last year calling for the jailing for blasphemy of Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ally of Widodo. Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, is being challenged by two Muslims, one of them a Yudhoyono's son, Agus Yudhoyono.
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| Philippine ministry asks Duterte to clarify military's role in drug war | |  By Karen Lema and Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine defence ministry on Wednesday asked President Rodrigo Duterte to issue an order for the military to play a role in his war on drugs, including granting troops powers to arrest "scalawag" police. The ministry asked Duterte to formalise remarks he made in a speech to army generals on Tuesday, when he said he needed their help in his drugs war, and to detain members of a police force he described as "corrupt to the core". Duterte's police chief ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday to suspend their anti-drugs operations after the killing of a South Korean businessman by rogue drug-squad police.
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| Interview - EU court might make changes to any Brexit deal, chief justice says | | | By Alastair Macdonald and Julia Fioretti LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Britain's withdrawal from the European Union seems likely to end up under review by the EU's top court, which might insist on changes to any Brexit treaty, its chief justice told Reuters in an interview. Koen Lenaerts, president of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), stressed that the political process was still in its early stages. |
| Japanese court rejects demand to remove web search result - media | | | Japan's Supreme Court has rejected a man's demand that a Google web search bringing up reports of his arrest for child prostitution be removed, the first ever such top court decision in Japan, media reported on Wednesday. "Child prostitution is prohibited by the penal code and is a target of strong social condemnation," the newspaper quoted the court bench as saying in its Tuesday ruling. "Removal can be demanded only when value of privacy protection clearly exceeds freedom of expression of search sites," the paper cited the ruling as saying. |
| Britain's Brexit bill set to clear first legislative hurdle | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - A law allowing Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger Britain's exit from the European Union is expected to clear its first legislative hurdle on Wednesday, paving the way for the government to launch divorce talks by the end of March. May's government is seeking approval for a new law giving her the right to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty - the legal process for leaving the bloc - after the Supreme Court ruled last week that she could not take that decision unilaterally. The bill could complete the legislative process by March 7.
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| Factbox - Trump U.S. Supreme Court pick could affect pending cases | |  President Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, could have an immediate impact on cases already pending before the justices, if confirmed by the Senate. The nine-seat court has been operating with only eight justices since the death of conservative Antonin Scalia on Feb. 13, 2016, with four liberals and four conservatives. The court has ended up with 4-4 split decisions in several cases.
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| Surveillance and threats: Slain Myanmar lawyer felt "targeted" | |  By Wa Lone and Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) - A prominent Myanmar Muslim lawyer assassinated in Yangon was being closely watched by intelligence agents, according to friends and colleagues, and had received past threats over his sensitive work as an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party. People close to advocate Ko Ni, whose killing has been described by the government as an attempt to destabilise the country, say they warned him to take more precautions for his security, but he had brushed off their concerns. "I always worried about my boss," said a staffer in Ko Ni's office, who spoke to Reuters anonymously because he feared repercussions.
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| Tunisian arrested in Germany linked to Bardo Museum attack | |  By Patricia Uhlig and Michelle Martin WIESBADEN, Germany/BERLIN (Reuters) - A Tunisian asylum-seeker arrested in Germany on Wednesday on suspicion of planning an attack was also wanted by Tunisia for his suspected involvement in the deadly militant assault against the Bardo Museum in Tunis, German authorities said. The 36-year-old is suspected of recruiting for Islamic State in Germany since August 2015 and building up a network of supporters with the aim of carrying out a terrorist attack, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office said in statement. The man arrested on Wednesday had lived in Germany between 2003 and 2013 and then re-entered the country as an asylum seeker in August 2015, five months after militant gunmen stormed the Bardo Museum in Tunis and killed 21 foreign tourists.
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| Nearly half of Britons back Trump state visit - YouGov poll | |  Around half of Britons believe U.S. President Donald Trump's planned UK state visit should go ahead, even though a similar number would not like to see his controversial migrant ban implemented in Britain, according to a poll on Wednesday. Trump's executive order to temporarily ban refugees entering the United States and limit migration from seven Muslim-majority countries has drawn widespread protest in Britain, and nearly 1.8 million people have signed a petition to stop his state visit, planned for later this year.
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| African leaders cautiously back strategy to quit global court | | | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders have backed a "strategy of collective withdrawal" from the International Criminal Court (ICC), but it came with unspecified reservations, an African Union official said on Wednesday after this week's African Union summit. The official did not give details about the strategy or the reservations, but it highlights broad antipathy towards the court among Africans who feel the ICC unfairly targets them. |
| China billionaire's disappearance from Hong Kong revives autonomy concerns | |  By Venus Wu and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - The uncertain fate of Xiao Jianhua, a China-born billionaire who was last seen at a luxury Hong Kong hotel a week ago, has raised fresh fears about the city's autonomy amid media reports he may have been abducted by Chinese agents. There are conflicting accounts of Xiao's whereabouts, but memories are fresh in Hong Kong of the abduction last year of five staff who worked for a local bookseller that published gossip on China's leaders. Three of the staff were detained while in China, but two with foreign passports were taken there against their will from Thailand and Hong Kong.
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| VW, Robert Bosch agree to pay $1.55 billion to settle U.S. diesel claims | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG has agreed to pay at least $1.22 billion to fix or buy back nearly 80,000 polluting U.S. 3.0 liter diesel-engine vehicles to settle claims it fitted illegal emissions-cheating software to the cars, court documents showed. German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH also agreed to pay $327.5 million to U.S. diesel VW owners, according to the documents filed late Tuesday. Volkswagen could be forced to pay up to $4.04 billion if regulators don't approve fixes for all vehicles.
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| Azeri security forces kill four men suspected of terror plot | | | Azerbaijan's security forces killed four members of a group that had been planning to carry out terror acts in the country, the state security service said on Wednesday. Ex-Soviet Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim country with a population of about 10 million, is a major energy producer in the Caspian Sea region. The group, which was eliminated during a special operation, was "loyal to a number of terrorist organisations operating in foreign countries and had been planning to carry out terrorist acts in Azerbaijan," the security service said in a statement. |
| Shadowy killings persist in Manila after police quit drugs war | |  A loved one rushed to the scene in the dark, rundown Manila neighbourhood and howled in anguish as onlookers huddled behind a police cordon. It's a scene that has been replayed thousands of times in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs over the past seven months. Thousands of users and small-time dealers have also been killed outside of the police anti-drugs missions.
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| Libyan officials criticise U.S. travel ban, doubt over February conference | | | By Aidan Lewis TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's U.N.-backed government has criticised U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary ban on its nationals and those of six other countries entering the United States, which put in question attendance at a high-profile conference on Libya planned in Washington for mid-February. The executive order by Trump comes at a time of uncertainty over U.S. policy in Libya, which remains mired in the chaos that followed the NATO-backed 2011 uprising against long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi. The U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), was strongly supported by former U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, but has struggled to assert its authority in Tripoli and beyond. |
| Philippines police behave like "criminal underworld" in drugs war - Amnesty | |  Police prosecuting the war on drugs in the Philippines have behaved like the criminal underworld they are supposed to be suppressing, taking payments for killings and delivering bodies to funeral homes, according to a report released on Wednesday. Amnesty International's report said the wave of drugs-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte came to power in mid-2016 appeared to be "systematic, planned and organised" by authorities and could constitute crimes against humanity. Responding to the findings, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella defended the Philippine National Police (PNP), saying no extra-judicial killings were state-sponsored and investigations by Senate committees had proved that.
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| Ex-U.N. chief Ban rules out presidential run in South Korea complaining of "fake news" | |  By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, once considered front-runner to be the next South Korean president, ruled out a run for the job on Wednesday, saying he was "disappointed at the selfish ways" of some politicians and complaining of "fake news". Ban told reporters at parliament, after meeting conservative party leaders, that he had been subject to "malign slander akin to character assassination" in the media and had given up his "patriotic" plan to lead political change. "With all kinds of fake news, my intention for political change was nowhere to be seen and all that was left was grave scars to my family and myself, and to the honour of the U.N., where I spent the past 10 years," he said.
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