|  | | | | | | | | | Highlights | | | | | | At least 49 people died in 2018 after being shocked with a Taser by police, according to a Reuters review of police records, news reports and court documents. In the California county San Mateo three people died in nine months after being shocked. Despite there being no uniform standards governing police use of Tasers, some communities now are considering more restrictive policies following allegations that the weapons were used excessively or deployed against people with physical or mental conditions that put them at higher risk of death or injury.
| | | | The New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 on Sunday in the lowest scoring Super Bowl played to capture the National Football League championship for a record-tying sixth time. The victory, which moves the Patriots into a share of the all-time mark with the Pittsburgh Steelers, was also a record sixth Super Bowl triumph for Tom Brady, who at 41 became the oldest quarterback to win the championship game. | | | | U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran, added another liberal voice to a burgeoning field of candidates seeking the party’s 2020 presidential nomination on Saturday. Gabbard, 37, officially launched her candidacy in Hawaii, where she has served as a congresswoman since 2013. A Samoan-American, she was the first Hindu elected to Congress.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | THE MIDDLE EAST | | Two years after Iraqi forces recaptured Mosul from IS, authorities’ efforts to rebuild the city are falling short. They do not own enough equipment to clear the rubble littered across the city, and companies hired by the governor to make up the shortfall are on lucrative contracts and work deliberately slowly, or sometimes do not exist. “The city’s being rebuilt only on paper,” said Abu Ali Neshwan, a 52-year-old shopkeeper. “There’s no state here. Corruption’s everywhere.” | | | | Pope Francis became the first pontiff to set foot on the Arabian Peninsula on Sunday, just hours after issuing his strongest condemnation yet of the war in Yemen, where his host the United Arab Emirates has a leading military role. “The cry of these children and their parents rises up to God,” he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square. On his trip, the pope will meet Muslim leaders and celebrate an outdoor mass for some 135,000 Catholics, an event with no precedent on the Arabian peninsula.
| | | | | WORLD | | Air accident investigators have concluded that the wreckage of a plane on the seabed near Guernsey was that of the missing aircraft carrying Premier League soccer player Emiliano Sala and that a body was visible inside.
| | | | Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen took a dig at China’s lack of freedom in a message to mark Tuesday’s start of the Lunar New Year, saying she hoped ethnic Chinese all over the world could experience the “blessing” of democracy. President Xi Jinping has stepped up pressure on the democratic island since Tsai, from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, became president in 2016.
| | | | Desperate Mongolians are sending their children to the countryside to escape the choking winter smog in main cities. Residents in Ulaanbaatar burn coal and trash to keep warm as temperatures drop, causing concentrations of smog particles to routinely exceed 500 mg per cubic meter - 50 times the level considered safe by the WHO. The temperature is set to drop to minus 32 degrees Celsius (minus 26F) on Monday night. | | | | | | .@Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been imprisoned in Myanmar for 420 days. Follow updates on the case: https://reut.rs/2D89Fyc 3:44 AM - 4 Feb 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | Business | | Hedge fund Starboard Value has picked up a $200 million stake in Papa John’s International and its Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Smith will take over as chairman of the No. 3 pizza chain in the United States, the company said on Monday. Shares of Papa John’s pared most of its premarket gains, and were last up 6.5 percent. 3 MIN READ | | | | A special government-appointed inquiry excoriated Australia’s financial sector for misconduct on Monday, referring two dozen cases to regulators. The recommendations come after the public inquiry heard of wrongdoing including fees that were charged to the accounts of dead people and cash bribes that were paid over the counter to win mortgage business, wiping A$60 billion from the country’s top finance stocks. 7 Min Read | | | | The unlikely combination of freshwater fish and cannabis is producing outsized medical marijuana crops that Green Relief Inc aims to capitalize on, as the Canadian company plots a stock market listing and global expansion. 4 min read | | | | | | | | | | | | | Top Stories on Reuters TV | | | | | | | |
