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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three men and a teenager have been arrested after planning to bomb a Muslim community in upstate New York, and investigators have recovered three homemade bombs and nearly two dozen guns, authorities said on Tuesday. The alleged plot was uncovered after a student at Odyssey Academy, a school in Greece, New York, showed a classmate a photograph of another student and said, "He looks like the next school shooter, doesn't he?" Greece Police Chief Patrick Phelan told reporters at a news conference. The remark was reported to school security, which along with local police interviewed both the student who had the photograph as well as the student in the picture. The investigation eventually led police to execute several search warrants and arrest four people, including the student who showed off the photograph. The group had planned to attack Islamberg, a small enclave in the Catskill Mountains about 150 miles northwest of New York City. The town was founded more than … [Read more...] about Four charged in bomb plot against Muslim community in New York

HAVANA (Reuters) - The leadership of the Colombian ELN rebel group, which has been in Havana for peace negotiations since last year, has denied any role in a fatal car bombing in Bogota last week, even though the guerrilla organisation took responsibility for the attack. "Our role in Cuba is to advance in the negotiations, we are not aware of the actions taking place in Colombia nor do we have any involvement in them," chief ELN negotiator Pablo Beltran told Cuban state-run agency Prensa Latina on Monday. The ELN had earlier in the day claimed responsibility for last week's car bomb attack against a police academy that killed 21 people as a legitimate act of war and urged President Ivan Duque to return to the negotiating table. Duque has called for Cuba, which hosted negotiations with the ELN as it had done previously with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, to extradite the commanders in Havana, who include top ELN leader Nicolas Rodriguez. The ELN commanders in Havana on … [Read more...] about Colombia’s ELN rebel commanders in Havana deny role in blast

By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The son of Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he was the target of a "defamatory campaign" after news reports that he employed the mother and wife of a fugitive former policeman accused of running a criminal organisation. Flavio Bolsonaro, 37, a former Rio state lawmaker elected to the Senate in October, has already faced tough questions about a series of financial transactions involving him and his former driver and state assembly aide Fabricio Queiroz. The cases have clouded the first three weeks in office of the new president, a far-right former army captain who surged to victory on a promise to end years of political graft, vowing zero tolerance on those close to him found to be corrupt. Those promises have added to scrutiny of his son's former staff, which included the relatives of fugitive former police officer Adriano Magalhaes da Nobrega - hirings first reported by newspaper O Globo and confirmed by the … [Read more...] about Son of Brazil president faces fresh question about Rio aides

French football team Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) was fined €100,000 by the French football league's (LFP) disciplinary commission on Tuesday for the illegal racial profiling of potential young recruits. Last November, French media revealed that from 2013 to 2018, the recruitment team of the Parisian football club categorised their young recruits by the following ethnicities: "French", "North African", "Caribbean", or "African". The French human rights NGO, la ligue des droits de l'homme, accused the club of "discrimination" and of "collecting ethnic and racial information" for each of the recruits. It is illegal in France to collect personal data on the ethnic background of individuals. In its defence, the PSG said that the information had only been collected by the director of recruitment for all regions except Ile-de-France, Marc Westerloppe. However, French sports newspaper, L'Equipe, published a document revealing that ethnic and racial data had also been collected for … [Read more...] about PSG fined €100,000 by French Football League for listing ethnic origins of young recruits

Star attraction Brazil's new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took centre stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The populist leader's presentation was reminiscent of Donald Trump's trip to Davos last year. Davos disrupters Human Rights Watch called out autocratic leaders. Euronews political editor Darren McAffrey has our special series with the Executive Director of HRW Kenneth Roth. Rising risks Amid new economic warnings, is Europe better prepared to weather a downturn? Space race As China and the US make advances in space, Europe eyes the creation of a European Space Council. Victim of victory? President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, reminisced about David Cameron and his handling of Brexit. Tusk said the former PM's support of the Brexit referendum came as a major shock. … [Read more...] about Raw Politics in full: Bolsonaro, Davos disrupters, and space