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| France says Syria used chlorine in 14 recent attacks | |  By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Syria may have used chemical weapons involving chlorine in 14 attacks in recent months, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday, expressing concerns that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is hiding toxic weapons. \"We have at least 14 indications that show us that, in the past recent weeks again, chemical weapons in a smaller scale have been used, in particular chlorine,\" Fabius told a news conference through an interpreter. \"Right now we are examining the samples that were taken.\" Fabius made the comments during a visit to Washington where he discussed the crises in Syria and Ukraine with his American counterpart John Kerry. Fabius said the Assad government had handed over 92 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile under an international agreement overseen by the watchdog Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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| U.S. prosecutors use London imam's words against him at trial | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday showed jurors excerpts from sermons and interviews in which London imam Abu Hamza praised former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as a "hero," called non-Muslims "pigs" and said the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States made "everybody" happy. During the final day of testimony in Abu Hamza's terrorism trial in New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Cronan used Abu Hamza's own words to try to undermine his claims of innocence, confronting him with the inflammatory speeches that made him one of Britain's most prominent radical clerics. "You just cut and paste," a frustrated Abu Hamza told Cronan. "Why don't you play the whole thing?" Prosecutors have accused the Egyptian-born Abu Hamza, 56, of providing advice and a satellite phone to Yemeni militants who kidnapped Western tourists in 1998 in an operation that ended with the deaths of four hostages.
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| Nigeria signals readiness to talk to Boko Haram rebels | |  By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government signalled willingness on Tuesday to negotiate with Islamist militants holding more than 200 schoolgirls, a month after the kidnap that has provoked global outrage. He was speaking a day after Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau posted a video offering to release the girls in exchange for prisoners held by the government. Instead, he referred to an amnesty committee that he heads set up by President Goodluck Jonathan last year to talk to the Boko Haram militants behind a five-year-old insurgency. Boko Haram has killed thousands of people since 2009 and destabilised parts of northeast Nigeria, the country with Africa's largest population and biggest economy.
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| Ninety people arrested across U.S. in $260 million Medicare fraud | | | By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Ninety people, including doctors, pharmacy owners and elderly patients, were arrested this week in six cities and charged with submitting fake billings to Medicare worth nearly $260 million, federal officials said on Tuesday. \"They each tried to use the Medicare program as their own personal ATM machine and to line their pockets with our money,\" U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer told reporters. Since 2007, when federal agencies stepped up efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud, authorities have arrested and charged more than 1,900 people who collectively have falsely billed more than $6 billion to the government health program for the elderly and disabled. A majority of the recent arrests were made in south Florida, which has emerged as a hotbed of Medicare fraud. |
| Sudanese woman may face death for choosing Christianity over Islam | | | A Sudanese court gave a 27-year-old woman until Thursday to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith and return to Islam or face a death sentence, judicial sources said on Monday. Mariam Yahya Ibrahim was charged with apostasy as well as adultery for marrying a Christian man, something prohibited for Muslim women to do and which makes the marriage void. Ibrahim's case was the first of its kind to be heard in Sudan. Young Sudanese university students have mounted a series of protests near Khartoum University in recent weeks asking for an end to human rights abuses, more freedoms and better social and economic conditions. |
| Five students injured in shooting near Atlanta area high school | | | By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Five students were shot near an Atlanta area high school on Tuesday afternoon, although none of the injuries was life threatening, police said. The shooting occurred near Therrell High School in southwest Atlanta, Atlanta Police Department spokesman John Chafee said in an email statement. The high school was briefly locked down, although the shooting did not take place on its grounds, the Atlanta Public Schools system said. Those shot were believed to be students from Therrell High School, it added. |
| Man crashes truck into Maryland TV station building | |  By John Clarke ANNAPOLIS Md. (Reuters) - A 29-year old man who said he was God crashed a truck through the glass doors of a Maryland television news station building on Tuesday and barricaded himself inside before being arrested hours later, police and witnesses said. The man banged on the doors of WMAR-TV in Towson, just outside of Baltimore, asking to be let inside shortly before noon (1600 GMT). When he was refused, he crashed a truck into the lobby and made his way to the second floor, police said. From the beginning, it was clear we were dealing with a very disturbed individual,\" Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson said at a press conference.
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| Separatists kill seven Ukraine soldiers in heaviest loss for Kiev forces | |  By Richard Balmforth and Alissa de Carbonnel KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists ambushed Ukrainian troops on Tuesday, killing seven in the heaviest loss of life for government forces in a single clash since Kiev sent soldiers to put down a rebellion in the country's east. With the uprising and Russia's annexation of Crimea poisoning East-West relations, Moscow retaliated against U.S. sanctions by hitting aerospace projects, including refusing to extend the life of the International Space Station, a showcase of post-Cold War cooperation. In Kiev, Ukraine's defence ministry and state security service said the troops were killed and seven others wounded when their armoured column was ambushed near the town of Kramatorsk, one of several hot spots in the largely Russian-speaking east where the army has had scant success against the rebels. About 30 rebels, who had taken cover among bushes along a river, attacked with grenade-launchers and automatic weapons near a village 20 km (12 miles) from Kramatorsk, the ministry said in a statement on its website.
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| Puerto Rico priest arrested on child sex abuse charges | | | U.S. authorities on Tuesday arrested a 58-year-old Catholic priest in Puerto Rico on child sexual abuse charges, marking the first such detention in the U.S. territory by federal officials. Israel Berrios was taken into custody at a relative's home in the rural town of Naranjito, said Ivan Ortiz, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Berrios was arrested after a federal grand jury delivered four charges against him for sexual trafficking of minors and transportation of a minor with the intention of involving the minor in an illicit sexual act, Ortiz said. Berrios faces a sentence from 10 years to life in prison. |
| Widow sues Porsche over crash that killed actor Paul Walker | |  Design defects of a Porsche sports car caused the crash that killed actor Paul Walker, the widow of the car's driver said in a lawsuit against the automaker, alleging negligence and wrongful death among other claims. Kristine Rodas says in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday that a suspension failure of the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT led to her late husband losing control of the vehicle before it careened into trees and a utility pole killing Walker and driver Roger Rodas last November. Walker's death at age 40 led to a temporary halt in production of \"Fast & Furious 7,\" the successful movie series about illegal street racing that helped popularize his career. Rodas' attorney, citing expert inspections of the crash, say in the lawsuit that Roger Rodas, an experienced race car driver, was traveling at 55 miles per hour (89 km per hour) on a street in Santa Clarita, California, at the time of the crash, below the speed Los Angeles County Sheriff investigators said.
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| Oracle faces scrutiny over $1.3 billion verdict against SAP | |  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court appeared skeptical on Tuesday about reinstating a $1.3 billion jury verdict won by Oracle Corp against SAP, in a case where the European software company admitted massive copyright infringement. At a court hearing on Tuesday, two 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges also suggested Oracle may deserve more than the roughly $300 million it had been assigned by a lower court. A Northern California jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in 2010 over accusations that SAP AG subsidiary, TomorrowNow, wrongfully downloaded millions of Oracle files. SAP had acquired TomorrowNow as part of a strategy to provide software support to Oracle customers at lower rates than what Oracle charged, and eventually convince some of those companies to become SAP customers.
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