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| Two top allies of embattled Macedonian prime minister quit |
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 By Kole Casule SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's interior minister and its powerful intelligence chief resigned on Tuesday, apparently sacrificed by embattled Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to save his government from months of damaging wire-tap disclosures. Gruevski's conservative government is increasingly on the ropes over opposition allegations of authoritarianism and abuse of power stemming from dozens of taped phone conversations released to the media by opposition leader Zoran Zaev.
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| South Africa delays deportation of 200 foreigners after protests |
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 By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa temporarily halted the deportation of 200 foreigners on Tuesday after a legal challenge by a human rights group, which said authorities were unfairly targeting them following anti-migrant riots in which seven people were killed. More than 800 undocumented migrants have been arrested across South Africa in the past three weeks under "Operation Fiela", a series of raids launched after last month's violence which was centred on the province of KwaZulu Natal. Wayne Ncube, coordinator of the migration detention unit at LHR, said Home Affairs officials had agreed to halt the deportation for two weeks to ensure that the 200 migrants arrested at a Methodist Church in the early hours of Friday morning had a chance to get legal representation.
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| Boston bomber's lawyers, prosecutors spar over youngest victim |
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 By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday rejected a claim by the Boston Marathon bomber's lawyers that they had not proven that the death of the attack's youngest victim took a heavy enough toll on his family to influence a jury to sentence bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death. The prosecution's statement, in a filing in U.S. District Court in Boston, comes a day before the two sides are to give their closing arguments. On Monday, defence attorneys had argued that prosecutors had not shown evidence to back up the claim that the death of 8-year-old Martin Richard was one of the "aggravating factors" that the jury could take into account in making its decision on Tsarnaev's fate. None of the Martin family was called to testify in the trial's sentencing phase after they asked federal prosecutors in a statement published on the front page of the Boston Globe newspaper to drop their quest for the death penalty.
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| Accused Russian spy's U.S. legal fees paid by Moscow-owned bank |
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| By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A state-owned Russian bank is paying for the legal defense of an employee charged with posing as a banker in New York while secretly spying for Moscow, his lawyer confirmed on Tuesday. Evgeny Buryakov and two other Russian citizens, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy, are accused of conspiring to gather economic intelligence on behalf of Russia, including information about U.S. sanctions against the country, and to recruit New York City residents as intelligence sources. Buryakov's lawyer, Scott Hershman of the firm White & Case, told U.S. District Judge Richard Berman that his firm had signed a retainer agreement with Buryakov's employer, state-owned Vnesheconombank. Federal prosecutors had raised the possibility that permitting a third party to finance Buryakov's defense could pose a conflict of interest. |
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