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| Thai police hunt for accomplices of suspected Bangkok bomber | | Wednesday, August 19, 2015 2:49 AM | |
|  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities said on Wednesday they were looking for accomplices of the chief suspect for the Bangkok shrine bomb blast that killed 22 people, a man who was captured on closed-circuit television (CCTV) dumping a backpack and walking away. "We suspect he is the bomber," national police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said, referring to the man in a yellow T-shirt in a grainy video that has gone viral on social media. The government said Monday evening's attack at the popular Erawan shrine in the heart of Bangkok was aimed at wrecking the economy, which depends heavily on tourism.
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| Brazil Senate to vote on key austerity bill Wednesday | | Wednesday, August 19, 2015 12:51 AM | |
|  Brazil's Senate put off until Wednesday voting on a bill that rolls back payroll tax breaks, a key measure in President Dilma Rousseff government's austerity plan to bridge a gaping fiscal deficit. The delay was due to negotiations to avoid changes so the bill would not have to return to the lower house of Congress where Speaker Eduardo Cunha has obstructed government proposals since defecting to the opposition last month, senators said. The vote is crucial to end legislative gridlock, said Senate President Renan Calheiros, who has brokered a political deal with Rousseff to ease tensions with Congress and quiet calls for her impeachment.
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| Exclusive - U.S. graft probes may cost Petrobras record $1.6 billion or more | |  By Jeb Blount and Mica Rosenberg RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brazil's Petrobras may need to pay record penalties of $1.6 billion (£1 billion) or more to settle U.S. criminal and civil probes into its role in a corruption scandal, a person recently briefed by the company's legal advisors told Reuters. State-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the company is formally known, expects to face the largest penalties ever levied by U.S. authorities in a corporate corruption investigation, according to the person, who has direct knowledge of the company's thinking. To date, the largest settlement of corporate corruption charges with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was a 2008 agreement with Siemens AG, the German industrial giant.
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| Clinton tells Black Lives Matter activists to change policies, not hearts | |  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a sometimes tense private meeting last week with five "Black Lives Matter" activists, urging them to find a way to change policies because "I don't believe you change hearts." In a video of the meeting released by the group, Clinton acknowledged the crime and incarceration laws pursued under her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had not always succeeded. "Because you can get lip service from as many white people as you can pack into Yankee Stadium." The Democratic front-runner rejected an accusation that she and her husband were "politically and personally" responsible during the Clinton administration for policies that were disastrous to minority communities.
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| Dutch government to face possible no confidence vote over Greece | |  The government of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is expected to face a call for a no-confidence vote from euro-sceptic, right-wing rival Geert Wilders, when parliament debates the latest bailout programme for Greece on Wednesday. During his 2012 election campaign, Rutte had vowed "not one cent more for Greece," a sentiment endorsed by Wilders, Rutte's Liberal party and most Dutch voters. Wilders has said that if the Dutch government agrees to contribute more to Greece he will submit a motion of no confidence.
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| U.S. Senate Democrats stake out both sides of Iran deal | | | By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Robert Menendez blasted the U.S.-led international nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday, vowing to oppose it in defiance of President Barack Obama, who picked up much-needed support for the deal from two other Senate Democrats. As September voting on the agreement in the U.S. Congress neared, Menendez, a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, became the second senior lawmaker from Obama's own party to announce he would vote to kill the pact with Tehran. "I will vote to disapprove the agreement and, if called upon, would vote to override a veto" by the president, Menendez said in a speech in his home state of New Jersey. |
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