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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. |
| In Germany, 60 conservative MPs oppose Merkel course on Greece | |  By Paul Carrel and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) - A total of 60 lawmakers in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's 311-member conservative bloc voted against or abstained in a test ballot on Tuesday over a third bailout plan for Greece before the vote in parliament, participants told Reuters. Klaus-Peter Willsch, a key dissident, said: "We were promised the same thing so often but it was always broken." Support from other parties including the Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's junior coalition partner, and the opposition Greens means approval is not in doubt.
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| German parliament seen backing Greek bailout despite rebellion | | | By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - German lawmakers are expected to vote overwhelmingly in favour of Greece's third bailout on Wednesday, even though Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a dangerous rebellion in her own party ranks that suggests she cannot ask parliament to help Athens again. A significant minority of Merkel's conservatives may vote against the 86 billion-euro ($94.84 billion) bailout, sending the government a warning that the latest package is its last chance to keep debt-ridden Greece in the 19-country euro zone. Sixty of the 311 conservative lawmakers voted `no' or abstained - fewer than a rebellion by as many as 120 MPs that had been feared. |
| U.S. military probe of Afghan shooting found Bales' camp had lax discipline | | | By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The month before he killed 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales bloodied the nose of an Afghan truck driver in an assault that was not reported to his camp commanders, according to a report released on Tuesday. The assault, and the failure to report it to senior officers, was one of several signs that the post where Bales served in Afghanistan was suffering from "low standards of personal conduct and discipline," said the military's administrative investigation of the 2012 shooting incident. The week before the shootings, Bales used steroids while on a mission and one fellow non-commissioned officer was worried about his erratic behaviour, but those concerns were not passed on to camp leadership, the report said. |
| Turkey faces fractious interim rule as PM gives up on forming new govt | |  By Orhan Coskun and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu formally ended attempts to form the next government on Tuesday after weeks of coalition talks failed, raising the prospect of a fractious interim administration leading the country to a new election. Davutoglu officially handed the mandate back to President Tayyip Erdogan at an evening meeting in the capital Ankara, Erdogan's office said in a statement. NATO member Turkey has not seen this level of political uncertainty since the fragile coalition governments of the 1990s - turmoil it could do without as it takes on a frontline role in the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State insurgents in Syria and battles Kurdish militants at home.
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| Iraq's Maliki rejects blame for fall of Mosul | |  By Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iraq's former prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday denounced as worthless a parliamentary report which blamed him and others for the fall of Mosul to Islamic State last year and called for them to be referred to the judiciary. "There is no value to the results that came out of the parliamentary investigation committee", Maliki said on Facebook in his first public comments since the report was released on Sunday and referred to the public prosecutor on Monday. Maliki, whose website says he has been in Iran since Friday, said political differences in the panel compromised its objectivity.
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| FIFA to meet sponsors on Thursday | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - FIFA will meet some of its leading commercial partners on Thursday to discuss reforms, a source close to soccer's world governing body said on Tuesday. FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke said last month that Coca-Cola, Visa and McDonald's had written asking for information about what was being done to clean up governance of the sport and offering to meet soccer's ruling body. Valcke's announcement came after Coca-Cola and Visa urged FIFA to support the creation of an independent body to reform the way it is run.
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