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| MH370 debris exposes divisions over air crash investigations | |  By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - Air crash investigators risk being sidelined in a tussle to unlock the secrets of lost flight MH370, fuelling concerns that their role in making flying safer could be diminished. By drifting on to Reunion Island, the barnacled remains of a Boeing wing part from the Malaysia Airlines jet have given the upper hand to a French judicial investigation, exposing for the second time this year how civil crash investigations struggle to compete with police-led probes. For decades, reconstructions of disasters by specialist safety investigators have been seen as crucial to making aviation safer, with accident rates at historically low levels.
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| Guatemala prosecutors seek to impeach president after ex-VP's arrest | |  By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Prosecutors sought to impeach Guatemalan President Otto Perez on Friday over a corruption scandal that led to the arrest of his former vice president, deepening a government crisis ahead of presidential elections next month. Perez's conservative administration has spent the past few months mired in public protests and scandals over corruption allegations against senior officials, several of whom the retired general fired during a cabinet purge in May. Prosecutor Thelma Aldana said at a press conference that it was "highly probable" that recordings of telephone conversations of people involved in the customs corruption racket had referred to Perez. Earlier on Friday, former vice president Roxana Baldetti was arrested while she was receiving treatment at a hospital.
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| Guatemala prosecutors seek to impeach president over corruption | | | GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan prosecutors on Friday asked the Supreme Court for the right to impeach President Otto Perez over a corruption scandal that earlier in the day prompted the arrest of his former vice president, Roxana Baldetti. Last week, Perez narrowly avoided losing his presidential immunity from prosecution when more than half of Congress voted that he should be stripped of it to face investigations over a string of corruption scandals that have hit his government. If the Supreme Court approved prosecutors' request, Congress would still have to give its consent. ... |
| Three wounded in shooting on Amsterdam-to-Paris train | |  By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Three people were wounded in a shooting incident on high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris on Friday, the French Interior Ministry said. A man was arrested when the train stopped at Arras station in northern France but his motives were not yet known, a ministry spokesman said. Train operator Thalys said that travellers were safe and the situation was under control.
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| Brazil's largest party not bolting Rousseff government | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer, a key ally of embattled President Dilma Rousseff, might end his role managing her unwieldy coalition in Congress but he is not planning to leave her government, members of his party said on Friday. Valor Econômico newspaper reported on Friday that the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, which is Brazil's largest party and controls both houses of Congress, is preparing to leave Rousseff's government due to disagreements over handling an ongoing political crisis. The newspaper said the PMDB would take a first step in that direction when Temer surrenders his tasks as Rousseff's political liaison with Congress by the end of August.
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| Swiss authorities open criminal proceedings linked to Malaysia's 1MDB | |  Switzerland's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has opened criminal proceedings relating to Malaysia's troubled state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a spokesman said on Friday. "The Office of the Attorney General confirms that, on Aug. 14 2015, it opened a criminal procedure against two entities of 1MDB as well as against an unknown person," the OAG spokesman said in an email.
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| Black teen killed by St. Louis police shot in back - autopsy | |  An autopsy on the body of the black teenager shot and killed by white St. Louis police officers this week shows the 18-year-old died from a single gunshot that entered his back and struck his heart, a medical examiner said on Friday. The finding could escalate tensions that flared immediately after the shooting Wednesday, as protesters and family members of the slain teen questioned police accounts that Mansur Ball-Bey pointed a gun at officers. The results of the autopsy show Ball-Bey was struck in the upper right part of his back by a bullet that hit his heart and an artery next to the heart, said St. Louis Chief Medical Examiner Michael Graham.
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| Nearly all India's Muslim women reject 'triple talaq', polygamy, survey finds | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 90 percent of Muslim women surveyed in India want the "triple talaq" divorce ritual and polygamy banned from family civil law in the country, a study by a women's rights organisation said on Friday. The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) said its survey also showed that three quarters of interviewees wanted a ban on child marriage, indicating a need for reforms in the Muslim personal law which governs family-related issues in India. Activists say the current law discriminates against women and are calling for a well-defined Muslim law that criminalises polygamy, unilateral divorce, child custody and child marriage.
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| Obama builds Iran nuclear deal support one vote at a time | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is gradually building support in the U.S. Congress for an international nuclear deal with Iran, working the phones to counter lobbying against the pact and sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to support it. Obama needs to win the backing of one-third of either the House of Representatives or the Senate to prevent Republicans from killing the nuclear deal announced in July. Signed by world powers and Iran, the agreement would require Tehran to abide by new limits on its nuclear program in return for western governments easing economic sanctions.
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| U.N. calls for end to impunity for crimes in Darfur, Sudan | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Sudanese police and security forces have shot, killed and abducted civilians in Darfur with near-total impunity, the United Nations said on Friday in a report also documenting crimes committed by rebels last year in the remote western region. The military conducted aeriel bombing and ground attacks on civilians and burned villages in its campaign to end the insurgency in North and South Darfur in 2014, the U.N. human rights office said, citing serious violations of international law. Peacekeepers from the African Union and U.N., whose joint force in Darfur is known as UNAMID, documented 411 cases of abuses by all sides in the conflict, affecting 980 people, the report said. |
| U.N. chief urges North, South Korea not to escalate tensions | |  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed on Friday for North Korea and South Korea not to take any action that could further escalate tensions after Seoul refused to halt propaganda broadcasts and Pyongyang put its troops on a war footing. The countries appeared headed toward another clash after South Korea rejected an ultimatum by the North that it halt anti-Pyongyang broadcasts by Saturday afternoon or face military action. "He urges the parties to refrain from taking any further measures that might increase tensions," Kaneko said.
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