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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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| Shots fired on Amsterdam-to-Paris train, several injured | | | Shots were fired on a Thalys high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris on Friday and several people were injured, 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. Thalys said in a tweet that travellers were safe and the situation was under control. |
| 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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| Hollywood studios must face animators' anti-poaching lawsuit | |  Several major Hollywood studios failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a antitrust lawsuit accusing them of illegally conspiring not to poach each others' animators, to help drive down wages. In a Thursday night decision, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, rejected the dismissal request by Walt Disney Co and its Lucasfilm and Pixar units, Sony Corp, DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc and 21st Century Fox Inc's Blue Sky Studios.
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| IRA may still be active despite N.Ireland peace deal - minister | | | By Ian Graham BELFAST (Reuters) - The Irish Republican Army may still be active a decade after its public disbandment, a senior Northern Ireland official said on Friday, a revelation that if substantiated could bring down the government of the British province. The remark prompted a flat denial from a senior figure in Sinn Fein, a party whose position as part of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government is predicated on the dissolution of the IRA, its former armed wing. An end to the IRA was a central plank of the 1998 Good Friday accord that largely ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland between Catholics who favoured unification with the Republic of Ireland and Protestants wanting to stay British. |
| Thieves steal Rodin bust from Danish museum | | | A Rodin bronze bust "Man with the Broken Nose" has been stolen during opening hours from a museum in Copenhagen by two men posing as tourists, the museum said. The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum released surveillance pictures on Friday of the two suspects who can be seen in the video, one dressed in shorts and wearing a broad-brimmed hat, the other in jeans, a checked shirt and a baseball cap. According to the museum, it took the thieves 12 minutes to snatch the 25.5-cm bronze bust, from the moment they entered until they left. |
| Thailand increases reward for bombing suspect | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities have tripled to $85,000 a reward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the country's worst ever bombing. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said progress in the investigation was being made, but declined to give details. Police are trying to determine who carried out the Monday evening attack at one of Bangkok's top tourist attractions.
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