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| Indian farmers deep in debt, seek subsidies, help with insurance | | Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:11 AM | |
|  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian government action to increase spending on irrigation and crop insurance is not enough to end a cycle of indebtedness that has led to thousands of farmer suicides, and a complete overhaul of credit and subsidies to farmers is needed, activists said. Drought in many parts of the country has hit rice, cotton and other crops, and lower world commodity prices have added to the farmers' plight. More than half India's farming households are in debt, owing banks and moneylenders hundreds of millions of rupees, despite numerous loan write-offs by successive governments.
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| Islamic State bomb supply chain includes firms in 20 countries - report | | Thursday, February 25, 2016 2:39 AM | |
|  By Dasha Afanasieva ANKARA (Reuters) - Companies from 20 countries are involved in the supply chain of components that end up in Islamic State explosives, a study found on Thursday, suggesting governments and firms need to do more to track the flow of cables, chemicals and other equipment. The European Union-mandated study showed that 51 companies from countries including Turkey, Brazil, and the United States produced, sold or received the more than 700 components used by Islamic State to build improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Islamic State controls large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
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| VW diesel suits hearing may give clues on settlement progress | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge will hold a hearing Thursday that may offer the first details on any progress in settling over 500 lawsuits filed against Volkswagen AG, a top supplier and many current and former top executives over excess emissions in 580,000 U.S. diesel vehicles. Late Monday, lawyers representing owners filed a consolidated 719-page complaint against VW, supplier Robert Bosch GMBH, which helped develop emissions controls, along with VW's current and former CEOs and other executives, accusing them of racketeering, mail and wire fraud, among other misconduct. The plaintiffs are asking that VW be ordered to buy back vehicles that don't meet emissions standards, and pay "significant" damages.
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| Obama weighs Republican for U.S. Supreme Court | |  By Jeff Mason and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is considering appointing a moderate Republican to the U.S. Supreme Court, a source close to the process said on Wednesday, but leaders in the Republican-led Senate held firm to their threat to block anyone he nominates. The source said Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, a Republican and former federal judge, was among the possible candidates. As governor, Sandoval has taken a traditional Republican stance in support of gun rights, but his more moderate views on social issues, such as abortion rights, could make him an attractive choice for the Democratic president.
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| Brazil court authorizes probes of former Rousseff top aide, Sao Paulo mayor | | | Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday authorized formal investigations into potential corruption involving President Dilma Rousseff's former chief of staff, as well as the mayor of the country's largest city and an opposition senator. Supreme Court Justice Celso de Mello said federal prosecutors could investigate Rousseff's former chief of staff, Aloizio Mercadante, who now serves as education minister, Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad and Senator Aloysio Nunes of the opposition PSDB party. |
| Britain registers EU membership deal at United Nations | |  Britain on Wednesday registered with the United Nations a deal on new terms for its membership in the European Union ahead of a June 23 national referendum on whether Britain should stay or quit the 28-nation bloc. Britain's U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said he registered the text of the deal as an official treaty at the United Nations.
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| Moody's surprises with two-notch Brazil rating cut | |  By Alonso Soto and Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday became the third major rating agency to downgrade Brazil's debt to junk, cutting its rating by two notches to Ba2 as the former emerging market star sinks deeper into its worst recession in decades. Moody's said the outlook for Brazil's rating was revised to negative due to the prospect of further deterioration in its debt ratios as well as the risk of further external shocks. Rivals Standard & Poor's and Fitch stripped Brazil of its investment grade rating last year.
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| Yemeni suspect in 9/11 attacks cites Guantanamo torment with noises | | | By Lacey Johnson FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - A Yemeni man accused in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks testified on Wednesday that Guantanamo Bay guards have used noises and vibrations to torment him for years, but a prosecutor questioned his mental state. Ramzi bin al Shibh, 43, was questioned for more than two hours about the alleged abuse, which he said began a few weeks after his arrival at the U.S. Navy prison in Cuba in 2006. "They wait for me until I go to sleep, 30 minutes, 40 minutes ... and then they start the vibrations," said Bin al Shibh, who wore a white turban and brown camouflage jacket at his pre-trial hearing in a military tribunal. |
| Iran arrests elderly father of jailed U.S. citizen - family | |  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian authorities this week arrested the elderly father of an American jailed in Iran since October, the man's family said on Wednesday. Siamak Namazi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, was detained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in October while in Iran visiting family. Baquer Namazi, Siamak's father, was arrested late on Monday in Tehran, his wife Effie Namazi said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
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| Italy's Renzi calls confidence vote on gay unions bill | |  By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government on Wednesday called a confidence vote over hotly contested legislation on gay civil unions after Prime Minister Matteo Renzi watered down the bill to reach an accord in his ruling coalition. Italy is the only major Western country that has not yet recognised civil unions for same-sex or heterosexual couples, continuing to withhold from them legal protections such as inheritance rights. Constitutional Reforms Minister Maria Elena Boschi told the Senate the government was calling a vote of confidence over the amended legislation which strips out all provisions on adoption rights for unmarried gay and heterosexual couples.
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| Spy agencies say Clinton emails closely matched top secret documents - sources | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. spy agencies have told Congress that Hillary Clinton's home computer server contained some emails that should have been treated as "top secret" because their wording matched sections of some of the government's most highly classified documents, four sources familiar with the agency reports said. The two reports are the first formal declarations by U.S. spy agencies detailing how they believe Clinton violated government rules when highly classified information in at least 22 email messages passed through her unsecured home server.
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| FIFA election to go ahead but Blatter told to stay away | | | By Brian Homewood and Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA will proceed with an election to pick a new president on Friday to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter and vote on a set of reforms aimed at restoring its credibility after the worst graft scandal in its history. One candidate had sought to have the vote on a new president delayed but sport's highest tribunal threw out his request, clearing the way for FIFA to hold its planned Extraordinary Congress in Zurich. FIFA urged members to approve its reforms at the congress, including term limits for top officials and disclosure of their earnings, to rebuild trust after several dozen officials were indicted in the United States and a criminal investigation was begun in Switzerland. |
| Blatter and Platini bans upheld, reduced to six years | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the two most powerful men in world football, had their bans for ethics violations upheld on Wednesday, although they were reduced from eight years to six. The 79-year-old Blatter, who served for 17 years as FIFA president, and Platini, 60, one of the greatest players of all time and UEFA president since 2007, had appealed against the bans imposed last October. The ruling came two days before FIFA holds a special elective Congress to appoint a successor to Blatter, who was President of the ruling body from 1998 before standing down four days after winning his final term of office last May. Neither man will be at Friday's Congress following the decision and Platini could hardly contain his wrath.
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