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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. |
| Obama weighs Republican for U.S. Supreme Court | |  By Jeff Mason and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is considering appointing a Republican to the U.S. Supreme Court, a source close to the process said on Wednesday, as Obama seeks to overcome resistance in the Republican-led Senate to anyone he nominates. The source said Nevada's Republican Governor Brian Sandoval, a former federal judge, was among 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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| 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. |
| Brazil court authorizes probes of former Rousseff top aide, Sao Paulo mayor | | | Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday authorized formal investigations into President Dilma Rousseff's former chief of staff, as well as the mayor of the country's largest city and an opposition senator, for potential corruption. 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. Prosecutors said all three were named in plea bargain deals with states' witnesses in a corruption and political kickback scheme at state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, but that the possible crimes raised by the witnesses were not necessarily related to the Petrobras investigation. |
| 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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| Ahead of election, Iran's leader warns of Western 'plot' | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's top leader warned voters on Wednesday the West was plotting to influence elections pitting centrists close to President Hassan Rouhani against conservative hardliners in a contest that could shape the Islamic Republic for years to come. In remarks reflecting an abiding mistrust of Rouhani's rapprochement with the West, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he was confident Iranians would vote in favour of keeping Iran's anti-Western stance on Friday in the first elections since last year's nuclear accord with world powers. Rouhani's allies, who hope the deal will hasten Iran's opening up to the world after years of sanctions, have come under increasing pressure in the election campaign from hardliners who accuse them of links to Western powers including the United States and Britain.
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| Burkina Faso's ex-president becomes citizen of Ivory Coast | |  Ivory Coast said on Wednesday it has granted citizenship to Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore, potentially dashing hopes he could be extradited to his neighbouring native country for his role in a high-profile murder case. Burkina Faso issued an arrest warrant against Compaore in December for the murder of former president and military leader Thomas Sankara, who was assassinated 30 years ago in a case that has famously gone unsolved. The naturalization decree, published in the Ivory Coast's official journal for January, accorded Compaore and his son Paul Francois Ivoirian citizenship.
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| Bourbon vessel attacked off Nigeria, two kidnapped | | | French oil services company Bourbon said on Wednesday that one of its vessels was attacked off the coast of Nigeria on Feb. 23 and two crew members from Nigeria and Russia are considered to have been abducted by the assailants. "Bourbon will continue to disclose any new information when available and verified, but will not make any further comment," the company said. Bourbon operates a fleet of light, fast cruisers called Surfers that are used to move professionals to offshore oil and gas sites, especially in West Africa. |
| Nevada's Republican governor being vetted for Supreme Court - Washington Post | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican governor of Nevada is being vetted by the Obama administration as a possible nominee for the Supreme Court, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the process. Brian Sandoval, a moderate Republican of Mexican ancestry, is in his second term leading the Western U.S. state. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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| Backlash after UK justice minister says EU deal reversible | |  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's deal on new terms for its membership in the European Union could be undone by the European Court of Justice despite support from all member states, according to Justice Secretary Michael Gove, a senior figure among those who want Britain to leave the bloc. Gove faced a barrage of contradictory opinion, with Prime Minister David Cameron's Downing Street office, Attorney General Jeremy Wright and European Council President Donald Tusk among those saying he was wrong. Considered a policy heavyweight in the British cabinet, Gove is a close friend and political ally of Cameron, but the men are on opposite sides of the debate before a June 23 referendum on whether Britain should stay quit the EU.
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| Gang guilty of sex crimes in English town at centre of abuse scandal | |  Five people were convicted on Wednesday of multiple sex crimes against young girls in Rotherham, the northern English town which hit the headlines two years ago when it was revealed that as many as 1,400 children had been abused by gangs. The group, which included three British Asian brothers, their uncle and two white women, systematically carried out the sexual exploitation of 15 victims, aged between 11 and 21, over a period of 16 years from 1987, prosecutors said. The physical and psychological suffering these girls have endured is unthinkable," Peter Mann from Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said.
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| Iran opposition figure Karoubi to vote in elections - son | |  Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi, under house arrest since 2009, will cast his vote in elections on Friday, his son said in a Facebook posting, a move that may provide a boost to reformist candidates close to President Hassan Rouhani. This would be the first time that Karoubi will vote in any election since his arrest.
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| Italy seeks more access to Egyptian probe into student murder | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Wednesday said Egyptian investigators should hand over the evidence they had uncovered in the death of an Italian graduate student who was tortured and killed in Cairo. Giulio Regeni, 28, disappeared in January and his battered body was found in a ditch at the beginning of this month. Egypt invited Italian investigators to take part in the probe, but judicial sources in Rome say the collaboration has been limited.
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| FIFA urges members to approve term limits, other reforms to regain trust | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA urged its members on Wednesday to vote through reforms this week including term limits for top officials and disclosure of their earnings, in a bid to rebuild trust in soccer's governing body. The federation will hold a congress this Friday and vote on a set of reforms it has drawn up to get its house in order after an unprecedented graft scandal that has engulfed its top officials and seen dozens indicted in the United States. "The eyes of the world are on us this week after one of the most challenging times in our history," acting FIFA president Issa Hayatou told its executive committee, according to a statement from the organisation on Wednesday.
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| Hungary protest prevents unveiling of statue for anti-Jewish WW2 politician | | | A group of around 100 protesters prevented the unveiling of a statue of a Hungarian politician in Budapest on Wednesday, saying he promoted racist views during World War Two. The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Religious Communities also objected, saying in a statement that Gyorgy Donath's anti-Semitic views meant he was unworthy of the statue, erected only a few steps away from Budapest's Holocaust Memorial Center. "The disgraceful political role of Gyorgy Donath cannot be ignored even if he became victim of communism in a show trial in which he was sentenced to death," the Jewish community said. |
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