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| Georgia executes man for beating death over car keys | | Friday, April 01, 2016 2:22 AM | |
|  Joshua Bishop, 41, who had also admitted to being involved in a second murder, died by injection at 9:27 p.m. (0127 GMT) at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, said Lisa Rodriguez-Presley, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Corrections. Bishop told police he had wanted to take the car of a man who was sleeping inside a friend's mobile home after they had been out for a night of partying. "I hit him too hard, I reckon, and he didn't say anything," Bishop told police in Milledgeville, Georgia, court records show.
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| Virginia trooper dies after bus station shooting | | Friday, April 01, 2016 1:11 AM | |
| | By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - A Virginia state trooper died after a man he had approached inside a Richmond bus station pulled out a gun and opened fire, before two other police officers returned gunfire, killing the suspect, police said. Virginia State Police Colonel Steven Flaherty told a news conference on Thursday that the trooper, Chad Dermyer, 37, died from his injuries. Corinne Geller, spokeswoman for Virginia state police told reporters earlier that the gunman also died. |
| More women are being trafficked from Bangladesh to Mumbai brothels - charity | | Friday, April 01, 2016 1:09 AM | |
|  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of women being trafficked from Bangladesh into Mumbai brothels is rising as part of greater migration from India's eastern neighbour, and police and social groups need to do more to rescue and repatriate them, a charity said on Thursday. The number of Bengali-speaking commercial sex workers in the city's main red-light district of Kamathipura is at a record high, according to data compiled by Prerana, a non-profit focused on trafficking and sex workers. "The increased numbers dovetail with increased migration from Bangladesh, and migrants are particularly vulnerable to traffickers," said Priti Patkar, co-founder of Prerana.
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| Brazil's Rousseff gets relief from Supreme Court, supporters | | Friday, April 01, 2016 12:43 AM | |
|  By Maria Carolina Marcello and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to take a corruption investigation into former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva away from a crusading federal judge, as pro-government protests across the country eased pressure on President Dilma Rousseff. Local television showed tens of thousands of supporters clad in red marching for Rousseff, who has faced growing calls for her impeachment since anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro released a wiretapped conversation of her and Lula this month. Thursday's 8-2 Supreme Court decision grants Lula and Rousseff a breather from Moro by putting Lula's case temporarily in the hands of the top court, all but 3 of whose members have been named since the ruling Workers' Party took office in 2003.
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| Virginia trooper badly wounded, gunman dead in bus station shooting - police | | | By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - A Virginia state trooper was clinging to life after being shot at a Richmond bus station on Thursday by a gunman who was fatally wounded after two police officers returned gunfire, a state police spokeswoman said. The trooper approached a man at around 2:45 p.m. EDT (1845 GMT) who pulled out a gun and opened fire and was being treated for "life-threatening injuries," state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller told reporters. "A Virginia State trooper encountered a male subject just inside the entrance way of the Greyhound bus station. |
| After migrant deaths, groups seek policing of Canada authorities | |  By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The deaths of two migrants while in detention in Canada prompted calls on Thursday for policing of border authorities in the nation that has opened its doors to thousands of Syrian refugees. The back-to-back deaths of the two men highlight the need for a supervisory body to oversee the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), several human rights groups said. Chilean Francisco Astorga, 39, and Melkioro Gahungu, 64, of Burundi, were found dead less than a week apart while in the custody of Canadian immigration authorities in early March, according to several news reports.
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| Latest U.N. Central Africa sex abuse allegations elicit disgust | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The latest allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation levelled against international peacekeepers in Central African Republic elicited expressions of disgust on Thursday from top United Nations officials and senior U.S. and French diplomats. The United Nations on Wednesday said it has expanded an investigation of new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by foreign peacekeepers in Central African Republic (CAR) and notified authorities in France, Gabon and Burundi about the accusations against their troops.
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| Turkish president threatens to sue those who insult him | |  By Idrees Ali and David Rohde WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan warned on Thursday that he will continue to sue critics who insult him in Turkey, where journalists and other critics of the president have been imprisoned. "I would (thank) each and everyone one of those who criticise me but if they were to insult me, my lawyers will go and file a lawsuit," said Erdogan, speaking at an event on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit. A Turkish court on Friday resumes hearings in the trial of the two journalists for publishing footage that purportedly showed Turkey's intelligence agency shipping truckloads of weapons to opposition fighters in Syria in early 2014.
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| Brazil's top court removes Lula probe from crusading judge | |  Brazil's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to remove a corruption investigation into former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from the jurisdiction of a lower court judge who released a wiretapped conversation of him with President Dilma Rousseff. The 8-2 decision grants Lula a breather from crusading anti-corruption Judge Sergio Moro, putting his case temporarily in the hands of the top court, all but 3 of whose members have been named since his Workers' Party took office in 2003. Lula is under investigation for allegedly benefiting, in the form of payments and a luxury real estate, from a massive graft scheme uncovered at state-run oil company Petrobras.
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| Trump meets with Republican leadership after backing away from loyalty pledge | |  By Steve Holland and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump made a surprise closed-door visit to the Republican National Committee on Thursday after a tumultuous two days on the campaign trail that included a reversal of his pledge to support the party's nominee. Trump, who also has sought to contain the fallout from his Wednesday comments supporting punishment for women who have an abortion, said on Twitter afterward he had a "nice meeting" with RNC Chairman Reince Preibus but divulged no details. "And it will happen!" An RNC spokeswoman described the meeting as "a productive conversation about the state of the race" and said it was part of Preibus's regular communications with the party's presidential candidates.
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| Obama, Hollande discuss deepening counterterrorism ties | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said he discussed with French President Francois Hollande at a meeting on Thursday efforts to deepen U.S.-French cooperation on counterterrorism. Obama, who met with Hollande on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, said the two leaders also discussed the possibility of a new government being formed in Libya and how to fortify the North African country against Islamic State militants. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Eric Beech; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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