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| Judge refuses to toss model's defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby | |  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bill Cosby on Tuesday lost his bid to throw out a defamation lawsuit brought against the comedian and his former lawyer by supermodel Janice Dickinson, clearing the way for a trial in the sensational case. Dickinson claims in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that Cosby and his former attorney, Martin Singer, defamed her when they told the media that she invented her account of being drugged and raped by Cosby in 1982. "It was a big victory for us today and we're very, very pleased," said Dickinson's attorney, Lisa Bloom.
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| Brazil's Cunha says PMDB not at fault for Rousseff policies | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha said his PMDB party, which pulled out of the ruling coalition on Tuesday, ought not to share the blame for President Dilma Rousseff's erratic policy decisions in recent years. The PMDB withdrew from Rousseff's governing coalition and pulled members from her government, crippling her chances of staying in office. The party decided that the six remaining ministers in Rousseff's cabinet must resign or face ethics proceedings. (Reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello; Writing by Guillermo Parra-Bernal; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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| Ex-TV star David Cassidy loses driver's license in Florida - report | | | (Reuters) - David Cassidy, the onetime star of "The Partridge Family" 1970s TV series, agreed to give up his driver's license for five years after pleading no contest to charges involving a hit-and-run with another vehicle in Florida, the Sun Sentinel newspaper reported. Cassidy, 65, will also spend two years on probation over the September 2015 infraction, the Fort Lauderdale-based newspaper said. Cassidy has had a series of legal issues, including arrests on drunk driving charges in Florida, New York and California in recent years. |
| Brazil's biggest party quits coalition, isolating Rousseff | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's largest party announced on Tuesday it is leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that cripples her fight against impeachment proceedings in Congress. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) decided at a leadership meeting that its six remaining ministers in Rousseff's Cabinet and all other party members with government appointments must resign or face ethics proceedings. Under Brazil's presidential system, Rousseff will continue in office but the break sharply raises the odds she will be impeached by Congress in a matter of months, which would put Vice President Michel Temer, leader of the PMDB, in the presidential seat.
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| Soccer legend Pelé sues Samsung over image in newspaper ad | |  Brazilian soccer legend Pelé has sued Samsung Electronics Co for at least $30 million, claiming that the Korean company improperly used a look-alike in an advertisement that ran in the New York Times without permission. According to the complaint filed this month in federal court in Chicago, Samsung placed the October ad for ultra high-definition televisions after breaking off negotiations in 2013 to use Pelé's identity to promote its products. Pelé, 75, is widely regarded as the greatest soccer player ever, and among the world's most famous athletes in any sport.
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| Pakistan's Christians call for protection, unity after Easter bomb | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A year ago, Wasif Masih, 16, had a narrow escape when a suicide bomber from a faction of the Pakistani Taliban blew himself up during Sunday worship outside his church in a Christian neighbourhood in the eastern city of Lahore. This past Easter Sunday, Wasif died when the same Taliban faction, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, sent another suicide bomber to a Lahore park full of families, killing 72 people including at least 29 children. Wasif was so close to the blast that the bomber's head fell at his feet, his mother, Zubaida Masih, said as the family mourned at their house in Nishtar Colony, a neighbourhood with both Christian and Muslim families.
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| Victim death toll from Brussels bombings revised down to 32 | |  The number of people killed in last week's bombings at Brussels Airport and on a rush-hour metro train has been revised down to 32, excluding the three suicide bombers, Belgian federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. Ine Van Wymeersch, a magistrate, said all the victims from the twin bomb attacks last Tuesday had been identified and consisted of 17 Belgians and 15 foreigners. Brussels airport began trying out a make-shift check-in area on Tuesday that could allow a limited restart of passenger flights in the coming days.
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| FBI examining laptops linked to Belgian militants - source | | | The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining laptop computers linked to suspects in last week's deadly Brussels bombings as investigators work to unravel the militant network behind the attacks. The laptops arrived in the U.S. on Friday and now are being examined by FBI experts, a U.S. government source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Belgian authorities had provided copies of laptop hard drives to the FBI. |
| No criminal charges in California balcony collapse that killed Irish students | | | (Reuters) - No criminal charges will be filed in connection with the deadly collapse of an apartment balcony in Berkeley last year in which five visiting Irish students and an American friend were killed, prosecutors said Tuesday. An investigation showed dry rot caused the balcony to give way during a birthday party in June, and the building's maintenance and construction crews "likely" bore some responsibility, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley said. The young people attending the party were mostly college students from Ireland working in the San Francisco Bay Area for the summer on temporary visas. |
| Trump's campaign manager charged by police, Walker endorses Cruz | | | U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery in Florida on Tuesday, the latest chapter in a raucous White House race marked by threats, insults and physical confrontations. Police in Jupiter, Florida, charged Lewandowski, 42, with intentionally grabbing and bruising the arm of Michelle Fields, then a reporter for the conservative news outlet Breitbart, when she tried to question Trump at a campaign event on March 8. "Mr. Lewandowski is absolutely innocent of this charge," Trump's campaign said in a statement. |
| Brazil court blocks Olympic funds on suspicion of fraud - source | | | By Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A federal court in Brazil has blocked funding for the construction of an Olympic venue on suspicion of corruption, a source involved in preparations said on Tuesday, throwing fresh scrutiny on the Rio de Janeiro Games four months before they start. Financing from state lender Caixa Economica Federal was blocked from reaching one of the consortiums building the Olympic Deodoro complex where 11 sports, including Rugby Sevens, BMX biking and kayaking, will be held, the source said, confirming a report on Tuesday by the news site G1. According to the report, prosecutors in Rio say they found evidence of fraud in earthmoving services at the venue. |
| "Tell the truth", Auschwitz survivor urges accused in Nazi trials | |  A Holocaust survivor said on Tuesday that four suspects accused by German prosecutors of being accessory to murder at Auschwitz must have known of the mass killings taking place at the camp because of the "unbearable stench" of burning bodies. Germany is holding what are likely to be its last trials linked to the Holocaust, in which more than six million people, mostly Jews, were killed by the Nazis. Three men and one woman in their 90s are accused of being an accessory to the murder of hundreds of thousands of people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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| Somali pirates on trial in Paris for 2011 hijacking of yacht in Gulf of Aden | | | Seven Somali men accused of hijacking a French yacht in an assault in which its owner was killed and his wife abducted in the Arabian Sea four years ago appeared before a French court on Tuesday, all facing life sentences. The men have not been charged with homicide, but with hijacking - a crime punishable with life imprisonment - as well as theft, abduction and illegal confinement, according to Martin Pradel, the lawyer of one of the suspected attackers. Jury members and magistrates at the Paris court will aim to establish responsibilities during the attack in September 2011 that led to a shooting in which the French skipper, Christian Colombo, aged 55, was killed. |
| FBI warned Dutch about El Bakraoui brothers week before attacks | |  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told Dutch police that two brothers were being sought by Belgian authorities a week before the pair blew themselves up in suicide attacks in Brussels, the Dutch interior minister said on Tuesday. Ard van der Steur was responding by letter to questions from Dutch legislators about Belgian brothers Ibrahim ('Brahim') and Khalid El Bakraoui, who prosecutors say took part in the March 22 attacks which killed 35 people, excluding the attackers. A series of missteps and blunders by Belgium's security and intelligence agencies have come to light since the attacks, as well weaknesses in communication between intelligence agencies across Europe.
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| U.S. Capitol Police find no threat in suspicious packages | |  Police briefly shut down two Washington, DC streets and an entrance to the United States Congress visitor's center on Tuesday while they investigated two suspicious packages left near the U.S. Capitol and determined they were not a threat. The incident came one day after the area around the Capitol was put on lockdown because of a suspected shooter. U.S. Capitol Police gave the all-clear less than an hour after the initial report of unattended packages, which fed into heightened security concerns in the nation's capital after the Brussels bombing last week that killed 35 people.
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| EgyptAir hijack ends with passengers freed unharmed, suspect arrested | |  By Yiannis Kourtoglou and Nadia El Gowely LARNACA, Cyprus/CAIRO (Reuters) - An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus on Tuesday by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt, who was arrested after giving himself up. Eighty-one people, including 21 foreigners and 15 crew, were on board the Airbus 320, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement. The Cypriot state broadcaster said he had demanded the release of women prisoners in Egypt.
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| U.S. FTC sues Volkswagen over diesel advertising claims | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sued Volkswagen Group of America, saying the U.S. arm of the German automaker falsely advertised more than a half million diesel vehicles as environmentally friendly when it knew they were emitting excess pollution. The FTC filed suit against the wholly owned Volkswagen AG unit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The agency said U.S. consumers suffered "billions of dollars in injury" as a result of deception by VW, which has admitted to using software that allowed 580,000 diesel vehicles built since 2009 to emit up to 40 times legally allowable pollution.
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| French journalist freed early from week-long contempt of court sentence | | | A former prosecution spokeswoman for the U.N. court trying alleged criminals from the 1990s Balkan wars has been released early from the jail where she had been serving a one-week sentence for contempt of court, the tribunal said on Tuesday. Florence Hartmann, who reported for French newspaper Le Monde on the wars that accompanied the collapse of multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, was arrested by U.N. officials as she sought to attend the sentencing of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic last Thursday. In a ruling, the presiding judge of the Yugoslavia tribunal's legal successor said her good behaviour meant Hartmann was eligible for release after serving two thirds of her seven-day sentence - on Tuesday rather than Thursday. |
| FACTBOX: Suspects linked to the Paris, Brussels attacks | |  Following Tuesday's Islamic State attacks in Brussels, below is a list of the principal suspects and, in some cases, their links to the Nov. 13 Paris attacks: * Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, Belgian, blew himself up on a metro train at Maelbeek station on Tuesday. On the run since breaking parole again in October, he used fake ID to rent an apartment in Charleroi that was used as a safe house by some of the Paris attackers. * Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 29, Belgian, blew himself up at Brussels airport.
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| Pakistan detained more than 5,000 after Easter bombing killed 72 | |  By Asad Hashim ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has rounded up more than 5,000 militant suspects, then released most of them, in the two days since a suicide bomber killed at least 72 people in a park in Lahore at Easter, a provincial minister said on Tuesday. Investigators were keeping 216 suspects in custody pending further investigation, said Rana Sanaullah, a state minister for Punjab province from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ruling party. "If someone is found to be guilty, they will be charged," told journalists in the Punjab province capital of Lahore.
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| Hopes fade of imminent deal to end Ukraine political crisis | |  By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's prospects of forming a new coalition - vital to get IMF loan talks back on track - were thrown into fresh doubt on Tuesday after Yulia Tymoshenko pressed demands as the price of taking her Fatherland Party into an alliance. Tymoshenko's requests include scrapping a tax on pension payments and rolling back energy price hikes. The latter is a key reform implemented under Ukraine's bailout programme from the International Monetary Fund.
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