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| U.S. transgender community fights against 'bathroom bills' | |  By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - After scoring wins for same-sex marriage rights and anti-discrimination protections, U.S. equality advocacy groups now find themselves in a battle over bathrooms. North Carolina last week became the first state to enact a law requiring transgender people to choose restrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate rather than the one with which they identify. At least 13 other states also have considered so-called bathroom bills targeting the transgender community this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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| Serbian firebrand Seselj faces verdict in U.N. war crimes trial | |  The verdict may prove as difficult for the U.N. Criminal Triibunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to manage as the decade-long trial, which suffered multiple delays as Seselj represented himself and challenged the court at every turn. Serb paramilitaries drove tens of thousands of Muslims and Croats from their homes.
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| Republican Trump revises abortion stance after backlash | | | By Doina Chiacu and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday that women who end pregnancies should face punishment if the United States bans abortion, triggering a torrent of negative reactions from critics, including his White House rivals. After MSNBC broadcast a clip of an interview with Trump's comments, the billionaire rowed back his remarks, first saying that the abortion issue should be handled by states and later adding that doctors who performed abortions, rather than women, should be held legally responsible. "The doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman," Trump said in his final statement. |
| Suspected suicide bomber not one of Nigeria's missing Chibok girls | |  A suspected suicide bomber intercepted in northern Cameroon last week before she could blow herself up is not one of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014, an African public advocacy group said on Wednesday. The Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF), a non-government organisation, partnered with Nigeria's government to help parents from Chibok verify the girl's identity after she claimed to be among the missing students. Nigeria's government had said it was keen to ascertain the girl's identity so that she could possibly assist the government in investigations regarding the fate and whereabouts of the missing Chibok girls.
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| U.S. anti-drug plane for Afghanistan still flightless after $86 million - report | | | By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government spent $86 million over seven years developing a counter-narcotics surveillance aircraft for Afghanistan, but the plane has never carried out a mission and is sitting idle in Delaware, a watchdog said on Wednesday. After years of war in Afghanistan, a global hub of opium and hashish production, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had until now largely avoided criticism for questionable spending of the sort levelled widely against the U.S. military. The project was an "ineffective and wasteful use of government resources," Horowitz's audit report said. |
| California judge delays Cosby's deposition in sex abuse lawsuit | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) - A California judge on Wednesday agreed to postpone a sworn deposition of comedian Bill Cosby in a civil lawsuit accusing the entertainer of sexual assault in order to avoid interfering with a criminal case against him in Pennsylvania. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Kaplan said the delay was designed to permit Cosby to present testimony in his own defence in the civil case without fear of revealing anything that could be used against him in the criminal proceedings in Pennsylvania. Kaplan also put on hold any further deposition of Judy Huth, who brought the civil lawsuit alleging that Cosby molested her in 1974 at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15 after plying her with alcohol.
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| Brazil's president scrambles to hold coalition together | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff scrambled on Wednesday to hold together her crumbling ruling coalition by negotiating key government posts with remaining allies, aides said, as key partners discussed abandoning her amid impeachment proceedings. A day after Rousseff's biggest coalition partner broke away and ordered its six ministers in her Cabinet to resign, another coalition ally - the Progressive Party (PP) - convened a meeting for April 11-12 to decide whether to leave as well. A presidential aide said the government was reaching out to individual members of allied parties to offer positions that have opened up after the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) bolted on Tuesday.
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| Obama gives second chance to 61 convicted drug offenders | |  By Alana Wise WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama commuted prison sentences for 61 non-violent drug offenders on Wednesday and the White House said he hopes to issue more pardons and commutations during his remaining months in office. Obama has pushed to reform the U.S. criminal justice system to reduce the number of people serving long sentences for non-violent drug crimes, a rare area where the Democratic president has garnered support from Republican lawmakers. "It does not make sense for a non-violent drug offender to be getting 20 years, 30 years, in some cases life in prison.
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| Two Turks among six killed in gun attack in Somalia's capital | | | Six people, including two Turkish nationals, were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked a minibus carrying workers to a Turkish-run hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said. The gunmen, who were in a car, opened fire at the minibus as it passed in Mogadishu's Hodan district. "Gunmen opened fire on minibus. |
| Ireland's Green party pulls out of government talks | |  Ireland's Green party on Wednesday pulled out of two sets of talks being led by the country's two major parties who are separately trying to form a minority government following an inconclusive parliamentary election last month. The Greens' two members of parliament, together with 15 independent lawmakers, have been in talks with the two rival parties who each want to get closest to a majority before seeking the other's consent to allow it to govern. "We have decided to withdraw from discussions on the drafting of a partnership agreement for a minority government.
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| Peru's jailed ex-leader, Fujimori, hospitalized after dizzy spells | |  Peru's former president, Alberto Fujimori, was transferred from his prison cell to a hospital on Wednesday to undergo neurological tests after feeling dizzy and briefly losing the strength in his legs, his doctor said. Fujimori, 77, serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuse and corruption during his 1990-2000 presidency, will likely spend the night in the hospital, said Dr. Alejandro Aguinaga, who was once Fujimori's health minister. "It appears to be manageable ... we're doing a (MRI) scan now," Aguinaga said by phone.
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| France investigates man on suspicion of planning 'imminent' attack | | | A French judge on Wednesday put under formal investigation a Frenchman arrested last week on suspicion of planning an imminent act of "extreme violence", Paris' prosecutor said. Francois Molins said the "unprecedented" amount of weapons, including five assault rifles and handguns as well as chemicals and explosives that could be used for a bomb, had been found at Reda Kriket's apartment. "Everything suggests that the discovery of this cache avoided an act of extreme violence by a terrorist network," Molins told a news conference. |
| EU-India summit fails to defuse row over Italian marines | |  By Thomas Escritt and Francesco Guarascio THE HAGUE/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and India failed on Wednesday to defuse a long-running row over two Italian marines accused of murder and the case moved to an international tribunal after four years of diplomatic squabbles. At a joint summit in Brussels, held after delays imposed by Italy, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and EU leaders maintained their positions over the case. In 2012, India arrested two Italian marines who were escorting an oil tanker on suspicion of shooting dead two fishermen they mistook for pirates.
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| Republican Trump says women should be punished for illegal abortions | |  U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday that women should face punishment if they receive abortions if the procedure is made illegal. "There has to be some form of punishment," Trump told MSNBC in a pretaped town hall. Asked what form of punishment he would advocate, Trump said, "That I don't know.
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| Pakistan's Sharif cancels visit to Washington in wake of attack | |  Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has cancelled plans to visit the United States after a bombing on Sunday killed 70 people in Lahore, the White House said on Wednesday after Sharif and President Barack Obama spoke by phone. "President Obama expressed his understanding of Prime Minister Sharif's decision to cancel his visit to the United States and remain in Pakistan following this terrorist attack," the White House said in a statement.
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| Turkey, Greece scramble to start EU deal as migrant arrivals rise | |  By Tulay Karadeniz and Dasha Afanasieva ANKARA (Reuters) - Five days before Turkey is due to begin taking back illegal migrants from Greece under a deal with the European Union, neither side is fully ready, with officials scrambling to be able to make at least a symbolic start as new arrivals rise. Turkey agreed with the EU this month to take back all migrants and refugees who cross illegally to Greece in exchange for financial aid, faster visa-free travel for Turks and slightly accelerated EU membership talks. A series of steps needs to be taken by Monday for the deal to get underway, according to people familiar with an internal European Commission report.
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| Second Peruvian bishop weighs in on elections, knocks frontrunner | |  A second Roman Catholic leader in Peru weighed in on the country's presidential elections, saying on Wednesday that he would never vote for frontrunner Keiko Fujimori and praising a candidate condemned by an archbishop at Easter mass. Bishop Emeritus Luis Bambaren met left-leaning presidential hopeful Alfredo Barnechea three days after an archbishop said that voting for him would be "a sin" because of his position on gay rights and abortion. Barnechea has said he supports civil unions to give gay couples the legal benefits of marriage and was not against abortion in the case of rape.
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| Colombia, ELN rebels to begin peace talks in Ecuador | |  CARACAS/BOGOTA (Reuters) - The Colombian government will begin formal peace talks with lefitst National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, moving the country a step closer to ending its five-decade-old conflict, the two sides said in joint statement on Wednesday. There is no start date yet for the Ecuador-based negotiations, which were announced by the leaders of the peace delegations in Caracas, Venezuela. Colombia and the ELN, the Andean nation's second-largest guerrilla group, have been in preliminary talks for over two years.
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| 'Blade Runner' Pistorius sentencing set for June 13-17 - report | |  Disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will face sentencing in June following his conviction for murdering his girlfriend, Sky News reported on Wednesday. Citing sources, Sky News said Pistorius will be sentenced between June 13 and 17. Pistorius, known as "Blade Runner" for the carbon fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence.
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| Kenya tables anti-doping bill but set to miss deadline | |  Kenya tabled a much-anticipated anti-doping bill in parliament on Wednesday but it will not be passed in time for the country to meet a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) deadline. The bill is a key requirement for the east African nation, famed for its distance runners but tarnished by some 40 doping cases in recent years, to be declared compliant with the WADA code ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics starting on Aug. 5. Kenya was given a deadline to enact the law or be declared non-compliant, which brings WADA sanctions, but the country's parliament goes into recess for 10 days on Thursday so the bill cannot become law before time runs out on April 5.
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| Cyprus remands suspected hijacker who wanted to see ex-wife | |  By Yiannis Kourtoglou LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) - An Egyptian man accused of hijacking a passenger plane and diverting it to Cyprus has told police he acted because he wanted to see his estranged wife and children, saying "what should one do?". The suspect, whom Cypriot and Egyptian authorities have identified as Seif Eldin Mustafa, 59, surrendered on Tuesday after commandeering a domestic Alexandria-Cairo flight with 72 passengers and crew on board. Egypt's public prosecutor has asked Cypriot authorities to hand over Mustafa, Egyptian state television reported, but a Cyprus police spokesman and a government official have said that any talk of extradition right now was premature.
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| Thousands attend funeral for controversial Toronto mayor Rob Ford | |  By Andrea Hopkins TORONTO (Reuters) - Thousands of people turned out on Wednesday for the funeral of former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose tumultuous four years as the leader of Canada's largest city included an admission that he smoked crack cocaine and a history of erratic behaviour. Supporters lined the streets of downtown Toronto to witness the funeral procession from city hall, where some 5,000 people had passed Ford's casket during a two-day public visitation, to the church where he was remembered for his populist appeal. Ford, who was married and the father of two young children, died March 22 at age 46.
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| Around 20 Islamic State recruiters arrested in Moscow - RIA | | | Around 20 Islamic State followers were arrested in Moscow trying to recruit new fighters for the group, Russia's RIA news agency cited a security source as saying on Wednesday. "During a joint operation of the FSB (Federal Security Service) and the police, around twenty people suspected of connections to ISIS (Islamic State) were arrested," RIA quoted the source as saying. "According to preliminary information, they were searching for and recruiting new members in Moscow," RIA said, citing the source. |
| Ex-security guard hits Elton John with sexual harassment lawsuit | |  Elton John's former personal security guard has sued the British singer for sexual harassment and battery in southern California, according to court documents. Unwelcome touching occurred on many occasions over several years since Jeffrey Wenninger began his employment as a personal security guard in 2002, and escalated in frequency and intensity after 2010, the lawsuit said. Representatives for the "Rocket Man" singer, 69, who is married to producer David Furnish, called the lawsuit "baseless." John's attorney Orin Snyder said the lawsuit was "brought by a disgruntled former security officer seeking to extract an undeserved payment.
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| Austria plans to further restrict number of asylum seekers | |  Austria plans to introduce measures as early as May to restrict even further the number of migrants it lets into the country, the interior and defence ministers said on Wednesday. Austria said in January it would limit the number of asylum claims it accepts this year to 37,500 - less than half of last year's 90,000. The country has mainly served as a conduit into Germany for refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa but has absorbed a similar number of asylum seekers relative to its much smaller population.
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| Corrected - Dutch minister misinforms parliament again about Belgium attack intelligence | |  (Corrects throughout to say security and justice minister, not interior minister) By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch security and justice minister said on Wednesday he had made another factual error in a letter informing parliament that U.S. intelligence warned the authorities about two Belgian brothers a week before the pair carried out the Brussels attacks. A series of blunders by Belgium's security and intelligence agencies have come to light since the attacks that killed 32 and wounded hundreds last week. It has also exposed weaknesses in communication between intelligence agencies across Europe.
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| U.N. expert decries Israeli soldier's killing of Palestinian attacker | |  A U.N. expert on human rights on Wednesday condemned the killing by an Israeli soldier of a wounded Palestinian assailant last week as he lay on the ground, saying it appeared to be an extrajudicial execution. Video taken by Israel's B'Tselem human rights group last Thursday shows an infantryman firing into the head of a Palestinian as he lay on the ground in Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Minutes earlier, the Palestinian had stabbed and wounded another soldier.
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| Rousseff calls impeachment effort "coup," vows to keep social programs | |  RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday called current efforts to impeach her in Congress a "coup" and said she would continue to fight for social programs despite an ongoing recession. Rousseff, announcing the third tranche of a government housing program, during a speech in Brasilia discredited efforts by opposition lawmakers to oust her because of irregularities in the government budget. (Reporting by Paulo Prada, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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| Shelter empties in southern Germany as migrant flow nearly halts | |  By Christine Soukenka FREILASSING, Germany (Reuters) - As migrant arrivals to Germany slow to a trickle, a registration centre on the border with Austria stands almost deserted, with rows of beds unused and rooms for fingerprinting refugee arrivals empty. At the shelter in Freilassing, which registered up to 2,000 people a day at peak times last September, barely a handful of migrants arrived on Wednesday night. "(After last summer's peak), we had around 1,200 refugees per day and this went on until the beginning of February, when the Balkan route was closed," said Josef Flatscher, the mayor of Freilassing, a town across the border from Austria's Salzburg.
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