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| Trump campaign manager charged with battery of reporter | | | U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged with battery in Florida on Tuesday after allegations that he forcefully grabbed a reporter at a campaign event. Police in Jupiter, Florida, charged Lewandowski, 42, with intentionally grabbing and bruising the arm of Michelle Fields, a reporter at the time for the conservative news outlet Breitbart, when she tried to question Trump at a campaign event on March 8. |
| 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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| Brazil court blocks funds for Olympic project, suspects fraud - source | | | RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A court in Rio de Janeiro has blocked funding from state lender Caixa Economica Federal [CEF.UL] to the consortium building the Olympic Deodoro complex where 11 sports will be held in August, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. News site G1 reported earlier on Tuesday that the suspended funds totaled 128.5 million reais ($35 million). Prosecutors in Rio claim to have found evidence of fraud in earthmoving services at the complex based on documents they have seen, G1 said. Deodoro is the second-largest cluster of Olympic venues. ... |
| 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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| 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 Monday 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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| 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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| Sweden ready to declare war hero Wallenberg dead 70 years after disappearance | |  The Swedish Tax Authority said it is ready to declare Raoul Wallenberg dead, more than 70 years after the diplomat, who helped rescue thousands of Hungarian Jews at the end of the Second World War, was captured by Soviet forces in Budapest. The fate of Wallenberg, who would be 104 years old this year, has been shrouded in mystery since he was captured in 1945. Wallenberg, from one of Sweden's most powerful business family dynasties, has been made an honorary citizen of the United States, Canada, Hungary, Austria and Israel, and he was awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal in 2012.
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| Four clubs fined for breaking third-party rules | |  Four clubs, including former South American champions Santos and Europa League holders Sevilla, have been fined for breaking FIFA's rules on third party influence, soccer's governing body said Tuesday. Santos, best known as the Brazilian club where Pele spent nearly all of his career, were fined 75,000 Swiss francs ($77,000) while Sevilla were fined 55,000, by FIFA's disciplinary committee. Brazilian media reported that Santos were investigated over the transfer of Neymar to Barcelona in 2013, although FIFA could not immediately be reached to confirm this.
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| War in Yemen kills many children, leaves others malnourished - UNICEF | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen face life-threatening malnutrition, millions lack access to health care or clean water, and some have been drafted as soldiers in the year-old war, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Tuesday. A UNICEF report said all sides had "exponentially increased" the use of child soldiers in the conflict between Houthi forces, allied to Iran, and a Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. "On average, at least six children have been killed or injured every day," said the report "Childhood on the Brink".
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| Egyptian hijacker's suicide belt was fake | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Cypriot authorities have determined that the belt worn by an Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane on Tuesday did not contain explosives, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement. "Security in Cyprus confirmed that the explosive belt worn by the man who hijacked the plane was fake," it said. (Reporting by Lin Noueihed; editing by John Stonestreet)
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| EgyptAir hijacker surrenders - Cyprus state TV | |  ATHENS (Reuters) - The suspected hijacker of an EgyptAir airliner surrendered to authorities at Larnaca airport in Cyprus on Tuesday, Cypriot authorities said. The hijacker emerged from the aircraft with his hands in the air, state TV said. "Its over," Cyprus's foreign ministry said in a tweet. (Reporting By Michele Kambas; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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