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| Colombian government, rebels miss deadline to reach peace deal | | Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:17 AM | |
| | By Frank Jack Daniel HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombian peace negotiators missed Wednesday's deadline for a final accord but will continue talks in Havana to end Latin America's longest war, a government official said. "In all honesty, we have to inform the public that at the moment there are still important differences with the FARC," Humberto de la Calle, the government's lead negotiator, told reporters. The government of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, had set a self-imposed March 23 deadline to reach a comprehensive pact. |
| Belgians hunt 'third man' after Islamic State bombings | | Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:04 AM | |
|  By Alastair Macdonald, Foo Yun Chee and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A "third man" seen with two Islamic State suicide bombers at Brussels Airport was the focus of a Belgian manhunt on Thursday after police identified three others, including two brothers, who killed at least 31 people at the airport and on a city metro train. Turkey's president criticised Belgium for failing to track Brahim El Bakraoui, a convicted Belgian armed robber whom it deported last year and who blew himself up at the airport on Tuesday an hour before his brother Khalid, a fellow convict, killed some 20 people at Maelbeek metro station in the city centre. The third bomber, security sources told Belgian media, was Najim Laachraoui, a veteran Belgian Islamist fighter in Syria suspected of making explosive belts for November's Paris attacks and who also detonated a suitcase bomb at the airport.
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| Fear and defiance in Brussels a day after attacks | | Thursday, March 24, 2016 12:20 AM | |
|  By Ingrid Melander, Robin Emmott and Sybille de La Hamaide BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels resident Aurelie Cardon says she will avoid taking the metro from now on. A day after 31 people were killed and 260 injured in attacks on the Maelbeek underground railway station and the Zaventem airport, the mood was a mixture of shock and defiance in the eerily quiet city of 1.2 million people, headquarters to the European Union and NATO. As a citizen of Brussels, it really hurts to experience something like this ... But we are not going to let our lives be dictated by the terrorists," said Linda van den Bosche, who lives in an apartment next to the Maelbeek station.
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| U.N. rights forum sets up group to pursue crimes by North Korea | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday set up a group of independent experts to study how to bring to justice perpetrators of crimes against humanity committed by North Korea, but Pyongyang rejected the move as politically motivated. The 47-member forum adopted by consensus a resolution brought by the European Union and Japan that condemned "the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations committed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea". The delegations of Russia and North Korea's closest ally China took the floor before the decision to say that they "disassociated" themselves from the consensus.
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| Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic faces war crimes verdict at U.N. court | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.N. judges will pronounce their verdict on Thursday in the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. Karadzic is the highest-ranking person to face reckoning before the U.N. tribunal in The Hague over a war two decades ago in which 100,000 people died as rival armies carved up Bosnia along ethnic lines that largely survive today. Among the main charges is that Karadzic, who was arrested in 2008 after 11 years on the run, controlled Serb forces that massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 after overrunning the supposed U.N.-designated "safe area".
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| U.N. sets up inquiry into South Sudan human rights violations | |  The United Nations Human Rights Council decided on Wednesday to set up a three-person commission to investigate human rights abuses in South Sudan, making a last minute amendment to a resolution to significantly bolster scrutiny of the country. South Sudan said it would cooperate with the commission, which is charged with looking gang rapes, destruction of villages and attacks on civilians that may constitute war crimes.
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| Brazil prosecutors criticize Odebrecht overture | |  Brazilian prosecutors said on Wednesday no plea-bargain talks are underway with executives from engineering conglomerate Grupo Odebrecht SA and that the company's public announcement of its intention to cooperate had no legal standing. Odebrecht, which had previously denied participating in a scheme to siphon money from state-run oil firm Petróleo Brasileiro SA , said late on Tuesday it would cooperate in order to help "build a better Brazil." "The disclosure of any intended agreement to the press hurts the secrecy of the negotiations required by law to conclude an agreement," the task force of prosecutors based in the southern city of Curitiba said in a statement. Veja magazine's Radar column had reported that Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht, the company's former chief executive officer and scion of the family that controls the firm, was already testifying before prosecutors.
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| Obama praises Argentina's 'man in a hurry' Macri for reforms | |  By Jeff Mason and Richard Lough BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday championed Argentina's new centre-right leader Mauricio Macri as an example for other countries in Latin America, praising the fast pace of reforms to strengthen the economy. Obama, on a two-day visit to Argentina that marks a detente after years of tensions, said Argentina under Macri was poised to play a more influential role on the global stage. In his first 100 days in office, Macri has distanced himself from South America's leftist bloc, old allies of former President Cristina Fernandez, and sought a thaw in relations with Western capitals as he seeks new investment in Latin America's No. 3 economy.
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| Belgium names Brussels bomber brothers, says key suspect on run | |  By Jan Strupczewski, Julia Fioretti and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's chief prosecutor named two brothers on Wednesday as Islamic State suicide bombers who killed at least 31 people in the most deadly attacks in Brussels' history but said another key suspect was on the run. Tuesday's attacks on a city that is home to the European Union and NATO sent shockwaves across Europe and around the world, with authorities racing to review security at airports and on public transport. The attacks came four months after militants, also from IS, carried out bombings and shootings in Paris that killed 129 people.
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| South African police launch graft probe into Zuma son, Guptas | | | South Africa has launched a corruption probe into President Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane and the Guptas, a family of businessmen accused of wielding improper political influence, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. A spokesman for the elite 'Hawks' police unit said it would investigate the graft allegations after a complaint was made by the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party. "We have received the docket in the matter between the DA and the Guptas and we are to investigate it," the spokesman told Talk Radio 702. |
| Clinton - More Europe can do to help U.S. combat terrorism | |  U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday the attack in Brussels that killed more than 30 people is the "latest brutal reminder" that more must be done to defeat Islamic State militants, including by European Union member countries. In an address at Stanford University in California, Clinton said the United States and Europe should take a "harder look" at protocols at airports and other "soft sites" that are outside security perimeters. Clinton also said "there is much we can do to support our European partners" but "there is also more they can do to share the burden with us." Clinton said she would like to see more European countries investing in defence and security in the way Germany has during the Obama administration.
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| Swimming body FINA ready to probe Russia allegations | | | By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW (Reuters) - Swimming's world body FINA promised on Wednesday to investigate "as a matter of utmost urgency" new allegations of Russian doping if they could be substantiated by evidence. The Times newspaper reported earlier that Russia had for years undertaken systematic doping in swimming and covered up test results. The Russian swimming federation rejected the allegations, which come as the nation battles an athletics doping scandal that could prevent the country's track and field squad from competing at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August. |
| New Cuban migrant bottleneck hits Panama during U.S. détente | |  By Carlos Jasso PASO CANOAS, PANAMA (Reuters) - A new bottleneck of Cuban migrants bound for the United States has formed this month in Panama, threatening a fresh diplomatic headache in Central America after thousands were flown out of the region earlier this year. Just as Barack Obama was making the first visit to Cuba in 88 years by a U.S. president, some 1,500 migrants from the Communist island were bunched on Panama's border with Costa Rica, struggling to reach the United States to start a new life.
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