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| Trump says Muslims not doing enough to prevent attacks | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Muslims were not helping to prevent attacks such as those that killed at least 30 people in Belgium, drawing a rebuke from Britain's government and from Muslim groups in the country. In an interview broadcast on Britain's ITV television on Wednesday, Trump was asked what his message was for British Muslims after Tuesday's bombings in Brussels and the attacks in Paris last November. Trump, the front-runner in the race to be the Republican candidate in November's presidential election, has made a series of controversial statements during his campaign.
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| Factbox: Suspects linked to the Paris, Brussels attacks | |  By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Following Tuesday's Islamic State attacks in Brussels, below is a list of the principal suspects and their links to the Nov.13 Paris attacks: * Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, Belgian, blew himself up on a Brussels metro train at Maelbeek station on Tuesday, prosecutors said. Belgian media have cited police sources saying he used fake ID to rent the apartment in the Forest district of Brussels where police hunting the prime surviving suspect of the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, killed a gunman in a raid last week. * Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 29, Belgian, blew himself up at Brussels airport on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
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| Obama meets Argentine leader amid regional political shift | |  By Hugh Bronstein and Jeff Mason BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama met Argentina's new center-right leader Mauricio Macri on Wednesday on a visit to reset diplomatic relations and strengthen trade ties after years of tension between the two countries. Thousands of people cheered Obama's motorcade as it made its way along Buenos Aires' tree-lined boulevards, handing the U.S. leader a friendlier reception than his predecessor George W. Bush, whose presence at a Summit of the Americas in 2005 was met with protests and snubbed by the-then President Nestor Kirchner.
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| Atlanta airport evacuated day after deadly Brussels bombings | | | U.S. officials on Wednesday sought to confirm the whereabouts of Americans missing in Brussels following Tuesday's suicide bombings and Atlanta's airport was briefly evacuated because of a suspicious package as travelers remained on edge. Public areas of the domestic terminal at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the nation's busiest by passenger volume, were briefly evacuated on Wednesday morning while police investigated a suspicious package, airport officials said on Twitter. The site was quickly cleared and airport operations resumed. |
| Belgium confirms brothers were suicide bombers | |  Two brothers carried out suicide bombings at Brussels airport and on the metro on Tuesday, the federal prosecutor said on Wednesday, adding that airport bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui had left a will on a computer. Two other men captured on CCTV at the airport with Ibrahim had yet to be identified, he said. The first bomb at the airport went off near desk 11 at 0758 (0658 GMT) and the second followed 9 seconds later near desk 2 of the departure hall, Van Leeuw said.
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| Amaya CEO charged with insider trading by Quebec regulator | |  Canadian gambling website operator Amaya Inc's Chief Executive David Baazov has been charged with insider trading by Quebec's securities regulator. The regulator said it had filed charges against Baazov for "aiding with trades while in possession of privileged information, influencing or attempting to influence the market price of the securities of Amaya" and "communicating privileged information." Amaya's U.S.-listed shares fell as much as 27.7 percent to $10.30 in early trading. The charges come about two months after Amaya said it had received a non-binding proposal from Baazov to take the company private.
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| British judge approves extradition of "flash crash" trader to U.S | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A British judge approved on Wednesday a U.S. request for the extradition of a London-based trader accused of contributing to the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash" by placing bogus orders to spoof the market. Navinder Sarao, 37, who traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) from his parents' home near London's Heathrow Airport, is wanted in the United States to face trial on 22 criminal counts of wire fraud, commodities fraud and market manipulation. "We are very disappointed," Sarao's lawyer Richard Egan told reporters after the ruling at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
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| On South China Sea islet, Taiwan argues Philippines case is far from watertight | |  By Fabian Hamacher ITU ABA, South China Sea (Reuters) - On Itu Aba, in the Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea, Taiwanese coast guard officials proudly haul a small wooden bucket of water from one of several simple concrete wells on the coral outcrop. The water, clear and sweet tasting, is key to Taiwan's argument that Itu Aba is legally the only island among the hundreds of reefs, shoals and atolls scattered across the hotly disputed region. Itu Aba, which the Taiwanese call Taiping, is coming into focus as the Philippines challenges the legality of China's claims to most of the South China Sea.
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| Belgium v Portugal friendly moved to Portugal - Belgian FA | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A friendly soccer international between Belgium and Portugal has been moved to Portugal from Brussels over security fears after Tuesday's Islamic State attacks in the Belgian capital. The Belgian football association said the match would be played instead in the Portuguese city of Leiria on Tuesday at 1945 GMT, the same time and date as originally scheduled. (Reporting By Philip Blenkinsop; Editing by Alastair Macdonald) |
| Belgium identifies Brussels bomb suspect, suicide bombers - media | |  By Philip Blenkinsop, Jan Strupczewski and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police have identified a prime suspect in Tuesday's Brussels blasts and two suspected suicide bombers, linking them directly to Islamic State militants behind last November's Paris attacks, Belgian media reported on Wednesday. Najim Laachraoui, 25, is believed to be the man seen on CCTV pushing a baggage trolley alongside the bombers and then running out of the Brussels airport terminal. Earlier some media reported that he had been captured in the Brussels borough of Anderlecht, but they later said the person detained was not Laachraoui.
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| Russian swimming federation denies doping use allegations - R-sport | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Swimming Federation on Wednesday rejected foreign media allegations that it was covering up positive tests for doping among its athletes, R-Sport news agency reported. The Times newspaper said on Wednesday that Russia had undertaken systematic doping in swimming for years. (Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov) |
| Malaysia central bank says to act against 1MDB over $1.8 bln foreign funds | |  By Joseph Sipalan KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's central bank said on Wednesday it would pursue administrative action against 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), after the troubled state fund missed a deadline to submit documents on its finances abroad. 1MDB, whose advisory board is chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, has been the subject of investigations over the last year by authorities in Malaysia, Switzerland and the United States following accusations of financial mismanagement and graft. Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz said the central bank had requested documents from 1MDB after it failed to comply with a directive, issued in August 2015, to repatriate a total of $1.8 billion from its accounts overseas.
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| "Memory Wound" memorial to victims of mass killer Breivik divides Norwegians | |  By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - A memorial to the victims of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is dividing those affected by his attacks, with some suing the government to stop its construction and others welcoming it as a place where they can grieve. In the same week that Breivik was suing the Norwegian state over his prison conditions, the government said it would go ahead with the construction of the memorial. Called "Memory Wound", the design is for a 3.5-metre (3.8 yard) gash in the peninsula facing Utoeya Island, where Breivik shot dead 69 Labour Party youth activists on July 22, 2011.
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| Brussels bombing prime suspect arrested - media | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A prime suspect in Tuesday's Brussels bombings, Najim Laachraoui, was arrested on Wednesday in the city's Anderlecht district, several Belgian media said. Police and prosecutors could not be reached for comment, but federal prosecutors announced they would hold a news conference at 1200 GMT. Police were hunting Laachraoui as being a man seen with suspected suicide bombers at Brussels airport. (Reporting by Alastair Macdonald)
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| Belgian media say Brussels prime suspect not arrested | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian media which earlier reported the arrest on Wednesday of a prime suspect in Tuesday's bomb attacks in Brussels said the person detained was not, in fact, Najim Laachraoui. La Libre Belgique newspaper said another person had been arrested. DH, which first reported the story, also said the man detained in the Anderlecht district had been misidentified. Police and prosecutors have been declining all comment but will hold a news conference at noon GMT. (Reporting by Alastair Macdonald)
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| Attorneys for Cosby, accusers due back in Massachusetts court | |  Attorneys for Bill Cosby and those of seven women who have accused the comedian of sexual assault are due in a Massachusetts courtroom on Wednesday to argue about evidence in a defamation suit. Tamara Green sued Cosby in December 2014, accusing him of lying when he publicly denied having sexually assaulted her, and six other women have since joined in the lawsuit. Cosby, 78, filed a countersuit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts last month, accusing the women of defaming him.
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