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| Modi's BJP vows to strip Muslim immigrants of vote in Assam | |  By Krishna N. Das JALESWAR, India (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has vowed to disenfranchise millions of Muslim immigrants in Assam, waging a polarising election campaign in a bid to form its first government there. In campaign rallies in Assam, officials of the BJP have also promised to identify and deport younger illegal migrants, in response to rising discontent among the state's Hindus. When Assam elects a state legislature in April, an estimated 10 percent of its 20 million voters will be Muslims who have migrated since the 1950s from the former East Pakistan, later Bangladesh, and gained Indian citizenship.
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| Bid to block Pakistan F-16 sale fails in U.S. Senate | |  The U.S. Senate on Thursday blocked an effort to prevent the $700 million sale of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, although a key lawmaker said he would not allow the use of U.S. funds to finance it. Lawmakers voted 71 to 24 against an attempt introduced by Republican Senator Rand Paul to prevent the sale under legislation known as the Arms Control Act. President Barack Obama's administration announced on Feb. 12 that it had approved the sale to Pakistan of the aircraft, as well as radars and other equipment.
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| Trump calls for tariff hike, Cruz gets first Senate endorsement | |  By Andy Sullivan and Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump called for raising tariffs on foreign-made goods on Thursday, in a further break from his party's long-standing free-trade philosophy ahead of nominating contests in big industrial states hit hard by globalization. The billionaire businessman has harnessed working-class anxieties about immigrants and trade to supercharge his bid to become the Republican Party's candidate in the November election. Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich will share the stage at a CNN-hosted debate at the University of Miami, which begins at 8:30 p.m. (0130 GMT on Friday).
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| Brazil prosecutors seek Lula's arrest for money laundering | |  By Brad Haynes and Eduardo Simões SAO PAULO (Reuters) - State prosecutors in Brazil are seeking the arrest of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on charges of money laundering and identity fraud for concealing ownership of a beachfront apartment, local media reported on Thursday. Sao Paulo state prosecutors declined to comment on possible arrests in a news conference regarding the charges earlier in the day, and court officials declined to comment on the news. Newspapers O Globo and O Estado de S. Paulo reported the filing for Lula's arrest citing court papers.
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| Aboriginal Canadian town in crisis amid rash of suicides | | | A Canadian aboriginal community appealed for federal aid on Thursday after six suicides in two months and 140 suicide attempts in the last two weeks alone, the latest in a string of crises in Canada's often isolated indigenous communities. The Cross Lake Cree community of 8,300, located 500 kilometres (311 miles) north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, declared a state of emergency this week as the suicide crisis spread, Pimicikamak Acting Chief Shirley Robinson told Reuters. Robinson said she hopes the state of emergency will prompt the federal government to send more qualified short-term health workers to address the suicides and attempts at self harm. |
| U.S. forces ill-equipped to stop illegal drugs, migrants - admiral | | | U.S. forces responsible for disrupting the flow of illegal drugs and migrants to the United States lack the airplanes and ships needed to perform their mission at the level set by the Pentagon, a top U.S. admiral said on Thursday. Admiral Kurt Tidd, head of U.S. forces operating in Central and South America, told lawmakers the goal was for U.S. forces to interdict 40 percent of the illegal traffic moving from the region toward the United States. Tidd said on any given day, the United States had five to six ships operating in the region, most of them Coast Guard cutters under the Department of Homeland Security. |
| Brazil corruption scandal threatens split in Rousseff coalition | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - A widening corruption probe has turned key lawmakers from Brazil's largest party against leftist President Dilma Rousseff, threatening to split her coalition and increasing chances of her impeachment in Congress this year. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, known as the PMDB, is the main ally of the ruling Workers' Party. Its leader, Michel Temer, is Rousseff's vice president.
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| Liberia shutters Red Cross amid inquest into Ebola spending | | | By James Harding Giahyue MONROVIA (Reuters) - Police shuttered the offices of the Liberian branch of the Red Cross on Thursday, days after the president dismissed its board of directors amid an investigation into the use of funds destined for the fight against recently ended Ebola outbreak. Some 11,300 people died during the two-year epidemic, the worst on record, in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Over 4,800 of them died in Liberia, which was declared free of active transmission of the virus in January but only after a massive influx of foreign assistance including the deployment of U.S. soldiers to the West African nation. |
| Blame me for Trump? No way, says Obama | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He has been attacked over countless issues in partisan Washington, but U.S. President Barack Obama drew the line at this one: the idea that he is responsible for the rise of Donald Trump and the attendant Republican Party disarray. "I have been blamed by Republicans for a lot of things, but being blamed for their primaries and who they're selecting for their party (nominee) is novel," Obama told a news conference on Thursday. Obama had been asked how he viewed being identified as the cause of Trump's ascent to front-runner in the Republican race to pick a presidential candidate for the Nov. 8 election.
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| Insight: How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Federal Reserve, banking officials said. The hackers breached Bangladesh Bank's systems and stole its credentials for payment transfers, two senior officials at the bank said. Four requests to transfer a total of about $81 million to the Philippines went through, but a fifth, for $20 million, to a Sri Lankan non-profit organisation was held up because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO, Shalika Foundation.
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| U.S. strikes Islamic State chemical weapons capabilities - Pentagon | | | The United States has carried out air strikes that it believes have degraded the chemical weapons capabilities of Islamic State in Iraq after using information obtained from a captured militant, the Pentagon said on Thursday. U.S.-led coalition forces detained Sulayman Dawud al Bakkar, Islamic State's head of chemical and traditional weapons manufacturing, during an operation in Iraq in February, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement. |
| Uruguay knife attacker says actions were in Allah's hands - judge | | | The fatal stabbing of a Jewish man in Uruguay was religiously motivated and carried out by a man who said Allah was responsible for his actions, a local newspaper cited the case judge as saying on Thursday. Judge Fabricio Cidade on Thursday found 36-year-old Carlos Peralta guilty of knifing businessman David Fremd late Tuesday in Paysandu, near the border with Argentina. "He said his actions were in the hands of Allah." Fremd, 54, was head of the Jewish Community of Paysandu. |
| Foreign captives held by Philippines militants appeal for help | | | Three foreigners kidnapped by militants in the Philippines nearly six months ago have appealed to their governments for help to secure their release, as their al Qaeda-linked captors issued a one month deadline for their demands to be met. The three foreign men, who Philippine authorities have identified as two Canadians and a Norwegian, were shown in a video clip, along with a Filipino woman kidnapped with them, crouching on the ground with gunmen standing over them. "To the Canadian prime minister and to the Canadian people in the world, please, do as needed to meet their demands, within one month or they will kill me, they will execute us," said one of the men who identified himself as John Ridsdel, a Canadian mining consultant. |
| Irish post-election stalemate persists, with no PM elected | |  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Enda Kenny lost a parliamentary vote to re-elect him as Irish prime minister on Thursday, as expected, and will assume the role in a caretaker capacity while his Fine Gael party attempts to form a new government. Ireland has become one of several euro zone countries facing a prolonged political stalemate following its inconclusive parliamentary election on Feb. 26. Kenny's centre-right party fell 29 seats short of the 79 needed for a parliamentary majority.
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| Iran executions hit 20-year high in 2015, U.N. investigator says | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran executed nearly 1,000 prisoners last year, the highest number in two decades, and hundreds of journalists, activists and opposition figures languish in custody, a United Nations investigator said on Thursday. Ahmed Shaheed, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, voiced particular concern about executions for crimes committed by children under 18. There had been a "staggering surge in the execution of at least 966 prisoners last year - the highest rate in over two decades", Shaheed told a news briefing. |
| Bulgaria takes step towards mandatory voting in elections | |  Bulgaria's parliament paved the way for the introduction of compulsory voting in elections on Thursday, passing a draft bill to amend the electoral code at its first reading. The centre-right government believes making it mandatory for Bulgarians to vote will curb electoral fraud and boost the legitimacy of the Balkan country's political institutions. European Union member Bulgaria has had five governments in less than three years.
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| Kosovo buying body scanner to stop MPs taking teargas into parliament | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's government is buying a body scanner to try to stop opposition legislators smuggling teargas canisters into parliament and releasing them as they have done in every session for the past six months. In their latest protest against a 2015 EU-brokered deal with Serbia, opposition members of parliament on Thursday released two canisters, threw a glass of water at Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and aimed red lasers at the interior minister's face. With security measures so far having failed to stop the protests, the government plans to buy a new body scanner, of the type used at international airports to detect explosives.
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| Police search for shooters in Pittsburgh-area execution-style murders | | | Police in western Pennsylvania were searching on Thursday for two suspects who ambushed a backyard party near Pittsburgh the previous night, killing five people execution-style and wounding three others. One gunman armed with a 40-caliber handgun shepherded victims from the home's yard toward an alley where a second gunman armed with "an AK-47 type" rifle shot them in the head, said Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. "The murders were planned, calculated, brutal," said Zappala. The motive for the fatal shooting of four women and one man in a residential neighborhood of Wilkinsburg, about 8 miles (13 km) east of the city, was still unknown, but authorities were exploring whether it might be drug-related, Zappala said. |
| Italy prosecutor to go to Cairo to investigate student's killing | |  Italian prosecutors investigating the torture and killing of an Italian student in Cairo will travel there to meet Egyptian magistrates, Rome's chief prosecutor said on Thursday. The announcement came as the European Parliament backed a resolution saying disappearances and torture have become increasingly common in Egypt, calling on Cairo to cooperate fully with Italy. Chief prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone met Egypt's ambassador to Italy, Amr Helmy, and accepted an invitation to meet soon with Cairo magistrates investigating the killing, Pignatone said in a statement.
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| Cruz, Rubio want to send more prisoners to Guantanamo | |  White House hopefuls Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and 13 other Republican U.S. senators on Thursday demanded that Islamic State fighters be sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which would boost its population as President Barack Obama moves to close it. The lawmakers introduced a resolution expressing the need to detain the fighters at the controversial military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after reports that U.S. special operations forces had captured leaders of the militant group. "There should be no confusion in the minds of our enemies that, if captured, they will be sent to the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay to be interrogated," Rubio said in a statement.
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