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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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| Honduras arrests U.S. woman for alleged leadership role in gang | | | A 21-year-old American woman was detained in Honduras, authorities said on Wednesday, for allegedly heading a faction of the Mara Barrio 18, one of the gangs responsible for a crime wave in the Central American nation that has sent families flocking to the United States seeking refuge. A spokeswoman for the National Anti-Extortion Force (FNA) police unit said that Pabla planned and ordered killings in territorial disputes with rival gangs. Pabla, who was born in California to an American father and a Honduran mother, is the wife of Cristian Ariel "Little Sam" Calix, a Mara Barrio 18 leader who has been in prison since December on charges of arms and drug trafficking, according to FNA. |
| Lawyers for Cosby, accusers open to settling defamation claim | |  By Scott Malone WORCESTER, Mass. (Reuters) - Lawyers representing Bill Cosby and seven women who have accused the comedian of sexual assault are open to settling a defamation lawsuit, they told a federal judge in Massachusetts on Wednesday. Cosby, 78, had previously rejected an offer to settle the lawsuit. First filed by Tamara Green in 2014 and since joined by six other women, the complaint says the once-beloved entertainer defamed them by saying that they lied when they accused him of sexually assaulting them.
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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. |
| Brussels airport bombing may have targeted Americans - U.S. lawmaker | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suicide bombers behind the Brussels attacks may have attempted to target Americans, the top lawmaker on the intelligence committee in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Wednesday. Representative Devin Nunes of California said the explosion at Brussels airport on Tuesday was close to U.S. airline counters and the metro station targeted was close to the U.S. embassy. It looks like it was targeted toward Americans to some degree," Nunes told reporters.
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| Fear and defiance in Brussels a day after attacks | |  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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| 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 settings like the G20 grouping of major economies. 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, 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. Washington announced that Secretary of State John Kerry would visit Belgium on Friday to demonstrate support.
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| Atlanta airport evacuated as U.S. on alert after Brussels attacks | | | Atlanta's airport was briefly evacuated on Wednesday over a suspicious package while U.S. law enforcement agencies and travelers were on edge a day after deadly suicide bombings rocked Brussels. Passengers were ordered out of public areas of the domestic terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the United States' busiest by passenger volume, but the site was quickly cleared and operations resumed, airport officials said. Parts of Denver airport were also evacuated on Tuesday, hours after suicide bombers killed at least 31 people and wounded 260 others in Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train, as airports across the United States tightened security. |
| UK's Prince Harry tells Nepal education is key to ending child marriage | |  Britain's Prince Harry, on a four-day tour of Nepal, told a national summit that education and changing people's way of thinking are crucial to ending child marriage and empowering girls. The 31-year-old prince, fifth in line to the British throne, spoke on Wednesday at the Nepal Girl Summit in the capital Kathmandu, a gathering focusing on the Himalayan country's commitment to ending child marriage by 2030. Child marriage deprives girls of education and opportunities and puts them at risk of injury or death if they have children before their bodies are ready.
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| Nepal looks to lessen dependence on India with China port deal | |  By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - China will allow landlocked Nepal to use its ports for trading goods with third countries, a senior official in Kathmandu said on Wednesday, potentially ending India's decades-long monopoly over the impoverished country's trading routes. A prolonged blockade of its border crossings with India last year by protesters demanding changes to a new constitution left Nepal desperately short of fuel and goods, throwing into sharp relief its dependence on routes into its southern neighbour. Nepal's prime minister K. P. Oli signed an agreement with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang during a visit to Beijing this week to give Nepalese traders access to land routes and ports in China, commerce ministry official Rabi Shankar Sainju said.
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