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| Judge refuses to toss model's defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby | |  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Bill Cosby on Tuesday lost his bid to throw out a defamation lawsuit brought against him and his former lawyer by supermodel Janice Dickinson, clearing the way for a trial in the sensational case, her attorney said. Dickinson claims in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that Cosby and his ex-attorney Martin Singer defamed her when they asserted in statements to the media that her account of being drugged and raped by Cosby in 1982 was a fabrication. "It was a big victory for us today and we're very, very pleased," said Dickinson's attorney, Lisa Bloom.
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| No criminal charges in California balcony collapse that killed Irish students | | | (Reuters) - No criminal charges will be filed in connection with the deadly collapse of an apartment balcony in Berkeley last year in which five visiting Irish students and an American friend were killed, prosecutors said Tuesday. An investigation showed dry rot caused the balcony to give way during a birthday party in June, and the building's maintenance and construction crews "likely" bore some responsibility, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley said. The young people attending the party were mostly college students from Ireland working in the San Francisco Bay Area for the summer on temporary visas. |
| Brazil's PMDB party quits Rousseff coalition government | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's largest party announced on Tuesday it is leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that cripples her chances of surviving in office. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party decided at a leadership meeting that the six remaining ministers in Rousseff's Cabinet must resign or face ethics proceedings. The expected break sharply raises the odds that Rousseff will be impeached by Congress in a matter of months, which would put Vice President Michel Temer, leader of the PMDB, in the presidential seat. ...
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| Trump's campaign manager charged by police, Walker endorses Cruz | | | U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery in Florida on Tuesday, the latest chapter in a raucous White House race marked by threats, insults and physical confrontations. Police in Jupiter, Florida, charged Lewandowski, 42, with intentionally grabbing and bruising the arm of Michelle Fields, then a reporter for the conservative news outlet Breitbart, when she tried to question Trump at a campaign event on March 8. "Mr. Lewandowski is absolutely innocent of this charge," Trump's campaign said in a statement. |
| Brazil court blocks Olympic funds on suspicion of fraud - source | | | By Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A federal court in Brazil has blocked funding for the construction of an Olympic venue on suspicion of corruption, a source involved in preparations said on Tuesday, throwing fresh scrutiny on the Rio de Janeiro Games four months before they start. Financing from state lender Caixa Economica Federal was blocked from reaching one of the consortiums building the Olympic Deodoro complex where 11 sports, including Rugby Sevens, BMX biking and kayaking, will be held, the source said, confirming a report on Tuesday by the news site G1. According to the report, prosecutors in Rio say they found evidence of fraud in earthmoving services at the venue. |
| "Tell the truth", Auschwitz survivor urges accused in Nazi trials | |  A Holocaust survivor said on Tuesday that four suspects accused by German prosecutors of being accessory to murder at Auschwitz must have known of the mass killings taking place at the camp because of the "unbearable stench" of burning bodies. Germany is holding what are likely to be its last trials linked to the Holocaust, in which more than six million people, mostly Jews, were killed by the Nazis. Three men and one woman in their 90s are accused of being an accessory to the murder of hundreds of thousands of people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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| Somali pirates on trial in Paris for 2011 hijacking of yacht in Gulf of Aden | | | Seven Somali men accused of hijacking a French yacht in an assault in which its owner was killed and his wife abducted in the Arabian Sea four years ago appeared before a French court on Tuesday, all facing life sentences. The men have not been charged with homicide, but with hijacking - a crime punishable with life imprisonment - as well as theft, abduction and illegal confinement, according to Martin Pradel, the lawyer of one of the suspected attackers. Jury members and magistrates at the Paris court will aim to establish responsibilities during the attack in September 2011 that led to a shooting in which the French skipper, Christian Colombo, aged 55, was killed. |
| FBI warned Dutch about El Bakraoui brothers week before attacks | |  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told Dutch police that two brothers were being sought by Belgian authorities a week before the pair blew themselves up in suicide attacks in Brussels, the Dutch interior minister said on Tuesday. Ard van der Steur was responding by letter to questions from Dutch legislators about Belgian brothers Ibrahim ('Brahim') and Khalid El Bakraoui, who prosecutors say took part in the March 22 attacks which killed 35 people, excluding the attackers. A series of missteps and blunders by Belgium's security and intelligence agencies have come to light since the attacks, as well weaknesses in communication between intelligence agencies across Europe.
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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 Tuesday 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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