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| Brussels bomber brothers were on U.S. watch lists before attack -sources | |  Two brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels this week were known to U.S. government agencies before the attacks, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The sources said that Khalid El Bakraoui and Brahim El Bakraoui were both on U.S. government counter terrorism watch lists before the March 18 arrest of Salah Abdeslam, a French national whom prosecutors accuse of a key role in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks. Belgian prosecutors have identified Brahim El Bakraoui as one of two suicide bombers who attacked Brussels' Zaventem Airport, while they say Khalid El Bakraoui was the man who carried out a suicide bombing at Brussels' Maelbeek Metro station, near European Union headquarters.
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| Hollywood actors join Georgia boycott threats over gay bill | | | (Reuters) - Anne Hathaway, Julianne Moore and some 30 other Hollywood actors and directors added their voice on Thursday to entertainment industry threats to boycott Georgia if the U.S. state's governor signs a new law seen as discriminating against gay people. Movie and TV studios 21st Century Fox , NBC Universal and Time Warner joined Walt Disney , AMC, Viacom and Marvel Entertainment in either opposing the bill, or saying they would take their productions elsewhere. |
| EU justice ministers pledge to share information after Brussels attacks | |  By Barbara Lewis and Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union Justice and Home Affairs ministers on Thursday called for rapid agreement on stalled plans to share strategic intelligence data after suicide bomb attacks this week in Brussels killed at least 31 people and injured 270. The bombings at Brussels airport and on a crowded rush-hour metro train, only four months after 130 people were killed in Islamist attacks in Paris, laid bare the inadequacy of European cooperation on security. Officials say many of the European Union's 28 nations, including core EU members France and Germany, withhold their most strategic data despite professed willingness to share it.
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| Belgian ministers offer to quit over security lapses | |  By Alastair Macdonald, Foo Yun Chee and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's interior and justice ministers offered to resign on Thursday over a failure to track an Islamic State militant expelled by Turkey as a suspected fighter and who blew himself up at Brussels airport this week. Brahim El Bakraoui was one of three identified suspected suicide bombers who hit the airport and a metro train, killing at least 31 people and wounding some 270 on Tuesday in the worst attack in Belgian history. At least one other man seen with them on airport security cameras is on the run and a fifth suspected bomber filmed in the metro attack may be dead or alive.
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| Lawyer for Paris bombing suspect assaulted | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hours after suicide bombers struck Brussels on Tuesday, a man assaulted the lawyer for their suspected accomplice Salah Abdeslam in his office in the city, defence counsel Sven Mary told Le Soir newspaper. "I was forced to shut my chambers to ensure the safety of my staff," he said, adding that he had received hundreds of abusive and threatening messages after agreeing to represent Abdeslam, a suspect in November's Paris attacks after his arrest on Friday. ... |
| Belgium lowers security alert level one notch from maximum | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Belgium lowered its security alert level one notch down from four, the highest level, to three, two days after Brussels airport and metro bombings killed 31 people, the Belgian crisis centre said on Thursday. The body grouping top ministers, police and justice officials said it took the decision after reviewing the situation. "The threat of an attack is less imminent," Paul Van Tigchelt, head of the government agency that assesses threat levels, told a news conference. ... |
| Turkey didn't follow procedure over Bakraoui expulsion - Dutch minister | | | The Netherlands did not realise that one of the Brussels suicide bombers, who arrived at Amsterdam airport, was a dangerous suspect as Turkey failed to follow normal procedures when expelling him, the justice minister in The Hague said. Brahim El Bakraoui, who blew himself up at Brussels airport on Tuesday, slipped through the net and into the Netherlands last July as a result of miscommunication between countries, Ard van der Steur said on Thursday. The Belgian failure to hold Bakraoui prompted two Belgian ministers to offer to resign and raised questions on procedures to monitor or hold suspected Islamist militants returning from the Middle East to their native countries in Europe. |
| Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years | |  By Toby Sterling, Anthony Deutsch and Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted by U.N. judges of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst war crime in Europe since World War Two, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Karadzic, 70, the former president of the breakaway Bosnian Serb Republic, was found guilty on 10 out of 11 charges brought by war crimes prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. "The accused was the sole person within Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Republic) with the power to prevent the killing of the Bosnian Muslim males," said presiding judge O-Gon Kwok, in a reference to the 8,000 killed at Srebrenica.
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| Brussels suicide bomber had violated parole but was released by court | |  Brussels suicide bomber Khalid El Bakraoui violated the terms of his parole last May by maintaining contacts with past criminal associates but a Belgian magistrate released him, De Morgen newspaper said on Thursday. Brahim El Bakraoui, 29, was one of two men who blew themselves up at Brussels airport on Tuesday, while Khalid El Bakraoui, 26, detonated a bomb at Maelbeek metro station in the city centre. The paper quoted prosecutor Christian Henry in the southern city of Mons as saying that on May 13, 2015, Khalid El Bakraoui drew police attention because he parked his car in a one-way street facing in the wrong direction.
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| ICC suspect Al Mahdi admits guilt over Timbuktu destruction | |  A Tuareg Islamist rebel charged by the International Criminal Court with desecrating priceless monuments in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu has told judges he wishes to plead guilty to the war crimes charges he faces, the ICC's prosecutor said. Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, a former teacher, was the first person charged by the international court with the crime of damaging humanity's common cultural heritage. In a statement on Thursday, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Al Mahdi had expressed the wish to plead guilty during a closed session of the court on March 1, but that this fact could only be made public now.
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| U.S. indicts Iranians for hacking dozens of banks, New York dam | | | By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven Iranian hackers broke into computers of dozens of U.S. banks, causing millions of dollars in damages, and tried to shut down a New York dam, the U.S. government said on Thursday in an indictment that for the first time accused individuals tied to another country of trying to disrupt critical infrastructure. It said the seven accused were believed to have been working on behalf of Iran's government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. At least 46 major financial institutions and financial sector companies were targeted, including JPMorgan Chase , Wells Fargo and American Express , the indictment said. |
| Belgian VRT TV says Abdeslam planned to copy Paris attacks | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian public broadcaster VRT said on Thursday that Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, arrested last week, was planning a multiple shooting and suicide bomb attack in Brussels similar to those in Paris in November. Citing no source, VRT said investigators believed Abdeslam and two others, one of them a man arrested with him on Friday, planned to use assault rifles and riot guns to cause mass casualties in Brussels while others would blow themselves up. ...
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| Brussels attackers were considering nuclear site, changed their minds - paper | |  Suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Brussels were originally considering an attack on a nuclear site in Belgium, but arrests started last week may have forced them to switch to targets in the Belgian capital, the DH newspaper said. Referring to an incident in December that prosecutors confirmed in which militants covertly filmed the home of an unidentified senior official in the nuclear industry, the paper quoted a police source as saying two of the suicide bombers, brothers Khalid and Ibrahim Bakraoui, had filmed the daily routine of the head of Belgium's nuclear research and development programme. The police source did not address why investigators thought they had continued to plan to go through with the plan despite the discovery of the covert video three months ago and the ramping up of security around nuclear plants as a result.
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| Brussels bombers refused to allow airport taxi driver to touch bags - DH newspaper | |  By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The taxi driver who drove the Brussels suicide bombers to the airport was not allowed to touch their explosives-laden bags and they sat in silence during the journey, Belgian newspaper DH reported citing unidentified sources. The airport bombs and a suicide bombing at Maelbeek metro station in the city centre, which prosecutors said was carried out by El Bakraoui's brother Khalid, killed at least 31 people and injured 270.
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| Suicide bomber Laachraoui was model student at Brussels Catholic school | |  By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - Brussels suicide bomber Najim Laachraoui, a veteran Islamist fighter in Syria also suspected of making explosive belts for November's Paris attacks, was a model student in a Brussels Catholic high school, the school's director told Reuters. Security sources told local media that Laachraoui, a 25-year-old Belgian, was one of Tuesday's airport suicide bombers, identifying him as one of the three men in the CCTV image released by police. "Najim Laachraoui was a very good student," said Veronica Pellegrini, the director of the Institut de la Sainte Famille d'Helmet, a Catholic school in the ethnically mixed east Brussels borough of Schaerbeek.
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| Ex-England soccer player Johnson jailed for 6 yrs for child sex crime | |  Former England international soccer player Adam Johnson was jailed for six years on Thursday after being found guilty of sex offences involving an under-age, 15-year-old girl. Johnson, 28, who was sacked by Premier League club Sunderland in February, was convicted earlier this month of sexual activity with a child, having already admitted kissing and grooming the teenager. "Adam Johnson exploited a young star-struck fan, actively grooming her over a number of months in single-minded pursuit of his own sexual gratification," said Gerry Wareham from Britain's Crown Prosecution Service outside Bradford Crown Court in northern England.
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| Russian race walker Kirdyapkin stripped of 2012 Olympic gold | |  Russian Sergey Kirdyapkin is set to be stripped of the 50-km walk gold medal he won at the 2012 London Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an appeal by the IAAF against the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA). Two more Russian athletes are set to lose their London Games medals after the sport's governing body (IAAF) appealed on six cases where they said RUSADA had been "selective" in annulling previous results of the athletes after they were banned for irregularities in their biological passports. CAS upheld all six appeals, which included London 2012 3,000 metres steeplechase champion Yuliya Zaripova, former Olympic champions Valery Borchin and Olga Kaniskina, 2011 world champion Sergei Bakulin and world silver medallist Vladimir Kanaykin.
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