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| Odebrecht cooperates with Brazil probe after bribe scheme exposed | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1:28 AM | |
|  By Caroline Stauffer and Guillermo Parra-Bernal SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Grupo Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL], the engineering firm at the heart of Brazil's biggest ever graft probe, on Tuesday agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, in a move likely to send shockwaves across political parties that for years illegally siphoned money from state contracts. Executives at Salvador, Brazil-based Odebrecht targeted by the probe, known as "Operation Car Wash," will ask for plea bargain deals with prosecutors, a company statement said. It marked a radical shift for Odebrecht, which had previously done little to cooperate in the two-year-old probe.
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| Belgium bombings raise security alerts at U.S. airports | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1:17 AM | |
|  By Barbara Goldberg and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major U.S. transportation hubs were placed on alert on Tuesday and Denver International Airport briefly evacuated part of its main terminal in a false alarm there hours after suicide bombings in Brussels killed at least 30 people. Despite public safety concerns unleashed by the violence in Belgium's capital, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the agency had no intelligence that would point to a similar attack being plotted against the United States.
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| Analysis - Brussels attacks another reminder of Belgian security's weak link | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:26 AM | |
|  By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Belgian government warned at the weekend that there might be an attack after the security services captured their most wanted man. Tuesday's explosions, which killed at least 30 people at the main Brussels airport and an underground rail station, came just days after Belgium's security services caught the last surviving suspect in November's attacks on Paris. Belgium has announced 400 million euros ($450 million) of extra spending to upgrade its security capabilities since it emerged that the country of 11 million people served as the base for the Paris attackers who killed 130 people.
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| Odebrecht agrees to cooperate in Brazil probe, Globo says | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:14 AM | |
|  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Grupo Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL], Brazil's largest engineering firm, will cooperate with prosecutors investigating a corruption scheme that overpriced heavy construction and supply contracts with state firms, TV Globo reported on Tuesday. Executives at Salvador, Brazil-based Odebrecht that are under investigation in the so-called "Operation Car Wash" probe will ask for plea a bargain deal with prosecutors, TV Globo said, citing a statement. The same statement was published in the website of Globo's print and online media unit. ...
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| Ex-football official Takkas pleads not guilty in U.S. bribery case | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:10 AM | |
| | By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Nate Raymond NEW YORK/ZURICH (Reuters) - Costas Takkas, former secretary-general of the Cayman Islands Football Association, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that he participated in bribery schemes under investigation at world football's governing body, FIFA. Takkas, who was extradited from Switzerland, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, to charges that include engaging in conspiracies to commit racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering. Takkas will be under house arrest in Miami, she said. |
| EU ministers to discuss Belgian bombings - Dutch minister | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:03 AM | |
| | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU ministers will meet at Belgium's request to discuss the suicide bomb attacks on Brussels Airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, the Dutch justice minister said on Twitter. It is possible the meeting will take place on Thursday morning, Ard van der Steur said. The Netherlands, which currently holds the rotating European Union presidency, will organise the event. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks that killed at least 30 people. A suspect who fled the airport is now the target of a police manhunt. ... |
| Police issue wanted notice for suspect after Brussels attacks | |  Police issued a wanted notice for a man suspected of involvement in Tuesday's bomb attacks at Brussels airport that left at least 10 people dead. Calling for information, they issued a photograph of a man, dressed in a white shirt and jacket and wearing a dark hat as he pushed a luggage trolley through the airport.
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| Brazil's Rousseff says 'will never resign,' Lula meets Senate leader | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday she will not resign in Brazil's worst political crisis in two decades, calling an opposition move to impeach her a "coup d'etat" against democratic rule because she had committed no crime. Rousseff urged Brazil's Supreme Court to remain impartial in the crisis that has threatened to topple her government as opponents seek her impeachment in Congress amid a widespread corruption scandal that has reached her inner circle. "I have committed no crime that would warrant shortening my term." The head of the Brazilian Senate echoed Rousseff's position on impeachment after a meeting with her predecessor and political mentor, former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, as the pair work hand in hand to shore up a crumbling coalition.
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| Brazil says confirmed and suspected microcephaly cases rise to 5,200 | |  The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus rose to 5,200 in the week through March 19, from 5,131 a week earlier, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Of these, the number of confirmed cases climbed to 907 from 863 a week earlier, while suspected ones increased to 4,293 from 4,268 in the same period. Brazil considered most of the cases of babies born with abnormally small heads to be related to Zika, though the link between the virus and the birth defects has not been scientifically established.
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| Police hunt suspect after Islamic State kills 30 in Brussels suicide attacks | | | By Philip Blenkinsop and Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which killed at least 30 people, with police hunting a suspect who fled the air terminal. Police issued a wanted notice for a young man in a hat who was caught on CCTV pushing a laden luggage trolley at Zaventem airport alongside two others who, investigators said, later blew themselves up in the terminal, killing at least 10 people. Officials said about 20 died on the train close to European Union institutions. |
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