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| Islamic state claims responsibility for Brussels blasts - ISIS-affiliated news agency | |  Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the two bomb attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, a news agency affiliated with the group said. "Islamic State fighters carried out a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices on Tuesday, targeting an airport and a central metro station in the center of the Belgian capital Brussels," AMAQ agency said.
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| Attacks on Brussels airport, metro kill at least 30 | | | By Philip Blenkinsop and Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed in attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, triggering security alerts across Europe and global expressions of support in the face of suspected Islamist attackers. A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic and shots shortly before two blasts struck a packed airport departure lounge at Brussels airport. U.S. President Barack Obama led calls of support to Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel after Brussels went into a state of virtual lock-down. |
| Belgian nuclear plants Doel and Tihange partly evacuated | |  Staff not essential for the running of nuclear plants in Doel and Tihange in Belgium have been evacuated at the request of Belgian authorities, the plants' French operator, Engie, said on Tuesday. Engie owns and operates seven reactors in Belgium through its Belgian unit Electrabel.
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| Trump backs tougher border security, waterboarding after Brussels attacks | |  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump renewed a call for tougher U.S. border security following Tuesday's deadly attacks in Brussels, and suggested torture could be an effective technique to gain information to thwart future attacks. Trump's comments, in an interview on NBC's "Today" program, came a day after he expressed skepticism about the U.S. role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and said the United States should significantly cut spending on the defense alliance.
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| Russian court sentences Ukraine's Savchenko to 22 years in jail | |  By Gennady Novik and Alexander Reshetnikov DONETSK, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in jail after finding her guilty of involvement in the killing of two Russian journalists during the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. The sentence is likely to further inflame Russia's already dire relations with Kiev, and prompt protests from the European Union, which has called for Savchenko's release. Savchenko, a 34-year-old who has become a national hero at home in Ukraine, was defiant as the verdict was read out, singing the Ukrainian national anthem while standing on a bench.
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| Brussels attacks won't shake resolve to defeat Islamic State - U.S. | |  The attacks in Brussels on Tuesday that killed at least 34 people will not undermine the will of the United States and its allies to ramp up the campaign against Islamic State, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress. "No attack will affect our resolve to accelerate the defeat of ISIL," Carter told a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, using an acronym for Islamic State. The United States was monitoring the situation in Brussels, including ensuring that U.S. personnel and citizens were accounted for, he said.
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| Supporters of Islamic State praise Brussels blasts on social media | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Supporters of Islamic State praised on social media blasts in Brussels that killed about 20 people on Tuesday. "The state will force you to reevaluate your ways a thousand times before you are emboldened to kill Muslims again, and know that Muslims now have a state to defend them," said one supporter of the group on Twitter. (Reporting by Mostafa Hashem; Writing by Eric Knecht; Editing by Michael Georgy and Angus MacSwan)
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| Police find assault rifle next to dead attacker at Brussels airport - VRT | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police have found a Kalashnikov assault rifle next to dead attacker at Brussels airport, the Belgian public broadcaster VRT said on Tuesday. The death toll in the twin attacks on Tuesday on the Belgian capital's main airport and a metro station has risen to 34 with more than 130 wounded. (Reporting By Jan Strupczewski)
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| Cartel office probes Germany's Euro 2016 ticket sales | | | Germany's federal cartel office on Tuesday launched an investigation into the German football association's (DFB) sale of tickets for the national team's matches at Euro 2016. The DFB's decision to combine the sales with membership that has a 10 euro sign-up cost and a 30 euro annual fee angered fans of the 2014 World Cup winners. "Acquiring Euro 2016 tickets is already difficult for football fans as not everyone requesting a ticket gets one," cartel office president Andreas Mundt said in a statement on Tuesday. |
| Denmark, Sweden, Finland increase airport security after Belgium explosions | |  Police in Denmark, Sweden and Finland have stepped up security at airports and public places following the explosions in Brussels on Tuesday. Danish police said they had increased patrols at Copenhagen airport and other key points in the city following the deadly explosions at Brussels airport and a metro station in the city. "We are aware of what has happened in Brussels.
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| Brussels attacks death toll rises to 34 - broadcaster VRT | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian public broadcaster VRT raised the death toll from Tuesday's twin attacks in Brussels to 34, with 20 people killed in the blast on a metro train and 14 in explosions at the airport. (Reporting by Julia Fioretti)
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| Russian doping scandal spreads to wrestling, sports minister prepared to quit | | | By Jack Stubbs MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's sports minister said on Tuesday he was prepared to resign over a raging doping scandal in his country which could cost more Russian athletes their places at the Rio Olympics after "tens" more cases of cheating were exposed in wrestling. Russian wrestlers may now join the country's track-and-field athletes in being barred from competing at the Games in August, after an internal Russian Wrestling Federation (WFR) investigation uncovered multiple doping cases, WFR President Mikhail Mamiashvili said. The disclosure came a day after four Russian athletes were exposed as having tested positive for the banned drug meldonium, further damaging Moscow's efforts to overturn a doping suspension in time for the Olympics starting in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 5. |
| Trump says U.S. should toughen up fight against Islamist militants | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, reacting to attacks at Brussels airport and a metro station on Tuesday, said the United States and Western countries should toughen up in their fight against Islamist militants. "I would close up our borders," Trump told Fox News in an interview. "We are lax and we are foolish," said Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination in the November election. (Reporting by Washington Newsroom; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) |
| Breakaway Taliban group denies its leader detained in Pakistan | | | By Jibran Ahmad and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban is leading his fighters in Afghanistan, his deputy said on Tuesday, contradicting three senior members of the Islamist group and denying a newspaper report that he had been detained. Three senior Taliban told Reuters that Mullah Mohammad Rasoul, who leads a faction that has rejected the authority of the Islamist movement's leader, Mullah Mohammad Mansour, had been detained two weeks ago in Baluchistan province on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan's Express Tribune newspaper said that Rasoul was being held by Pakistani authorities. |
| Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi set to steer cabinet from within | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Timothy Mclaughlin NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's president-elect nominated Aung San Suu Kyi to join the incoming cabinet on Tuesday, giving the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader a formal role in the government that the constitution bars her from leading. Suu Kyi guided the NLD to a historic landslide election win in November, but cannot assume the presidency under the charter drafted by the former junta because her two sons are British citizens, as was her late husband. Until the cabinet nominations were read out to parliament by the speaker on Tuesday, it had been unclear whether Suu Kyi would join the executive or would chose to guide the government from outside as the leader of the ruling party.
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| German authorities step up security at airports, borders | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities have stepped up security measures at airports, train stations and the borders with Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg following explosions in Brussels, a spokesman for the federal police said on Tuesday. An additional police presence was noticeable at Frankfurt airport and train station on Tuesday morning, a Reuters eyewitness said. (Reporting by Thorsten Severin and Tilman Blashofer; Writing by Victoria Bryan; Editing by Caroline Copley)
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| Poor reintegration leaves India's rescued child workers at risk - researchers | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's strategy for rescuing and reintegrating child victims of labour trafficking is marred by poor coordination, a lack of accountability and inadequate resources that can leave children at risk of further harm, Harvard researchers say. There must be a comprehensive, sustained effort to address these issues, rather than the current short-term approach to return children to the same circumstances that led to their trafficking in the first place, the researchers said in a report released this week. "Their families need structured and ongoing support to mitigate the risk that a child will be re-trafficked for economic reasons," said the report from Harvard University's FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.
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| Thai charter drafters say they accept some contentious junta points | | | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's constitution drafters said on Tuesday they had accepted proposals from the ruling junta that critics say are designed to prolong the military's hold on power. "There will be 250 unelected senators with power to protect the constitution and push reforms," Norachit Sinhaseni, a spokesman for the Constitution Drafting Committee, told reporters. "About 2.5 percent of the Senate can be civil servants, or by my calculations, about six people," he said. |
| Pakistan's first women-only rickshaw service struggles after just a year | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's first women-only rickshaw service was meant to provide its staff with a new way of gaining financial independence and its passengers with the chance of a ride without being groped and harassed by male drivers. Help has been promised by a Scotland-based charity, run by pop star Annie Lennox, and Pink Rickshaw founder, Zar Aslam, said she hopes to get the money for ten rickshaws by September. Aslam, who herself narrowly escaped kidnapping in a rickshaw when she was a student, told Reuters she had aimed to have 25 of the pink-and-white rickshaws on the road by mid-2016 but the manufacturers have sent only six, and three are too old to use.
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| Russian Sports Minister says ready to resign over doping scandal - TASS | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Tuesday he was prepared to resign if found responsible for the doping scandal in his country, TASS news agency reports. (Reporting by Maria Kiselyova; Writing by Jack Stubbs) |
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