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| Thailand eyes luxury tourists, operators say keep them safe | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand needs to do more to keep its tourists safe if it wants to achieve its objective of attracting more high-end travellers, operators say, or it risks losing out to its up-and-coming neighbours. With its palm-fringed beaches, Buddhist culture and racy nightlife, Thailand has been the poster child for Asian tourism for decades, attracting a range of visitors from backpackers and adventure-seekers, to families and culture vultures. In recent years, increasing numbers of Chinese tourists have joined the mix.
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| Overhaul urged for scandal-hit U.N. assembly chief's office | | | A U.S. investigation into the general assembly presidency, a rotating post filled by member states, has led to charges against seven people accused of participating in a scheme involving more than $1.3 million in bribes. U.S. prosecutors have accused John Ashe, former U.N. Ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda and 2013-2014 president of the General Assembly, of receiving bribes from Chinese businessmen including Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng. Earlier this month, Francis Lorenzo, a suspended deputy U.N. Ambassador from the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with U.S. authorities. |
| Brazil's biggest party quits ruling coalition, Rousseff isolated | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's largest party announced on Tuesday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that sharply raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) took just a few minutes to decide unanimously in a packed leadership meeting that its six ministers in Rousseff's Cabinet and all other party members with government appointments must resign immediately. Under Brazil's presidential system, Rousseff will remain in office but the break cripples her fight against impeachment proceedings in Congress, which could put Vice President Michel Temer, leader of the PMDB, in the presidential seat.
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| Soccer legend Pelé sues Samsung over image in newspaper ad | |  Brazilian soccer legend Pelé has sued Samsung Electronics Co for at least $30 million, alleging the Korean company improperly used a look-alike in an advertisement that ran in the New York Times without permission. According to the complaint filed this month in federal court in Chicago, Samsung placed the October ad for ultra high-definition televisions after breaking off negotiations in 2013 to use Pelé's identity to promote its products. Pelé, 75, whose given name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, is widely regarded as the greatest soccer player ever and among the world's most famous athletes.
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| Brazil's Rousseff to form new government this week - chief of staff | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will announce a new governing coalition before the end of the week, her chief of staff Jaques Wagner said on Tuesday, after her main coalition partner left the government. "The PMDB took a quick decision that opens the opportunity for the President to form a new coalition for her remaining two years and nine months in office," Wagner told reporters after the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party decided to break away. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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| Peru Bishop - vote for two presidential hopefuls would be 'a sin' | | | A Peruvian archbishop told congregants they would be committing "a sin" if they vote for two left-leaning presidential candidates because of their stances on abortion and gay rights. The comment on Sunday by Javier del Rio, responsible for the archdiocese of Peru's second biggest city Arequipa with more than one million Catholics, was aimed at Veronika Mendoza and Alfredo Barnechea, who were virtually tied for third place in opinion polls two weeks before the April 10 election. Mendoza and Barnechea both believe abortion should be legal in the case of rape and support civil unions to give same-sex couples the legal benefits of marriage. |
| Trump campaign manager charged with misdemeanour battery against reporter | | | Donald Trump's presidential campaign manager was arrested and charged with misdemeanour battery in Florida on Tuesday, the latest chapter in a raucous U.S. race marked by threats, insults and physical confrontations. Police in Jupiter, Florida, charged Corey 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. Republican front-runner Trump repeatedly defended Lewandowski, saying he was innocent and would fight the charges while continuing as campaign manager. |
| Brazil court blocks Olympic funds on fraud suspicion - source | | | By Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A federal court in Brazil 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. State lender Caixa Economica Federal [CEF.UL] confirmed it suspended payments to a consortium building the Olympic Deodoro complex, where 11 sports including rugby sevens and BMX Biking will be held, after receiving a court order. |
| Exclusive - Novartis investigating $85 million bribery allegations in Turkey | |  By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - An anonymous whistleblower has accused Swiss drugmaker Novartis of paying bribes in Turkey through a consulting firm to secure business advantages worth an estimated $85 million, according to a Feb. 17 email seen by Reuters. The alleged benefits, which Novartis confirmed it was investigating, included getting medicines added to lists, or formularies, of drugs approved for prescription in government-run hospitals, and avoiding price cuts in other countries by securing government approval to change the names of two drugs. The anonymous sender's 5,000-word email to Novartis Chief Executive Joe Jimenez and Srikant Datar, chairman of its audit and compliance committee, said Novartis had paid Alp Aydin Consultancy the equivalent of $290,000 plus costs during 2013 and 2014, before the Turkish Social Security Institution (SSI) launched an investigation, leading the drugmaker to end the association.
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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, California, last year in which five visiting Irish students and an American friend were killed, prosecutors said on 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 O'Malley said. "This is not a decision that I came to lightly," O'Malley said in a statement. |
| Second judge says Clinton email setup may have been in 'bad faith' | |  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A second federal judge has taken the rare step of allowing a group suing for records from Hillary Clinton's time as U.S. secretary of state to seek sworn testimony from officials, saying there was "evidence of government wrong-doing and bad faith." The language in Judge Royce Lamberth's order undercut the Democratic presidential contender's assertion she was allowed to set up a private email server in her home for her work as the country's top diplomat and that the arrangement was not particularly unusual. Referring to the State Department, Clinton and Clinton's aides, he said there had been "constantly shifting admissions by the Government and the former government officials." Spokesmen for Clinton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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| Brazil's Rousseff cancels international trip due to crisis | |  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has cancelled a trip to a nuclear security summit in Washington because of a deepening political crisis that threatens to unseat her, two government officials told Reuters on Tuesday. The country's biggest party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Part (PMDB), abandoned Rousseff's coalition on Tuesday, raising the chances that she will be impeached over changes she doctored the public accounts.
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| Obama to hold informal talks with Turkey's Erdogan as ties show strain | |  By Can Sezer and Jeff Mason ISTANBUL/ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will hold informal talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Washington this week, the White House said on Tuesday, dismissing suggestions that the lack of a formal meeting represented a snub to Ankara. Erdogan will be among more than 50 world leaders attending a Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on Thursday and Friday, during which time he is due to have a formal meeting with Vice President Joe Biden. There had been intense speculation in the Turkish media over whether Obama would meet Erdogan, with some suggesting a failure to do so would mark a deliberate U.S. snub amid differences over Syria and Washington's concerns over the direction of Turkey's domestic policies.
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| Judge refuses to toss model's defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby | |  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bill Cosby on Tuesday lost his bid to throw out a defamation lawsuit brought against the comedian and his former lawyer by supermodel Janice Dickinson, clearing the way for a trial in the sensational case. Dickinson claims in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that Cosby and his former attorney, Martin Singer, defamed her when they told the media that she invented her account of being drugged and raped by Cosby in 1982. "It was a big victory for us today and we're very, very pleased," said Dickinson's attorney, Lisa Bloom.
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| Brazil's Cunha says PMDB not at fault for Rousseff policies | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha said his PMDB party, which pulled out of the ruling coalition on Tuesday, ought not to share the blame for President Dilma Rousseff's erratic policy decisions in recent years. The PMDB withdrew from Rousseff's governing coalition and pulled members from her government, crippling her chances of staying in office. The party decided that the six remaining ministers in Rousseff's cabinet must resign or face ethics proceedings. (Reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello; Writing by Guillermo Parra-Bernal; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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| Ex-TV star David Cassidy loses driver's license in Florida - report | | | (Reuters) - David Cassidy, the onetime star of "The Partridge Family" 1970s TV series, agreed to give up his driver's license for five years after pleading no contest to charges involving a hit-and-run with another vehicle in Florida, the Sun Sentinel newspaper reported. Cassidy, 65, will also spend two years on probation over the September 2015 infraction, the Fort Lauderdale-based newspaper said. Cassidy has had a series of legal issues, including arrests on drunk driving charges in Florida, New York and California in recent years. |
| Pakistan's Christians call for protection, unity after Easter bomb | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A year ago, Wasif Masih, 16, had a narrow escape when a suicide bomber from a faction of the Pakistani Taliban blew himself up during Sunday worship outside his church in a Christian neighbourhood in the eastern city of Lahore. This past Easter Sunday, Wasif died when the same Taliban faction, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, sent another suicide bomber to a Lahore park full of families, killing 72 people including at least 29 children. Wasif was so close to the blast that the bomber's head fell at his feet, his mother, Zubaida Masih, said as the family mourned at their house in Nishtar Colony, a neighbourhood with both Christian and Muslim families.
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| Victim death toll from Brussels bombings revised down to 32 | |  The number of people killed in last week's bombings at Brussels Airport and on a rush-hour metro train has been revised down to 32, excluding the three suicide bombers, Belgian federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. Ine Van Wymeersch, a magistrate, said all the victims from the twin bomb attacks last Tuesday had been identified and consisted of 17 Belgians and 15 foreigners. Brussels airport began trying out a make-shift check-in area on Tuesday that could allow a limited restart of passenger flights in the coming days.
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