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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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| Trump campaign manager arrested, charged with battery of reporter | | | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign manager was arrested in Florida on Tuesday and charged with simple battery, police records show. The report from the Jupiter Police Department said Corey Lewandowski was charged for intentionally grabbing and bruising the arm of Michelle Fields, a former reporter for the conservative news outlet Breitbart, against her will at a Trump campaign event on March 8. "Mr. Lewandowski is absolutely innocent of this charge," Trump said in a statement. |
| U.S. FTC sues Volkswagen over diesel advertising claims | |  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed suit Tuesday against Volkswagen AG for falsely advertising that hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles were environmentally friendly, when they were secretly emitting excess pollution. The FTC filed suit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, saying that U.S. consumers suffered "billions of dollars in injury" as a result of the deception. VW has admitted to using undeclared software that allowed 580,000 diesel vehicles built since 2009 to emit up to 40 times legally allowable pollution.
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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 Monday 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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| 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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| 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. The passengers and crew were unharmed. Eighty-one people, including 21 foreigners and 15 crew, had been on board the Airbus 320 when it took off from Alexandria en route to Cairo, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement.
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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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| Egyptian hijacker's suicide belt was fake | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Cypriot authorities have determined that the belt worn by an Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane on Tuesday did not contain explosives, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement. "Security in Cyprus confirmed that the explosive belt worn by the man who hijacked the plane was fake," it said. (Reporting by Lin Noueihed; editing by John Stonestreet)
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| EgyptAir hijacker surrenders - Cyprus state TV | |  ATHENS (Reuters) - The suspected hijacker of an EgyptAir airliner surrendered to authorities at Larnaca airport in Cyprus on Tuesday, Cypriot authorities said. The hijacker emerged from the aircraft with his hands in the air, state TV said. "Its over," Cyprus's foreign ministry said in a tweet. (Reporting By Michele Kambas; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| Cyprus foreign ministry official says hijacker appears unstable | |  ATHENS (Reuters) - Tuesday's hijacking of an EgyptAir airliner which was diverted to Cyprus does not appear to be terror-related, a senior official of Cyprus's foreign affairs ministry said. "What we have clarified ... is that its not about terrorism. It appears to be a person who is unstable, in an unstable psychological state and the issue is being handled accordingly," foreign ministry official Alexandros Zenon told journalists. (Reporting By Michele Kambas)
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| EgyptAir hijacker asking for release of prisoners in Egypt - Cyprus media | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - The hijacker of an EgyptAir airplane that was diverted to Cyprus on Tuesday has asked for the release of female prisoners in Egypt, the Cyprus state broadcaster reported. All but seven people on board the aircraft, which was traveling from Alexandria to Cairo, have been released. The pilot had reported that the hijacker was strapped with explosives, but Egyptian authorities have not confirmed this. (Reporting by Michele Kambas, Writing by Michael Georgy, Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| Cyprus foreign ministry names hijacker as Seif Eldin Mustafa | |  REUTERS - Cyprus' foreign ministry on Tuesday identified the hijacker of an EgyptAir flight forced to land in Cyprus as Seif Eldin Mustafa in a tweet. It did not provide further details. "The situation is still ongoing," it said. Earlier, two Cypriot broadcasters reported the hijacker had dropped a letter on the apron of Larnaca airport that appeared to be demanding the release of prisoners in Egypt. Eygptian state media had earlier identified the hijacker as a different man. (Reporting By Michele Kambas; editing by John Stonestreet)
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