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| Belgians hunt Islamic State suspect after blasts kill 30 | |  By Alastair Macdonald, Foo Yun Chee and Bate Felix BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police are hunting an Islamic State suspect seen with two supposed suicide bombers shortly before they struck Brussels Airport in the first of two attacks that also hit the city's metro, killing at least 30 and wounding over 200. The blasts on Tuesday claimed by the Syrian-based militants four days after the arrest in Brussels of a prime suspect in November's Paris attacks, sent shockwaves across Europe and around the world, with authorities racing to review security at airports and transit systems, and drawing an outpouring of solidarity. "We can and we will defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people all around the world," said U.S. President Barack Obama.
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| Obama - Coalition will continue hitting Islamic State after Belgium attacks | | | President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the U.S.-led coalition will continue hitting Islamic State militants after attacks in Belgium that killed at least 30 people. The coalition is going to continue "pounding ISIL and we're going to go after them," Obama told ESPN during a baseball game in Havana between Cuba's national team and the Tampa Bay Rays. Obama was attending the baseball game as part of what is the first visit to Cuba by an American president in 88 years. |
| Analysis - Brussels attacks another reminder of Belgian security's weak link | |  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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| Bhutan tackles violence against women for "refusing sex, burning the dinner" | |  By Saraswati Sundas THIMPHU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sonam Zangmo endured abuse at the hands of her husband for two years before finally walking out on him after the birth of her daughter. "I want my daughter to have a good life." But without drastic changes in attitudes towards women in the tiny Himalayan nation wedged between China and India, it is likely her daughter will also suffer domestic abuse. A national health survey in 2012 revealed 74 percent of women in the majority Buddhist country had been victims of physical violence.
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| China detains 37 people linked to vaccine scandal - Xinhua | | | Chinese police have detained 37 people linked to a vaccine scandal and are investigating three pharmaceutical companies, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. The case involves nearly $90 million worth of illegal vaccines, against meningitis, rabies and other illnesses, that are suspected of being sold in dozens of provinces around China since 2011. The vaccine scandal underlines the challenge the world's second-largest drug market faces to regulate its fragmented supply chain, even as Beijing looks to support home-grown firms. |
| Odebrecht cooperates with Brazil probe after bribe scheme exposed | |  By Caroline Stauffer and Guillermo Parra-Bernal SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Grupo Odebrecht SA, 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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| Brazil's Rousseff says 'will never resign' in deepening crisis | |  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. A corruption scandal that has reached her inner circle threatened to implicate more people after the country's largest engineering firm Odebrecht decided to cooperate with prosecutors investigating a huge political bribery scheme. "I have committed no crime that would warrant shortening my term." Rousseff called on Brazil's Supreme Court to remain impartial in the crisis that has threatened to topple her government as opponents seek her impeachment in Congress.
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| Ex-soccer official Takkas pleads not guilty in U.S. bribery case | | | 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 soccer'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. |
| Belgium bombings raise security alerts at U.S. airports | |  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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