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| Secret Service closed White House fence lines during Capitol shooting | | | The Secret Service temporarily closed the north and south fence lines around the White House complex on Monday as a "routine precautionary measure" a spokesman said, as police reported gunshots were fired at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center. A report that a person tried to gain entry to the White House was incorrect, the U.S. Secret Service spokesman said. |
| Man shot by police at U.S. Capitol complex | |  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man walked into the underground U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on Monday and was shot and wounded by police after he pointed what appeared to be a weapon at officers, police said. The suspect and a female bystander, who suffered wounds, were taken to the hospital, Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa said at a news conference. No police officers were injured, Verderosa said.
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| Clinton warns of possible Trump Supreme Court nominations | |  Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton rebuked Senate Republicans on Monday for denying a hearing to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, accusing them of obstructionism, and warned of dangers if Donald Trump appointed the next justice. In a speech in Wisconsin, Clinton put the future of the Supreme Court at the centre of the election debate, cautioning that any Trump-appointed justices would be likely to roll back workers' and abortion rights and "demolish pillars of the progressive movement." "What kind of justice would a President Trump appoint, or for that matter what kind of attorney general?" she asked, noting the Republican front-runner wants a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country and the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.
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| U.S. drops legal action against Apple over encrypted iPhone | |  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department dropped a high-stakes legal fight against Apple on Monday, saying the government successfully accessed data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The government had insisted until last week it had no way to access the phone used by Rizwan Farook except to force Apple to write new software that would disable the password protection. The Justice Department obtained a court order last month directing Apple to create that software.
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| Brazil lawyers file new impeachment case against Rousseff | |  The Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) filed a new request on Monday for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff for obstructing justice and granting international soccer body FIFA tax-exempt status during the 2014 World Cup. Rousseff supporters tried to physically block the entry of the impeachment request in the lower house of Congress, shouting the left-wing slogan "Não passaram!" (They shall not pass) and pushing and shoving opponents of the embattled president. Rousseff already faces an impeachment process over the alleged manipulation of government accounts that opposition parties maintain helped her win narrow re-election in 2014 by allowing her to boost public spending.
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| Week after attack, Belgium reopens wounds | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Manneken Pis, the cherubic little statue insouciantly relieving himself in the heart of Brussels, has become a cheeky symbol of Belgian resistance to terror in the week since suicide bombers struck the capital. "So it is really a shock to the nation." The government announced measures to combat the threat from local Muslims radicalised by Islamic State in Syria four months ago when it emerged November's attacks in Paris were the work of Brussels militants who had plotted undisturbed by underfunded and loosely coordinated authorities in laissez-faire Belgium. Ministers may find support for tougher action, such as closer surveillance of suspects: "A little bit of Brussels died in me this week," wrote Bart Eeckhout, a commentator in the city's left-leaning, Dutch-language newspaper, De Morgen.
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| Israeli law to allow suspension of Arab legislators passes first hurdle | | | By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's parliament gave initial approval on Monday to a bill that would allow members to suspend from the legislature colleagues whom they believe have supported Israel's enemies or have acted against the state. The proposal was strongly criticised by opposition members who said it was aimed against Israel's Arab lawmakers. Zouheir Bahloul, an Israel-Arab legislator from the centre-left Zionist Union faction, accused the right-wing ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of "quietly stealing Arab members' right to a democratic discourse." Lawmakers voted 59-53 in favour of the bill, which now moves to committee but will become law only after two more votes at a later date. |
| Brazil party set to abandon Rousseff, eyes presidency | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's largest party will decide on Tuesday to break away from President Dilma Rousseff's floundering coalition, party leaders said, sharply raising the odds that the country's first woman president will be impeached amid a corruption scandal. The fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) will decide at its national leadership meeting on the pace of disengagement from the Rousseff administration, in which it holds seven ministerial posts and the vice presidency. A formal rupture appears inevitable and will increase the isolation of the unpopular Rousseff, freeing PMDB members to vote for her impeachment.
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| Burundi, Morocco troops accused of Central African Republic abuse - U.N. | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Monday it had received new allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation against U.N. peacekeepers from Morocco and Burundi in Central African Republic, including one that involved a 14-year-old girl. There have been dozens of such accusations against peacekeepers in Central African Republic, where the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSCA, assumed authority from African Union troops in September 2014.
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| To save South America's forests harmonize tough environment rules - study | |  By Chris Arsenault TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - To feed a growing population without destroying the world's forests, governments and companies need to harmonise rules on deforestation to stop farms or cattle ranches from moving operations into areas with weak environmental laws, researchers said on Monday. By 2030, 100 million new hectares of farm land, an area larger than Nigeria, will be needed to grow enough food for the world's growing population, said a study by Stanford University in the United States.
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| Cameroon delays quizzing of bomber claiming to be Chibok schoolgirl as doubts mount | |  By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cameroon officials delayed on Monday the questioning of a female suicide bomber claiming to be one of the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in northeast Nigeria two years ago by Islamic militants due to injuries as doubts mounted over her identity. The girl claiming to be one of the 219 missing schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram and another woman were arrested on Friday carrying explosives in Limani in northern Cameroon that has been the target of frequent suicide bombings recently. The arrest raised hopes that the girl might be able to assist the Nigerian government in investigations regarding the fate and whereabouts of the missing Chibok girls.
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| Belgium frees charged suspect in blow to bombing investigation | |  By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian prosecutors on Monday released a man they had charged in connection with last week's deadly Brussels bombings, saying they did not have enough information to justify holding him. The man, named only as Faycal C., had been accused of taking part in the activities of a terrorist group and actual and attempted terrorist murder after being detained on Thursday. "The evidence which led to the arrest of the man named as Faycal C has not been backed up by the ongoing investigation.
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| GMO labels spread as U.S. congressional effort to halt them fades | | | By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Even as General Mills Inc and other companies vow to keep fighting mandatory labelling of genetically modified food ingredients, they have begun rolling out these disclosures across the United States to comply a new Vermont law. The moves come as U.S. lawmakers are unlikely to derail Vermont's law requiring labels on foods made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, before it takes effect on July 1. "We can't label our products for only one state without significantly driving up costs for our consumers, and we simply will not do that," General Mills recently said on its blog. |
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