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| Brussels police kill gunman in Paris attacks raid | |  By Robert-Jan Bartunek, Philip Blenkinsop and Clement Rossignol BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police killed a suspect armed with an assault rifle after four officers were wounded on Tuesday in a raid on a Brussels apartment linked to investigations into November's Islamist attacks in Paris, prosecutors said. One or more people opened fire on Belgian and French police officers when they went to conduct what they had expected to be a routine search of an apartment in a suburban side street in the south of the Belgian capital. Three officers, including a French policewoman, were wounded and a fourth was hurt during a subsequent exchange of fire.
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| Turkey arrests three academics on 'terrorist propaganda' charges | | | Turkish authorities arrested three academics on charges of "terrorist propaganda" on Tuesday after they publicly read out a declaration reiterating a call to end security operations in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Police also detained a British national at the courthouse that ordered the arrests after finding him with pamphlets printed by parliament's Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which has Kurdish roots. The government blames the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for a car bombing in the capital on Sunday that killed 37 people. |
| Brazil's Rousseff turns to Lula as corruption scandal deepens | | | By Lisandra Paraguassu and Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's efforts to bolster her government amid a storm of corruption allegations by naming her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to her Cabinet were overshadowed on Tuesday by a barrage of fresh accusations against a minister. Presidential aides said the charismatic Lula, Brazil's first working class president, had decided to accept a ministerial position in Rousseff's Cabinet, a move that would offer him protection in the short-term from prosecutors who have charged him with money laundering and fraud. One of the aides, who asked not to be identified so he could speak freely, said Lula, a talented negotiator, would take charge of legislative affairs, where he could leverage his close ties to congressmen from the ruling Workers Party to rally votes for the government. |
| Dutch parliament votes to ban weapon exports to Saudi Arabia | | | The Dutch parliament passed a bill on Tuesday calling for the government of the Netherlands to halt weapon exports to Saudi Arabia, citing ongoing violations of humanitarian law in Yemen. The Dutch vote effectively seeks to implement a decision in February by the European Parliament, which called on countries in the European Union to impose an arms embargo against Riyadh. Around 6,000 people have been killed since Saudi-led troops entered the conflict in Yemen last March, almost half of them civilians, according to the United Nations. |
| EU risks defaulting on human rights in Turkey deal - U.N. rights chief | |  By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union risks compromising its human rights values if it fails to ensure Turkey offers proper protection to all refugees under a deal to curb migrant flows to Europe, the United Nations' human rights chief said on Tuesday. The EU is pushing for an initial agreement this week with Turkey to start taking back refugees and migrants reaching Europe from its shores. The U.N. and rights groups have criticised the notion of mass returns to Turkey, which restricts Geneva Convention rights for refugees to Europeans.
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| One person killed in Brussels police raid - prosecutor | | | A suspect armed with an assault rifle was killed by police during a raid in Brussels on Tuesday linked to November's Islamist attacks in Paris, Belgian federal prosecutors office said. When officers went to search an apartment in the south of the city, "one or more people immediately opened fire on police the moment the door was opened by the security forces", it said in a statement. Some five hours later, it added, police stormed the building and "a suspect armed with a Kalashnikov was killed". |
| Belgian police operation continues in Brussels - PM | | | Belgian police are continuing an operation in Brussels after four officers, including a French policewoman, were lightly wounded in a raid on an apartment, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told a news conference on Tuesday. |
| Man accused of stabbing Canadian soldiers cited Allah - police | |  By Alastair Sharp and David Ljunggren TORONTO/OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian man accused of stabbing two soldiers in a Toronto military recruitment office claimed he received orders from Allah to kill people, police said on Tuesday, adding that there is no evidence he was working with others. The suspect, 27-year-old Ayanle Hassan Ali, faces nine charges, including three of attempted murder in connection with Monday's attack, according to court documents. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said Ali walked into the office and stabbed a soldier with a large knife.
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| Berlin police say no 'terrorist' background to car explosion | |  German police said there was no indication of a "terrorist" link to a car explosion in central Berlin which killed the driver on Tuesday morning and prosecutors said the victim was a 43-year old man previously investigated for drug dealing. Prosecutors in the capital said they suspected an explosive device had been attached to the car in a murder attack. "There is no evidence of there being a terrorist background," a spokesman for Berlin police said.
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| Myanmar parliament elects Suu Kyi confidant as president | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the first head of state since the 1960s who does not hail from a military background. Suu Kyi led her National League for Democracy (NLD) to a landslide election win in November, but a constitution drafted by the former junta bars her from the top office.
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| Saudi-led air strikes kill 41 civilians in Yemen - health official | |  By Mohammed Ghobari RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi-led air strikes killed 41 civilians and wounded 75 others on Tuesday in Yemen's northwestern province of Haja, a senior provincial health official said, a region largely controlled by the Iran-allied Houthi militia. Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asseri, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen's civil war, said it was looking into reports of the attack. The coalition entered the conflict a year ago to stop Houthi forces and others loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh from seizing the entire country, and has fought to restore the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
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| Turkey's deal with EU on refugees aims to make migration safe - Davutoglu | |  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday the aim of a 6-billion-euro ($6.66-billion) agreement with the European Union on refugees was to reduce illegal migration and make passage to Europe safe. Turkey did not bargain over money and does not see the issue as a financial one but a humanitarian one, Davutoglu said in a statement with European Council President Donald Tusk in Ankara.
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| Pursuing war criminals in Syria should not wait for war end - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights investigators on Syria said on Tuesday that preparing prosecutions against war criminals should not be delayed until the end of the conflict, now entering its sixth year. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry, which has documented atrocities committed by all sides in the war, has compiled a confidential list of suspects and begun providing judicial assistance to authorities investigating foreign fighters. President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that "the main part" of Russia's armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed in Geneva between the Syrian government and opposition.
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| Supreme Court orders protection from trafficking for adopted children | |  By Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Supreme Court of India has ordered the government to draw up strong guidelines for screening and tracking adoptions after a charity appealed for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into allegations that adopted children were being abused. Parliament passed a law in January aimed at streamlining the adoption of orphaned and abandoned children, but the rules have not yet been framed by the responsible body, the Central Adoption Research Agency, CARA. Children are to be protected against abuse and trafficking," a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur said on Monday.
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| Palestinians rethink routines to avoid Israeli suspicions | |  For Palestinians trying to avoid being suspected of involvement in a months-long wave of deadly attacks against Israelis, small changes in behaviour might mean the difference between life and death. Since October last year, 28 Israelis and two U.S. citizens have been stabbed, shot or run over and killed in a campaign of violence across the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel. As a result, Israeli security forces - whether the army, the police or the paramilitary border police, all of whom have been targeted - are on high alert for an attack from just about anyone, especially in tense areas around Jerusalem's Old City.
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| Seventeen corpses found after Venezuela miners' massacre | |  Seventeen corpses have been recovered from a mass grave in the rising toll from a massacre of miners in Venezuela's southern jungle, authorities said on Tuesday. Venezuelan officials say 21 miners went missing near a gold mine in the Tumeremo area of Bolivar state, while opposition politicians say as many as 28 may have been killed. "We have concluded the search for the disappeared of Tumeremo with the discovery of 17 bodies," chief state prosecutor Luisa Ortega said via Twitter, updating the count of 14 announced on Monday.
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| South African police may take legal action against finance minister | |  By Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police said on Tuesday finance minister Pravin Gordhan may face legal action for not cooperating with an investigation of surveillance by the revenue service, escalating a public row and rattling the rand and bonds. In a tussle that has raised concern about the direction of policy in Africa's most industrialised but ailing economy, Gordhan hit back, accusing police of threatening him. The elite Hawks police unit said it would exercise its "constitutional powers" after Gordhan missed a second deadline to answer questions about a suspected spy unit established while he was head of the South African Revenue Service (SARS).
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| France to station new force in West Africa over militant attacks | |  ABIDJAN (Reuters) - France is to station a force of gendarmes in the capital of Burkina Faso to react swiftly in the event of another attack by Islamist militants in West Africa, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday. He was speaking during a visit to Ivory Coast, where 18 people including four French citizens were killed on Sunday in an attack on a beach resort. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility. (Reporting by Ange Aboa; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| Top French Catholic cleric denies covering up acts of paedophilia | |  One of France's most senior Catholic clerics on Tuesday denied having covered up acts of paedophilia, his second denial in two weeks, after Prime Minister Manuel Valls demanded that he take responsibility for the situation. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin's initial denial came in a statement on March 4 after news that the Lyon prosecutor's office had opened an inquiry into complaints made against him and five other people. "Never, never, never have I covered up the least paedophile act," the Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, said at a news conference in the southern French town of Lourdes where he was attending a twice-yearly meeting of bishops.
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| Doggie treat: NYC restaurants to allow canines at outdoor tables | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City dogs will find it even easier to beg for scraps under new rules that allow them to sit with their owners at restaurants' outdoor tables. The city's health department on Tuesday released new regulations under a state law passed last year that permits municipalities to set their own rules for dogs in outdoor dining areas. The regulations take effect in mid-April, just as the outdoor dining season begins in earnest. |
| Pennsylvania religious leaders charged with allowing sex abuse | | | Three members of a Franciscan religious order were criminally charged with conspiracy on Tuesday for letting a friar who was a known predator hold jobs in which he sexually abused more than 80 children, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane said. A grand jury found that the leaders knew of abuse allegations against Brother Stephen Baker as early as 1988, yet gave him Catholic high school jobs that allowed him contact with children, Kane said. Three of his supervisors at the Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regulars, Province of the Immaculate Conception, were charged with one count each of endangering the welfare of children and criminal conspiracy. |
| Al Qaeda says Ivory Coast attack was revenge against France | |  By Ange Aboa ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North African branch said its attack on a beach resort in Ivory Coast on Sunday that killed 18 people was revenge for a French offensive against Islamist militants in the Sahel region and called for its forces to withdraw. The raid in Grand Bassam claimed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was the first of its kind in Ivory Coast but the third in the region since November. It was also a setback for France, who lost four of its nationals when gunmen opened fire on people eating lunch at restaurants and sunning themselves on the sand.
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