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| China's Xi to push Obama next week on North Korea talks | |  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping will push President Barack Obama next week to resume talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, a senior diplomat said on Thursday, a meeting that could also touch on hacking and the South China Sea. China is North Korea's sole major ally but it strongly disapproves of its nuclear programme and was angered by its fourth nuclear test in January and a subsequent rocket launch. While China has signed up for tough new U.N. sanctions against North Korea, it has said repeatedly sanctions are not the answer and that only a resumption of talks can resolve the dispute over North Korea's weapons programme.
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| Colombian government, rebels miss deadline to reach peace deal | | | By Frank Jack Daniel HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombian peace negotiators missed Wednesday's deadline for a final accord but will continue talks in Havana to end Latin America's longest war, a government official said. "In all honesty, we have to inform the public that at the moment there are still important differences with the FARC," Humberto de la Calle, the government's lead negotiator, told reporters. The government of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, had set a self-imposed March 23 deadline to reach a comprehensive pact. |
| Belgians hunt 'third man' after Islamic State bombings | |  By Alastair Macdonald, Foo Yun Chee and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A "third man" seen with two Islamic State suicide bombers at Brussels Airport was the focus of a Belgian manhunt on Thursday after police identified three others, including two brothers, who killed at least 31 people at the airport and on a city metro train. Turkey's president criticised Belgium for failing to track Brahim El Bakraoui, a convicted Belgian armed robber whom it deported last year and who blew himself up at the airport on Tuesday an hour before his brother Khalid, a fellow convict, killed some 20 people at Maelbeek metro station in the city centre. The third bomber, security sources told Belgian media, was Najim Laachraoui, a veteran Belgian Islamist fighter in Syria suspected of making explosive belts for November's Paris attacks and who also detonated a suitcase bomb at the airport.
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| Fear and defiance in Brussels a day after attacks | |  By Ingrid Melander, Robin Emmott and Sybille de La Hamaide BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels resident Aurelie Cardon says she will avoid taking the metro from now on. A day after 31 people were killed and 260 injured in attacks on the Maelbeek underground railway station and the Zaventem airport, the mood was a mixture of shock and defiance in the eerily quiet city of 1.2 million people, headquarters to the European Union and NATO. As a citizen of Brussels, it really hurts to experience something like this ... But we are not going to let our lives be dictated by the terrorists," said Linda van den Bosche, who lives in an apartment next to the Maelbeek station.
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| U.N. rights forum sets up group to pursue crimes by North Korea | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 11:34 PM | |
|  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday set up a group of independent experts to study how to bring to justice perpetrators of crimes against humanity committed by North Korea, but Pyongyang rejected the move as politically motivated. The 47-member forum adopted by consensus a resolution brought by the European Union and Japan that condemned "the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations committed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea". The delegations of Russia and North Korea's closest ally China took the floor before the decision to say that they "disassociated" themselves from the consensus.
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| Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic faces war crimes verdict at U.N. court | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 11:26 PM | |
|  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.N. judges will pronounce their verdict on Thursday in the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. Karadzic is the highest-ranking person to face reckoning before the U.N. tribunal in The Hague over a war two decades ago in which 100,000 people died as rival armies carved up Bosnia along ethnic lines that largely survive today. Among the main charges is that Karadzic, who was arrested in 2008 after 11 years on the run, controlled Serb forces that massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 after overrunning the supposed U.N.-designated "safe area".
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| U.N. sets up inquiry into South Sudan human rights violations | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 11:09 PM | |
|  The United Nations Human Rights Council decided on Wednesday to set up a three-person commission to investigate human rights abuses in South Sudan, making a last minute amendment to a resolution to significantly bolster scrutiny of the country. South Sudan said it would cooperate with the commission, which is charged with looking gang rapes, destruction of villages and attacks on civilians that may constitute war crimes.
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| Brazil prosecutors criticize Odebrecht overture | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 11:05 PM | |
|  Brazilian prosecutors said on Wednesday no plea-bargain talks are underway with executives from engineering conglomerate Grupo Odebrecht SA and that the company's public announcement of its intention to cooperate had no legal standing. Odebrecht, which had previously denied participating in a scheme to siphon money from state-run oil firm Petróleo Brasileiro SA , said late on Tuesday it would cooperate in order to help "build a better Brazil." "The disclosure of any intended agreement to the press hurts the secrecy of the negotiations required by law to conclude an agreement," the task force of prosecutors based in the southern city of Curitiba said in a statement. Veja magazine's Radar column had reported that Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht, the company's former chief executive officer and scion of the family that controls the firm, was already testifying before prosecutors.
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| Obama praises Argentina's 'man in a hurry' Macri for reforms | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 10:42 PM | |
|  By Jeff Mason and Richard Lough BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday championed Argentina's new centre-right leader Mauricio Macri as an example for other countries in Latin America, praising the fast pace of reforms to strengthen the economy. Obama, on a two-day visit to Argentina that marks a detente after years of tensions, said Argentina under Macri was poised to play a more influential role on the global stage. In his first 100 days in office, Macri has distanced himself from South America's leftist bloc, old allies of former President Cristina Fernandez, and sought a thaw in relations with Western capitals as he seeks new investment in Latin America's No. 3 economy.
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| Belgium names Brussels bomber brothers, says key suspect on run | | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:46 PM | |
|  By Jan Strupczewski, Julia Fioretti and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's chief prosecutor named two brothers on Wednesday as Islamic State suicide bombers who killed at least 31 people in the most deadly attacks in Brussels' history but said another key suspect was on the run. Tuesday's attacks on a city that is home to the European Union and NATO sent shockwaves across Europe and around the world, with authorities racing to review security at airports and on public transport. The attacks came four months after militants, also from IS, carried out bombings and shootings in Paris that killed 129 people.
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