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| Brazil says microcephaly cases linked to Zika rise to 4,863 | | Wednesday, March 02, 2016 12:03 AM | |
|  The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus has risen to 4,863 from 4,690 a week earlier, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. Of these, the number of confirmed cases climbed to 641 from 583 a week earlier, while suspected ones under investigation increased to 4,222 from 4,107 in the same period. Brazil considers most of the cases of babies born with abnormally small heads to be related to Zika, though the link between the virus and the birth defects has not been scientifically established.
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| Irish PM seeks to form new gov't, will talk to nearest rival | |  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - The leading party after Ireland's election last week will try to form a government with other parties, including its nearest rival, after its outgoing coalition was rejected by voters, senior Fine Gael members said on Wednesday. Punished last week by voters angry at the patchiness of Ireland's recovery, Prime Minister Enda Kenny's centre-right party is set to fall about 30 seats short of the 80 needed to form a majority in parliament, with two seats yet to be filled. With the second- and third-largest parties, Fianna Fail, and Sinn Fein, ruling out a coalition with Fine Gael, analysts say Kenny will not reach a majority without eventually striking some sort of agreement with Fianna Fail.
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| NY court allows fraud claim against Trump University to proceed | |  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump suffered a legal setback on Tuesday when a New York state court allowed a multimillion-dollar fraud claim against Trump University, filed by the state's attorney general, to proceed. The claim is part of a lawsuit that accuses Trump and the now-defunct for-profit venture of misleading thousands of people, who paid up to $35,000 to learn the billionaire businessman's real estate investment strategies. Trump University, which Trump chaired, has become a target for his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, particularly Marco Rubio.
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| Now or never: Trump's 'wall' talk sparks migrant rush on U.S.-Mexico border | |  By Gabriel Stargardter and Julia Edwards CIUDAD JUAREZ/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gang violence and poverty have for years pushed Mexicans and Central Americans north to the United States, but recently a new driver has emerged: the anti-immigrant tone of leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. From the slums of Central America to close-knit migrant communities in U.S. cities, Trump's rise to the front of the Republican pack has not gone unnoticed and is partly behind a spike in the numbers of migrants trying to enter the country, including children travelling without guardians. Interviews with migrants, people smugglers and officials show many migrants are trying to cross now instead of facing tighter policing and new policies to halt illegal immigration if Trump or another Republican wins the Nov. 8 election.
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| Brazil's No. 2 builder admits illegal Rousseff campaign funding - paper | |  Executives from Brazil's second-largest engineering company, Andrade Gutierrez, have testified that the company paid suppliers for President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 electoral campaign off the books, newspaper a Folha de S.Paulo reported on Tuesday. The testimony, as part of a plea bargain by 11 executives, would be the first direct link between the widening 'Operation Carwash' investigation into bribes and political kickbacks at state-run oil company Petrobras and the election of Rousseff, the paper said. The allegations may bolster the case of the main opposition party PSDB as it seeks to annul Rousseff's 2014 re-election for using illegal funding, though Brazil's top electoral court is unlikely to accept evidence from a previous election.
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| Secret Service probing agent, photographer fight at Trump rally | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an incident at presidential candidate Donald Trump's rally in Radford, Virginia in which an agent shoved a Time magazine photographer to the ground, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday. "We are investigating the matter fully to find out what our employee did and what the other person did," Kevin Dye told Reuters. Video footage of the altercation on Monday, which was posted on the Internet, shows Time magazine photographer Christopher Morris getting close to the agent, who threw him to the ground and Morris kicking the agent from the floor.
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| NSA chief says 'when, not if' foreign country hacks U.S. infrastructure | |  The U.S. National Security Agency chief said on Tuesday it was a "matter of when, not if" a foreign nation-state attempts to launch a cyber attack on the U.S. critical infrastructure, citing the recent hack on Ukraine's power grid as a cause for concern. Speaking at the RSA cyber security conference in San Francisco, Admiral Michael Rogers said he was also worried about data manipulation and potential offensive cyber threats posed by non-nation-state actors such as Islamic State. The U.S. government said last week a December blackout in Ukraine that affected 225,000 customers was the result of a cyber attack, supporting what most security researchers had already concluded.
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| U.N. aims to restart Syria peace talks on March 9 | |  By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations will delay the next round of Syria peace talks by two days to allow the cessation of hostilities in force since Saturday to take hold, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said. "We are delaying it to the afternoon of (March) 9th for logistical and technical reasons and also for the ceasefire to better settle down," de Mistura told Reuters on Tuesday. The cessation of hostilities was "a glimmer of hope", Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said, although he accused the opposition of violating the agreement.
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| U.S. Senate's McConnell condemns white supremacists | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday condemned white supremacists, in remarks responding to presidential candidate Donald Trump and his failure to disavow a white supremacist group in an interview. McConnell told reporters that there had been a lot of talk in the past 24 hours about "one of our presidential candidates and his seeming ambivalence" to the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group and David Duke, a former Klan leader. "So let me make it perfectly clear. ...
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| North Korea vows to shun UN rights forum over political attacks | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea will boycott any session of the U.N. Human Rights Council that examines its record and will "never, ever" be bound by any such resolutions, its foreign minister said on Tuesday. The announcement signalled further isolation of North Korea whose leadership has been accused by U.N. investigators of committing crimes against humanity and is poised to be hit with fresh U.N. sanctions for its nuclear programme. Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong also accused the United States, Japan and South Korea of sending agents into his country to recruit criminals to become "so-called North Korean defectors".
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| Top U.S. court set to consider contentious Texas abortion case | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court was set to hear its first abortion rights case in nearly a decade on Wednesday as it weighs a Texas law that the state contends protects a woman's health but abortion providers assert is aimed at shutting down their clinics. The Feb. 13 death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who opposed abortion and backed restrictions on it, means the court no longer has five conservatives who might support more restrictive abortion regulations nationwide. The court potentially could split 4-4, with its four liberal justices opposing the abortion restrictions and its four conservatives backing the regulations, an action that would let stand a lower-court ruling that affirmed the Texas law but would not set a nationwide legal precedent.
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| U.S. Supreme Court standoff looms over Republicans' Senate defence | |  By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans' refusal to consider any U.S. Supreme Court nominee by President Barack Obama this year could jeopardise the party's control of the Senate, as Democrats use the standoff to challenge vulnerable opponents in an election year. Neither side gave ground.
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| Sportscaster Erin Andrews said stalker video affects her daily | |  By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Sports broadcaster Erin Andrews told a Tennessee jury on Tuesday that a 2008 nude video of her taken by a stalker that was posted on the Internet affects her every day, including making her so cautious that she checks for cameras in hotel air conditioners. Andrews, a former ESPN sportscaster who has since moved to Fox Sports, has sued the Marriott Nashville at Vanderbilt University for $75 million over the 2008 incident, in which a man in a neighbouring room, Michael David Barrett, rigged a peephole and shot the video of Andrews changing. Over two days of testimony, Andrews said she has experienced depression, spells of crying and sleeplessness since the video went viral in 2009.
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