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| Corruption revelations overshadow Lula's planned return in Brazil | | Wednesday, March 16, 2016 1:25 AM | |
|  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. Rousseff and Lula were meeting until late in Brasilia and no official announcement had been made as news of the planned appointment was overtaken by the publication of damaging new allegations from a senator in plea bargain testimony made public by the Supreme Court. The testimony by Senator Delcídio do Amaral, a close ally of the president until he was arrested last year, accused both Rousseff and Lula of being aware of corruption at state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA and said the president had tried to hamper the investigation.
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| Led by China, Mekong nations take on Golden Triangle narco-empire | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall THE MEKONG RIVER (Reuters) - The Lao People's Army patrol boat was custom-made in China with night-vision capability and two of the most powerful engines on this remote stretch of the Mekong River. While attacks on Mekong shipping have tailed off, drug production and trafficking in the untamed region, known as the Golden Triangle, is booming - despite the presence of Chinese gunboats and units of Chinese armed police along the Mekong.
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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.
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| 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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