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| Seventeen corpses found after Venezuela miners' massacre | |  CARACAS (Reuters) - 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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| Saudi-led air strikes kill 41 civilians in Yemen - health official | |  Saudi-led air strikes killed 41 civilians and wounded 75 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. A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen's civil war was not immediately available for comment. The coalition entered the conflict a year ago to stop Houthi forces and others loyal to ex-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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| Brussels police hunt fleeing gunman in Paris probe | |  By Robert-Jan Bartunek, Philip Blenkinsop and Clement Rossignol BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Armed Belgian police, with French support, were hunting one or more gunmen who wounded three officers during a raid on Tuesday in Brussels linked to the investigation of November's Islamist attacks in Paris, officials said. A southern section of the city was sealed off by police, Reuters journalists at the scene said. The mayor of the Brussels borough of Forest where the raid took place told Le Soir newspaper that one or more people had barricaded themselves into an apartment and that it was unclear how many others may be on the run.
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| Mass killer Breivik gives Nazi salute as he sues Norway for "inhuman treatment" | |  By Gwladys Fouche SKIEN, Norway (Reuters) - Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik claimed in court on Tuesday that Norway was violating his human rights by keeping him in isolation for murdering 77 people in 2011, but irritated the judge with a Nazi salute at the start of proceedings. Clean-shaven and wearing a black suit, white shirt and golden tie, Breivik raised his right arm in a flat-handed Nazi-style salute on arrival at the court, slightly different from the outstretched arm and clenched fist he used in 2012. Breivik later suggested it was an old Norse gesture, he said.
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| Suicide bombing exposes divisions tearing at Turkey's stability | |  By Umit Bektas, Nick Tattersall and Humeyra Pamuk ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - "Government resign!" chanted some of the mourners at the funeral on Tuesday of four young victims of the suicide bombing in Turkey's capital Ankara. Far from bringing the nation together in mourning, the aftermath of Sunday night's attack has again laid bare the deep divisions tearing at Turkey as it struggles to avoid being drawn into its neighbours' conflicts. If Turkey continues on this path, some analysts warn, it risks a cycle of violence and a lurch away from the European standards of freedom and democracy to which it once aspired.
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| "Asylum Chaos" - German magazine spreads word of rising anti-immigrant party | |  By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - With headlines like "Asylum Chaos", a German magazine is spreading the views of an anti-immigrant party that has vaulted into three state legislatures due to voter anger over Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door policy towards refugees. Monthly magazine Compact was founded five years ago but its profile has risen markedly since the influx of 1.1 million asylum-seekers last year that has spurred an electoral surge of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Some of its recent headlines include Asylum Chaos, Dictatorship Merkel, Vote Her Out, The Better Chancellor - a reference to AfD co-leader Frauke Petry, and Fair Game Woman, an allusion to sexual assaults by North African migrants.
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| Traffic resumes on Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge after closure on security fears | | | Turkish police re-opened Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge, which spans Asia and Europe, after briefly shutting the key transport link to search a suspicious vehicle on Tuesday, broadcasters said. Officials have blamed the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged an armed campaign for autonomy against the state for 31 years, for the two attacks in Ankara since February. |
| How to hack a sex toy: tech firms warn public on growing cyber-risks | | | By Caroline Copley HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - It's not just computers and mobile phones that are vulnerable to cyber attack, according to software firm Trend Micro. As more devices are hooked up to the Internet, it could be anything from medical equipment to industrial machinery - and even sex toys. To illustrate the point, Trend Micro spokesman Udo Schneider surprised journalists at a news conference this week by placing a large, neon-pink vibrator on the desk in front of him and then bringing it to life by typing out a few lines of code on his laptop. |
| Myanmar's 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 who does not hail from a military background since the 1960s. 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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| Man in Manila gets $30 mln cash from cyber heist; Bangladesh c.bank gov quits | |  By Serajul Quadir and Karen Lema DHAKA/MANILA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank governor resigned on Tuesday over the theft of $81 million from the bank's U.S. account, as details emerged in the Philippines that $30 million of the money was delivered in cash to a casino junket operator in Manila. The rest of the money hackers stole from the Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Federal Reserve, one of the largest cyber heists in history, went to two casinos, officials told a Philippines Senate hearing into the scandal. Unknown hackers last month breached the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank and attempted to steal $951 million from its Fed account, which it uses for international settlements.
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| Mother Teresa of Calcutta to be made Roman Catholic saint Sept. 4 - pope | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony on Sept. 4, Pope Francis announced on Tuesday. Last December, he cleared the way for sainthood for the Nobel peace laureate, who died in 1997 at the age of 87 and was known as "saint of the gutters". Teresa, who was born Agnese Gonxha Bojaxhiu of Albanian parents in 1910 in what was then part of the Ottoman Empire and is now Macedonia, became an international figure but was also accused of trying to convert people to Christianity.
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| Bahraini activist begins jail term for ripping up photo of king -lawyer | |  Bahraini activist Zainab al-Khawaja has begun a two-month prison sentence for tearing up a photo of the king, her lawyer said on Tuesday. International rights groups protested after the jailing on Monday of Khawaja, who took her 15-month-old son, Hadi, with her into detention rather than leave him in the care of relatives. The Human Rights First group urged the United States, a close ally of the Gulf Arab state, to publicly call for the release of Khawaja, who is in her early 30s.
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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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