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| California judge delays Cosby's deposition in sex abuse lawsuit | | Thursday, March 31, 2016 2:26 AM | |
|  By Alex Dobuzinskis SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) - A California judge on Wednesday indefinitely postponed a sworn deposition of Bill Cosby in a sexual assault lawsuit against the comedian, citing his right to avoid self-incrimination in a separate criminal case pending in Pennsylvania. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Kaplan said he granted the delay in recognition that Cosby's constitutional prerogative to remain silent in the face of criminal prosecution could limit his ability to answer questions under oath in civil proceedings. Kaplan also put on hold any further deposition of Judy Huth, who brought the civil lawsuit alleging that Cosby plied her with alcohol and molested her in 1974 at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15.
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| Electoral board in Peru opens inquiry into Kuczynski | | Thursday, March 31, 2016 1:27 AM | |
|  A lower electoral board in Peru said Wednesday it was opening a formal inquiry into whether presidential hopeful Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the chief rival of front-runner Keiko Fujimori, broke a new law against vote buying. If electoral authorities find the center-right candidate improperly bought beer and liquor for an Andean town, as alleged by opponents he would be barred from April 10 elections. Analysts said the board would likely keep Kuczynski in the race, especially after the same lower electoral board cleared Fujimori of similar allegations.
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| Colombia, ELN rebels to begin peace talks in Ecuador | | Thursday, March 31, 2016 12:31 AM | |
|  CARACAS/BOGOTA (Reuters) - The Colombian government will begin formal peace talks with lefitst National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, moving the country a step closer to ending its five-decade-old conflict, the two sides said in joint statement on Wednesday. The Ecuador-based negotiations, which were announced by the leaders of the peace delegations in Caracas, Venezuela, will begin within two months. Colombia and the ELN, the Andean nation's second-largest guerrilla group, have been in preliminary talks for over two years.
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| Britain to ship record amount of nuclear waste to U.S. - UK government source | | | Britain will ship 700 kilograms of nuclear waste to the United States under a deal to be announced by Prime Minister David Cameron at a nuclear security summit in Washington on Thursday, a British government source said. In return for the shipment, the largest ever movement of highly enriched uranium, the United States will send Europe a different type of nuclear waste that can be used to produce medical isotopes for the treatment of some cancers. "The prime minister will be announcing a landmark deal that we have agreed with the US and with (European Atomic Energy Community) Euratom," the British government source said, on condition of anonymity. |
| Amnesty says workers at Qatar World Cup stadium suffer abuse | |  By Tom Finn DOHA (Reuters) - Workers in Qatar renovating a 2022 World Cup stadium have suffered human rights abuses two years after the tournament's organisers drafted worker welfare standards in the wake of criticism, Amnesty International said. Dozens of construction workers from Nepal and India were charged recruitment fees by agents in their home countries, housed in squalid accommodation and barred from leaving the country by employers in Qatar who confiscated their passports, Amnesty said in a report released on Thursday. The head of Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, which is responsible for the delivery of all tournament-related infrastructure, said Amnesty had identified challenges in worker conditions and Doha was working to reduce these kinds of abuses which he said occur on construction sites all over the world.
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| Trump sounds off on abortion; criticism comes from all sides | | | By Doina Chiacu and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday that women who end pregnancies should face punishment if the United States bans abortion, triggering a torrent of criticism from both sides of the abortion debate, including from his White House rivals. After MSNBC broadcast a clip of an interview with Trump, the billionaire rowed back his remarks, first saying that the abortion issue should be handled by states and later saying that doctors who performed abortions should be the person held responsible. "The doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman," Trump said in his last statement. |
| U.S. transgender community fights against 'bathroom bills' | |  By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - After scoring wins for same-sex marriage rights and anti-discrimination protections, U.S. equality advocacy groups now find themselves in a battle over bathrooms. North Carolina last week became the first state to enact a law requiring transgender people to choose restrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate rather than the one with which they identify. At least 13 other states also have considered so-called bathroom bills targeting the transgender community this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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| Serbian firebrand Seselj faces verdict in U.N. war crimes trial | |  The verdict may prove as difficult for the U.N. Criminal Triibunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to manage as the decade-long trial, which suffered multiple delays as Seselj represented himself and challenged the court at every turn. Serb paramilitaries drove tens of thousands of Muslims and Croats from their homes.
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| Suspected suicide bomber not one of Nigeria's missing Chibok girls | |  A suspected suicide bomber intercepted in northern Cameroon last week before she could blow herself up is not one of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014, an African public advocacy group said on Wednesday. The Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF), a non-government organisation, partnered with Nigeria's government to help parents from Chibok verify the girl's identity after she claimed to be among the missing students. Nigeria's government had said it was keen to ascertain the girl's identity so that she could possibly assist the government in investigations regarding the fate and whereabouts of the missing Chibok girls.
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| U.S. anti-drug plane for Afghanistan still flightless after $86 million - report | | | By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government spent $86 million over seven years developing a counter-narcotics surveillance aircraft for Afghanistan, but the plane has never carried out a mission and is sitting idle in Delaware, a watchdog said on Wednesday. After years of war in Afghanistan, a global hub of opium and hashish production, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had until now largely avoided criticism for questionable spending of the sort levelled widely against the U.S. military. The project was an "ineffective and wasteful use of government resources," Horowitz's audit report said. |
| Brazil's president scrambles to hold coalition together | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff scrambled on Wednesday to hold together her crumbling ruling coalition by negotiating key government posts with remaining allies, aides said, as key partners discussed abandoning her amid impeachment proceedings. A day after Rousseff's biggest coalition partner broke away and ordered its six ministers in her Cabinet to resign, another coalition ally - the Progressive Party (PP) - convened a meeting for April 11-12 to decide whether to leave as well. A presidential aide said the government was reaching out to individual members of allied parties to offer positions that have opened up after the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) bolted on Tuesday.
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