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| Austria says closure of Balkan route is 'permanent' - 'Welt' newspaper | | Thursday, March 10, 2016 1:15 AM | |
| | South-eastern Europe's "Balkan route", the main passage for migrants to reach more affluent countries to the north, will remain closed permanently, Austria's Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told German newspaper "Die Welt" on Thursday. On Wednesday, Macedonia sealed its border with Greece to illegal migrants after Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, which are on the way to Austria, announced tight new restrictions on migrant entry. "My position is clear: the Balkan route remains closed and that permanently," Mikl-Leitner told the newspaper. |
| Brazil prosecutors charge Lula in money laundering probe | | Thursday, March 10, 2016 12:40 AM | |
|  By Eduardo Simões and Lisandra Paraguassu SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was charged in a money laundering investigation led by Sao Paulo state prosecutors on Wednesday, intensifying scrutiny of the politician questioned in a separate federal graft probe last week. A spokesman for the state prosecutors declined to specify the charges, but state investigators have said they suspect Lula's family owned an undeclared beachfront apartment in the city of Guaruja. Federal investigators echoed those allegations after they detained Lula for questioning in police custody on Friday, fanning a political crisis that has rattled his successor, President Dilma Rousseff.
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| Myanmar on edge as long wait for new president ends | | Thursday, March 10, 2016 12:00 AM | |
|  By Timothy Mclaughlin NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Four months after Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a crushing electoral victory over a government made up of former generals, Myanmar's citizens should finally find out who their new president will be on Thursday. It won't be Suu Kyi. The NLD leader and Nobel peace prize laureate is barred from holding the office under a junta-drafted 2008 constitution because her children are not Myanmar citizens.
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| State prosecutors charge Brazil's Lula in money laundering probe | | Sao Paulo state prosecutors have filed charges against former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a money laundering investigation, a spokesman for prosecutors said on Wednesday. In an investigation parallel to a two-year-old federal graft probe that detained the former president for questioning on Friday, state prosecutors have said they suspected Lula's family owned an undeclared beachfront apartment in the city of Guaruja. The prosecutors' spokesman declined to specify the charges against the former president.
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| Clinton's surprise Michigan loss exposes risks for her on trade | |  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton's unexpected defeat in Michigan has laid bare growing voter anger over international trade, raising warning flags for her ahead of a possible presidential election showdown against Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Trump has built his campaign on pledges to scrap international trade deals and do more to protect American workers from foreign competition, tapping the same groundswell of discontent that propelled Clinton's rival Bernie Sanders to victory in the Midwestern state on Tuesday. Clinton remains heavily favoured to win the Democratic nomination.
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| U.S. Air Force veteran convicted of attempting to join Islamic State | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tairod Pugh, a U.S. Air Force veteran, was found guilty on Wednesday of attempting to join Islamic State, according to his lawyer. The conviction marks the first case in more than 75 Islamic State-related prosecutions brought since 2014 by the U.S. Department of Justice to reach a jury verdict. After a week-long trial in Brooklyn federal court, a jury found Pugh, 48, guilty of attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization, and obstruction for destroying four portable electronic storage devices after his detention in Turkey.
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| U.S. senator does not expect Pakistan F-16 sale to be blocked | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Wednesday he does not expect an upcoming vote on a $700 million sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan to keep the deal from going ahead. President Barack Obama's administration announced on Feb. 12 that it had approved the sale of the Lockheed Martin Corp aircraft as well as radars and other equipment to Pakistan. Republican Senator Rand Paul in late February invoked legislation known as the Arms Export Control Act in the hope of stopping the sale by passing a Resolution of Disapproval, calling Pakistan "an uncertain ally." Cardin told reporters he opposed Paul's resolution and expected it would fail, with the chamber's Republican and Democratic leaders opposing it.
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