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| Brazil's anti-corruption agency employees demand minister's ouster | | Tuesday, May 31, 2016 2:38 AM | |
| | Hundreds of employees of Brazil's anti-corruption Ministry of Transparency marched to the presidential palace on Monday to demand the removal of the minister appointed 18 days ago by interim President Michel Temer. The demonstration against Minister Fabiano Silveira was prompted by a leaked recording of a conversation three months before he was appointed in which he was heard criticizing prosecutors in the Petrobras graft investigation. The head of the employees' union, Rudinei Marques, said almost all the 1,000 employees of the ministry joined the march, and 250 employees with management positions had left their posts and would not resume their duties until Silveira was gone. |
| Leonardo Finmeccanica to reconsider business in India if blacklisted | | Tuesday, May 31, 2016 2:35 AM | |
|  Italian defence company Leonardo Finmeccanica has threatened to reassess its business in India, a few days after New Delhi said it would blacklist the company over the alleged payment of bribes to win a large helicopter contract. Finmeccanica has distanced itself from the allegations, saying the case is against the individuals rather than the company, but India's defence minister said the company would be banned from future government tenders. Manohar Parrikar made the comments after India's top court allowed an Italian marine accused of murdering two fishermen to be freed and flown back to Italy in another case that has soured relations between the two countries.
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| Outrage mounts over gorilla killing in boy's rescue at Ohio zoo | |  By Ginny McCabe CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Animal lovers mobilized on Monday as outrage mounted over the Cincinnati Zoo's killing of a gorilla to rescue a 4-year-old boy who fell into the animal's enclosure. More than 200,000 people had signed online petitions on Change.org protesting the shooting of Harambe, the Western lowland gorilla, whose species is listed as endangered. The most popular "Justice for Harambe" petition seeks police action and also urges child protective services to investigate the boy's home to guard against "further incidents of negligence." Witnesses said they heard the boy telling his mother he wanted to enter the enclosure.
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| In Egyptian village, attack on Christian grandmother fuels anger | |  By Ahmed Aboulenein and Omar Fahmy ALKARM, Egypt (Reuters) - Soad Thabet's house no longer has a door. Then come the reconciliation sessions, processes informally backed by the government that see local Coptic priests and Muslim clerics attempt to mediate a communal peace without resorting to the legal system.
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| Four civilians killed, 19 people wounded by blast in SE Turkey | | | DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Four civilians were killed and 19 people were wounded by an explosion in the town of Silopi in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast on Monday, security sources said. Five of the wounded were members of the security forces, the sources said. Silopi, like many towns across the southeast, has been scorched by violence since the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) abandoned its 2-1/2-year ceasefire with the government last year. (Reporting by Seyhmus Cakan and Ayla Jean Yackley; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Andrew Roche) |
| Strikes, protests pose new headache for Paris tourism | |  By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) - As Paris tourism struggles to overcome last November's Islamist attacks, the world's most visited city faces a new threat: a wave of protests and further planned strikes, tourism officials warned on Monday. "The scenes of guerrilla-type action in central Paris, beamed around the world, reinforce the feeling of fear and misunderstanding from visitors in an already angst-filled climate," Frederic Valletoux, head of the Paris region tourist board said in a statement on Monday. "There is still time to save the tourist season by putting an end to these blockades that are being shown the world over." Evelyne Maes, head of the UMIH-Paris-Ile de France hotel federation, told Reuters that bookings for June to August were down 20 to 50 percent from a year ago.
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| Former Croatia captain Boban given high-ranking FIFA role | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Former Croatia captain Zvonimir Boban was given a high-ranking role at FIFA on Monday when soccer's global ruling body named him as one of its two new deputy secretary generals. Boban, 47, will oversee the "football pillar" of FIFA's new administration, focusing on developing the game and the organisation of competitions, FIFA said in a statement. Marco Villiger, currently FIFA's legal director, was named as the other deputy secretary general and will be in charge of commercial and administrative operations.
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| Chad's ex-leader Habre, Cold War-era ally of West, gets life in prison for atrocities | |  By Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) - Former Chad president Hissene Habre, an ally of the West during the Cold War, was convicted on Monday of war crimes and crimes against humanity for ordering the killing and torture of thousands of political opponents during his eight-year rule. The verdict capped a 16-year battle by victims and rights campaigners to bring the former strongman to justice in Senegal, where he fled after being ousted in a 1990 coup. Habre, 73, was sentenced to life in prison by the Special African Chamber (CAE), a tribunal created in 2013 by Senegal and the African Union.
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| Turkey's Erdogan accuses Russia of arming PKK militants | |  By Orhan Coskun and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has accused Russia of providing anti-aircraft weaponry and rockets to militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), government officials said on Monday, confirming reports in local media. Speaking to reporters on board his airplane after a visit to the southeastern province of Diyarbakir over the weekend, Erdogan accused Moscow of transferring weaponry to the PKK via Iraq and Syria, the pro-government Star newspaper said. "At this moment, terrorists are using anti-aircraft guns and missiles supplied by Russia.
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| Brother of Paris attacker on trial over militant training | | | By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - Seven people went on trial in Paris on Monday accused of travelling to Syria to train as militant fighters, among them the brother of one of the militants who killed 130 people in the French capital last November. The seven, aged from 24 to 27, face up to 10 years in jail if found guilty of taking part in an Islamist recruitment network and receiving training in Syria from Islamic State. The accused, friends from eastern France, were part of a larger number who in December 2013 travelled to Syria, where two of them died. |
| UAE acquits two Libyan-Americans and Canadian of militancy charges | | | A security court in the United Arab Emirates on Monday acquitted two Libyan-American businessmen and a Libyan-Canadian charged with supporting Libyan militants, a lawyer and a family representative said. "The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Abu Dhabi Supreme Court State Security Chamber found American businessmen Kamal and Mohamed Eldarat not guilty, after nearly two years of arbitrary detainment and a four-month trial," a statement from the Eldarat family said. Kamal and son Mohamed were arrested at their home in the UAE in 2014, according to the family. |
| Kuwait jails three royals for insulting emir, judiciary | |  A Kuwaiti court sentenced three members of the country's ruling family to five years in jail on Monday for insulting the Gulf state's ruler and judiciary on an internet messaging service, a defendant in the case said, confirming local media reports. One of the convicted men is Sheikh Athbi al-Fahad al-Sabah, a former intelligence chief and brother of influential sports power broker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, the defendant said. Sheikh Athbi is also a nephew of Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.
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