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| UK government needs stronger response to VW emissions scandal-committee | |  By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - The British government should take a tougher stance against Volkswagen after its emissions fraud, as well as increase the use of electric cars and reduce air pollution from transport, a parliamentary environment committee said on Thursday. Almost a year after U.S regulators found that Volkswagen (VW) had cheated in diesel emissions tests, the British government has yet to decide what action to take against Europe's largest automaker, even though it faces criminal investigations in the United States, South Korea and elsewhere. The worldwide scandal, dubbed "Dieselgate", has hurt VW's reputation and business, and already cost it billions of dollars.
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| Gabon's President Bongo re-elected, parliament set on fire | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Demonstrators in Gabon clashed with police and set part of the parliament building on fire on Wednesday as anger boiled over among opposition supporters at President Ali Bongo's re-election in polls that his main rival, Jean Ping, claimed to have won. Opposition members of the Central African oil producer's electoral commission rejected Saturday's first-past-the-post election result, which would see the Bongo family's nearly half-century in power extended another seven years. Gabon's economic troubles, caused by falling oil output and prices, have led to budget cuts in one of Africa's richest nations and fuelled opposition charges that its 1.8 million people have struggled under Bongo's leadership.
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| Defiant to the end, Brazil's Rousseff vows to fight on | |  By Stephen Eisenhammer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla who rose to become her country's first female president, went out as she always said she would: fighting. "I know we will all fight." Such defiance is characteristic of the 68-year-old leftist, who was imprisoned and tortured in the early 1970s under Brazil's military dictatorship. Removed from office for breaking budget laws, Rousseff denied any wrongdoing to the very end, vowing to appeal to the Supreme Court to reverse an impeachment she has described as a coup.
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| Trump discusses border wall with Mexico, sidesteps payment issue | |  By Christine Murray and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Donald Trump told Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday that the United States has the right to build a border wall to halt illegal immigration, but the Republican presidential candidate did not bring up his signature demand that Mexico pay for it. In an unexpected trip to a country that he has vilified for causing illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the United States, Trump held talks with the Mexican leader at his Los Pinos residence for about an hour.
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| Brazil's Rousseff ousted by Senate, Temer sworn in | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America's biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis. Senators voted 61-20 to convict the country's first female president for illegally using money from state banks to bankroll public spending, marking the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule. Rousseff's opponents hailed the removal of the former leftist guerrilla as paving the way for a change of fortunes for Brazil.
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| Brazil's Temer says spending cap key to fixing economy | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Michel Temer said on Wednesday that fixing Brazil's economy would not be easy, but his priority was to pass a spending cap this year, attract foreign investment, reduce unemployment and begin reform of the pension system. At his first cabinet meeting after being sworn in by Congress, Temer said he would not tolerate divisions within his coalition. In the meeting, which was televised, Temer appeared annoyed that some of his allies had moved to grant ousted President Dilma Rousseff political rights without consulting his government. ...
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| Venezuela detains 25 opposition supporters before rally - rights group | |  Venezuelan authorities rounded up 25 opposition activists and supporters in the last two days amid plans for a massive protest against President Nicolas Maduro, a rights group said on Wednesday. Opposition supporters around the country are descending on Caracas for rallies scheduled for Thursday to demand a recall referendum against the unpopular socialist leader. The local Penal Forum rights group said that of 25 people held in the last 48 hours, 12 had been released while 13 were still in custody by mid-afternoon Wednesday.
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| Macedonian political parties agree on December 11 election | | | Macedonia's political parties agreed on Wednesday to hold an early parliamentary election on Dec. 11 in a step to resolve the 18-month-long crisis over a wiretapping scandal. Under European Union and NATO pressure, parliament in May cancelled an election set for June 5 in the face of criticism that a threatened opposition boycott would call the vote's legitimacy into question. Zoran Zaev, leader of the opposition Social Democrats, said opposition parties would be part of this government. |
| After Apple, EU may focus on companies closer to home | |  By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Multinational companies can expect the European Commission to press on with a crack down on sweetheart tax deals after handing Apple a breathtaking demand for 13 billion euros, officials and experts said on Wednesday. The order to the iPhone maker to pay back taxes to Ireland on the grounds that Dublin illegally favoured Apple with a tax regime that amounted to a competition-distorting subsidy was the biggest of 38 decisions by Vestager since the Commission began probing some 1,000 companies in up to 23 EU states in 2013.
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| Brazil's Rousseff pledges to keep fighting after impeachment | |  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's former President Dilma Rousseff pledged on Wednesday to appeal her impeachment, which she called a parliamentary coup, and called on supporters to fight a conservative agenda empowered by her dismissal. "Right now I will not say goodbye to you. I am certain I can say, 'See you soon,'" she told supporters in Brasilia. (Reporting by Brad Haynes)
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| Spain's acting PM loses confidence vote to form government | |  By Jesús Aguado and Angus Berwick MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting premier on Wednesday lost a parliamentary confidence vote for a second term after he failed to win enough support from the opposition, bringing the country closer to a potential third election in a year. Mariano Rajoy, of the centre-right People's Party (PP), received 170 votes of support, falling short - as expected - of the minimum 176 needed to form a government. Spain's lack of a functioning government since inconclusive elections in June and December, and the resulting political deadlock, have stalled investment and there are signs it could be starting to limit a strong economic recovery.
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| Clinton touts 'American exceptionalism' in appeal to Republicans | |  By Jonathan Allen CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking to a U.S. veterans group on Wednesday, made an open appeal to Republican and independent voters concerned about rival Donald Trump's national security credentials and his fitness for office. It's not just about differences over policy," Clinton told an American Legion convention in Cincinnati. "It truly is about who has the experience and the temperament to serve as president and commander in chief." Clinton, a former secretary of state and former U.S. senator, at times sounded like the Republican candidates Trump defeated to win his party's presidential nomination.
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