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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. |
| 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 amid anger among opposition supporters over 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. France, the United States, and the European Union all urged calm on Wednesday and called upon Gabonese authorities to release the results of individual polling stations for greater transparency.
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| 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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| U.S. court dismisses award against Palestinian Authority, PLO over attacks | | | A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $655.5 million (500.50 million pounds) judgment against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization after they had been found liable to a group of American families who accused them of supporting terrorist attacks in Israel. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge erred in concluding he had jurisdiction over the defendants with regard to the plaintiffs' claims. The appeals court ordered the lawsuit be dismissed. |
| Spain's acting PM Rajoy loses first confidence vote to win second term | |  Spain's acting prime minister lost a parliamentary confidence vote for a second term on Wednesday, as expected, 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), secured the backing of only 170 representatives in the 350-strong assembly, six seats shy of the majority he needed. Liberal newcomer Ciudadanos voted in favour of Rajoy, as did a small party from the Canary Islands.
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| FIFA chief Infantino to be paid 1.5 million Swiss francs a year | |  FIFA president Gianni Infantino will be paid a salary of 1.5 million Swiss francs ($1.53 million) a year, less than a quarter of that received by his predecessor Sepp Blatter, soccer's world governing body announced on Wednesday. Infantino, who was elected on Feb. 26, will also get a "car and lodging free of charge during his term and contribution to expenses in accordance with FIFA's expenses regulations," FIFA said in a statement. "Bonus payments from 2017 onwards will be awarded in accordance with objective criteria related to FIFA's mission and operations as well as the outcome of the organisational reforms, now being implemented," said the statement.
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| Brazil's Senate decides not to bar Rousseff from public office | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate decided that former President Dilma Rouseeff, who was removed from office earlier on Wednesday, should not be barred from holding public office. Senators voted 42-36 to allow Rousseff to maintain her political rights, short of the two-thirds needed to bar her. Under Brazilian law, a dismissed president is prevented from holding any government job, even teaching posts at state universities. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Daniel Flynn)
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| Virginia Republicans seek to block governor's voting rights restoration | |  Virginia Republican leaders said they will file a contempt motion on Wednesday against Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe over his efforts to restore voting rights to about 206,000 felons. The motion comes the week after McAuliffe said he had restored voting rights to almost 13,000 felons on a case-by-case basis after the state Supreme Court blocked his blanket clemency effort. McAuliffe's executive order was seen as a possible aid in tipping Virginia, a swing state in the Nov. 8 presidential election, in favor of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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| Brazil's Rousseff will appeal impeachment to Supreme Court | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's former President Dilma Rousseff will appeal her impeachment to the Supreme Court, her lawyer and former attorney general Jose Eduardo Cardozo told journalists on Wednesday after a final Senate vote to dismiss her. (Reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| White House says has no evidence Russia killed Islamic State's Adnani | |  The White House does not have evidence suggesting Russia was involved in an air strike that killed Islamic State leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The United States and its coalition partners carried out a strike on Tuesday against Adnani, one of the last living senior members of the Islamic State militant group. Moscow has claimed that Russian airstrikes in Syria on Tuesday had killed Adnani, who served as a spokesman for Islamic State.
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