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| Mental exam ordered for accused serial killer of San Diego homeless | | Wednesday, August 03, 2016 1:13 AM | |
|  By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A San Diego man charged with attacking five homeless men by driving railroad spikes into his victims' heads, killing three of them, was ordered on Tuesday to undergo a psychiatric exam to determine if he is mentally competent, a prosecutor said. Jon David Guerrero, 39, who is also accused of setting fire to two of his victims, was arrested last month as the lone suspect in a violent crime spree that terrorized the homeless community of California's second-largest city. The criminal proceedings were suspended after the defence raised questions about his mental fitness, and the judge ordered Guerrero to submit to an evaluation by a court-appointed panel of doctors, Deputy District Attorney Makenzie Harvey said.
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| Blood Mica: Key findings of investigation into child deaths in India's illegal mica mines | | Wednesday, August 03, 2016 1:07 AM | |
|  KODERMA/BHILWARA/SYDAPURAM, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults, lurks a dark, hidden secret - the cover-up of child deaths with seven killed in the past two months, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation revealed. * Dhanraj Sharma, a commissioner in Rajasthan's Labour Ministry, said he was not aware of child workers in the mines: "They may be playing there, they may be doing some small things for the parents.
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| Trump loses bid to end Trump University lawsuit before trial | | Wednesday, August 03, 2016 1:05 AM | |
|  A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's pretrial bid to throw out a lawsuit brought by Trump University students who said they were defrauded by its real-estate seminars. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said in a written ruling that there was a "genuine issue of material fact" as to whether Trump knowingly participated in a scheme to cheat the students, who paid up to $35,000 to learn Trump's real estate investing "secrets" from his "hand-picked" instructors. Curiel said there was extensive evidence Trump had not personally met, interviewed or selected Trump University instructors.
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| Venezuela leader names minister accused of drug crimes by U.S. | | Wednesday, August 03, 2016 12:55 AM | |
|  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday named Nestor Reverol, a military general accused of drug crimes by the United States, as his new interior minister and removed his top economic official Miguel Perez from cabinet. "I offer all my personal support, and as head of state, to him, and his family, after he has been attacked by the U.S. empire," Maduro said of Reverol, announcing a reshuffle of his top team during his weekly radio program. (Reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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| Newly elected protectionst senators could harm Australia's trade ties | | Wednesday, August 03, 2016 12:52 AM | |
|  By Tom Westbrook and Jarni Blakkarly SYDNEY (Reuters) - Four weeks after Australians went to the polls in a tightly contested election, vote counting is almost finished and has left the government with a razor-thin majority and a Senate brimming with economic protectionists who could hinder trade ties with the likes of China, Indonesia and the United States. "Pro-protectionist forces are a concern because ultimately they will degrade Australian living standards and harm Australian jobs," Australian Trade Minister Steve Ciobo told Reuters. Far-right One Nation, which has won at least two Senate seats, has already demanded that Treasurer Scott Morrison block the sales of electricity network Ausgrid and healthcare firm GenisisCare Ltd to Chinese interests.
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| Troops to patrol northeastern Brazil state to stop gang violence | | Wednesday, August 03, 2016 12:26 AM | |
|  Brazil's northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte will deploy troops on the streets to quash a wave of violence unleashed by a criminal gang just days before the Olympic Games open in Rio de Janeiro, officials said on Tuesday. Police have arrested 82 people suspected of torching dozens of buses, setting off bombs and firing shots at government buildings to oppose restrictions on gang leaders being held at the main penitentiary of Rio Grande do Norte in state capital Natal, about 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometres) north of Rio. The governor authorized the deployment of 1,200 troops on the streets of Natal and other towns where violence continued into a fifth day, said a spokesman for the state's security department, Captain Christiano Couceiro.
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| Bangladesh's missing militant link: the threat from abroad | | Wednesday, August 03, 2016 12:08 AM | |
|  By Serajul Quadir and Tom Lasseter DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - When Bangladeshi authorities last month released the names of 261 men who have gone missing from their families, in an attempt to find militants hidden in this country of 160 million people, at the very end of the list was "Jilani alias Abu Zidal". The young man, an engineering school dropout, travelled to Syria last year to fight for Islamic State. Asked why Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion, a domestic anti-terrorism agency, listed Jilani among the 261 names, its spokesman Mufti Mohammad Khan said neither the man's family nor the police had notified the battalion of the death.
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| California blaze near Big Sur traced to unattended campfire | | Wednesday, August 03, 2016 12:01 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - A blaze that has scorched some 43,000 acres (17,400 hectares) and destroyed dozens of homes near California's famed Big Sur coast was sparked by an illegal, unattended camp fire in a state park, authorities said on Tuesday. The so-called Soberanes Fire, which erupted on July 22, began as a small blaze, 2 feet (60 cm) in diameter, ignited by unknown individuals in a section of Garrapata State Park that was closed to camping and campfires, according to U.S. Forest Service spokesman Don Jaques. The more than 5,450 fire personnel battling the blaze have been able to draw containment lines - a measure of how much of its perimeter has been cleared by fire crews of unburned vegetation - around only 18 percent of the wildfire so far.
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| 'Shadow of death' hangs over Rio before Games - Amnesty | | | A sharp increase in police killings has cast "a shadow of death" over Rio de Janeiro as it prepares to host the Olympic Games, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Police in the city killed 49 people in June 2016, 40 in May and 35 in April, Amnesty said, citing state security figures. Since 2009, when Rio won the bid to host the Olympic Games, police have killed more than 2,600 people in the city, it said. |
| India's biggest tax reform looms, many companies unprepared | |  By Manoj Kumar and Douglas Busvine NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Throughout years of political gridlock, the risk that India might pass its biggest tax reform since independence appeared reassuringly remote for many businesses. Suddenly, the prospect that a new Goods and Services Tax (GST) could enter force next year has bosses panicking at the likely impact and seeking advice on how to cope. The expected passage by parliament on Wednesday of a key constitutional amendment would resolve crucial issues needed to transform India's $2 trillion economy and 1.3 billion consumers into a single market for the first time.
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| Trump loses bid for pretrial win in Trump University lawsuit | | A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's pretrial bid to win a lawsuit brought by students of Trump University who have said they were defrauded by its real-estate seminars. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said in a written ruling that there was a "genuine issue of material fact" as to whether Trump knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud Trump University students. Curiel said there was extensive evidence Trump had not personally met, interviewed or selected Trump University instructors, though he represented they had been handpicked.
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| Colombia destroys 104 cocaine labs in five days | | | Colombian law enforcement has destroyed 104 cocaine laboratories capable of producing some 100 tonnes of the drug annually, the head of the anti-narcotics police said on Tuesday. The operation, conducted over five days in the country's southeastern jungle region, is part of new government strategy focused on combating drug production as well as the cultivation of coca, the base ingredient of cocaine. "This is a structural blow to the finances of drug trafficking," anti-narcotics police director General Jose Angel Mendoza told Reuters in the jungles of Guaviare province. |
| Brazil impeachment trial closer to sealing Rousseff's fate | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Senate report found on Tuesday that Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff violated the constitution by manipulating government accounts, moving her drawn-out impeachment trial closer to deciding her fate. The report is expected to be approved by the impeachment committee on Friday and by the full Senate next Tuesday, leading to the final trial phase in which the 81 Senators must reach a verdict at the end of August or first days of September. The impeachment of the unpopular leftist leader has paralysed Brazilian politics for seven months and held interim President Michel Temer in a legal limbo that has hindered his efforts to pull Brazil from fiscal crisis and severe recession.
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| Obama, Singapore leader push Pacific trade deal in state visit | |  By Timothy Gardner and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Singapore's prime minister on Tuesday made sales pitches for a Pacific Rim trade deal that both U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have derided and that has been stalled in Congress. Aiming to keep alive hopes for a post-election congressional vote in the closing weeks of 2016 in favour of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Obama said its merits would overcome fierce criticism on the campaign trail. It won't just be a political symbol or a political football," Obama told a White House news conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during a state visit.
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| Family of 'Star Trek' actor sues Fiat Chrysler over rollaway death | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The parents of the late "Star Trek" movie actor Anton Yelchin sued Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV for negligence and product liability on Tuesday over the rollaway crash of a Jeep Grand Cherokee that killed their son. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, is believed to be the first wrongful death complaint linked to the Fiat Chrysler recall in April of more than 1.1 million cars and SUVs because of vehicles that roll away after drivers exit them. Yelchin, 27, was killed on June 19 when his 2015 Grand Cherokee, which was covered under the recall, rolled backward in the steep driveway of his Los Angeles home and crushed the actor against a brick wall and fence.
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| Chicago police watchdog inaccurately reported shooting incidents - official | | | Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said in a 13-page report that the Independent Police Review Authority's (IPRA) public reporting of incidents involving officers who fired their weapons was incomplete and inaccurate. From September 2007 to September 2014, IPRA reported 344 shootings in which someone was struck by a bullet and 291 shootings in which no one was struck. |
| Republican tensions rise as Trump withholds support for leading figures | |  By Alana Wise and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions in his Republican Party on Tuesday, denying leading figures support in their re-election bids, while his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton won her first endorsement from a Republican lawmaker. President Barack Obama blasted Trump as unfit to be president and questioned why any Republican would support the New York businessman seeking his first public office. "The question I think that they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable: Why are you still endorsing him?" Obama, a Democrat, said at a White House news conference with Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong.
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| U.S. police body camera policies put civil rights at risk - study | |  Police forces in 50 U.S. cities are failing to protect the civil rights and privacy of residents due to the inadequacy of programs that govern how their officers use body-worn cameras, a report by a coalition of rights groups said on Tuesday. Many U.S. cities have approved or expanded the use of body cameras since August 2014, when a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The study was conducted for The Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights coalition by Upturn, a Washington DC-based company that studies how technology affects social issues.
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| Delaware's top court strikes down state's death penalty statute | | | (Reuters) - Delaware's top court on Tuesday struck down the state's death penalty statute, arguing that it grants judges powers that juries should wield and that it is unconstitutional. The 3-2 Delaware Supreme Court decision came in the case of Benjamin Rauf, who was charged with first-degree murder and robbery and being in possession of a firearm during the crimes. Prosecutors have been seeking the death penalty against Rauf. |
| Canada to let Supreme Court candidates nominate themselves | |  By Ethan Lou TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will change the way it fills vacancies on its top court, letting qualified lawyers and judges nominate themselves for Supreme Court openings and using a nonpartisan advisory board to recommend candidates, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday. There is a looming vacancy on the nine-member Supreme Court, with Justice Thomas Cromwell announcing he will retire in September, giving Trudeau his first chance to appoint a member of the court since becoming prime minister last November. Under the current system, Supreme Court justices in Canada are effectively picked directly by the prime minister, who does not require parliamentary approval.
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| White House directs federal agencies to consider climate change | | | By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal agencies should disclose whether their actions and decisions will have an impact on climate change, the White House announced on Tuesday. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalised an update after nearly six years of consultations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a Nixon-era statute that called on officials to weigh the environmental effects of projects such as highways, dams or oil drilling. The update takes NEPA a step further by requiring agencies such as the Interior Department to the Army Corps of Engineers to quantify greenhouse gas emissions in NEPA project reviews and to describe the potential climate change impacts. |
| Somalia urged to pass law banning "horrendous" FGM | | | By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somalia's next government should ensure a law is passed banning all forms of female genital mutilation (FGM), a U.N. official said on Tuesday, describing the deeply entrenched practice as a "horrendous rights violation". Somalia has the world's highest rate of FGM with 98 percent of women between 15 and 49 having been subjected to the potentially deadly ritual. A bill on FGM is sitting in parliament but is unlikely to be debated until next year because of elections expected this month in the Horn of Africa country. |
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