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| U.S. seeks up to 16 months in prison for Dinesh D'Souza | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government wants conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza to be sentenced to as much as 16 months in prison, following his guilty plea to a campaign finance law violation. In a Wednesday court filing, federal prosecutors rejected defense arguments that D'Souza was "ashamed and contrite" about his crime, had "unequivocally accepted responsibility," and deserved a sentence of probation with community service. D'Souza, 53, admitted in May to illegally reimbursing two "straw donors" who donated $10,000 each to the unsuccessful 2012 U.S. ...
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| Corrected - With World Trade site largely rebuilt, New York marks Sept.11 | |  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - (Corrects para 11 to show 1 World Trade Center due to open later this year, not next year) Until a few months ago, the part of New York City where crowds will gather on Thursday morning to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States had been mostly fenced off to the public. This year, for perhaps the first time since the attacks, a sense of normalcy and openness has taken root in the city blocks where two airliners hijacked by militants from al Qaeda crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers. ...
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| Judgement day for Oscar Pistorius | |  By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - After 41 days of tears, anguish and at times gruesome testimony in the Pretoria High Court, Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who became one of the biggest names in athletics, will learn this week whether he will spend the next 25 years behind bars. In a fitting reminder of how South Africa has changed in the 20 years since apartheid, the fate of Pistorius, a wealthy white man from privileged roots, rests in the hands of a 66-year-old black woman from Soweto, Judge Thokozile Masipa. ...
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| Oscar Pistorius verdict hangs on 'possible improbabilities' | |  By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Eighteen months ago, when he granted Oscar Pistorius bail after the killing of his girlfriend, South African magistrate Desmond Nair noted a number of "improbabilities" in the Olympic and Paralympic star's account of the shooting. After 41 days of testimony and drama in the Pretoria High Court, Pistorius's freedom hangs on whether the prosecution has made its case well enough to convince judge Thokozile Masipa that such improbabilities cannot be "reasonably possibly true". ...
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| Second explosive device detonates in Chilean supermarket | | | SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Two explosive devices were detonated within a span of 24 hours in the Chilean coastal city of Vina del Mar, causing at least three minor injuries, in the same week the Andean country suffered its worst bomb attack in at least 20 years. The second device exploded Wednesday evening in the bathroom of a supermarket, leaving two people with minor injuries, after a similar explosion Tuesday night left a woman with trauma to her hearing. Chile is on high alert after Monday's attack, when a bomb was left in a trash can near a metro station in capital city Santiago, wounding 14. ... |
| UK blames Assad regime after watchdog documents chlorine attacks | |  By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The global chemical-weapons watchdog found evidence that chlorine gas was used "systematically and repeatedly" as a weapon in northern Syria, where witnesses described poison barrel bombs crashing into their villages from the sky, the agency said on Wednesday in a report obtained by Reuters. Reacting to the report, Britain and the United States blamed the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which they said was the only party in the civil war with helicopters. "The moderate opposition do not possess air capability power that could do this," U.S. ...
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| Brazil confirms Amazon deforestation sped up in 2013 | | | By Marcelo Teixeira SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The destruction of the world's largest rainforest accelerated last year with a 29 percent spike in deforestation, according to final figures released by the Brazilian government on Wednesday that confirmed a reversal in gains seen since 2009. Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July 2013 showed that 5,891 square km (3,360 square miles) of forest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico. ... |
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