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| Venezuela's parliament boss blasts report of drug trafficking | |  Venezuela's powerful parliamentary chief, Diosdado Cabello, on Tuesday slammed a Wall Street Journal report that U.S. authorities are investigating him and other senior officials for possible cocaine trafficking and money laundering. "It would never occur to us to get involved in something that would hurt young people," he said in a speech to the Socialist-controlled National Assembly. "Those who today accuse me today of drug trafficking should present one piece of evidence, just one," he told the assembly, which chanted "We're all Diosdado" and pushed a motion to support Cabello, lauding him as a "hero of the fatherland." Citing more than 12 people familiar with the probes, the newspaper on Monday said federal prosecutors in New York and Miami and a Drug Enforcement Administration unit were gathering evidence from former cocaine traffickers, Venezuelan military defectors and people once close to top Venezuelan government officials.
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| Obama meets with advisers on Iraq, reaffirms support for Abadi - White House | |  President Barack Obama was briefed by his top national security advisers on Tuesday on the situation in Iraq and the strategy to counter Islamic State militants, the White House National Security Council said in a statement. Obama "reaffirmed the strong U.S. support" for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the White House said after the meeting, which involved 25 advisers including Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, and General Lloyd Austin of U.S. Central Command. There has been concern in the United States about the risk of sectarian strife in Ramadi, the capital of Sunni-majority Anbar province, because of the need to use Shi'ite militias to try to take back the city from Islamic State fighters.
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| Prostitute pleads guilty in Google executive's heroin death | |  (Reuters) - A prostitute charged with killing a Google executive by injecting him with heroin on his yacht off the California coast pleaded guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter, court officials said. Alix Catherine Tichelman, 27, was sentenced to six years in prison by a Santa Cruz Superior Court judge after she accepted a plea deal in which a manslaughter charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter, a court official said. Prosecutors say Tichelman, a high-priced call girl, injected Forrest Hayes, 51, with heroin during a tryst aboard his yacht off Santa Cruz in November 2013.
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| U.S .judge pressures State Dept. on Clinton emails release | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. State Department to produce a plan to release batches of Hillary Clinton's emails from her time there, raising the prospect of months of drip-by-drip disclosures that could plague her presidential campaign. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ordered the State Department to prepare a timetable by next week for the rolling release of the 55,000 pages of emails sent and received by Clinton, according to a court document. It was a rebuke to the State Department, which had said on Monday it might need until January 2016 to produce the emails.
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| Texas police seek gang truce, end of bloodshed after deadly brawl | |  By Lisa Maria Garza WACO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas police asked rival motorcycle gangs on Tuesday to put aside their differences after a weekend brawl at a Waco restaurant that left nine people dead and 18 injured, calling for a halt to the carnage and threats of revenge attacks. "There has been enough tragedy and there has been enough bloodshed in Waco, Texas. Few of those involved in the deadly brawl are from the Waco area, Swanton said.
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| Islamic State learns lessons from U.S. raid - jihadist sources | |  By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - A U.S. special forces raid against an Islamic State leader in Syria caught the jihadist group off guard, killing not only the declared target, but also two other important figures, jihadist sources in Syria said. The sources said a spy must have infiltrated the movement and passed on vital information that helped the U.S. commandos zero in on the home of their victim early Saturday when most of the guards had left to join a battle elsewhere. The Islamic State was also considering tightening its recruitment procedures to try to root out moles and was considering forming a specialist unit to counter such attacks in future.
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| Mediterranean shipwreck crew won't face kidnapping charge | |  Two smugglers arrested over the deaths of hundreds drowned in the Mediterranean's most deadly shipwreck in decades will not be charged with kidnapping because assertions that migrants had been locked below deck had proved wrong, an Italian prosecutor said on Tuesday. The two face homicide charges over the sinking of a 20-metre fishing boat last month that killed some 800 migrants. The incident also raised international alarm about attempts by thousands to flee across the Mediterranean from Libya in often ramshackle boats.
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| Pentagon says Iran warships 'linked up' with cargo vessel | | | By Jonathan Saul and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that two Iranian warships have "linked up" with a cargo ship that Iran has said is carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen, as activists on board the vessel said it was due to arrive at the Yemeni port of Hodaida on Thursday. "We're not overly concerned at this point," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren told a briefing, adding that the ships' locations were being monitored "every step of the way." Warren said the warships "linked up" with the Iranian cargo ship as it passed an area where the Iranian warships are conducting counter-piracy operations. It was not immediately clear whether the warships were now escorting the cargo ship, or in close proximity due to the Iranian military exercises. |
| EU migrant quotas "insane", Hungary's Orban says | |  By Robin Emmott and Marton Dunai BRUSSELS/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban decried EU proposals for migrant quotas as "bordering on insanity" on Tuesday, and defended his recent calls for the possible reintroduction of the death penalty. Orban made a combative appearance before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where lawmakers challenged the centre-right leader over his increasingly tough anti-immigration stance. "The proposal on the table from the European Commission... is absurd, bordering on insanity," Orban told the parliament.
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| Amnesty International says Morocco 'getting away with torture' | | | Amnesty International urged Morocco on Tuesday to stamp out torture, including the use of mock drownings and sexual violence, in a report that cited 173 alleged cases over a four-year period. Beatings, use of stress positions, asphyxiation and psychological violence were also among an array of torture techniques used by Moroccan security services, Amnesty said in a report on alleged cases between 2010 and 2014. Amnesty also accuses Moroccan authorities of using "false reporting" and slander laws to prosecute alleged torture victims who testify about their experiences. |
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