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| Brazilian police launch new raids in sweeping corruption probe | | | BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Federal Police on Wednesday launched the latest stage of a sweeping investigation into corruption at state-controlled firms, with six arrest and 15 search warrants issued in the states of São Paulo and Santa Catarina. According to TV Globo channel, raids were being conducted in São Bernardo do Campo, the political stronghold of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose Workers' Party is involved in the probe. Dozens of executives and politicians have been arrested or are under investigation on suspicion of overcharging Petrobras and other state firms on contracts and using part of the proceeds to bribe members of President Dilma Rousseff's ruling coalition. |
| Russia, China cracking down as leaders fear grip may wane - Human Rights Watch | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Russia and China are imposing their biggest clampdown on civil society in a generation and Europe's efforts to manage its migrant crisis risk undermining its core values, Human Rights Watch says in its annual global review. The review of more than 90 countries' human rights records, released in Istanbul on Wednesday, highlighted Russia and China but said rights crackdowns are also taking place in countries from Ethiopia to Turkey. "In China and Russia ... the leadership has an implicit pact with their people: 'We will give you increased prosperity, if you let us govern without accountability," the group's executive director, Kenneth Roth, said in an interview.
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| One shot dead as FBI arrests Oregon occupation leader, others | |  One protester was shot dead and eight others were arrested on Tuesday after authorities confronted members of an armed group that has staged a month-long occupation of a federal wildlife reserve in Oregon, activists and officials said. The FBI said gunshots rang out after officers stopped a car carrying protest leader Ammon Bundy and others near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Activists said Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher who acted as a spokesman for the occupiers, was killed.
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| Israel letter shows Eichmann sought clemency as "mere instrument" of Nazis | |  Israel made public on Wednesday a handwritten request for clemency by Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, who was executed by Israel in 1962 following a war crimes trial. In his letter to then-President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Eichmann said he was a "mere instrument" of leaders responsible for the killing of 6 million Jews in World War Two. A spokesman for Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said although the plea for clemency had been public knowledge since Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, the actual letter had only recently been found when documents were being scanned for digital archiving.
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| Malaysian police find more bodies of migrants from Indonesian boat | | | Malaysian police said on Wednesday they had recovered five more bodies from the waters off the southern state of Johor, a day after a boat carrying illegal migrants capsized in big waves. District police chief Rahmat Othman said the boat had been travelling from Indonesia's Batam island and was believed to have been carrying up to 40 people. |
| S.Korea says suspects N.Korea may have attempted cyber attacks | |  South Korea said on Wednesday it suspected North Korea of attempting cyber attacks against targets in the South, following a nuclear test by the North this month that defied United Nations sanctions. South Korea has been on heightened military and cyber alert since the January 6 test, which Pyongyang called a successful hydrogen bomb test, although U.S. officials and experts doubt that it managed such a technological advance. "At this point, we suspect it is an act by North Korea," Jeong Joon-hee, a spokesman of the South's Unification Ministry, told a news briefing, when asked about reports that the North might have attempted cyber attacks.
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| Brazil sees worst decline in global corruption rankings | |  Brazil suffered the sharpest deterioration in public perceptions of corruption last year, global watchdog Transparency International (TI) said in its annual report published on Wednesday that showed graft remains pervasive worldwide. Brazil tumbled to 76th place out of 168 countries, down seven positions from 2014. Latin America's largest economy was rocked by a massive corruption scandal at state-run companies, including oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), which involved allegations against top government officials.
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| A third of world population lives in nations without freedoms - rights group | |  The year 2015 - shaped by mass migration, crackdowns on dissent, xenophobia and terror attacks - marked the 10th straight year of decline in global freedom, according to an annual report by the Washington-based Freedom House. Worldwide, 86 nations and territories were designated free based on their political rights and civil liberties, 50 were deemed not free, and 59 were partly free, it said.
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| Exclusive - White House dropped $10 million claim in Iran prisoner deal | |  By Joel Schectman and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nader Modanlo was facing five more years in federal prison when he got an extraordinary offer: U.S. President Barack Obama was ready to commute his sentence as part of this month's historic and then still-secret prisoner swap with Iran. Modanlo says the money was a loan from a Swiss company for a telecoms deal.
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| Authorities to review anti-corruption unit after match-fixing scandal | |  By Greg Stutchbury MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tennis officials on Wednesday launched an independent review into their anti-corruption practices after allegations the sport's watchdog had not done enough to stamp out possible corruption in the game. The announcement at the Australian Open came in the wake of media reports criticising the Tennis Integrity unit (TIU) for not adequately investigating some 16 players repeatedly flagged over suspicions they had thrown matches in the past decade. Recent corruption scandals involving the world governing bodies of soccer and athletics have thrown those sports into turmoil and tennis was not keen to follow them down that path, Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Chairman Chris Kermode said.
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