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| Nepal ends fuel rationing after supply from India improves | | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 3:14 AM | |
|  Nepal ended months-long fuel rationing after supply from India improved, following the end of a border blockade by ethnic protesters against a new constitution, an official said on Tuesday. Relief came as Prime Minister K.P. Oli visited India, where he met Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and cleared up differences over Nepal's adoption of its first post-monarchy constitution last September. Nepal adopted the charter in hope of bringing stability after years of civil war, but it upset the minority Madhesi community in the south who blocked key border crossings with India causing severe shortage of oil and cooking gas.
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| Michigan attacks may renew scrutiny of Uber vetting processes | | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 2:50 AM | |
|  By Alexandria Sage and Mary Wisniewski NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The deaths of six people in Kalamazoo, Michigan, who authorities say were shot by a driver for Uber Technologies Inc, have revived scrutiny over how the ride service vets its drivers, an issue that has plagued it for years. Uber, which said it is cooperating with the police investigation, said its safety protocol is robust and adequate. The San Francisco company will not change the way it vets its drivers in the aftermath of the shooting, Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan said Monday.
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| Pentagon to submit plan to Congress for closing Guantanamo prison | | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 2:35 AM | |
|  By Yeganeh Torbati and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is expected to submit to Congress on Tuesday President Barack Obama's long-awaited plan for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, setting up a battle with lawmakers who oppose his efforts. Obama, whose pledge to shut the facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba dates back to the start of his presidency in 2009, is seeking to make good on his promise before he leaves office next January. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the administration intended to meet Tuesday's deadline to present its detailed proposal for closing the facility.
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| Republican Kirk breaks with U.S. Senate leaders on high court seat | | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 2:30 AM | |
|  By Susan Cornwell and Eric Beech WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, facing a tough re-election fight in Illinois, said on Monday the Senate should vote on whomever President Barack Obama nominates to the U.S. Supreme Court, breaking with his party's leadership. In another defection among Republicans, Senator Susan Collins of Maine called for hearings on the eventual nominee. A political fight has erupted over filling the court's vacancy left by the Feb. 13 death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, with many top Republicans threatening to block any nominee put forth by the Democratic president.
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| More Californians register to vote but fewer are Republicans, state says | | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 2:18 AM | |
|  More people have registered to vote in California since the last major election in 2012, but the number of Republicans in the Democrat-dominated state continues to drop, according to state data released. Democrats hold all statewide elective offices and large majorities in both houses of the legislature in the most populous U.S. state. There were just under 4.8 million Republicans registered in the state as of Jan. 3, down from nearly 5.2 million in early January 2012, the last presidential election cycle, Secretary of State Alex Padilla said Monday.
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| California lawmaker aims to reduce eating disorders among fashion models | | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 1:32 AM | |
| | By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Fashion models who want to work in California would need a doctor to attest that they are of healthy weight and not suffering from an eating disorder under a proposal announced by a state lawmaker on Monday. The bill proposed by California state Assembly member Marc Levine follows efforts in several countries to fight anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders among models, who are relentlessly pressured to lose weight or lose work. "The evidence of eating disorders in the modelling industry is alarming," Levine, a Democrat who represents the Marin County suburbs of San Francisco, said in a statement on Monday. |
| Australian abuse inquiry says will sit in Rome to hear Vatican treasurer | | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 12:41 AM | |
|  An Australian government inquiry into child abuse has said it has found a suitable public venue in Rome where victims will be able to watch the Vatican's Australian-born treasurer testify about his knowledge of molestation within the church. Cardinal George Pell, a former archbishop of Sydney and Melbourne, is the star witness in the long-running inquiry but angered victims last year when he delayed travelling from the Vatican to Australia to testify because of heart problems. The inquiry said in a statement on Tuesday that Pell would testify at the Hotel Quirinale in Rome for an expected four hours per day over three to four days.
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| Producer Dr. Luke accuses Kesha supporters of 'trial by Twitter' | |  Pop star Kesha's former music producer on Monday said allegations that he had raped the singer were lies, and hit back at a "trial by Twitter" backed by some of music's biggest names over Kesha's bid to extricate herself from a recording contract. Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, posted a series of tweets saying that people supporting Kesha's claims of sexual assault against him were "getting behind an allegation only - motivated by money." "I didn't rape Kesha and I have never had sex with her. Kesha and I were friends for many years and she was like my little sister," the producer said.
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| Female guard testimony illegally redacted in 9/11 hearing - lawyers | | | The dispute arose over blacked-out testimony by a female guard in October about whether women guards at the U.S. military base in Cuba should be barred for religious reasons from touching Muslim prisoners. The guard, who used the pseudonym Sergeant Jinx, spoke in open court in 2015 about contact between female guards and Guantanamo Bay detainees. Intelligence agencies later scrubbed Jinx's statements from an online transcript that had been available to the public on a government website. |
| Brazil police target Rousseff campaign chief in corruption probe | |  By Caroline Stauffer and Pedro Fonseca SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police said on Monday they obtained an arrest warrant for the architect of President Dilma Rousseff's electoral campaigns, complicating her fight to survive an investigation of her re-election in 2014 and stave off impeachment by Congress. The investigation of campaigner João Santana, known as "the maker of presidents" in Latin America, was part of Brazil's corruption investigation focusing on state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras.
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| Cosby's wife faces questioning in suit by alleged victims | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Bill Cosby's wife of a half-century faced questioning on Monday by lawyers for seven women who accused the comedian of sex assault and sued him for defamation after a federal judge rejected her bid to avoid a deposition. Camille Cosby, who manages her husband's business, was deposed at a hotel in Springfield, Massachusetts. Plaintiffs' lawyer Joseph Cammarata said he intended to "vindicate our clients' interests." "I expect to ask her about her relationship with Mr. Cosby, her relationship to his personal interests, his business interests and matters that are relevant," Cammarata said.
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