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| Silence may not be golden as India's Modi lays low during unrest | |  By Andrew MacAskill and Douglas Busvine NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Amid the clamour of unrest sweeping university campuses and the state of Haryana near New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided on a strategy that risks emboldening political opponents: silence is golden. Advisers describe a leader who is on top of events, but who prefers not to get sucked into rowdy debate on India's public square. "He (Modi) believes that his popularity comes from being seen as a serious politician who gets on with his work," said a leader of Modi's ruling party, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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| Colombia drug cartel leader gets 25 years in U.S. prison | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former leader of a violent Colombian drug cartel was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to import massive amounts of cocaine into the United States. Ericson Vargas Cardona, 42, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan, after pleading guilty last April of conspiring to traffic in cocaine and using a semiautomatic assault weapon in the process. Vargas, who authorities said by the time of his capture by Colombian authorities in 2012 had risen to the top of the leadership of the drug cartel La Oficina de Envigado, said he had only himself to hold responsible for why he was in court. |
| Judge orders Clinton aides to be questioned under oath on emails | |  A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. State Department officials and aides to Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about whether the former secretary of state's use of a private email system was an effort to skirt open records laws. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is likely to add to the uncertainty hovering over Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for the November U.S. presidential election, about the legal consequences of her decision to exclusively use a private email server in her New York home for her government work. The State Department and Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group suing for records about the employment of a senior Clinton aide, must agree on a plan for the depositions by April, Sullivan said in his order on Tuesday, according to court documents.
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| Obama makes last attempt to persuade Congress to close Guantanamo | |  By Jeff Mason and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launched a final push on Tuesday to persuade Congress to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite strong opposition from lawmakers who do not want detainees transferred to the United States. The Pentagon-authored plan proposes 13 potential sites on U.S. soil to hold some 30-60 detainees in maximum-security prisons but does not identify the facilities. U.S. law bars transfers to the United States, and lawmakers are unlikely to lift those restrictions, especially in an election year.
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| Cruz seeks dismissal of case challenging U.S. presidential eligibility | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Republican Ted Cruz asked a federal court in Houston to throw out a lawsuit questioning whether he is eligible to be president of the United States because he was born in Canada, saying the case against him "suffers from fatal deficiencies." Lawyers for Cruz contend in the filing made on Monday that the U.S. senator from Texas meets the constitutional requirements to serve as president and that the Houston lawyer trying to have the court block his bid does not have standing to bring the case. "Senator Cruz is a 'natural-born citizen' eligible to serve as President of the United States," the motion to dismiss said, adding, the "plaintiff is essentially implicating the Court in a political dispute that it lacks authority to adjudicate." The lawsuit brought in January by Newton Schwartz, an 85-year-old self-described liberal, also cited Cruz's stance on issues such as abortion rights, gay marriage and the Bible in a 27-page argument against the senator's eligibility.
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| Michigan Uber driver swapped cars during deadly shooting spree | |  By Mark Kauzlarich KALAMAZOO, Mich. (Reuters) - The Michigan Uber driver charged with murdering six people switched vehicles after sideswiping a car at the start of the shooting spree, authorities said on Tuesday, adding they hoped his phone would help establish a motive for the killings. It was also disclosed that the suspect, Jason Dalton, visited a gun shop shortly before the shootings and bought a heavy-duty jacket that could conceal a small pistol. Dalton, 45, was denied bail on Monday after a court hearing in which a detective testified that he admitted to the five-hour shooting rampage over the weekend in Kalamazoo, Michigan, about 150 miles (240 km) west of Detroit.
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| Sportscaster Erin Andrews' lawyer blames hotel in stalking case | |  By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Attorneys for sportscaster Erin Andrews said on Tuesday a Marriott hotel was negligent in enabling a guest to shoot a nude video of her that went viral on the Internet, while the Tennessee hotel put the blame entirely on the stalker. Andrews, who has since moved from ESPN to Fox Sports, has sued the Marriott Nashville at Vanderbilt University for $75 million over the 2008 incident, in which a man in a neighbouring room, Michael David Barrett, rigged a peep hole and shot the video of Andrews changing. Andrews originally had named Marriott International as a defendant but the judge dismissed the company from the case last month.
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| Saudi Arabia, Gulf allies raise Lebanon travel warning amid Iran row | | | Saudi Arabia and Bahrain warned their citizens on Tuesday against travel to Lebanon, citing safety concerns, and the United Arab Emirates said it was banning its nationals from visiting the Mediterranean country. The moves by the Gulf Arab allies came after Saudi Arabia last week suspended aid worth $3 billion to the Lebanese army over the Beirut government's failure to sign up to statements condemning attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain both urged citizens currently in Lebanon to leave quickly for their own safety. |
| Rousseff campaign chief Santana surrenders to Brazilian police | |  By Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The architect of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 and 2014 campaigns, João Santana, landed in Brazil from the Dominican Republic on Tuesday and was taken in a police jet to the city of Curitiba, the epicentre of a massive corruption probe, his spokesman said. The arrest of Santana is a threat to Rousseff, who is facing questions over whether her 2014 campaign was financed with bribe money skimmed off of state-run oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras. Police said on Monday they had a warrant for Santana's arrest after evidence showed engineering conglomerate Grupo Odebrecht had paid him funds siphoned from Petrobras in offshore accounts.
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| Denmark PM calls party heads' meeting as government support hangs in balance | |  Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called a meeting on Tuesday night of party leaders who back his minority government to assess whether he has enough support in parliament to stay in office, after one party withdrew support for his environment minister. Rasmussen, who heads the Liberals, wrote on Twitter that he had called a meeting to see "if the government retains a majority to be the government". The Conservatives, who support Rasmussen's government in parliament, said on Tuesday they could no longer back Environment and Food Minister Eva Kjer Hansen after she was accused of misleading the house over the environmental impact of a series of planned agricultural reforms.
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| U.S. lawmakers offer bills to counter Obama Guantanamo plan | |  U.S. Republican lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday to counter President Barack Obama's bid to close the Guantanamo detention centre, underscoring the difficulty he faces keeping a promise to close it before leaving office next year. Republican Representative Ed Royce, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a measure that would force the Obama administration to publicize plans for transfers from Guantanamo. Currently, the administration must inform Congress of plans for any transfers, but those notices are classified.
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| Spain's Socialists near deal with Ciudadanos but still far from majority | |  Spain's Socialist party and liberal newcomer Ciudadanos were close to striking a deal on Tuesday over a coalition government, both parties said, although their alliance would fall well short of a parliamentary majority. The move was seen by political analysts as an attempt by the two parties to put pressure on the ruling conservative People's Party (PP) to abstain in a vote of confidence on the Socialist leader, Pedro Sanchez, scheduled for next Wednesday. Winning that vote would make Sanchez prime minister.
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| U.S. Senate Republicans move to block Obama high court pick | |  By Susan Cornwell and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday ruled out confirmation hearings for any U.S. Supreme Court nominee from President Barack Obama, aiming to slam the door on his ability to name a justice who could change the court's balance of power. Chairman Chuck Grassley and the rest of the committee's Republicans sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying they will not hold hearings on a nominee to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia until the next president takes office in January.
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| Saudi security forces kill terrorist suspect in village raid - agency | | | Saudi security forces on Tuesday killed a suspect wanted on terrorism charges during a raid on a village in the country's oil-producing Eastern Province, the state news agency SPA said. The raid took place in Awamiya, home town of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, whose execution in January prompted angry protests in the area against the ruling Al Saud dynasty. A Saudi interior ministry statement identified the suspect as Ali Mahmoud Ali Abdullah, a Bahraini national, and said he was killed during a gun battle. |
| Portugal parliament approves Socialist budget bill in first reading | | | By Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's leftist-dominated parliament approved in the first reading the minority Socialist government's 2016 budget, which envisages an EU-imposed cut in the deficit through higher indirect taxes, while easing austerity for households. The centre-right Social Democrats and the rightist CDS-PP party, whose coalition government was ousted in November by the centre-left Socialists and their far left allies, voted against. The previous government imposed tough austerity to meet the terms of an international bailout for Portugal in 2011-2014. |
| 'Silicon Saxony' worries refugee backlash could hurt business | | | By Joseph Nasr and Matthias Sobolewski BERLIN (Reuters) - One of the rare economic success stories in eastern Germany, the state of Saxony is growing worried that a racist backlash against refugees could tarnish its image and deter investments that have turned it into a high-tech hub. The state capital Dresden is the birthplace of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement, and the town of Heidenau became infamous last summer when anti-refugee riots broke out and Chancellor Angela Merkel was heckled by far-right activists as a "traitor" for her welcoming stance towards migrants. "The headlines, which are raining down on us as citizens and entrepreneurs every day, make it clear that we have a problem," said Heinz Martin Esser, president of Silicon Saxony, a trade association that represents 300 high-tech companies in Europe. |
| Italy judge charges fugitive suspected Islamic State supporter | | | A judge in Italy on Tuesday set a trial date for an Italian woman who converted to Islam and is thought to have joined Islamic State militants in Syria, a legal source said. Maria Giulio Sergio, 28, left Italy for Syria with her Albanian husband shortly after they married in 2014. Both remain at large but are believed to be in Syria. |
| Senators say Republican consensus is no vote on Obama court nominee | |  Key U.S. senators said on Tuesday that Republican lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee believe the panel should have no hearings or vote on any nominee by President Barack Obama to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. "That's the consensus view ... No hearing, no vote," Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters as he left a meeting of Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans in the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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| UN welcomes Obama Guantanamo plan, but calls for due process | |  The top U.N. human rights official welcomed President Barack Obama's plan announced on Tuesday to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, but stressed that no detainee should remain in indefinite custody without charge or trial. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the U.S. facility in Cuba had been a "serious blot on the human rights record, and reputation, of the United States for the past 14 years". "All Guantanamo detainees should either be transferred to regular detention centres in the U.S. mainland or other countries where fair trials before civilian courts and due process guarantees can be provided in accordance with international norms and standards," he said in a statement.
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| Cruz says would deport illegal immigrants, sharpens immigration stance | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz vowed to deport immigrants living illegally in the United States and build a wall to keep others out, sharpening his stance on the issue a week before presidential contests in several southern states. Cruz's comments on the eve of Tuesday's Nevada caucuses came hours after the public firing of his main spokesman over misleading social media postings involving rival Marco Rubio. Rubio won endorsements on Monday from prominent Republicans as he sought to become the party's mainstream alternative to front-runner Donald Trump after Jeb Bush dropped out of the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
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