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| U.S. Senate Republicans rule out action on Obama high court pick | | Wednesday, February 24, 2016 1:02 AM | |
|  By Susan Cornwell and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. Senate on Tuesday ruled out taking action on any nominee put forth by President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court in a political power move intended to thwart his ability to change the court's ideological balance. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will not hold hearings or vote on any nominee to replace long-serving conservative Justice Antonin Scalia until after the next president takes office next January. Scalia died on Feb. 13.
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| Judge orders Clinton aides to be questioned under oath on emails | | Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:58 AM | |
|  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 that sought the depositions as it sues 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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| Michigan Uber driver swapped cars during deadly shooting spree | | Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:36 AM | |
|  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, who was reported to have obtained a community college degree in law enforcement two decades ago, 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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| FIFA candidate Salman denies British MP's allegations | |  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - British Member of Parliament Damian Collins used parliamentary privilege on Tuesday to accuse FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of taking development project funds to finance an election bid. The claims, made in a speech in the U.K. House of Commons, were swiftly rejected by Salman who is battling Gianni Infantino, the Swiss general secretary of European soccer body UEFA and three other candidates, for the top job in world football. Conservative MP Collins, a supporter of the campaign group 'New FIFA Now' made the allegations relating to Salman's attempt in 2009 to be elected to the FIFA executive committee and his 2013 successful election to the presidency of the Asian Football Confederation.
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| Silence may not be golden as 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, 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. In recent weeks, thousands of students have protested across the country over the arrest of a student leader for alleged sedition, while anger among the powerful Jat community over caste-based job quotas spilled into deadly clashes in Haryana.
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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. |
| 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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| 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. |
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