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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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| Pentagon to submit plan to Congress for closing Guantanamo prison | | | 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, 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 plan before he leaves office next January. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the administration intended to meet Tuesday's deadline for sending Congress a proposal for closing the facility. |
| 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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| Slovakia's Fico expects to win March 5 vote and form government | |  By Tatiana Jancarikova and Jan Lopatka BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Monday he expects to win a March 5 parliamentary election with over a third of the vote, allowing him to form a stable coalition government. Fico told Reuters in an interview he felt he could repeat the election result from 2010, when he won with 34.8 percent -- but this time avoid the consequences of that election, when a broad coalition of centre-right parties edged him out of power. "I see a very realistic chance of forming a stable coalition of two parties," Fico said.
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| Bulgarian prime minister brushes aside death threats | |  Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has received a letter with death threats, but said he was not worried and suggested the threats were result of his fight against corruption and smuggling. The anonymous letter that was sent to the government office, and contained Borisov's picture, a bullet and threatening messages, media reported on Monday. "When you collect close to 3 billion levs ($1.69 billion) more from the smugglers, these are hurt interests in cigarettes, in liquor, sugar, meat ... when you stop public procurement orders for 1.7 billion and when every day you fire someone ... everyone has their cross to bear," Borisov told reporters.
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| China knows it cannot sustain export-driven growth model - Obama | |  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said China recognised it could not sustain an export-driven growth model indefinitely but that it would take time to change. Speaking to state governors at the White House, Obama urged them to press the U.S. Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact to boost U.S. exports in a region where China is "the 800-pound gorilla." Obama said it was tempting for China to try to solve its short-term problems by dumping state-subsidized goods into the U.S. market but said his administration had made clear to China that would not work, Obama said. "They recognise that they can't forever sustain an export-driven growth model, but it's going to take some time and it's tempting for them to solve short-term problems by just dumping a bunch of state-subsidized goods into the U.S. market," Obama said in response to a question raising concerns about China's exports of iron ore.
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| As pound plunges, UK's Cameron defends EU deal to avert 'Brexit' | |  By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - The pound posted its biggest one-day loss in almost six years on Monday on concerns of a possible British exit from the EU, adding to the pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron as he mounted a defence of his deal to keep the country in the bloc. The fall in the currency, as well as in government bond prices, was triggered by London Mayor Boris Johnson - a senior figure in Cameron's Conservative Party - throwing his support behind the exit campaign. Johnson, one of the country's most popular politicians, gave the "Brexit" camp a much-needed figurehead when he announced his support on Sunday, just days after Cameron struck his deal in Brussels to hand Britain what he called a "special status".
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