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| Italy court lets lesbian couple adopt each other's children | | | A court in Rome has allowed a lesbian couple to adopt each other's children, their lawyer said on Tuesday, less than a week after the Italian parliament threw out a bid to give gays limited adoption rights. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had promised to open the way for stepchild adoption as part of a larger reform aimed at giving legal rights and protection to same-sex couples. Much to the anger of gay rights groups, he dropped the adoption clause following fierce opposition from within his centre-left coalition. |
| Blast kills two employees of U.S. consulate in Pakistan, soldiers - Kerry | | | Two local employees of the U.S. consulate in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and some soldiers have been killed by an explosive device while on drug-eradication mission, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday. "Just this morning, I woke to the news that we had lost two local employees in Peshawar who worked with our consulate there who were going out on a effort to eradicate narcotics fields," Kerry told an event in Washington on countering violent extremism. |
| Prominent Saudi cleric injured in Philippines shooting | | | MANILA/RIYADH (Reuters) - A gunman shot and wounded a prominent Saudi Arabian cleric who was on an Islamic State hit list after he gave a speech to fellow Muslim preachers in a city in southern Philippines on Tuesday evening, local police said. Ayed al-Qarni, a pro-government cleric with over 12 million followers on Twitter, was shot as he left an Islamic forum in a school auditorium at around 8.30 p.m. by a man who had attended the speech, police spokeswoman Inspector Helen Galvez said. An official from the Saudi embassy in the Philippines was also wounded, she said. |
| Police charge ex-U.N. climate panel chief R.K. Pachauri with stalking, sex harassment | |  By Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The former chair of a U.N. panel of climate scientists, Rajendra K. Pachauri, was charged on Tuesday with stalking, intimidating and sexually harassing a woman who worked at a think-tank he headed for more than 30 years, police said. Pachauri, 75, was accused in February last year of sexual harassment by a researcher working at Delhi-based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) where Pachauri was director general. Pachauri, who quit as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a year ago, denies the charges.
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| Now or never: Trump's 'wall' talk sparks migrant rush on U.S.-Mexico border | |  By Gabriel Stargardter and Julia Edwards CIUDAD JUAREZ/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gang violence and poverty have for years pushed Mexicans and Central Americans north to the United States, but recently a new driver has emerged: the anti-immigrant tone of leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. From the slums of Central America to close-knit migrant communities in U.S. cities, Trump's rise to the front of the Republican pack has not gone unnoticed and is partly behind a spike in the numbers of migrants trying to enter the country, including children traveling without guardians. Interviews with migrants, people smugglers and officials show many migrants are trying to cross now instead of facing tighter policing and new policies to halt illegal immigration if Trump or another Republican wins the Nov. 8 election.
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| EXCLUSIVE - U.N. may delay Syria talks, says U.S., Russia must guarantee truce | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States and Russia must make Syria's cessation of hostilities work or else it may become necessary to delay the resumption of peace talks, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters on Tuesday. Without progress on the cessation of hostilities and on access for humanitarian aid, de Mistura said he could "slightly" postpone the next round of peace talks, which has been pencilled in for Monday, March 7.
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| Russia calls for pact against chemical warfare by Islamic State | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday there was a growing threat from Islamic State militants waging chemical warfare in the Middle East and called for global negotiations on a new pact to combat what he called "a grave reality of our time". Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the appeal in a speech to the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, a now largely moribund forum which clinched a major pact banning chemical weapons in the 1990s. "However, we still face significant gaps related, in particular, to the use of chemicals for terrorist purposes," Lavrov told the 65-member-state forum.
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| Executed Pakistani hailed as hero of Islam for supporting blasphemy law | |  Tens of thousands of supporters on Tuesday cheered and threw flowers at the casket of a bodyguard executed for killing the governor of Pakistan's most populous province over his call to reform a strict blasphemy law. Security was tight at the funeral for Mumtaz Qadri, whom supporters consider a hero for killing popular Punjab governor Salman Taseer in 2011 who criticised the law that mandates the death penalty for insulting Islam or the Prophet Mohammad. "From your blood, the revolution will come!" Hard-line religious groups in Pakistan say Taseer deserved to die because he himself committed blasphemy by criticising the law and supporting a Christian woman he said was unjustly charged with the crime.
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