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| Pennsylvania grand jury finds widespread sex abuse by priests | | | By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Hundreds of children in western Pennsylvania were sexually assaulted by about 50 Roman Catholic priests over four decades while bishops covered up their actions, according to a state grand jury report released on Tuesday. The report found that former Altoona-Johnstown Diocese Bishop James Hogan, who died in 2005, and his successor, Joseph Adamec, who retired in 2011, worked to cover pedophile priests' tracks and that some local law enforcement agencies also avoided investigating abuse allegations, said state Attorney General Kathleen Kane. "The heinous crimes these children endured are absolutely unconscionable," Kane told reporters in unveiling the report, based on a two-year investigation. |
| 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 were 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. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the incident occurred on Tuesday when the two Pakistani employees were traveling in a Pakistani government Anti-Narcotics Force convoy in Ambar tehsil, in the Mohmand Agency of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). |
| Republican leaders condemn bigotry, but won't talk about Trump | |  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress condemned white supremacist groups on Tuesday after their party's front-runner in the presidential contest, Donald Trump, failed to disavow support for an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, but the leaders declined further comment on Trump's controversial White House bid. The comments from the two top Republicans in the U.S. Congress, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, came as many of the party's lawmakers struggle to come to terms with the growing possibility that Trump will be their nominee.
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| Catholic Church abuse victims call for meeting with Pope | |  By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Church clergy on Tuesday called for a meeting with Pope Francis after watching a high-ranking Vatican official testify that senior clergy lied to him to cover up abuse in the 1970s. Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's treasurer, has told the inquiry that the church made "enormous mistakes" and "catastrophic" choices by refusing to believe abused children, shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish and over-relying on counselling of priests to solve the problem. Given Pell's high rank within the church, his testimony to Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse over cases that occurred decades ago has taken on wider implications about the accountability of church leaders.
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| U.S. warns China on militarization of South China Sea | | | By Andrea Shalal SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Tuesday warned China against "aggressive" actions in the South China Sea region, including the placement of surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island. "China must not pursue militarization in the South China Sea," Carter said in a wide-ranging speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. "Specific actions will have specific consequences." Asked what the consequences could be, Carter told reporters the U.S. military was already increasing deployments to the Asia-Pacific region and would spend $425 million through 2020 to pay for more exercises and training with countries in the region that were unnerved by China's actions. |
| San Francisco sheriff deputies charged for 'Fight Club' duels | | | Three San Francisco sheriff's deputies were charged with arranging "Fight Club" duels between jail inmates, and one of the deputies made prisoners gamble for food, clothing and bedding, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The criminal charges came as newly elected San Francisco Sheriff Vicki Hennessy was implementing jail reforms, such as increased use of video cameras, to prevent such offences. The case brought by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office described scenes reminiscent of the 1999 film "Fight Club", starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. |
| Sportscaster Erin Andrews said stalker video affects her daily | |  By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Sports broadcaster Erin Andrews told a Tennessee jury on Tuesday that a 2008 nude video of her taken by a stalker that was posted on the Internet affects her every day, including making her so cautious that she checks for cameras in hotel air conditioners. Andrews, a former ESPN sportscaster who has since moved to Fox Sports, has sued the Marriott Nashville at Vanderbilt University for $75 million over the 2008 incident, in which a man in a neighboring room, Michael David Barrett, rigged a peephole and shot the video of Andrews changing. Over two days of testimony, Andrews said she has experienced depression, spells of crying and sleeplessness since the video went viral in 2009.
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| Jordan security forces hunt suspected Islamist militants | | | By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian security forces killed several Islamist militants and one police officer was also shot dead during a manhunt on Tuesday that involved hundreds of troops in the northern city of Irbid, near the border with Syria, security sources said. Riot police and special forces took part in the operation, which a security official described as one of the largest sweeps against sleeper cells of sympathisers of hardline Islamist groups in recent years. Another security source said the troops and helicopters were deployed mainly in a Palestinian refugee camp in the heart of the city where most of the wanted fugitives were holed up. |
| Pennsylvania court orders halt to Cosby trial pending appeal ruling | | | (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania appeals court ordered a temporary halt to the sexual assault case against comedian Bill Cosby on Tuesday pending its ruling on whether defence lawyers' appeal of a decision moving the case to trial can be quashed. The order by the Pennsylvania Superior Court postpones a March 8 preliminary hearing in a suburban Philadelphia court where Cosby, 78, faces charges of sexually assaulting a woman more than a decade ago. Cos by's attorneys had appealed a ruling by Common Pleas Court Judge Steven O'Neill in Norristown that dismissed the entertainer's claims that he had been granted immunity from prosecution in the case.[nL2N15I136] Prosecutors had sought to quash the appeal. |
| Brazil's No. 2 builder admits illegal Rousseff campaign funding - paper | |  Executives from Brazil's second-largest engineering company, Andrade Gutierrez [AGIS.UL], have testified that the company paid suppliers for President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 electoral campaign off the books, newspaper a Folha de S.Paulo reported on Tuesday. The testimony, as part of a plea bargain by 11 executives, would be the first direct link between the widening "Operation Carwash" investigation into bribes and political kickbacks at state-run oil company Petrobras and the election of Rousseff, the paper said. The allegations may bolster the case of the main opposition party PSDB as it seeks to annul Rousseff's 2014 re-election for using illegal funding, though Brazil's top electoral court is unlikely to accept evidence from a previous election.
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| More than a third of people shot by LAPD in 2015 mentally ill - report | |  More than a third of people hit by Los Angeles police officers' gunfire last year had indications of mental illness, double the prior year, according to a report on the use of force released on Tuesday by the Los Angeles Police Department. The report, which analysed shootings involving police officers and other uses of force over a five-year period from 2011 to 2014, comes amid increasing concern in Los Angeles and across the United States about police tactics. "Our chief felt it was extremely important that in the discussion that's going on across the country about the use of force by police and trust of police that we bring contemporary numbers to bear," said LAPD assistant chief Michel Moore, referring to LAPD Chief Charlie Beck.
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| Brazil says microcephaly cases linked to Zika rise to 4,863 | |  The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus has risen to 4,863 from 4,690 a week earlier, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. Of these, the number of confirmed cases climbed to 641 from 583 a week earlier, while suspected ones under investigation increased to 4,222 from 4,107 in the same period. Brazil considers most of the cases of babies born with abnormally small heads to be related to Zika, though the link between the virus and the birth defects has not been scientifically established.
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| Irish PM seeks to form new gov't, will talk to nearest rival | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 11:40 PM | |
|  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - The leading party after Ireland's election last week will try to form a government with other parties, including its nearest rival, after its outgoing coalition was rejected by voters, senior Fine Gael members said on Wednesday. Punished last week by voters angry at the patchiness of Ireland's recovery, Prime Minister Enda Kenny's centre-right party is set to fall about 30 seats short of the 80 needed to form a majority in parliament, with two seats yet to be filled. With the second- and third-largest parties, Fianna Fail, and Sinn Fein, ruling out a coalition with Fine Gael, analysts say Kenny will not reach a majority without eventually striking some sort of agreement with Fianna Fail.
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| NY court allows fraud claim against Trump University to proceed | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 11:29 PM | |
|  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump suffered a legal setback on Tuesday when a New York state court allowed a multimillion-dollar fraud claim against Trump University, filed by the state's attorney general, to proceed. The claim is part of a lawsuit that accuses Trump and the now-defunct for-profit venture of misleading thousands of people, who paid up to $35,000 to learn the billionaire businessman's real estate investment strategies. Trump University, which Trump chaired, has become a target for his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, particularly Marco Rubio.
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