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| Volkswagen says did not breach market disclosure rules | | | By Christoph Steitz and Andreas Cremer FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen said on Wednesday its top management did not violate market disclosure rules and is taking legal action to fend off lawsuits claiming it had been too slow to inform investors about its rigging of diesel emissions tests. Volkswagen (VW) is mounting its defences in anticipation of a report next month by U.S. law firm Jones Day appointed by the carmaker to investigate those responsible for the biggest corporate scandal in its history. Investors have lodged dozens of lawsuits at the German regional court in Brunswick, claiming that VW failed to disclose its rigging of emissions tests until about three weeks after it had admitted its wrongdoing to U.S. authorities on Sept. 3. |
| How the Republican elite turned a blind eye to the rise and rise of Donald Trump | |  By Emily Flitter and Luciana Lopez WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One evening last June, some of the Republican Party's wealthiest donors gathered for a cocktail party at an exclusive resort in Deer Valley, Utah, during a three-day retreat hosted by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. They had just heard from six presidential hopefuls. Tom Duncan, the CEO of tool-maker Positec Tool Corp, chatted with a few attendees about a fantasy ticket to secure the White House in November 2016: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as his running mate. Duncan, for his part, liked Ohio Governor John Kasich, but also had his eye on former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
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| 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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| Ex-Guatemalan soccer chief pleads not guilty to U.S. bribery charges | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former president of Guatemala's soccer federation pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that he participated in bribery schemes at the heart of a corruption investigation into world soccer's governing body, FIFA. Brayan Jimenez, the former president, entered his plea through his lawyer in federal court in Brooklyn to racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud charges, a day after being extradited from Guatemala. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ramon Reyes set bond at $1.5 million, and directed that Jimenez, 61, be confined at a friend's home in New Jersey.
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| Nearly 2,000 legal cases opened for insulting Turkey's Erdogan | |  Turkish prosecutors have opened nearly 2,000 cases against people for insulting Tayyip Erdogan since he became Turkey's president 18 months ago, the justice minister said on Wednesday. Insulting the president is a crime in Turkey punishable by up to four years in jail, but the law has previously been invoked only rarely. Critics accuse Erdogan of intolerance and say he is using the law to stifle dissent.
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| Egypt hands over some evidence about student's murder to Italy | |  By Steve Scherer and Massimiliano Di Giorgio ROME (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have given Italian investigators some evidence they had been seeking for weeks regarding the murder of an Italian graduate student in Cairo, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. The move came just hours after an Italian judicial source told Reuters that Italy was considering recalling its seven-member legal team in Cairo because of a lack of cooperation from their Egyptian counterparts. Giulio Regeni, 28, disappeared in January and his tortured, battered body was found in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo on Feb. 3.
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| England soccer player Johnson facing jail after child sex conviction | |  English soccer player Adam Johnson, who was sacked by Premier League club Sunderland last month, was facing jail after being found guilty on Wednesday of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl. The 28-year-old winger, who has played 12 times for England, had admitted kissing and grooming the teenager at the beginning of his trial but had denied two more serious accusations of sexual activity. A jury at Bradford Crown Court in northern England cleared him of one of these charges but convicted him of the other.
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| Republican leaders scramble after Trump Super Tuesday sweep | |  Donald Trump consolidated his lead in the 2016 Republican presidential race with Super Tuesday victories but failed to eclipse his rivals or draw reluctant party leaders into his corner. "If this was anybody else as a front-runner, there'd be people right now saying 'Let's all rally around the front-runner,'" said U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who won his first state contest, Minnesota, on Tuesday. "That will never happen with Donald Trump," Rubio, favorite of the Republican establishment, told Fox News on Wednesday.
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| Jordan says foils Islamic State plot to attack civilian, military targets | | | By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's security services said on Wednesday they had thwarted a plot by sleeper cells of Islamic State militants to blow up civilian and military targets in the U.S.-allied Arab kingdom. One of Jordan's biggest security operations in years tracked down militants with suicide bomb belts to a hideout in the northern city of Irbid near the Syrian border, according to a statement carried by the state news agency Petra. Security forces seized automatic weapons, munitions and explosives from the Islamic State cell. |
| Mexican drug lord Guzman seeks to speed up extradition to U.S | |  Captive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is attempting to accelerate his extradition to the United States in the hope that he will be treated better in prison there, his lawyers said on Wednesday. Guzman, who has twice escaped from Mexican maximum security prisons, was captured in Mexico in January, six months after his last jailbreak. The Mexican government quickly said it would initiate extradition proceedings for him to the United States.
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| Gulf Arab states label Hezbollah a terrorist organisation | |  The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) named Hezbollah a terrorist organisation on Wednesday, opening up the possibility of further sanctions against the Iran-allied group that wields influence in Lebanon and fights in Syria. The Sunni Muslim dominated council - representing Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar - already imposed sanctions on the Shi'ite Muslim group in 2013 after it entered Syria's war in support of President Bashar al-Assad. Zayani did not specify what action might follow, but Saudi Arabia, the biggest power in the grouping, last week said it had blacklisted four companies and three Lebanese men for having links to Hezbollah.
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| Turkish journalist calls his release from jail a 'defeat' for Erdogan | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The release of two prominent Turkish journalists following a ruling by Turkey's top court that their rights had been violated is a "clear defeat" for President Tayyip Erdogan, one of them said on Wednesday. Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, and his colleague Erdem Gul were freed last Friday after the constitutional court ruled their detention was "unlawful" and violated their individual freedom and safety. Erdogan says the case is not about press freedom but about espionage and says he does not respect the court ruling.
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| JNU student held on sedition charge bailed after free-speech protests | |  The Delhi High Court granted bail on Wednesday to Kanhaiya Kumar, head of the student union at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, arrested for alleged sedition in a case that led to mass protests and accusations the government is trying to stifle free speech. The court granted the student six months bail on a surety of 10,000 rupees ($150), defence lawyer Vrinda Grover said. Kumar's detention -- under colonial-era laws once used by India's British rulers to jail nationalist heroes including Mahatma Gandhi -- exposed deep ideological differences over freedom of speech in India.
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