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| Australian abuse victims contest Vatican on lack of pope meeting | |  By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Australian victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests said on Friday they were disappointed they could not talk to Pope Francis and contested the Vatican's assertion that they did not go through the proper channels for a meeting. The group of about 15 were in Rome for a week to watch Cardinal George Pell give evidence via video link to an Australian government commission about sexual abuse in Australia when he was a priest and bishop there in the 1970s and 1980s. "We would have wanted to talk to him (the pope) about our story," said David Ridsdale, who as a boy was abused by his uncle, a priest at the time.
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| Turkish authorities seize newspaper close to cleric Gulen - state media | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities seized control of the country's largest newspaper on Friday, state-run media said, in a widening crackdown against supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, an influential foe of President Tayyip Erdogan. Administrators have been appointed to run the Zaman newspaper at the request of an Istanbul prosecutor, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The move against Zaman came hours after police detained prominent businessmen over allegations of financing what prosecutors described as a "Gulenist terror group", Anadolu reported.
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| Peru bars presidential candidate, could disqualify another | |  Peru barred a presidential hopeful from next month's elections because of vote-buying allegations and moved towards disqualifying second-place candidate Julio Guzman, in a surprise move that could turn the electoral race on its head. Both candidates - wealthy former governor Cesar Acuna and centrist technocrat Guzman - can appeal the decisions before the National Jury of Elections. Guzman, seen tying frontrunner Keiko Fujimori in a likely June run-off, was kept in the race last week after he fulfilled a series of technical requirements related to his party's registration.
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| Released from questioning, Brazil's Lula says "has nothing to fear" | |  Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, speaking after his release from police questioning on Friday, called the investigation against him a media spectacle and said he "had nothing to fear." Lula was detained for three hours of questioning on Friday morning in a federal investigation of a vast corruption scheme, fanning a political crisis that threatens to topple his successor, President Dilma Rousseff. Speaking to his supporters at the Workers' Party headquarters, Lula said that if the judge wanted to question him he only had to ask. Lula has voluntarily testified in the investigation previously.
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| U.S. Republican governors steer clear of 'dump-Trump' push | |  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Republican party leaders mount a desperate effort to derail the U.S. presidential campaign of billionaire Donald Trump, many of the party's 31 state governors are staying out of the fray. When New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez steps onto a Kansas stage on Friday to endorse Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, she will be only the 10th governor to back one of the four candidates remaining in a nominating contest that could define the party for years to come. Far more typical is Governor Rick Scott of Florida who said on Thursday he would not endorse a candidate before his state's hotly contested March 15 primary.
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| Swiss unveil plan for unilateral curbs on immigration | |  By Joshua Franklin and Michael Shields ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland on Friday unveiled tough draft legislation for unilateral curbs on immigration, raising the stakes in talks with Brussels on limiting the influx of foreigners from the European Union. Switzerland is two-thirds of the way through a three-year timetable to enforce a binding 2014 referendum vote in favour of immigration quotas which would violate a bilateral pact guaranteeing freedom of movement for EU workers. With talks between Brussels and Berne still deadlocked, the Swiss government has now laid out a plan to go it alone on immigration controls but called this "Plan B" and stressed that an agreement with the EU was by far the preferred option.
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| Autopsy unclear on Bobbi Kristina Brown's death as accident or intentional | |  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - The medical examiner investigating the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown, who spent months in a coma after being found unresponsive in a bathtub in her north Atlanta home last year, said on Friday that the office could not say whether her demise was accidental or intentional. The autopsy for Brown, the 22-year-old daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, confirmed that drug intoxication and the immersion of her face in the water led to brain damage and pneumonia, which was ruled as the official cause of death. "Death was clearly not due to natural causes, but the medical examiner has not been able to determine whether death was due to intentional or accidental causes, and has therefore classified the manner of death as undetermined," the Fulton County Medical Examiner in Georgia said in a statement.
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| Father's dark legacy threatens Fujimori's run for Peru presidency | |  In the run-up to the first round voting on April 10, Fujimori consistently wins the support of 30 to 35 percent of voters in opinion polls, with a double digit lead over her nearest rivals. Guzman calls Fujimori a despot in democrat's clothing: "What's at stake in these elections is democracy or a return to dictatorship," he said recently. The same tactic helped President Ollanta Humala scrape a second-round win in 2011 when Fujimori was slower to distance herself from her father.
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| No proof of 2006 World Cup vote buying, Beckenbauer under pressure | |  There is no evidence of vote-rigging in the awarding of the 2006 soccer World Cup to Germany, according to a report into the scandal which piled more pressure on former World Cup chief Franz Beckenbauer over a payment to a disgraced former FIFA official. "We have no proof of vote buying," Christian Duve of the Freshfields law firm, commissioned by the German Football Association (DFB), told a news conference on Friday. "Although we cannot rule it out completely." He said his firm had not been able to talk to everyone involved, including Sepp Blatter, the former president of world soccer's governing body FIFA who has been suspended from football over a separate, wide-reaching corruption scandal.
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| Brazil's ex-president Lula detained in anti-graft bust | |  By Brad Haynes and Anthony Boadle SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was detained for questioning on Friday in a federal investigation of a bribery and money laundering scheme that police said had financed campaigns and expenses of the ruling Workers Party. The arrest threatened to tarnish the legacy of Brazil's most powerful politician and the tactics that his left-leaning Workers' Party used to consolidate its position since rising to power 13 years ago. Police, who arrested Lula at his home in Sao Bernardo do Campo on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, said they had evidence that he received illicit benefits from kickbacks at state oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the form of payments and luxury real estate.
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| PM Modi faces voters in five states as reforms slow | |  Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will face elections in five states beginning next month, according to a schedule released on Friday, at a time when its approval ratings are slipping and it is under pressure to deliver on economic growth. State elections are important for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be able to gain control of the Rajya Sabha, where members are indirectly elected by state legislatures. A lack of a majority in that house has stalled Modi's economic reforms agenda and delayed passage of a key tax bill.
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| Ukrainian pilot to tell Russian court: Free me or watch me starve to death | |  A Ukrainian woman pilot on trial in Russia over the killing of two Russian journalists plans to tell a court to release her within 10 days of pronouncing its verdict or she will starve herself to death. Nadezhda Savchenko, 34, was captured by pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine in June 2014 and denies any wrongdoing. The helicopter pilot, who faces up to 25 years in jail if found guilty, has become a national hero for many in Ukraine who see her as a symbol of anti-Kremlin defiance.
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| Missing bookseller detained in China returns to Hong Kong, police say | |  HONG KONG (Reuters) - One of five missing Hong Kong booksellers specialising in gossipy publications about Chinese leaders and detained in China returned home on Friday, Hong Kong police said. They did not give further details, other than to say he wanted his missing person case dismissed. Lui Por was one of five men associated with Causeway Bay Books to go missing and then resurface in police custody in China, sparking fears that Chinese authorities had abducted them. ...
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| Landmark Pakistan women's protection bill challenged in sharia court | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A prominent Pakistani lawyer has filed a petition in the top sharia court seeking that it strike down a new law that gives unprecedented protection to female victims of violence. The Women's Protection Act, passed by Pakistan's largest province of Punjab last week, gives legal protection to women from domestic, psychological and sexual violence. Domestic abuse, economic discrimination and acid attacks made Pakistan the world's third most dangerous country in the world for women, a 2011 Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll showed.
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| Monsanto threatens to exit India over GM royalty row | |  By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Monsanto Co, the world's biggest seed company, threatened to pull out of India on Friday if the government imposed a big cut in royalties that local firms pay for its genetically modified cotton seeds. Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India)(MMB), a joint venture with India's Mahyco, licenses a gene that produces its own pesticide to a number of local seed companies in lieu of royalties and an upfront payment. MMB also markets the seeds directly, though the local licensees together command 90 percent of the market.
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| Turkish court jails two Syrians over drowning of toddler Aylan - media | |  A Turkish court on Friday sentenced two Syrians to four years in jail over the drowning of five people including toddler Aylan Kurdi, the image of whose dead body sparked global sympathy last September over the fate of migrants, Dogan news agency said. The two Syrians were each sentenced to four years and two months in jail for smuggling, Dogan reported. Since Aylan's death, the European Union has faced a growing crisis over how to deal with hundreds of thousands of migrants from Syria and elsewhere, a crisis that threatens to tear the 28-nation bloc apart.
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