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| Closing arguments begin in Erin Andrews stalker civil trial | |  (Reuters) - Closing arguments began on Friday in sportscaster Erin Andrews' civil trial against a Nashville hotel over a 2008 nude video of her taken by a stalker in an adjoining room at the hotel. Andrews testified for two days at the two-week trial, in which she is seeking $75 million in damages, saying she has experienced depression and spells of crying and sleeplessness since the video went viral in 2009. Andrews' attorney Bruce Broillet asked jurors to find for his client, saying employees at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University violated standards by allowing Michael David Barrett to book a room next door to hers, where he rigged a peephole and videotaped Andrews changing.
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| U.S. calls decision by Turkey to seize newspaper 'troubling' | |  The U.S. State Department on Friday called the decision by Turkish authorities to seize control of the country's largest newspaper "troubling." "We see this as the latest in a series of troubling judicial and law enforcement actions taken by the Turkish government targeting media outlets and others critical of it," State Department spokesman John Kirby told a news briefing. Turkish authorities seized control of the Zaman newspaper on Friday at the request of an Istanbul prosecutor, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, in a widening crackdown against supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, an influential foe of President Tayyip Erdogan.
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| Spain's Socialist leader fails to become prime minister, new talks to start | |  The leader of Spain's Socialists Pedro Sanchez failed on Friday to win the confidence of parliament to become prime minister, opening a new round of talks between parties to break an over two-month deadlock after an inconclusive election. As on Wednesday when he lost a first investiture vote, Sanchez secured the backing of only 131 representatives in the 350-strong assembly. The Socialists, business-friendly newcomer Ciudadanos and a small party from the Canary Islands voted in favour of Sanchez while the ruling conservative People's Party, anti-austerity Podemos, the former communists Izquierda Unida and four regional parties from the Basque Country and Catalonia voted against.
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| Brazil's ex-president Lula questioned; Rousseff calls it 'unnecessary' | |  By Brad Haynes and Anthony Boadle SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was briefly detained for questioning on Friday in a federal investigation of a vast corruption scheme, fanning a political crisis that threatens to topple his successor, President Dilma Rousseff. Lula's questioning in police custody was the highest profile development in a two-year-old graft probe centred on the state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, which has rocked Brazil's political and business establishment and deepened the worst recession in decades in Latin America's biggest economy. The investigation threatens to tarnish the legacy of Brazil's most powerful politician, whose humble roots and anti-poverty programs made him a folk hero, by putting a legal spotlight on how his left-leaning Workers' Party consolidated its position since rising to power 13 years ago.
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| Brazil's Rousseff dismayed at police questioning of Lula | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff expressed her total disagreement with the police questioning of her political mentor and predecessor, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on Friday, calling it unnecessary after his voluntary testimony. Rousseff reiterated in a public statement that the graft probe now focused on the former president should carry on until those responsible are punished, adding that she had guaranteed the independence of the organs investigating corruption. (Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Writing by Brad Haynes; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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| Republican candidate Trump reverses stance on torture - WSJ | |  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump softened his stance on torture on Friday, saying he would not order the U.S. military to break international laws on how to treat terrorism suspects, the Wall Street Journal reported. "I do, however, understand that the United States is bound by laws and treaties and I will not order our military or other officials to violate those laws and will seek their advice on such matters," Trump said in a statement to the newspaper. It is clear that as president I will be bound by laws just like all Americans and I will meet those responsibilities." In a Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, Trump indicated he might order the U.S. military to break the law on interrogation tactics including waterboarding.
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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 football World Cup to Germany, says a report into the scandal which piled more pressure on former World Cup chief Franz Beckenbauer over a payment to a disgraced ex-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 football's governing body FIFA who has been suspended from football over a separate, wide-reaching corruption scandal.
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| Gunmen kill at least 15 in old people's home in Yemen | |  Gunmen attacked an old people's home in the Yemeni port of Aden on Friday, killing at least 15 people, including four Christian nuns from India, local officials and medical sources said. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says at least 3,081 civilians have been killed in the conflict and 5,733 injured since then.
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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 establish whether her demise was accidental or intentional. The autopsy for Brown, the 22-year-old daughter of Grammy award-winning 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. The findings do not resolve the question of whether someone gave Brown a deadly drug cocktail, said University of Georgia law professor Ron Carlson.
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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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| 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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