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| Brazil's Rousseff condemns the leaking of testimony as political weapon | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday condemned the practice of leaking legal testimony as a political weapon, after media reported that a pro-government senator had implicated her in a major graft probe in leaked plea bargain documents. "Leaks that are false, selective and illegal should be rejected and have their source rigorously investigated," Rousseff said in a statement. Rousseff said her government was committed to defending democratic principles, fighting corruption and defending the Constitution. ...
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| Guyana prison riot over seized cell phones leaves 16 dead | | | By Neil Marks Georgetown (Reuters) - A major riot left 16 people dead in Guyana's overcrowded main prison after inmates were angered by the seizure of illicit cell phones, officials said on Thursday. "We have a crisis on our hands ... as a result of several incidents that commenced at around 9:23 last night," Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said at a press conference in Georgetown. President David Granger said a three-member panel would be convened to investigate the incident. |
| Judge orders release of Bobbi Kristina Brown's autopsy results | |  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Autopsy results for Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, will be made public after a Georgia judge on Thursday ordered the report to be unsealed. Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, died in July after months in a coma. The Fulton County medical examiner's office said it was awaiting the judge's order and would not provide the autopsy details before Friday.
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| Clinton tech employee has stopped working at U.S. State Dept | |  The employee who helped set up and manage Hillary Clinton's private email server for her work as secretary of state no longer works at the State Department, a department spokesman said on Thursday. Bryan Pagliano is cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's criminal inquiry into the email setup in exchange for immunity from prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to the Washington Post. The investigation has clouded Hillary Clinton's campaign to become the Democratic Party's candidate in the November presidential election.
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| Spanish princess tells fraud trial her husband handled all expenses | |  Spain's Princess Cristina told her tax fraud trial on Thursday she had no knowledge of financial matters and her husband handled all their accounts. King Felipe's 50-year-old sister, the first member of the royal family to stand in the dock, said she believed her husband Inaki Urdangarin was also innocent, in a case that has tapped into public anger over high-level corruption. Cristina answered questions from her own lawyer for half an hour, refusing to answer those from a legal team representing the 'Clean Hands' anti-corruption organisation which filed charges against the couple.
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| Brazil senator's plea bargain implicates Rousseff, Lula - media | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian ruling party Senator Delcidio do Amaral has implicated President Dilma Rousseff and ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Petrobras graft scandal as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors, local media reported on Thursday. If confirmed, the revelations in a 400-page statement seen by weekly news magazine IstoE provide ammunition to Rousseff's opponents, who are trying to impeach her or invalidate her 2014 re-election. Amaral was the leader of the Workers' Party in the Senate and Rousseff's point man on economic policy until his arrest in November on obstruction of justice charges.
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| Three aid workers kidnapped in east Congo | | | Three employees of international charity Save the Children were kidnapped on Wednesday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the organisation said on Thursday, as insecurity in the region continues to hamper humanitarian efforts. The Congolese staff members were taken at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) in North Kivu province, Save the Children said. North Kivu province, which borders Rwanda and Uganda, was ravaged by regional wars that killed millions between 1996 and 2003. |
| Uproar ends triathlon at infamous 'Angola' prison in Louisiana | | | A triathlon promising athletes an opportunity to compete in a notorious Louisiana prison has been cancelled after organisers said they had received threats over the event planned at a maximum security penitentiary on a former slave plantation. The "Escape from Angola Triathlon," scheduled for March 20, drew criticism for appearing insensitive and sensationalising a prison famed for its harsh conditions for prisoners, including some of the longest stretches in solitary confinement in U.S. history. Organizers, who had worked with the state, defended the concept, noting in the statement that the site offered a tough course and "a way to showcase some beautiful Louisiana countryside." But it drew outrage from critics over social media, as well as objections from prisoners' advocates, local media reported. |
| South African court rejects Pistorius right to appeal murder conviction | |  South Africa's Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected Olympian Oscar Pistorius' right to appeal against his conviction for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The Supreme Court of Appeal changed the 29-year-old's conviction to murder in December after the state prosecutors appealed the athlete's prior conviction of culpable homicide in the Pretoria High Court. South African authorities had challenged Pistorius' appeal on the grounds that the Supreme Court of Appeal had correctly found Pistorius guilty.
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| Charged with six murders, Michigan Uber driver to get competency exam | |  By Mark Wedel KALAMAZOO, Mich. (Reuters) - The Michigan Uber driver charged with murdering six people last month in a shooting spree in the southwestern part of the state will undergo a competency exam, the prosecuting attorney said on Thursday. Jason Dalton, 45, is charged with shooting eight people, killing six of them, over a five-hour period on Feb. 20 in between driving customers for the Uber car service in Kalamazoo, Michigan, about 150 miles (240 km) west of Detroit. A judge granted a request by Dalton's attorney for a competency exam for the suspect, Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Getting told reporters following a 45-minute probable-cause hearing that was closed to the public.
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