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| Brazil's ex-president Lula questioned in anti-graft bust | |  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 longrunning and sweeping graft probe centered on the state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA that 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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| 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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| 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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| Turkish authorities seize newspaper close to cleric Gulen - state media | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities seized control of a newspaper linked to Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen on Friday, in a widening crackdown against supporters of the U.S.-based 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 Gulen's group, according to separate reports from Dogan news agency.
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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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| Pakistan's Senate rejects national airline privatisation bill | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's upper house of parliament on Friday rejected a bill to privatise the cash-strapped national airline, another delay for the country's stalled privatisation agenda under the terms of an IMF bailout. "Government advisers have failed to present a revival plan for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), instead their complete focus is on privatisation," opposition Senator Saleem Mandviwalla said in a statement. The privatisation of 68 state-owned companies, among them loss-making enterprises such as PIA, is a crucial part of the 2013 IMF bailout and was meant to put the country's finances back on track.
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| Pakistan police rescue 9-year-old girl from wedding | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE (Reuters) - Pakistani police rescued a nine-year-old girl from being married off to a 14-year-old boy to settle a family dispute on Friday and arrested four village elders who had ordered the "compensation wedding". The intervention in Pakistan's largest province, Punjab, is rare in a country where it is often culturally acceptable to use marriage to build and strengthen alliances, settle disputes or pay off debts. Police arrested all four members of the village council who had decreed that the girl be given in vani, or compensation marriage, to settle a dispute between two families in Rahim Yar Khan district of Punjab province.
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| Indian women reclaim public spaces, defying male critics | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It began with two Indian women hanging out on Mumbai streets in defiance after a series of violent crimes against women. It has since grown and even spread to Pakistan, as women assert their right to public spaces in male-dominated societies. It came as an intense spotlight fell on women's safety in India following the 2012 fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in Delhi and the 2014 rape of a woman by her Uber taxi driver in Delhi.
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| Gunmen kill at least 15 in old people's home in Yemen, including 4 nuns from India | |  Four 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 bodies of those killed have been transferred to a clinic supported by medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres, medical sources said. Yemen's embattled government is based in Aden but has struggled to impose its authority there since its forces, backed by Gulf Arab troops, expelled Iran-allied Houthi fighters who still control the country's capital, Sanaa.
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| Families of missing MH370 passengers sue airline as deadline nears | |  The families of 12 passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 filed suits against the airline on Friday before a two-year deadline for legal action expires. MH370 disappeared en route to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board. Family members of two Ukrainian passengers filed suits in the Malaysian High Court against Malaysia Airlines (MAS).
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| Two Italian hostages freed in Libya after companions die | | | By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Two Italian civilians held hostage in Libya since last July were freed on Friday, just 48 hours after two fellow captives were allegedly executed by Islamic State militants in the north African state. The four were employees of Italian construction company Bonatti and were seized last year near the western Libyan city of Sabratha, near a compound owned by the energy group Eni. The families of Gino Pollicardo and Filippo Calcagno confirmed the pair had been released and photos posted on Facebook showed the bearded men calling home. |
| U.S. tech companies unite behind Apple ahead of iPhone encryption ruling | |  Tech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed legal briefs on Thursday asking a judge to support Apple Inc in its encryption battle with the U.S. government. The rare display of unity and support from Apple's sometime-rivals showed the breadth of Silicon Valley's opposition to the government's anti-encryption effort, a position endorsed by the United Nations human rights chief. Apple's battle became public last month when the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained a court order requiring the company to write new software to disable passcode protection and allow access to an iPhone used by one of the shooters in the December killings in San Bernardino, California.
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| Drone kills four suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen | | | A drone strike killed four suspected al Qaeda militants in a car in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa on Friday, local officials and residents said. Al Qaeda propaganda brochures were scattered over the ground by the road, local officials said. During nine months of civil war and military intervention by a Saudi-led Gulf Arab coalition last March, the United States has kept up drone strikes against jihadist groups in Yemen. |
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