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| Five killed in apparently related shootings in Georgia - reports | | | According to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, the suspect identified as Wayne Anthony Hawes, 50, apparently snapped after learning his wife planned to divorce him. Four victims died at the scenes in Appling, Georgia, about 20 miles northwest of Augusta, and a fifth died in hospital, WRDW television station and other media reported citing coroner Vernon Collins. |
| China, U.S. pledge to ratify Paris climate deal this year | |  By Michelle Nichols and Valerie Volcovici UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China and the United States, the world's top producers of greenhouse gas emissions, pledged on Friday to formally adopt by the end of the year a Paris deal to slow global warming, raising the prospects of it being enforced much faster than anticipated. The United Nations said 175 states took the first step of signing the deal on Friday, the biggest day one endorsement of a global agreement. Of those, 15 states also formally notified the United Nations that they had ratified the deal.
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| U.S. drops New York fight with Apple after gaining access to iPhone | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday dropped its effort to force Apple Inc to help unlock an iPhone in a drug case in New York after someone provided authorities the passcode to access the device. In a letter filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, prosecutors said that investigators late on Thursday used that passcode to access the iPhone at issue, and as a result "no longer needs Apple's assistance." The letter marked a sudden end to a closely watched case, in which the Justice Department had been appealing a ruling by a federal magistrate judge holding that he could not force Apple to assist authorities.
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| Eight relatives dead in Ohio 'execution style' killings | | | Eight members of the same family were shot to death execution-style in four homes in Pike County, Ohio, and more than 30 people have been questioned in the search for the killer or killers, officials said on Friday. The victims included seven adults and one juvenile, all shot in the head, Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said. Asked about possible suspects, DeWine told a news conference: "We don't know whether we're talking about one individual, or two, or three, or more." An infant less than a week old, a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old survived the shootings in Pike County, in south-central Ohio. |
| Prosecutors seek dismissal of charges against man in Arizona shootings | |  Prosecutors in Phoenix on Friday filed court papers to withdraw criminal charges against a man who was arrested last year and accused in a string of Arizona freeway shootings, a spokesman for prosecutors said. The move by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office came after a judge on Tuesday reduced the bail of 21-year-old Leslie Allen Merritt Jr to nothing from $150,000, clearing the way for his release later that day. "We have a professional and ethical duty to act in the interest of justice and not merely seek a conviction and this is a textbook example of doing that," said Jerry Cobb, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
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| Panama raids Mossack Fonseca property, seizes shredded papers | |  Panamanian investigators on Friday raided a property used by Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of a massive leak of offshore financial data, removing bags full of shredded documents as evidence, a local prosecutor said. "We have secured a large amount of evidence found in the location," said organised crime investigator Javier Caraballo. In a statement, Mossack Fonseca said it had digitised all its documents and that the shredded papers taken from its premises were bound for recycling.
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| Brazil's Rousseff may appeal to Mercosur if impeached illegally | | Friday, April 22, 2016 11:56 PM | |
|  By Luciana Lopez and Louis Charbonneau NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff denounced her impeachment as a "coup" to an international audience on Friday, and said she would appeal to the Mercosur bloc of South American nations for Brazil to be suspended if democratic process is broken. "I would appeal to the democracy clause if there were, from now on, a rupture of what I consider democratic process," she told reporters in New York. The impeachment process has "all the characteristics of a coup" as it has no legal basis, she said, in an attempt to rally international support for her political narrative.
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