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| Brazil recovery on track despite political turmoil - top Temer aide | | Friday, June 03, 2016 12:44 AM | |
|  By Anthony Boadle and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Interim Brazilian President Michel Temer will press ahead with ambitious plans to balance the budget, reform pensions and draw private money into the energy sector despite the loss of two ministers to a corruption scandal, his chief of staff said on Thursday. Presidential chief of staff Eliseu Padilha said in an interview the government enjoys a solid two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress to push through legislation needed to plug a record deficit inherited 20 days ago from suspended President Dilma Rousseff. Padilha said the Temer government is very confident the Senate will vote to convict Rousseff for breaking budget laws in an impeachment trial, and it hopes this will happen as quickly as possible to remove any doubt about Temer's legitimacy.
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| Burundi's Nkurunziza asks criminal gangs to surrender in next 15 days | | Friday, June 03, 2016 12:40 AM | |
|  By Clement Manirabarusha BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - President Pierre Nkurunziza has given armed gangs in Burundi 15 days to surrender to authorities and hand in their weapons or face unspecified action. Nkurunziza was speaking during a visit to Mugamba district, some 65 km southeast of the capital Bujumbura, where many local officials have been killed in recent weeks. Tit-for-tat attacks between Nkurunziza's security forces and his opponents have escalated since April 2015 when he announced a disputed bid for a third term.
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| U.N. adds Saudi coalition to blacklist for killing children in Yemen | | Friday, June 03, 2016 12:38 AM | |
|  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon slammed the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen for killing and maiming children by adding it to an annual blacklist of states and armed groups that violate children's rights during conflict. The Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign in Yemen in March last year with the aim of preventing Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking control of the country.
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| Fentanyl, the powerful drug that killed Prince, presents growing threat | | Friday, June 03, 2016 12:20 AM | |
| | By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller that a medical examiner identified as the drug that killed the superstar Prince six weeks ago, has been responsible for an epidemic of overdose deaths around the United States, according to federal officials. The most potent narcotic known, it is a man-made opioid 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more so than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control website. The agency says illegally manufactured non-pharmaceutical fentanyl, and related overdoses, are a rising problem. |
| SWIFT CEO fights to restore faith in bank messaging system | | Friday, June 03, 2016 12:15 AM | |
|  By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive of secure messaging system SWIFT said the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank, by criminals sending fraudulent payment instructions via SWIFT, would force the organisation to shrink and review its strategy. Gottfried Leibbrandt told Reuters he would be forced to scale back some of SWIFT's operations to help pay for new security initiatives it plans. In February, thieves hacked into Bank Bangladesh's interface with SWIFT's network -- a fund-transfer pipeline that is the backbone of international finance.
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| 'We want food!', Venezuelans cry at protest near presidency | | | By Efrain Otero and Marco Bello CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting "We want food!" near Caracas' presidential palace on Thursday, the latest street violence in the crisis-hit OPEC nation. Hundreds of angry Venezuelans heading towards Miraflores palace in downtown Caracas were met by National Guard troops and police who blocked a major road. President Nicolas Maduro, under intense pressure over a worsening economic crisis in the South American nation of 30 million, had been scheduled to address a rally of indigenous groups nearby around the same time. |
| Canada's Trudeau to legalize marijuana, but not smoke it | |  By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has admitted to smoking marijuana in the past, said on Thursday he has no plans to light up even after his government makes it legal to do so. "It was never my thing." Trudeau, 44, said he does not drink much alcohol or coffee, either. Canadians are allowed to use medical marijuana with a prescription, but recreational use is illegal.
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| Peru court OKs U.S. extradition of ex-soccer boss in FIFA probe | |  A Peruvian court on Thursday ruled the former head of the country's football federation could be extradited to the United States as part of a far-reaching investigation into corruption at the heart of the sport's governing body FIFA. The court ruling must be approved by the justice ministry before Manuel Burga, who led the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) until 2014, can be extradited. The charge of criminal conspiracy substantiated the extradition request, but the court presided over by Judge Javier Villa Stein decided that four other charges including money laundering and electronic fraud brought by U.S. prosecutors were not grounds for extradition.
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| No charges against St. Louis police in black teen's death | |  By Sue Britt ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Two St. Louis police officers will not face charges for the shooting death of a black teenager in August 2015, a Missouri prosecutor said on Thursday. Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce said there was not enough evidence to show that the plainclothes officers did not shoot Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, in self-defence, as they contend they did. St. Louis and its suburb of Ferguson have drawn protests over police treatment of minorities after a white Ferguson officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in 2014.
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| Republican U.S. House Speaker Ryan backs Trump after long courtship | |  By Steve Holland and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Ryan, the top elected U.S. Republican, ended a long period of soul-searching and endorsed Donald Trump for president on Thursday, a step toward unifying party loyalists behind the insurgent candidate despite concerns about his candidacy. Ryan had been a high-profile holdout to supporting Trump for the Nov. 8 presidential election out of concern about the presumptive Republican nominee's bellicose rhetoric and break with party orthodoxy on issues including trade and immigration. It surfaced in the middle of a speech by Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in which she launched a far-reaching attack on Trump's foreign policy credentials.
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| UCLA murder-suicide gunman had planned third killing - police | |  By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former University of California, Los Angeles, student shot dead a woman at her home in Minnesota before he drove almost 2,000 miles (3,200 km) to the school and killed one professor but failed to find a third intended victim, police said on Thursday. Mainak Sarkar, 38, had intended to kill a second professor in addition to engineering professor William Klug, 39, at a small office on the campus, police said. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters on Thursday that a search of Sarkar's St. Paul, Minnesota, home turned up a "kill list" that included the name of the woman found dead nearby, as well as the name of the other UCLA professor, who was not harmed.
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| Brazil Congress signals approval of spending ceiling - Meirelles | |  By Alonso Soto and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said on Thursday that Congress has signalled it is willing to approve tough measures to control spending, as Brazil fights to emerge from its worst recession since the 1930s. Meirelles said he is confident a political scandal that cost the jobs of two of Interim President Michel Temer's cabinet ministers will not hinder planned efforts to enact a permanent ceiling for public spending. "This is a key discussion that is not subject to mood swings of the moment," Meirelles told Reuters.
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| Singer Prince died of accidental painkiller overdose - medical examiner | |  By Fiona Ortiz and Suzannah Gonzales CHICAGO (Reuters) - Music superstar Prince, who was found dead in his home in a Minneapolis suburb in late April, died of an accidental, self-administered overdose of an opioid painkiller, the county medical examiner said in a death report on Thursday. The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Anoka County, Minnesota, had been investigating the 57-year-old singer's death since he was discovered in an elevator in his home and studio on April 21. "The decedent self-administered fentanyl," the medical examiner's report said, listing cause of death as "fentanyl toxicity" and noting it was accidental.
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| Ex-Tunisia leader's kin disappears ahead of Canada deportation | | | By Ethan Lou TORONTO (Reuters) - The brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has disappeared in Canada ahead of his deportation, but his lawyer says he will continue to challenge the removal order. Belhassen Trabelsi, a wealthy Tunisian businessman, moved to Canada after Ben Ali was ousted in 2011 in a wave of protests against his 23 years of power. Trabelsi was due to be deported on Tuesday and had been challenging that order. |
| Court convicts 24 in Gulbarg society massacre case | |  A court convicted 24 Hindus on Thursday of murder and other charges related to an anti-Muslim riot in Gujarat in which dozens of Muslims were killed at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister. A total of 69 Muslims, including a former lawmaker, were killed at a housing society in Ahmedabad in the 2002 riot when a mob set fire to their homes and attacked fleeing families, prosecutors said. "It has taken me 14 years to prove the crime committed against innocent Muslims.
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