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| Brazil's Senate to hold two votes on dismissing Rousseff | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate will hold two separate votes on whether to dismiss Dilma Rousseff from the presidency for breaking budget laws and whether to bar her from public office for eight years after she is removed, the magistrate overseeing her trial ruled on Wednesday. Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski said he could not refuse the request made by left-leaning parties that support Rousseff. Under Brazil's Constitution, a dimissed president should lose political rights for eight years and be prevented from holding any government job, even teaching posts at state universities. ...
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| U.S. court voids $655 million verdict against PLO over Israel attacks | | | A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $655.5 million verdict against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization for damages suffered by American families from terrorist attacks in Israel. By a 3-0 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge erred in concluding he had jurisdiction over the case. The appeals court ordered that the civil lawsuit, which began in January 2004, be dismissed. |
| Trump to make surprise trip to Mexico after harsh criticism | |  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump will travel to Mexico on Wednesday and meet President Enrique Pena Nieto in a surprise trip to a country which the Republican presidential candidate has vilified as the main source of illegal immigration and drug smuggling to the United States. Trump's visit to Mexico City takes place hours before he was due to deliver a highly anticipated speech in the border state of Arizona on how he would tackle illegal immigration if he wins the Nov. 8 election. Mexican opposition politicians and academics voiced disbelief that Pena Nieto would host Trump, who has accused Mexico of sending criminals and rapists across the border and cheating the United States on trade.
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| White House says has no evidence Russia killed Islamic State leader | |  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The Obama administration is not aware of any facts suggesting Russia was involved in the death of prominent Islamic State leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a White House spokesman said on Wednesday. Moscow had claimed that Russian air strikes in Syria had killed Adnani. U.S. defense officials said earlier that Russia's claim is a "joke." (Reporting by Roberta Rampton, writing by Timothy Gardner)
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| French Coca-Cola workers find huge cocaine stash in juice delivery | | | Coca-Cola workers found a huge stash of cocaine when they opened a delivery of fruit juice concentrate from Costa Rica at their factory in southern France. Local newspaper Var-Matin said the haul weighed 370 kg (815 pounds) with a potential street value of around 50 million euros ($56 million). "You can well imagine the surprise," said a spokesman for Coca-Cola, adding that the workers alerted police and were ruled out as potential suspects. |
| Courting Republicans, Clinton to tout 'American exceptionalism' | |  By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a foreign policy speech meant to reach out to Republican and independent voters, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will argue for a robust commitment to U.S. leadership in the world and tout the idea of "American exceptionalism." A Clinton aide said she would contrast her foreign policy approach with that of Republican Donald Trump, who puts the emphasis on what he calls an "America first" vision that includes a crackdown on illegal immigration and opposition to multinational trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Clinton, a former secretary of state, plans to appear at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT) at a convention of the American Legion veterans' group in Cincinnati.
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| Flights cancelled, delayed after Frankfurt airport security breach | |  By Maria Sheahan and Ilona Wissenbach FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German police said a misunderstanding led to a security breach that prompted the evacuation of Frankfurt airport's Terminal 1 and caused delays and flight cancellations at Europe's fourth largest airport on Wednesday. The alert was sparked when security staff at the terminal, a major hub for international travel and home to Lufthansa, requested police officers come over to check a suspicious female passenger. Before the police could arrive, the passenger, who had two small children with her, had quickly left, a police spokesman said.
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| Swedish hospital behind Nobel prize criticised over medical scandal | |  The reputation of the Karolinska Institute, one of Sweden's top hospitals that awards the Nobel prize for medicine, has been badly damaged by allegations patients died as a result of a surgeon performing experimental operations without clearance, an official report said. Criticism of the Karolinska Institute, which had employed Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, led to the resignation of the secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Institute in February and to calls for the award to be scrapped this year and next. Bjorn Hurtig, a Swedish lawyer who represents Macchiarini, could not immediately be reached for comment on the report.
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| IOC sanctions six sportspeople for failing dope tests at Beijing Games | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee has disqualified six sportspeople for failing doping tests at the Beijing 2008 Games, the IOC said on Wednesday. They included three Russian medallists: weighlifters Nadezda Evstyukhina and Marina Shainova, and Tatyana Firova, who finished second with teammates in the 4x400m event. Bronze-medal weighlighter Tigran Martirosyan of Armenia and fellow weighlifters Alexandru Dudoglo of Moldova and Intigam Zairov of Azerbaijan were also disqualified, the IOC said in a statement. (Reporting by Michael Shields; Editing by Alison Williams) |
| Kenya's anti-graft chief, accused of conflict of interest, quits | | | By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) - The chairman of Kenya's anti-graft body said on Wednesday he had quit after lawmakers recommended removing him from office over an alleged conflict of interest between his family business and another state-run agency. Kenyan media reported parliament's Justice and Legal Affairs Committee wanted lawmakers to ask President Uhuru Kenyatta to set up a tribunal to force out Philip Kinisu. The committee had accused Kinisu of a conflict of interest in his family company's dealings with state-run National Youth Service, which the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) that he leads was investigating over lost money. |
| Germany investigating 64 suspected extremist Islamists in armed forces | | | Germany's military counter-intelligence agency is investigating 64 suspected "extremist Islamists" working for the armed forces, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. People judged to be "extremist Islamists" are not permitted to work for the military. Between 2007 and 2016, 30 "extremist Islamists" went to Syria or Iraq after being employed in the armed forces, the spokesman said. |
| Swiss tell EU: Hands off veterans' assault rifles | |  By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Friction between Switzerland and the European Union over the bloc's plans to tighten gun control following a rise in militant attacks could turn into another serious snag in ties already tested by Swiss efforts to curb immigration. The proposed directive, which applies to non-EU member Switzerland only because it is part of Europe's Schengen open border system, has raised hackles among the Swiss, who resent intervention from Brussels. Christoph Blocher, a leading voice of the Swiss right and a eurosceptic, says Switzerland should consider abandoning Europe's Schengen system of passport-free travel if the Swiss people rejected the proposed measures in a referendum.
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| Gabon poll count favours Bongo, opponent cries fraud | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - A count by Gabon's electoral commission on Wednesday suggested incumbent Ali Bongo had narrowly beaten challenger Jean Ping in a presidential election that Ping's camp denounced as fraudulent and said the Gabonese will not accept. A senior source in the commission and a member of the body allied to Ping's camp confirmed the commission numbers gave Bongo a 49.85 percent share of the vote to Ping's 48.16 percent. The electoral commission was scheduled to release the results of Saturday's poll on Tuesday evening, but by 11.15 a.m. (1015 GMT) the following day, the panel was still in a closed-door meeting.
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| Corrected: Turkey arrests 865 this year in Islamic State crackdown - minister | | | Turkey has arrested 865 people since the start of 2016 in its fight against Islamic State, and more than half of those were foreigners, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said in remarks broadcast on Turkish television channels on Wednesday. Thousands of foreign fighters from countries including Turkey, Britain, Europe and the United States have joined the Islamist militants in their self-proclaimed caliphate in recent years, many of them passing through Turkey. Turkey has since launched a crackdown on the networks facilitating their passage. |
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