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| Votes mount against Brazil's Rousseff at impeachment trial | | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 3:10 AM | |
|  By Anthony Boadle and Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Votes piled up against President Dilma Rousseff at her impeachment trial on Tuesday as opponents made final arguments for her removal, not just for breaking budget rules, but for plunging Brazil into a political and economic crisis. Rousseff, suspended from office in May pending the Senate trial, is charged with spending public funds without Congressional approval and illicitly using money from state banks to boost public works to favor her 2014 re-election, an accounting sleight of hand employed by many elected officials. With a final vote expected to convict her on Wednesday, Rousseff's dismissal would confirm a shift to the right and the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule that helped lift some 30 million Brazilians out of poverty.
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| Trump may meet with Mexican president ahead of immigration speech | | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 2:42 AM | |
|  Donald Trump is considering traveling to Mexico City on Wednesday to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, just hours before the Republican presidential nominee delivers a speech in Arizona on immigration policy, according to a source familiar with the situation. The possible trip was first reported by the Washington Post, which said talks between the Trump campaign and Mexican officials were ongoing, but logistics and security concerns were still being sorted out. Peña Nieto had invited Trump to visit Mexico and the Republican's campaign decided over the weekend to accept the invitation and try to work out a visit this week.
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| Gabon condemns Ping, warns French officials against 'interference' | | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 12:29 AM | |
| | By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - The Gabon government on Tuesday accused President Ali Bongo's challenger, Jean Ping, of trying to destabilise the country, and warned French ruling party officials against "interference" in its affairs. Ping, a former foreign minister, African Union Commission chairman and longtime political insider, is the main challenger to Bongo, whose family has ruled the oil-producing central African nation for half a century. "Jean Ping's victory is no longer in doubt," the statement signed by him said, adding he had received 59.32 percent support in the eight out of the nine provinces for which they had data, with Bongo getting just 37.97 percent. |
| Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan hit by suspected suicide car bomb | |  By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - A suspected suicide car bomber rammed the gates of the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Tuesday, killing the attacker and wounding at least three other people, officials said. China condemned the attack and urged Kyrgyz authorities to "quickly investigate and determine the real situation behind the incident. "China is deeply shocked by this and strongly condemns this violent and extreme act," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing in Beijing.
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| L.A. police search singer Chris Brown's home after standoff | |  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police surrounded and then searched the Los Angeles home of Chris Brown on Tuesday in response to a pre-dawn 911 call from a woman there who asked for help, and media reports said she claimed the pop star had pointed a gun at her. Brown, 27, denied any wrongdoing and said on Instagram posts that he had woken up to find police outside and that they would need a warrant to enter the property in the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. The incident involved the residence of Mr. Chris Brown, where officers responded and met with that person," Lieutenant Chris Ramirez of the Los Angeles Police Department told reporters.
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| Brazil lawmakers blame crisis on Rousseff at impeachment trial | | By Anthony Boadle and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff's opponents made a final call at her impeachment trial on Tuesday for her removal, not just for breaking budget rules, but for plunging Brazil into a political and economic crisis amid a sweeping corruption scandal. Rousseff, suspended from office in May pending the Senate trial, is charged with spending public funds without Congressional approval and illicitly using money from state banks to boost public works to favor her 2014 re-election -- an accounting sleight of hand employed by many elected officials. With a final vote on whether to convict her expected on Wednesday, Rousseff's dismissal would confirm a shift to the right and the end of 13-years of leftist Workers Party rule that helped lift some 30 million Brazilians out of poverty.
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| Venezuela arrests opposition activists ahead of anti-government rally | |  By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has arrested several opposition activists accused of plotting violence during an anti-government rally scheduled for Thursday, President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday, and opposition leaders slammed the arrests as intimidation. The opposition is calling on sympathizers from across the country to march in the capital of Caracas to push for a recall referendum against Maduro, who calls the rally a plot to stir up violence and set the stage for a coup. The upcoming march follows months of tensions between Maduro and the opposition-controlled legislature, exacerbated by triple-digit inflation, Soviet-style product shortages and a severe economic recession.
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| Democrats seek FBI probe of allegations Russia seeking to influence U.S. vote | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in Congress, including party Senate leader Harry Reid, asked the FBI to investigate concerns that the Russian government may be attempting to undermine the U.S. presidential election through cyber attacks that could include tampering with voting results. "The prospect of a hostile government actively seeking to undermine our free and fair elections represents one of the gravest threats to our democracy since the Cold War," Reid said in a letter to FBI Director James Comey. It was followed on Tuesday by a letter from four Democrats asking Comey to assess whether campaign officials working for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may be colluding with Russian interests to carry out recent hacks against the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in order to "interfere with the U.S. presidential election." That letter was signed by Representatives Elijah Cummings, John Conyers, Elliot Engel and Bennie Thompson, each of whom serves as the top Democrat on a different congressional committee.
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| Russia questions report blaming Syrian government for gas attacks | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia questioned on Tuesday a report by the United Nations and a global chemical weapons watchdog that blamed Syrian government forces for two chlorine gas attacks, saying the U.N. Security Council could not use the conclusions to impose sanctions. A year-long U.N. and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inquiry, unanimously authorized by the 15-member Security Council, also found that Islamic State militants used sulfur mustard gas. The U.N. Security Council began talks on Tuesday on how to respond to the inquiry.
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