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| Cosby could face multiple accusers at June assault trial | |  By Joseph Ax NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania has been scheduled for June, and if prosecutors have their way, more than a dozen accusers will take the stand to detail what they claim is a decades-long pattern of attacks. During a hearing on Tuesday, Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill in Norristown, Pennsylvania, set Cosby's trial for June 5, 2017, setting up what will likely be months of fiercely fought legal battles over the scope of evidence allowed at trial. The Montgomery County District Attorney's office on Tuesday asked O'Neill's permission to call as witnesses 13 women who claim the 79-year-old entertainer assaulted them.
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| Brazil's new government buffeted by pension fund scandal | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The government of Brazil's new President Michel Temer scrambled on Tuesday to distance itself from a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal that broke less than a week after he took office, involving fraud in the country's largest pension funds. With the country already reeling from a sprawling bribery and kickback scandal at state oil company Petrobras, the new corruption case could hamper the conservative Temer's efforts to restore credibility and turn the page on the leftist government of impeached President Dilma Rousseff. Police on Monday arrested five people linked to fraudulent investments made by four huge pension funds of state-run companies.
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| Fox settles sexual harassment lawsuit for $20 million on Ailes' behalf | |  Fox News will pay $20 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson, whose allegations led to the resignation of network chief Roger Ailes in July, a source familiar with the agreement said on Tuesday. The settlements come less than two months after Fox News' parent company, 21st Century Fox, hired Paul, Weiss to investigate claims against Ailes. During that investigation, more than two dozen women described harassment by Ailes, according to New York Magazine.
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| U.S. urges Bahrain to free jailed rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab | |  The United States voiced concern on Tuesday about the detention of leading Bahraini democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab and called on the Manama government to release him immediately. The call by the U.S. State Department came just two days after The New York Times published a letter by Rajab that said he was facing prosecution for his work exposing human rights abuses in Bahrain and criticizing the war in Yemen. Prosecutors in Bahrain filed new charges on Monday against an unidentified man, believed by rights activists to be Rajab, for "publishing a column in a foreign newspaper in which he deliberately broadcast news, statements and false rumors that undermine the kingdom's prestige and stature." Asked about the new charges, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States was "very concerned" about Rajab's "ongoing detention and the new charges filed against him." "We call on the government of Bahrain to release him immediately," Toner said.
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| Turkey working with Council of Europe on post-coup prosecutions | |  By Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) - A delegation from Turkey's justice ministry has met with the Council of Europe to review European human rights standards and conventions as Ankara prepares to prosecute those it holds responsible for a failed July 15 coup, the head of the CoE said. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will also meet with other ministers from the 47-nation rights body in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday, Thorbjorn Jagland, general secretary of the CoE, told Reuters on Tuesday on the sidelines of a conference hosted by the German foreign ministry.
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| France's Sarkozy says "shameful" manipulations won't deter presidential bid | |  Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday dismissed "shameful" attempts to prevent him for running for the 2017 presidency after the state prosecutor said he should stand trial over 2012 election funding irregularities. Sarkozy is accused of "knowingly underestimating" elements of his campaign financing, and the prosecutor's office recommended on Monday he stand trial with 13 others in the so-called Bygmalion Affair, involving spending overruns and allegedly illegal financing. The timing is tricky for Sarkozy in the run-up to a candidacy contest pitting himself against several conservative rivals for the presidential ticket of the Les Republicains party and its allies on the centre-right.
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| Romanian ex-PM Ponta under investigation in new probe | |  Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors said on Tuesday they were investigating former leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta on suspicion of abuse of power and complicity in tax evasion. Ponta is already on trial in a separate case on charges of forgery, money-laundering and being an accessory to tax evasion, which he has denied. Prosecutors said Ponta used his position the time, as prime minister and head of the Social Democrats, to put businessman Sebastian Ghita on the party's list of candidates for the 2012 parliamentary election in exchange for his paying 220,000 euros ($247,000) to bring an international celebrity to Romania.
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| Ex-Air China employee pleads not guilty to U.S. smuggling charge | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Air China Ltd employee linked to defendants in a U.N. bribery case pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that she helped military personnel at China's mission to the United Nations smuggle packages out of the United States. Lin, whom prosecutors said also helped a Chinese national under investigation by the FBI flee the United States last year, entered her plea through her lawyer in Brooklyn federal court to charges including smuggling and obstruction of justice. |
| India's Muslim women say justification for triple talaq, polygamy is medieval | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Muslim women fighting to ban "triple talaq" divorce and polygamy from family civil law in India's top court condemned on Tuesday justifications given by Islamic clerics as "medieval" and "reeking of sexism". India's Supreme Court is currently hearing a petition filed by women's rights activists who want the judiciary to declare triple talaq - where Muslim men can divorce by simply stating their intention three times verbally - as unconstitutional.
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