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| Soccer-San Lorenzo captain Migliore arrested, charged Monday, Apr 01, 2013 12:21 PM PDT BUENOS AIRES, April 1 (Reuters) - San Lorenzo captain and goalkeeper Pablo Migliore has been arrested on charges of perverting the course of justice in a homicide investigation, the Argentine club said. Migliore was arrested on Sunday after his team lost 1-0 to Newell's Old Boys in a "Final" league championship match in a police operation at their Nuevo Gasometro ground in the capital. Migliore is suspected of aiding Maximiliano Mazzaro, an alleged high-ranking member of Boca Juniors hard core barrabrava fans, often associated with football hooliganism. ... Full Story | Top |
| First family takes part in White House Easter Egg Roll Monday, Apr 01, 2013 12:16 PM PDT  By Gabriel Debenedetti WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sometimes being president of the United States isn't just about being in command. There is also the rare opportunity to shed the heavy concerns - and the necktie - and spend time with citizens focused more on food and fun than power and politics. Barack Obama escaped briefly from North Korean tensions and Capitol Hill battles to spend time with the Easter Bunny and 30,000 visitors on the south lawn of the White House for the 135th annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday morning. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. accuses Egypt of stifling freedom of expression Monday, Apr 01, 2013 12:14 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday accused Egypt of muzzling freedom of speech after prosecutors questioned the most popular Egyptian television satirist over allegations he insulted President Mohamed Mursi and Islam. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland also suggested the Egyptian authorities were selectively prosecuting those accused of insulting the government while ignoring or playing down attacks on anti-government demonstrators. ... Full Story | Top |
| Stockton, California eligible for municipal bankruptcy protection: judge Monday, Apr 01, 2013 12:12 PM PDT SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Stockton, California, was ruled eligible for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 9 of the U.S. bankruptcy code, a U.S. judged said on Monday, turning aside creditors' arguments that the city was not truly insolvent when it sought protection last year and had improperly failed to seek concessions. In a case that has been widely watched by the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market, U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Exclusive: Obama to nominate economic adviser Deese as deputy budget director Monday, Apr 01, 2013 12:40 PM PDT  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce on Monday he has chosen White House economic adviser Brian Deese to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Deese, now deputy director of the White House's National Economic Council, would join Sylvia Mathews Burwell, a former Clinton administration official who later became president of the Walmart Foundation, whom Obama tapped to be director of OMB. ... Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court sends back lawsuit on washing machines Monday, Apr 01, 2013 12:01 PM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday wiped out an appeals court ruling in favor of consumers who bought front-loading washing machines made by Whirlpool Corp . The court said the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision endorsing a group lawsuit, known as class action certification, had to be reconsidered in light of the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling last week in another consumer case involving Comcast Corp . The class action lawsuit against Whirlpool said that the high-efficiency washers were defective because they emitted unpleasant odors. ... Full Story | Top |
| Stockton bondholders did not bargain in "good faith": judge Monday, Apr 01, 2013 12:00 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - The bondholders for Stockton, California, failed to negotiate "in good faith" with the city prior to its bankruptcy filing last year, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge overseeing the case said on Monday. Judge Christopher Klein, speaking from the bench in a lengthy preamble to a ruling he is expected to deliver shortly on whether the city is eligible to proceed with Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, also said Stockton was "by any measure insolvent" prior to its filing for protection from creditors. Stockton is the largest U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Trinidad asks U.S. for information on FBI soccer fraud probe Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:56 AM PDT  By Linda Hutchinson-Jafar and Mark Hosenball PORT OF SPAIN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago has asked U.S. authorities for information about an FBI investigation into alleged corruption in international soccer involving the Caribbean country's national security minister. An exclusive Reuters report last week quoted U.S. law enforcement sources as saying Daryan Warner, the son of former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, has become a "cooperating witness" in the FBI investigation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Texas governor warns officials to be safe after two killings Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:41 AM PDT By Chris Francescani KAUFMAN, Texas (Reuters) - Governor Rick Perry on Monday raised concern about the safety of Texas law enforcement officials as investigators searched for possible links between the killings of two Kaufman County prosecutors just two months apart. Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were discovered with fatal gunshot wounds at their home near Forney, Texas, on Saturday. McLelland had vowed to capture those who killed one of his assistants, Mark Hasse, on January 31. ... Full Story | Top |
| North Dakota abortion clinic vows fight against tough new state laws Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:19 AM PDT  By Alicia Underlee Nelson FARGO, North Dakota (Reuters) - North Dakota's only clinic that offers abortion services is vowing to challenge the state's adoption of new restrictions that its backers say imperil its ability to operate. The Red River Women's Clinic, which is tucked inside a downtown Fargo building that once housed one of the state's first beauty shops, is the only alternative for women seeking abortion services for hundreds of miles. ... Full Story | Top |
| Colorado prosecutors seek death penalty for accused cinema gunman Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:16 AM PDT  By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Colorado will seek the death penalty for accused movie theater gunman James Holmes in the 2012 slaying of 12 people during a showing of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises," the lead prosecutor said in court on Monday. Holmes, a 25-year-old former graduate student of neuroscience, is accused of opening fire inside a suburban Denver multiplex during a midnight screening of the movie last July in a rampage that ranked as one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States. ... Full Story | Top |
| Texas governor reiterates opposition to Medicaid expansion Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:13 AM PDT  By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry on Monday firmly reiterated that the state will not expand its Medicaid program, saying that it is a broken system that needs to be reformed by allowing states more flexibility. "Seems to me April Fool's Day is the perfect day to discuss something as foolish as Medicaid expansion, and to remind everyone that Texas will not be held hostage by the Obama administration's attempt to force us into the fool's errand of adding more than a million Texans to a broken system," Perry told reporters at the state Capitol. ... Full Story | Top |
| Federal government slashes New York's Medicaid payments Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:08 AM PDT  By Edward Krudy NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal authorities have dramatically lowered the amount that New York state can claim from the federal government for certain medical services, costing the state an estimated $1.2 billion. The Center for Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that administers the nation's medical insurance system for people on low incomes, cut the per-patient reimbursement rate for patients in developmental centers to $1,200 from $5,100 from April 1, according to CMS documents seen by Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
| White House not seeing major mobilizations by North Korea Monday, Apr 01, 2013 10:46 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States takes seriously North Korea's war threats but has not seen any sort of large-scale mobilization of troops or positioning of forces by Pyongyang, the White House said on Monday. "We haven't seen actions to back up the rhetoric," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. North Korea said last week it is in a "state of war" with South Korea and issued other threats that heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula. ... Full Story | Top |
| Possessing a little marijuana no longer criminal in Rhode Island Monday, Apr 01, 2013 10:44 AM PDT  By Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - A law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana went into effect in Rhode Island on Monday after the state last year became the 15th in the United States to enact such legislation. Governor Lincoln Chafee signed the legislation into law in June but it did not take effect until Monday, a move intended to allow time for officials to work out procedures, said state Representative John Edwards, a co-sponsor of the measure. ... Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court won't hear airline appeal of ad rule Monday, Apr 01, 2013 10:40 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a federal government rule that requires airlines to advertise the full cost of tickets. Allegiant Travel Co, Southwest Airlines Co and Spirit Airlines Inc had all challenged the U.S. Department of Transportation's regulation, which prohibits airlines from leaving taxes and government fees out of their advertised rates. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the rule in July on a 2-1 vote. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lebanese gunmen kidnap eight Syrians, demand hostage exchange Monday, Apr 01, 2013 10:26 AM PDT TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped eight men from Syria's Alawite minority as they crossed into northern Lebanon on Monday, residents and security sources said, in a bid to gain the release of a Sunni Muslim man believed to be held by Syrian forces. Lebanon's frontier has increasingly been drawn into violence from neighboring Syria's civil war, now in its third year. Sectarian tensions have been on the rise in both countries, with Sunni Muslims in Lebanon supporting the largely Sunni revolt against President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. ... Full Story | Top |
| Justice Department to monitor Kansas, Nebraska elections Monday, Apr 01, 2013 10:09 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department's civil rights division will monitor local elections in Finney County, Kansas, and Douglas County, Nebraska, on Tuesday, the department said. "The monitoring will ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes," the Justice Department said in a statement on Monday. Finney County, in western Kansas, will hold municipal and school elections. Voters in Douglas County, home to Omaha, Nebraska's biggest city, will cast ballots in Omaha city and school district primaries. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.N. General Assembly to vote on draft arms trade treaty? Monday, Apr 01, 2013 09:47 AM PDT  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly is tentatively planning to vote on Tuesday on a draft treaty to regulate the $70 billion global trade in conventional arms. Iran, Syria and North Korea last week prevented a treaty drafting conference at U.N. headquarters from reaching the required consensus to adopt the treaty. That left delegations that support it no choice but to turn to the General Assembly to adopt it. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cyprus plans tax breaks, casinos to kickstart economy Monday, Apr 01, 2013 09:39 AM PDT  NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus plans to lift a ban on casinos and offer firms tax exemptions on profits reinvested on the island under a package of reforms to kickstart its ailing economy, its president said on Monday. The country's euro zone partners agreed on a 10 billion euro rescue package last Monday after weeks of tense negotiations that showed the debt crisis racking the 17-nation currency union is far from over. ... Full Story | Top |
| S. Africa's Mandela visited by family after weekend improvement Monday, Apr 01, 2013 09:35 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, who is being treated in hospital for pneumonia, was visited by members of his family on Monday after doctors had reported an improvement in his condition over the weekend. A statement from South Africa's presidency said there was "no significant change" in the condition of the 94-year-old former president, who has been in hospital since late Wednesday suffering from a recurrence of a lung infection. "Former President Mandela is still in hospital where he is receiving treatment ... ... Full Story | Top |
| South Africa's Mandela visited by family after weekend improvement Monday, Apr 01, 2013 09:33 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, who is being treated in hospital for pneumonia, was visited by members of his family on Monday after doctors had reported an improvement in his condition over the weekend. A statement from South Africa's presidency said there was "no significant change" in the condition of the 94-year-old former president, who has been in hospital since late Wednesday suffering from a recurrence of a lung infection. "Former President Mandela is still in hospital where he is receiving treatment ... ... Full Story | Top |
| Soccer-Hurt Di Canio hits back at "unfair" accusations Monday, Apr 01, 2013 09:32 AM PDT LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) - Italian Paolo Di Canio, whose appointment as Sunderland manager sparked the resignation of a former Government minister from the club's board, said on Monday he was hurt by unfair accusations against him. Despite previously working as the manager of League One (third tier) club Swindon Town and playing in both England and Scotland during a long playing career, news of his appointment rekindled interest in the remarks he made to Italian news agency ANSA in 2005 when he said: "I am a fascist, not a racist. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ghost of Chavez dominates Venezuela election campaign Monday, Apr 01, 2013 09:24 AM PDT  By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - Weeks after his death, Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chavez still leads supporters in singing the national anthem. The late president's recorded voice booms over rallies for his protégé, acting President Nicolas Maduro, who stands under billboards of Chavez's face and waves to crowds carrying signs emblazoned with his name. Maduro, who is favored to win a snap election triggered by Chavez's death last month, rarely misses a chance to lionize the man many Venezuelans know as "El Comandante. ... Full Story | Top |
| March was bloodiest month in Syria war: rights group Monday, Apr 01, 2013 09:20 AM PDT  BEIRUT (Reuters) - March was the bloodiest month yet in Syria's two-year conflict, with more than 6,000 people killed, a third of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. The group opposes President Bashar al-Assad but has monitored human rights violations on both sides of a revolt that began as peaceful protests but is now a brutal war between forces loyal to Assad and an array of rebel militias. The Britain-based Observatory, which has a network of sources across Syria, has documented 62,554 dead in the conflict, said Rami Abdelrahman, the head of the group. ... Full Story | Top |
| Death toll hits 36 in Tanzania building collapse Monday, Apr 01, 2013 08:57 AM PDT  DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The death toll from the collapse of a multi-storey building in Tanzania rose to 36 on Monday, a senior police chief said, after more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the building which was under construction near the centre of Dar es Salaam. Police said it was unlikely more bodies would be recovered from the site in the Kariakoo district where rescue workers had cleared most of the debris and reached the basement of the building that collapsed on Friday morning. "The final death toll from the collapse of the building is 36 ... ... Full Story | Top |
| Turkey scraps flights to Armenia after Azeri resistance Monday, Apr 01, 2013 08:44 AM PDT By Jonathon Burch ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has canceled the first ever scheduled Turkish flights to its long-time rival Armenia, days before the first plane was due to take off, officials have said, following fierce opposition from Turkey's ally and energy partner Azerbaijan. The twice-weekly flights between Turkey's eastern city of Van and the Armenian capital Yerevan were due to begin on April 3 and, encouraged by a U.S. push for rapprochement, were meant to boost bilateral tourism and trade. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ex-President Carter says China pressuring Nepal on Tibetans Monday, Apr 01, 2013 08:30 AM PDT  By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - China is putting pressure on Nepal to interrupt the flow of Tibetan refugees into the Himalayan nation, former United States President Jimmy Carter said on Monday. Hundreds of refugees from the Chinese province of Tibet cross treacherous mountain passes to reach Nepal each year, but as the influence of China grows in its impoverished neighbor, their passage is becoming increasingly difficult. ... Full Story | Top |
| Central bank to reopen in C.African Republic after coup Monday, Apr 01, 2013 08:26 AM PDT  By Ange Aboa BANGUI (Reuters) - Central Africa's regional central bank said it would reopen its branch in Bangui on Tuesday, and urged commercial lenders to do the same, offering a financial lifeline to cash-starved businesses a week after a coup. Rebels who accused the government of breaking past peace deals, stormed into the capital of Central African Republic on March 24, triggering days of looting. Banks and businesses closed their doors in the dilapidated riverside city, forcing residents to barter for food and cover long distances by foot. "Without the banks, there is no life ... ... Full Story | Top |
| Peace restored in stronghold of Kenya's election loser Odinga Monday, Apr 01, 2013 08:25 AM PDT  By Hezron Ochiel KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Calm returned to the western Kenyan stronghold of defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga on Monday after two days of running battles with police following the Supreme Court's confirmation of his rival Uhuru Kenyatta as president-elect. Two people were shot dead in the unrest, but the violence was on a much smaller scale than the nationwide bloodshed that followed the 2007 election when the western city of Kisumu was one of the places worst affected places by deadly riots. ... Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court declines to hear controversial professor's appeal Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:42 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by a former university professor who was fired in the aftermath of controversial statements he made about the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. The University of Colorado at Boulder fired Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, in 2007 following an investigation that found deficiencies and flaws in his academic work. ... Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court sends back consumer lawsuit on Whirlpool washers Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:38 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday wiped out an appeals court ruling in favor of consumers who bought front-loading washing machines made by Whirlpool Corp . The court said the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision endorsing a group lawsuit, known as class action certification, had to be reconsidered in light of the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling last week in another consumer case involving Comcast Corp . The class action lawsuit against Whirlpool said that the high-efficiency washers were defective because they emitted unpleasant odors. ... Full Story | Top |
| Central bank to reopen in Central African Republic after coup Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:23 AM PDT By Ange Aboa BANGUI (Reuters) - Central Africa's regional central bank said it would reopen its branch in Bangui on Tuesday, and urged commercial lenders to do the same, offering a financial lifeline to cash-starved businesses a week after a coup. Rebels who accused the government of breaking past peace deals, stormed into the capital of Central African Republic on March 24, triggering days of looting. Banks and businesses closed their doors in the dilapidated riverside city, forcing residents to barter for food and cover long distances by foot. "Without the banks, there is no life ... ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Easier said than done for Portugal to revive industry Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:13 AM PDT  By Alan Wheatley and Daniel Alvarenga TORRES VEDRAS, Portugal (Reuters) - For Portugal to succeed in ambitions to reindustrialize its shrinking, debt-laden economy, it will not be down to the revival of mass manufacturing but to the sprouting of high-tech start-ups such as UAVision. As the name Unmanned Aerial Vehicles suggests, drones mounted with cameras are a mainstay for the small engineering firm. Clients include big farmers who want to monitor conditions in their fields. One drone has been adapted to film camel racing in Dubai. ... Full Story | Top |
| Private, public spending lift construction outlays Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:04 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Construction spending rebounded in February as both public and private outlays increased, bolstering views of faster economic growth in the first quarter. Construction spending advanced 1.2 percent to an annual rate of $885.1 billion, the Commerce Department said on Monday. Spending had declined 2.1 percent in January. Economists polled by Reuters had expected construction spending to rise 1 percent in February. The construction report added to a series of other data that have suggested economic growth accelerated in the first quarter from the fourth quarter's anemic 0. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hamas law promotes gender segregation in Gaza schools Monday, Apr 01, 2013 06:56 AM PDT  GAZA (Reuters) - New rules from the Education Ministry of the Islamist Hamas movement ruling the Gaza Strip will bar men from teaching at girls' schools and mandate separate classes for boys and girls from the age of nine. The law, published on Monday, would go into effect next school year and applies throughout the coastal enclave, including in private, Christian-led and United Nations schools. Critics of the new measures say the Islamist movement is trying to force its ideology on society, but proponents say they merely want to codify conservative Palestinian values into law. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tunisia expects IMF deal in May, sukuk issue in July: report Monday, Apr 01, 2013 06:09 AM PDT TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia expects to sign a $1.7 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund next month after a delay due to the crisis that followed the killing of an opposition politician in February, the finance minister was quoted as saying on Monday. A report on Al-Arabiya television quoted Elyess Fakhfakh as saying the precautionary loan agreement would be reached "by May". Last week, the IMF said it would send a team to Tunis between April 8 and 15 to discuss the loan. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt lifts cooking gas price before IMF visit Monday, Apr 01, 2013 06:05 AM PDT By Ulf Laessing CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt raised the price of state-subsidised cooking gas for the first time in two decades on Monday, a government official said, trimming an unaffordable subsidy bill but increasing the risk of unrest. The price rise comes two days before an IMF mission arrives in Cairo to continue talks on a $4.8 billion loan needed to stave off a budget crisis and support a fast-weakening currency. ... Full Story | Top |
| South Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth jets Monday, Apr 01, 2013 06:02 AM PDT By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack, the new president in Seoul warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of radar-evading fighter planes. North Korea says the region is on the brink of a nuclear war in the wake of United Nations sanctions imposed for its February nuclear test and a series of joint U.S. and South Korean military drills that have included a rare U.S. show of aerial power. ... Full Story | Top |
| North Korea names Kim clan associate to premiership Monday, Apr 01, 2013 05:37 AM PDT  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea named former premier Pak Pong-ju, a key confidant of the leadership dynasty who was sacked in 2007 for failing to implement economic reforms, as its cabinet chief on Monday in a move that would further cement the ruling family's grip on power. Pak, believed to be in his 70s, is a key ally of Jang Song-thaek, the uncle of the isolated state's young ruler Kim Jong-un, and worked for Jang's wife, Kim's aunt Kyong-hui, the last remaining personal link to the state's revolutionary founder, Kim Il-sung, grandfather of the current leader. ... Full Story | Top |
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