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Brazil's Rousseff makes final survival bid as Senate poised to oust her
Canadian oil production trickles back as wildfire threat eases
At least 10 killed in Afghan suicide bombing
Obama to visit Hiroshima, will not apologize for World War Two bombing
China scrambles fighters as U.S. sails warship near Chinese-claimed reef
Bangladesh hangs Islamist leader for rape and genocide in 1971 war
Trump wins West Virginia, Sanders takes early lead
Native Americans in Oklahoma join forces to help monarch butterflies
Canadian oil hub works to restore power, eyes resuming full oil output
Top Asian News 11:27 p.m. GMT
UK's Cameron caught calling Nigeria, Afghanistan 'corrupt'
IS cuts regime supply route to Syria's ancient Palmyra
El Salvador reiterates opposition to gang dialogue
Annulment in Brazil impeachment drama is reversed
Carbon-offset deal would cost airlines $6.2 billion in 2025: IATA
Man United loses to West Ham after team bus attacked
Finchem not concerned over 5 players skipping Olympics
Mixture of loss, hope for Canadian town hit by wildfire
Brazil's Temer sticks to leaner government plan after outcry
Brazil's Rousseff undone by hubris, economic missteps
FIFA unfreezes CONCACAF's funding but $10M not released yet
US won't seek death penalty against Benghazi suspect
2026 World Cup hosts vote in 2020 with new FIFA bid rules
U.S. says it will work with controversial new Philippines leader
Brazil president in last-gasp appeal against impeachment
Crawford and Postol to meet July 23 in title showdown
Syrian national extradited, charged with hacking for Assad
Paris mayor meets new London counterpart Khan
Man Utd bus 'smashed up' before West Ham game
French government to face no-confidence vote over labour law
French PM to visit Israel in bid to relaunch peace process
Mexico eyes anti-pollution measures for smoggy capital
Obama to make historic visit to Hiroshima
Guatemalan congress votes to strip justice of immunity
British PM calls Nigeria, Afghanistan 'fantastically corrupt'
A rusty Masters champion gets back to work
Oil firms in fire-hit Canada region back to work in coming days at best: premier
Boxing's next big fight could be a real knockout

Brazil's Rousseff makes final survival bid as Senate poised to oust her

Posted: 10 May 2016 02:34 PM PDT

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took her battle to survive impeachment to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a last-ditch attempt to stay in office a day before the Senate will likely vote to try her for breaking budget laws. Attorney General Eduardo Cardozo, the government's top lawyer, asked the Supreme Court to annul impeachment proceedings arguing they were politically motivated and had no legal basis. "I will not resign, that never crossed my mind," Rousseff said in a speech to a conference hall full of women supporters who cheered when she vowed to keep fighting her removal.

Canadian oil production trickles back as wildfire threat eases

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:45 PM PDT

By Liz Hampton and Nia Williams EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) - Oil sands companies around the Canadian energy center of Fort McMurray began to restart operations on Tuesday after an out-of-control wildfire forced a week-long shutdown. Top provincial and industry officials said production in much of the region should ramp up soon. Facilities north of Fort McMurray that had been shuttered largely because of heavy smoke rather than fire were seen as likely to come back on line in a matter of days in many cases.

At least 10 killed in Afghan suicide bombing

Posted: 10 May 2016 12:31 PM PDT

At least 10 people were killed and 23 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew up his car near the house of a pro-government militia commander in the province of Nangarhar, a provincial official said. The car drew up in front of the house of the commander in the Nazian district of Nangarhar, in eastern Afghanistan, according to Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor. "The commander was leading fighting against Taliban and Daeah insurgents in Nazian district," Khogyani said.

Obama to visit Hiroshima, will not apologize for World War Two bombing

Posted: 10 May 2016 01:05 PM PDT

By Susan Heavey, Matt Spetalnick and Minami Funakoshi WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) - Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in Japan later this month, but he will not apologize for the United States' dropping of an atomic bomb on the city at the end of World War Two, the White House said on Tuesday. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize early in his presidency in 2009 in part for making nuclear nonproliferation a centerpiece of his agenda, Obama on May 27 will tour the site of the world's first nuclear bombing with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

China scrambles fighters as U.S. sails warship near Chinese-claimed reef

Posted: 10 May 2016 09:52 AM PDT

By Michael Martina, Greg Torode and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a U.S. navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, a patrol China denounced as an illegal threat to peace which only went to show its defense installations in the area were necessary. Guided missile destroyer the USS William P. Lawrence traveled within 12 nautical miles (22 km) of Chinese-occupied Fiery Cross Reef, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Bill Urban said. The so-called freedom of navigation operation was undertaken to "challenge excessive maritime claims" by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam which were seeking to restrict navigation rights in the South China Sea, Urban said.

Bangladesh hangs Islamist leader for rape and genocide in 1971 war

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:13 PM PDT

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh hanged Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday for genocide and other crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, the law minister said, risking an angry reaction from his supporters. Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at Dhaka Central jail just after midnight, Law Minister Anisul Haq told Reuters, after the Supreme Court rejected his final plea against a death sentence imposed by a special tribunal for genocide, rape and orchestrating the massacre of top intellectuals during the war. Nizami, 73, a former legislator and minister during opposition leader Khaleda Zia's last term as prime minister, was sentenced to death in 2014.

Trump wins West Virginia, Sanders takes early lead

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:55 PM PDT

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump cruised to victory Tuesday in West Virginia's primary, US networks projected, in the first state-wide vote since his remaining GOP rivals dropped out of the White House race. On the Democratic side, NBC projected Senator Bernie Sanders as the winner over frontrunner Hillary Clinton, while other networks said Sanders was leading but the race was too early to call. Clinton, the former secretary of state, is far enough ahead nationally that she will likely be the nominee, despite struggling to put her rival away.

Native Americans in Oklahoma join forces to help monarch butterflies

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:38 PM PDT

By Heide Brandes SHAWNEE, Okla. (Reuters) - Seven Native American tribes in Oklahoma will provide habitat and food on their lands for monarch butterflies, whose numbers have plummeted in recent years due to troubles along their lengthy migration route. Tribal leaders said at a news conference on Tuesday in Shawnee, southeast of Oklahoma City, they will plant crucial vegetation for the butterflies, including milkweed and native nectar-producing plants, on their lands. "For the last several years, we have been raising bees and pollinators, so when his opportunity came along, it fit with what we were doing," Thalia Miller, director of the Chickasaw Nation Horticulture Department, told reporters.

Canadian oil hub works to restore power, eyes resuming full oil output

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:27 PM PDT

Crews worked Tuesday to start restoring water and electricity in this Canadian petroleum hub crippled by huge forest fires, as officials said stalled oil production could resume in days. Oil is the lifeblood of the economy in this part of Alberta province, and the fires raging around Fort McMurray for the past 10 days or so have led to a 40 percent drop in output. Oil production facilities that have shut down altogether could get up and running "in the coming days and short weeks ahead," said Alberta Premier Rachel Notley after a meeting with oil company executives.

Top Asian News 11:27 p.m. GMT

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:27 PM PDT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rodrigo Duterte, the bombastic mayor of a major southern city, was heralded Tuesday as president-elect of the Philippines after an incendiary campaign that projected him alternatively as an emancipator and a looming dictator. "Our people have spoken and their verdict is accepted and respected," outgoing President Benigno Aquino III's spokesman, Sonny Coloma, said in a statement. "The path of good governance ... is already established as all presidential candidates spoke out against corruption." Former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who was running second behind Duterte in the unofficial vote count following Monday's election, conceded defeat. "Digong, I wish you success," Roxas said at a news conference, using Duterte's nickname.

UK's Cameron caught calling Nigeria, Afghanistan 'corrupt'

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:27 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on microphone Tuesday saying that leaders of "fantastically corrupt" countries including Nigeria and Afghanistan will attend an anti-corruption summit in London this week.

IS cuts regime supply route to Syria's ancient Palmyra

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:27 PM PDT

The Islamic State group on Tuesday cut a key supply route between Syria's Homs and the world heritage site of Palmyra just months after the army recaptured the ancient city, a monitor said. IS "was able to cut the supply road between Homs and Palmyra near the Tayfur military airport after an attack launched from the east of Homs", the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Both cities are controlled by the regime after troops recaptured Palmyra -- a UNESCO world heritage site -- from the jihadist group in late March, backed by Russian air strikes.

El Salvador reiterates opposition to gang dialogue

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:26 PM PDT

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A spokesman for El Salvador President Salvador Sanchez Ceren says he has no plans to fire his interior secretary following the release of an audio recording of the then legislator meeting with gang leaders.

Annulment in Brazil impeachment drama is reversed

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:22 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The rollercoaster ride that is the impeachment drive against President Dilma Rousseff took another hairpin turn Tuesday after the acting speaker of Congress' lower house reversed his own decision that would have plunged the process into uncertainty.

Carbon-offset deal would cost airlines $6.2 billion in 2025: IATA

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:14 PM PDT

A global market-based measure to curb aviation emissions would cost the airline industry up to $6.2 billion in the year 2025, but carriers could face higher charges if governments fail to reach a deal by October, the International Air Transport Association said. Government representatives are gathering Wednesday at the United Nations's civil aviation agency to negotiate a draft deal on carbon-neutral growth from 2020 which is to be voted on at a fall assembly. "That of course is the result the industry is counting on," IATA Chief Executive Tony Tyler told participants at a global sustainable aviation forum in Montreal on Tuesday, in reference to a draft deal in the fall.

Man United loses to West Ham after team bus attacked

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:13 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Manchester United's hopes of Champions League football took a hit on Tuesday in a 3-2 defeat at West Ham that followed an attack on the visiting team's bus as it arrived for the match.

Finchem not concerned over 5 players skipping Olympics

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:07 PM PDT

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem doesn't believe that five players skipping the Olympics will hurt golf's chances for staying on the program beyond 2020.

Mixture of loss, hope for Canadian town hit by wildfire

Posted: 10 May 2016 04:06 PM PDT

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — Charred bicycles lean on a fence in front of incinerated townhomes. Just across the street, a school and playground are untouched.

Brazil's Temer sticks to leaner government plan after outcry

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:59 PM PDT

By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Vice President Michel Temer, expected to take over soon as Brazil's acting president, plans to cut the number of government ministries to 22 from 32, a close advisor said on Tuesday. Temer appeared to waver in recent days on a vow to eliminate about 10 ministries as he sought to accommodate political allies to widen support for a transitional government, but Senator Romero Jucá said the vice president was sticking with the plan. Temer is set to replace President Dilma Rousseff if the Senate votes on Wednesday, as expected, to put her on trial for breaking budget laws in an impeachment process that will end 13 years of rule by the leftist Workers Party.

Brazil's Rousseff undone by hubris, economic missteps

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:59 PM PDT

By Brad Brooks and Paulo Prada BRASILIA (Reuters) - Minutes after taking her oath of office in 2011, President Dilma Rousseff stood before Congress and pledged to end the dirty back-room deals and kickback schemes at the heart of Brazilian politics. In her first year, she forced out seven cabinet ministers tainted by accusations of wrongdoing and had the highest approval rating of any president since Brazil's return to democracy in 1985. Although she faces no allegations of personal enrichment, Rousseff also stands accused by Brazil's public prosecutor of obstructing a huge corruption investigation at state-run oil company Petrobras , Brazil's biggest-ever scandal.

FIFA unfreezes CONCACAF's funding but $10M not released yet

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:54 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — FIFA's funding to the scandal-hit North American soccer confederation will be unfrozen, but the $10 million will only be released to CONCACAF when further conditions are met.

US won't seek death penalty against Benghazi suspect

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:49 PM PDT

US prosecutors said Tuesday they will not seek the death penalty against a Libyan charged over the Benghazi attacks that killed Washington's ambassador and three other Americans in 2012. Ahmed Abu Khatallah, who was captured by US special forces two years ago and brought to the United States on a US Navy ship, is facing an 18-count indictment over the killings at an American diplomatic and intelligence compound.

2026 World Cup hosts vote in 2020 with new FIFA bid rules

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:44 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The 2026 World Cup hosts will be decided in a FIFA vote in 2020 after bidding countries will undergo stringent new checks on their suitability to stage the soccer showpiece.

U.S. says it will work with controversial new Philippines leader

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:43 PM PDT

By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States signaled on Tuesday it will work with the apparent victor of the Philippines presidential election, Rodrigo Duterte, despite allegations of human rights abuses in the city he has led for over two decades. Washington's stance reflects the reality that U.S. national security interests will outweigh human rights concerns given China's increasingly assertive stance in the region and the maritime disputes in the South China Sea, Asia analysts said. "Washington respects the choice of the Philippine people.

Brazil president in last-gasp appeal against impeachment

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:38 PM PDT

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched a last-minute bid Tuesday to block impeachment proceedings against her in what could be her final hours in power. If Brazil's first woman president is pushed out, her vice president-turned-enemy, Michel Temer, will take over. Ever-defiant, Rousseff made a fiery last stand ahead of the Senate session, vowing to serve out her full term.

Crawford and Postol to meet July 23 in title showdown

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:17 PM PDT

Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol, both unbeaten 140-pound champions, will meet in a title unification fight July 23 in Las Vegas.

Syrian national extradited, charged with hacking for Assad

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:17 PM PDT

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Syrian national extradited to the U.S. made an initial court appearance Tuesday on charges he helped hack and extort American targets perceived to be enemies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Paris mayor meets new London counterpart Khan

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:15 PM PDT

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday became the first foreign dignitary to meet Sadiq Khan following his election as mayor of London, in a brief tete-a-tete at St Pancras Station. "He has made history, he is the first Muslim mayor of a big European city," Hidalgo told reporters on the platform after Khan welcomed her off the cross-Channel Eurostar train from France. Khan, a member of Britain's opposition Labour party, was elected mayor on Thursday with 1.3 million votes, the largest personal mandate of any British politician.

Man Utd bus 'smashed up' before West Ham game

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:13 PM PDT

Fans pelted Manchester United's team bus with bottles and other missiles outside West Ham United's ground on Tuesday, injuring two and forcing a delay to their Premier League game. Visiting captain Wayne Rooney said the vehicle was "smashed up". Video footage circulating on social media showed the team bus being hit by a hail of cans and bottles as it arrived at West Ham's Boleyn Ground in east London.

French government to face no-confidence vote over labour law

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:12 PM PDT

France's Socialist government is to face a no-confidence vote on Thursday after it bypassed parliament and rammed through a labour reform bill that has sparked two months of massive street protests. The team of embattled President Francois Hollande resorted to the controversial manoeuvre on Tuesday in the face of fierce opposition from within his own party that doomed the bill in parliament. The reform, which makes it easier for employers to hire and fire workers, is likely the last major piece of legislation for Hollande, the least popular leader in modern French history who faces a re-election bid next year.

French PM to visit Israel in bid to relaunch peace process

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:11 PM PDT

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories this month in a bid to relaunch the peace process following the worst flare-up of violence in the Gaza Strip for two years, his office said Tuesday. It will happen ahead of a May 30 meeting which France is organising for ministers from 20 countries to try and relaunch the Israel-Palestinian peace process. The trip to Israel will also be a chance for Valls to smooth over a row over a recent UNESCO resolution, backed by France, which spoke of "Occupied Palestine".

Mexico eyes anti-pollution measures for smoggy capital

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:06 PM PDT

Authorities announced on Tuesday new measures to combat a recent increase in air pollution in Mexico City, as officials reported an increase in related ailments such as asthma. Environment Minister Rafael Pacchiano blamed the rise in ozone levels on the 5.5 million cars and trucks that zoom around the mega-city of 21 million people every day. Pacchiano said that rules to verify vehicle emissions will be reinforced on July 1, with new systems aimed at preventing corruption that has allowed the most polluting cars to stay on the road.

Obama to make historic visit to Hiroshima

Posted: 10 May 2016 03:04 PM PDT

Barack Obama will this month become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, but the White House is scotching talk of an apology for the devastating 1945 nuclear bombing of the city. Obama, accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will make the deeply symbolic visit on May 27, after attending a G7 summit in south-central Japan, his spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing around 140,000 people, including those who survived the explosion itself but died soon after from severe radiation exposure.

Guatemalan congress votes to strip justice of immunity

Posted: 10 May 2016 02:56 PM PDT

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's congress has stripped immunity from a supreme court justice accused of taking a bribe to resolve a matter in favor of a port company.

British PM calls Nigeria, Afghanistan 'fantastically corrupt'

Posted: 10 May 2016 02:52 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron called Nigeria and Afghanistan "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world" in inadvertently public remarks Tuesday, but hailed their leaders' planned attendance at an anti-corruption summit in London. "We've got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain," Cameron said, referring to the anti-corruption summit he is hosting on Thursday.

A rusty Masters champion gets back to work

Posted: 10 May 2016 02:50 PM PDT

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Masters champion Danny Willett has been away from golf for a month and has been working harder than ever.

Oil firms in fire-hit Canada region back to work in coming days at best: premier

Posted: 10 May 2016 02:42 PM PDT

Oil companies forced to halt production when Fort McMurray was hit by raging forest fires should resume production "in the coming days and short weeks ahead," Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said Tuesday. Conditions have to be met first, including ensuring that local roads are safe, that thousands of workers get back and hospitals and clinics reopen, she said after meeting with oil company officials. Oil companies will work to facilitate sharing of airspace as flights come in and firefighters' helicopters continue to work in some areas, Notley said.