Brazil prosecutors seek Lula’s arrest for money laundering
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – State prosecutors in Brazil are seeking the arrest of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on charges of money laundering and identity fraud for concealing ownership of a beachfront apartment, his foundation said on Thursday…
India’s booming cities built from ‘blood bricks’ of bonded laborers
PONNERI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When police raided the brick kiln in southern India where Siriya Banchor had been conned into a life of bonded labor – along with hundreds of other poor, illiterate migrants – the 48-year-old seemed more be…
Gender stereotypes stubbornly unchanged over 30 years, U.S. study says
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stereotypes about men and women in the United States are largely unchanged from 30 years ago, a new study shows, in findings that researchers said could be reflected in this year’s presidential election.
Militias, hunters reprieved from post-Paris EU gun control
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Finnish volunteer militias on the Russian frontier, boar and elk hunters and the Swiss army’s pensioner reserve won reprieve on Thursday from tighter European gun control following last year’s Islamist attacks on Paris.
U.N. experts, advocates urge Honduras to protect witness in activist murder
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – United Nations rights experts and more than 200 campaign groups called on the government of Honduras on Thursday to protect a key witness in the killing of activist Berta Caceres that has sparked widespread interna…
German anti-immigrant party set for strong showing in Sunday votes: poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) is set to storm into three state parliaments by winning up to 18 percent in Sunday’s regional elections, a poll showed, in what would be a big setback for Chancellor Angela Merkel and …
Modi’s party vows to strip Muslim immigrants of vote in eastern India
JALESWAR, India (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has vowed to disenfranchise millions of Muslim immigrants in a volatile frontier state, waging a polarizing election campaign in a bid to form its first governmen…
Aboriginal Canadian town in crisis amid rash of suicides
TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian aboriginal community appealed for federal aid on Thursday after six suicides in two months and 140 suicide attempts in the last two weeks alone, the latest in a string of crises in Canada’s often isolated indigenous commu…
Brazil corruption scandal threatens split in Rousseff coalition
BRASILIA (Reuters) – A widening corruption probe has turned key lawmakers from Brazil’s largest party against leftist President Dilma Rousseff, threatening to split her coalition and increasing chances of her impeachment in Congress this year.
Latin America gender pay gap shrinks slowly, harms development: U.N.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The gender pay gap in Latin America has narrowed more slowly for well-educated women than for others, and the slow pace of change hampers development and progress toward gender equality, the United Nations Latin Am…
