Category: WORLD

The Brazilian bar association piled more pressure on President Dilma Rousseff, saying it will file a new request Monday to Congress for her impeachment, in a political crisis that threatens to topple her government. Lawmakers have launched a congressional committee charged with deciding whether to bring a motion to impeach Rousseff over corruption allegations. “Impeachment is enshrined in our constitution as a legal remedy for our democracy,” bar association (OAB) president Claudio Lamachia told the O Globo newspaper on Sunday, saying Monday’s action was endorsed almost unanimously by the bar…

At least 56 people have been killed and another 150 injured in a blast outside a public park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Police said the nature of the blast was not clear but that officers are investigating whether the attack was a suicide bomb. It is believed that the bomb detonated on Sunday evening in local time, when many Christian families were visiting the Gulshan-e-Iqbal park area to celebrate Easter. The bomb detonated as families were leaving the park and the majority of victims are believed to…

Greg Davenport, of Liberty Township, Ohio, pleaded no contest to a theft charge after attempting to steal a 52-inch television from a Wal-Mart in December. The judge gave him a choice: spend 30 days in prison or wear a large sign outside the supermarket for eight hours a day over ten days of his choosing. ‘Maybe you can get to their inner side,’ said police chief Richard Tisone. ‘Maybe they’re a little embarrassed by the fact they have to hold a sign up, so it might affect some of these…

It’s hard to imagine keeping secrets about an aircraft so spectacularly huge that the Guinness Book of Records is believed to be just days away from rubber-stamping its entry. But until the vast new Airlander 10 airship was unveiled fully assembled in a giant hangar north of London on March 21, it still had a few to reveal. “Last time I flew this in 2012,” says test pilot David Burns, gesturing at the cockpit controls of the aircraft he’ll soon take to the skies in its latest incarnation, “no one…

British farmers marched through central London on Wednesday in a colourful protest with sheep and cows draped in Union Jack, to demand government action against the sharp drop in food prices. “All farmers are struggling to survive because the milk prices have dropped over 50 percent now,” said Yulita Parkes, a member of Farmers for Action, the campaign group which organised the protest. “Support Your Local Farmer”, “Fair Trade for UK Farmers” and “Trust the Tractor” read placards held up at the march from Trafalgar Square past Prime Minister David…

Belgian police were zeroing in on the shadowy bomb maker for the Brussels terror cell believed to be behind Tuesday morning’s attacks and the deadly Paris attacks last November, discovering stashes of explosives and rounding up at least one suspect. Police raided multiple locations in Brussels Tuesday and Wednesday and continued their dragnet for bomb maker Najim Laachraoui, who may be the mystery man who appeared with two suicide bombers in a surveillance photo taken moments before explosions ripped through Zaventem Airport Tuesday, killing at least 11 in the first…

“Brussels I love you” says the message written in chalk on a historic city square, a place for raucous celebration that has become a scene of grief after Belgium’s worst terror attacks on Tuesday. Wrapped in the national flag and carrying candles and flowers, Belgians flocked by the hundreds by nightfall to the Place de la Bourse in the ancient heart of the city to mourn the dead. A lone musician played a cello as a mourner waved a banner reading “United against hate” and another message scrawled on the…