Lula tries to negotiate his surrender

Sao Bernardo Do Campo, Brazil, April 6: Brazil’s ex- president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is negotiating his surrender after dramatically skipping a first deadline on Friday to start his 12- year prison sentence for corruption, a close ally said.

The 72- year- old had been ordered to surrender voluntarily by 5 pm ( 2000 GMT).

However, he let the deadline pass, remaining holed up with thousands of supporters in the metalworkers’ union building in his hometown of Sao Bernardo do Campo, near Sao Paulo.

Politicians from Lula’s Workers’ Party said he would remain in Sao Bernardo do Campo overnight and that his lawyers were in close negotiations with police over the time and place of the arrest. New York, April 7: The United States department of justice has called for making public the Harvard University’s admissions data after a lawsuit against the Ivy League institution alleged that it discriminated against Asian- Americans students in its admissions process for years.

A lawsuit was filed in November 2014 by antiaffirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions alleging that Harvard admissions practices discriminate against AsianAmerican applicants.

In a filing on Friday in a Boston federal court, the Justice Department called on the court to make Harvard’s documents public, saying the government has a substantial interest in the case.