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| Two killed in Malawi campaign violence - police |
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| Two people were killed late on Sunday in a clash between supporters of Malawi's ruling party and the opposition, police said, triggering concerns that violence could mar the buildup to national elections in May. A police officer and a civilian died in what police said was an ambush that followed a rally by President Joyce Banda in the tea-growing district of Thyolo, about 20km (12 miles) east of the commercial capital of Blantyre. The area is a stronghold of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led by Peter Mutharika, brother of former President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died of a heart attack in 2012. "We are concerned that the DPP, which has a track record of violence, wants to resume its terror and intimidation tactics," said Elias Wakuda Kamanga, an official advisor in the office of the Presidency. |
| New Zealand court fines US actor Chris Pine for drink driving |
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 U.S. film actor and "Star Trek" star Chris Pine pleaded guilty in a New Zealand court to drink-driving and was fined and disqualified from driving for six months, media reported on Monday. The legal limit in New Zealand is 80 micrograms. She accepted that Pine, who stood silently throughout the hearing, was remorseful, and had made a large donation to a New Zealand charity.
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| Soldiers storm Venezuelan protesters' stronghold |
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 By Esteban Israel and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan troops stormed a Caracas square on Sunday to evict protesters who turned it into a stronghold during six weeks of demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro. National Guard soldiers fired tear gas and turned water cannons on hundreds of demonstrators who hurled rocks and some petrol bombs before abandoning Plaza Altamira, in affluent east Caracas, which has been the scene of daily clashes. "We are going to carry on liberating spaces taken by the protesters," the 51-year-old successor to late leader Hugo Chavez said in a speech at a pro-government rally in a different part of Caracas on Sunday. Militant opposition leaders and students have been urging Venezuelans onto the streets to protest issues ranging from crime and shortages of goods to the presence of Cuban advisers in Venezuela's army and other state institutions.
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