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| Soldiers storm Venezuelan protesters' stronghold | | Monday, March 17, 2014 2:54 AM | |
|  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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| Modi picks Varanasi for poll, Kejriwal says ready for fight | |  By Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The frontrunner to become India's next prime minister has announced he will run for election in the holy city of Varanasi, a decision that could galvanise support among fellow Hindus but may focus attention on accusations of religious bias. As India heads towards a general election that will start next month, Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Saturday the seat he will contest will be in Varanasi, where pilgrims come to wash away their sins in the sacred Ganges River.
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| Herdsmen kill 100 in attacks on Nigerian villages | | | By Isaac Abrak KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen shot, hacked and burned to death at least 100 people and razed homes in central Nigeria, a region riven by disputes over land, religion and ethnicity, local officials and witnesses said on Sunday. Police confirmed the raids by Fulani herdsman at around 11 p.m. on Friday on three villages in Kaduna state, but declined to give a death toll. Hundreds have been killed in the past year in clashes pitting the cattle-herding and largely Muslim Fulani people against mostly Christian settled communities like the Berom in Nigeria's volatile "Middle Belt", where its mostly Christian south and Muslim north meet. The unrest in central Nigeria is not usually linked to the insurgency in the northeast by Boko Haram, an al Qaeda-linked group which wants to impose Islamic law in northern Nigeria. |
| Delhi drunk couple hit five, two dead | | | New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Two people were killed and three others injured when a high speed sedan in which a couple in an inebriated state was travelling hit them here, police said Sunday. The accident occurred early Sunday morning when a speeding Chevrolet Cruze hit an auto rickshaw and people standing by the roadside in Samaipur Badli area of west Delhi. Auto driver Surendra, 40, and Satish, 20, who had come to Delhi from Rajasthan to appear in a CRPF recruitment exam were declared dead when they were rushed to a hospital. |
| Malaysian PM calls Manmohan, India halts search for now | | | New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak Sunday called his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh and requested technical assistance in tracking the possible route taken by the missing Malaysian plane. India has temporarily suspended its operations as Kuala Lumpur reassesses its search strategy. "The Malaysian prime minister requested for technical assistance from Indian authorities in corroborating possible paths that the missing Malaysian airliner might have taken after losing contact with ATC (air traffic controller) radars," an official from the Prime Minister's Office told IANS. |
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