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| GM seeks U.S. court protection against ignition lawsuits | | Wednesday, April 23, 2014 3:00 AM | |
|  Plaintiffs suing the company also filed a proposed class action lawsuit in Manhattan bankruptcy court on Monday, seeking an order declaring that GM cannot use the bankruptcy protection to absolve itself from liabilities. The faulty ignition switch has been linked to at least 13 deaths and the recall of 2.6 million GM vehicles. GM emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2009 as a different legal entity from the so-called old GM. Under those terms, the "new GM" shed liability for incidents predating its exit from bankruptcy, and any lawsuit involving pre-bankruptcy issues must be brought against what remains of old GM.
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| BJP leader's Giriraj Singh's rallies banned, may be arrested soon | | | Patna, April 22 (IANS) BJP leader Giriraj Singh's election rally and road shows have been banned in Bihar and Jharkhand and he is likely to be arrested soon for his remark that critics of prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will be sent to Pakistan, officials said Tuesday. Taking serious note of Singh's remark, the Election Commission has also asked him to submit his explanation to it by April 24. "The EC has banned Singh's election rallies and road shows in Bihar and Jharkhand in view of hue and cry raised over his remark," an official said. Bihar's additional chief electoral officer R. Lakshmanan meanwhile told media persons here that Jharkhand Police have sought help from the Bihar government to arrest the Bharatiya Janata Party leader, following an arrest warrant issued by them in connection with his remark. |
| IIT student's death: Court quashes police closure report, orders probe | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A court Tuesday quashed a closure report filed by Delhi Police in the case of first year student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, who allegedly committed suicide in 2011. Rejecting the report, Metropolitan Magistrate Aakash Jain said there have been serious gaps and lacunae in the police investigation. Ordering further investigation by the Vasant Vihar SHO, he directed them to file a status report by July 25. Chemical engineering student Dinesh Ahlawat (19) from Haryana's Rohtak was found hanging in his hostel room at the Zanskar Hostel wing of the institute Aug 4, 2011. |
| Ukraine president demands action in east after politician killed | |  Ukraine's acting president called for an anti-terrorist operation to be relaunched in the east of the country on Tuesday after the body of a local politician from his own party was found showing signs of torture. Ukraine's security forces had largely suspended what was a fairly limited operation to respond to the takeover of eastern town by pro-Russian separatists after an accord with Moscow last week to try and defuse the crisis. Oleksander Turchinov's call for action could complicate the task of European mediators. One was that of Volodymyr Rybak, a member of Turchinov's Batkivshchyna party, who had recently been abducted by "terrorists".
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| Kashmir police officer arrested for taking bribe | | | Srinagar, April 22 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir's anti-corruption organization Tuesday arrested a police officer while he was accepting a bribe of Rs.5,000, an official said. |
| Rhino horns worth $5.2 mln stolen in South Africa | | | Rhino horn stock piles worth over $5.2 million have been stolen from a South African game park office, the raided tourist agency said on Tuesday, in the first known theft of its kind. Thieves on Monday broke into the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency and cut into a strong box, making off with 112 pieces of rhino horn, weighing 80,135 kilograms. "It's the first time there has been a break in at our premises, it was obviously well planned," the parks' spokeswoman Kholofelo Nkambule said. Poaching rhinos for their horns is a growing problem in South Africa and a lucrative business for organised criminal networks but it is unusual for thieves to target stock piles. |
| South Sudan peace talks delayed as rebels deny massacre | |  By Carl Odera NAIROBI (Reuters) - Peace talks with South Sudan's rebels have been delayed again, the government said on Tuesday, a day after the United Nations accused rebel fighters of massacring civilians in an oil town they had seized. "The talks have been postponed," Information Minister Michael Makuei told Reuters by telephone. "The reason (the mediators) gave is that it will give them the opportunity to make further consultations." Negotiations between the government of President Salva Kiir and rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar have failed to advance since the Jan. 23 signing of a ceasefire which never took hold. "(In) the market place we saw large piles of bodies, dozens and dozens of bodies, piled up on top of each other," said Amanda Weyler, communications officer for the U.N. humanitarian coordination office OCHA.
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| Friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber seeks trial venue change | | | A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber on Tuesday asked a judge to move his trial on charges of interfering with the investigation, arguing that pretrial publicity has made it impossible for him to get a fair hearing in Massachusetts. Kazakh exchange student Dias Kadyrbayev filed papers in U.S. District Court in Boston, joining earlier motions by two other defendants, Azamat Tazhayakov, also of Kazakhstan, and Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prosecutors accused ethnic Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of killing three three people and injuring 264 others in the April 15, 2003 bombing at the marathon finish line and shooting dead a university police officer three days later. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunbattle with police and Dzhokhar was arrested and is awaiting trial on charges that carry the possibility of execution if he is convicted. |
| Prelate exonerates John Paul of turning blind eye to abuse case | | | By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Catholic prelate who led the campaign to make the late Pope John Paul a saint exonerated the pontiff on Tuesday against accusations he turned a blind eye to one of the Church's biggest sexual abuse scandals. Victims of sexual abuse quickly criticised the prelate's defence of John Paul, who died in 2005 and will be made a saint at a ceremony this weekend along with Pope John XXII, who reigned from 1958 to 1963. While the late Polish pope is almost universally hailed for his role in helping bring about the fall of communism, his critics say he was slow to grasp the seriousness of the sexual abuse crisis that emerged towards the end of his pontificate. Specifically, critics have been pressing the Vatican over what the pope knew about sexual abuse by Father Marcial Maciel, the Mexican founder of a disgraced Catholic religious order, the Legionaries of Christ. |
| Modi slams anti-Muslim remarks, ally defiant | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - BJP leader Narendra Modi sought to calm fears for religious minorities under his rule on Tuesday, saying he would represent all Indians if they voted for him or not in the current general election. Modi, prime ministerial candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and favourite to become India's next leader, is running on a platform of reviving an economy going through its worst slowdown since the 1980s. But half-way through a five-week campaign to win over the country's 815 million voters, some members of the BJP and its hardline affiliates are facing accusations of trying to whip up a partisan Hindu-oriented agenda. Their statements have re-ignited concerns among religious minorities about a government led by the BJP, which rivals say has a deep-seated bias against India's 150 million Muslims.
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| SC names three-member panel to enforce roads safety laws | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Terming Indian roads "giant killers" demanding immediate attention and remedial action, the Supreme Court Tuesday appointed a three-member committee to scrutinise and monitor enforcement of statutory provisions including the Motor Vehicles Act for making roads safer. "Indian roads have proved to be giant killers demanding immediate attention and remedial action. Such attention and necessary intervention, in the first instance, is required to be made by the concerned governmental agencies," said a bench of Chief Justice P.Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice N.V.Ramana in their judgment. The court said that the central and state governments were expected to enforce the existing laws including with all the might at their command. |
| Saudi watchdog to regulate homegrown YouTube shows - newspaper | |  By Matt Smith DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to regulate local companies that screen shows on YouTube , a senior official was quoted as saying in local media on Tuesday - a move that could stifle its nascent creative industries. The kingdom is the world's top per capita user of YouTube. But YouTube's popularity has now brought Saudi Arabia's homegrown production houses under the gaze of the General Authority for Audiovisual Media, a recently formed watchdog. Riyadh Najm, the Authority's president, told the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat that his organization would soon issue a manifesto to organize - or regulate - the work of YouTube channels.
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| France to unveil plan to fight Syrian jihadist threat | |  France is to unveil policies to stop its citizens joining the Syrian civil war, a government source said on Tuesday, aiming to prevent young French Muslims becoming radicalised and posing a threat to their home country. The Interior Ministry will present some 20 measures on Wednesday, including a plan to stop minors leaving France without parental consent, increased surveillance of Islamist websites that recruit fighters and a system to encourage parents to signal suspicious behaviour in their children. "France will take all measures to dissuade, prevent and punish those who are tempted to fight where they have no reason to be," President Francois Hollande told reporters on Tuesday. With radical Sunni Muslims from outside Syria fighting alongside Syrians against President Bashar al-Assad, Western countries are concerned of the security risk at home.
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