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| U.S. soldier convicted of WikiLeaks crimes granted name change | |  A judge in Kansas on Wednesday ruled that former U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, who is serving 35 years in prison for turning over classified files to WikiLeaks, could change his name to reflect his desire to be treated as a woman. Manning's name is legally changed to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, according to the decision handed down by Leavenworth County District Judge David King.
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| Italy's Renzi wins confidence vote on temporary labour rule | |  By Steve Scherer and Francesca Piscioneri ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi easily won a confidence vote on Wednesday over his plans to ease rules for companies that hire temporary workers, part of a broader plan to overhaul labour regulations. The lower-house of parliament voted 344 to 184 to back Renzi, the 39-year-old former mayor of Florence who took power in February from party rival Enrico Letta. The confidence vote allows the government to accelerate passage of a decree that will allow businesses to renew temporary contracts for up to 36 months without citing their motives. But the legislation ran into trouble after the left-wing of Renzi's Democratic Party (PD) made minor adjustments that rankled a centrist coalition partner, the New Centre Right (NCD) party that split with Silvio Berlusconi's bloc last year.
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| NYPD Twitter campaign backfires, thousands of negative tweets | | | By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York Police Department campaign to burnish its image via social media instead produced a flood of pictures of police brutality and tweets critical of the force being shared at a rate of thousands an hour. The department on Tuesday afternoon invited Twitter users to submit pictures of themselves with NYPD cops using the hashtag #mynypd, promising some would be posted to the NYPD Facebook page. Within hours, a torrent of images depicting police brutality, violence and controversial tactics, most of which occurred under former New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, deluged Twitter. At 7 a.m. (1100 GMT) Wednesday, the #mynypd hashtag was still pinballing through cyberspace at a rate of 3,400 an hour, according to hashtags.org, a Twitter analytics website. |
| Turkey's Erdogan offers condolences for 1915 Armenia killings | |  By Jonny Hogg ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan offered what the government said were unprecedented condolences on Wednesday to the grandchildren of Armenians killed in World War One by Ottoman soldiers. In a statement issued on the eve of the 99th anniversary of the deeply contested deaths, Erdogan unexpectedly described the events of 1915 as "inhumane", using more conciliatory language than has often been the case for Turkish leaders. Turkish government officials said it was the first time a Turkish prime minister had offered such explicit condolences and described the statement as a historic step, but Erdogan's words were dismissed as "cold-hearted and cynical" by an influential U.S.-based Armenian advocacy group. The exact nature and scale of what happened during fighting that started in 1915 is highly contentious and continues to sour relations between Turkey and Armenia, a former Soviet republic.
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| Justin Bieber's Miami trial pushed back to July | |  By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - A Miami judge on Wednesday agreed to delay pop star Justin Bieber's trial until July 7 on charges stemming from the Canadian singer's January arrest when he was caught allegedly drag racing on Miami Beach. The trial was set to begin May 5, but lawyers for Bieber argued that more time may be needed to hear potential pre-trial motions. "If the case goes ahead there are some motions that would require evidence," said Bieber's defense lawyer Roy Black. "There are some serious matters regarding the test," he added, referring to evidence that Bieber was driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
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| BJP's P.C. Sorcar faces sexual harassment case | | | Kolkata, April 23 (IANS) P.C. Sorcar, famed magician and BJP candidate from West Bengal's Barasat, is facing a case of sexual harassment pending against him. The case was filed after he allegedly made derogatory comments against Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and his rival candidate Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar of the Trinamool Congress during his Lok Sabha poll campaigning on March 28. |
| Children's corpses reveal desperate attempts to escape Korean ferry | |  By Jungmin Jang and Ju-min Park MOKPO/SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean divers swam though dark, cold waters into a sunken ferry on Wednesday, feeling for children's bodies with their hands in a maze of cabins, corridors and upturned decks as they searched for hundreds of missing. Writing by Nick Macfie;
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| Two policemen, militant killed in Egypt | | | By Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian policeman and a militant were killed when security forces raided a hideout used by radical Islamists near Alexandria on Wednesday, and a senior officer was killed near Cairo when a bomb blew up his car, the Interior Ministry said. Militant violence has spiralled since the army toppled Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood last July. That poses a security challenge ahead of a presidential election in May that Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief, is expected to win. The hideout targeted in the raid was used by members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, or Supporters of Jerusalem, the group behind some of the deadliest attacks of the last nine months, the Interior Ministry said. |
| Locals manhandle Ballabgarh-Sohna toll plaza staff | | | Gurgaon, April 23 (IANS) A mob Wednesday manhandled the Ballabgarh-Sohna Road toll plaza staff and vandalised a toll booth, an official said. The incident happened when a Mahindra Scorpio bearing Faridabad registration number was stopped at the plaza for toll around 12.50 a.m. "Not only did the vehicle occupants refuse to pay toll on the pretext that they are from a nearby village (Mohabatabad), they even parked their vehicle at one of the toll lanes and refused to clear the way," Gurgaon-Faridabad Toll Road (GFTR) spokesperson Sourav Sen said. About 15-20 people even ransacked the premises and damaged toll booth No. 2.," he said. |
| S.Korean prosecutors raid family home of ill-fated ferry's owner | |  By Miyoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Prosecutors investigating the fatal sinking of a South Korean ferry have raided the home of Yoo Byung-un, the head of a family that owns the Chonghaejin Marine Co. Ltd, the company that operated the ship. South Korean prosecutors and agencies tend to adopt a blanket approach in raids, rather than targeting specific lines of inquiry. They raided the home of one of Yoo's sons on Wednesday, but found that he was away and the door was locked and they could not enter the house. The finances of Chonghaejin and its complex share structure have come into the spotlight after the ferry disaster, which has shocked South Korea.
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| Pakistan TV channel under pressure from military after shooting | |  Pakistan's Defence Ministry has demanded that a prominent news channel be suspended after it reported that the country's powerful spy agency was behind the shooting of one of Pakistan's most famous journalists, a media regulator said on Wednesday. Hamid Mir, a veteran talk-show presenter at privately owned Geo News, survived the attack after unidentified gunmen shot him multiple times in the port city of Karachi on Saturday. Geo has since repeatedly accused the military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency of being behind the shooting. On Wednesday, Pakistan's electronic media watchdog said it had received a complaint from the Defence Ministry demanding the channel's license be suspended.
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