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| German landlord tries to collect rent with chainsaw | | | A landlord demanding rent arrears threatened tenants and German police with a whirring chainsaw, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The frightened tenants called police to the scene, and the 45-year-old man eventually dropped the chainsaw when the officers showed their guns. |
| Suicide bomber kills six police at Afghan ministry ahead of vote | |  A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself outside Afghanistan's interior ministry in central Kabul on Wednesday, killing himself and at least six policemen, the latest in a string of attacks ahead of Afghanistan's April 5 presidential election. Taliban insurgents also killed nine civilians including a provincial council candidate in northern Afghanistan, local officials said.
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| At least 4 policemen killed in Kabul suicide attack | |  At least four policemen were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bomb attack outside the Afghan interior ministry in the centre of Kabul, a ministry spokesman said. It happened outside the main gate... The bomber tried to enter our human resources department," the spokesman said. It was impossible for him to enter the facility with the suicide vest." (Reporting by Mirwais Harooni Writing by Maria Golovnina;
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| Suicide bomber blows himself up outside Afghan interior ministry | | | A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Afghan interior ministry building in the centre of Kabul on Wednesday, wounding several police officers, the ministry said in a statement. "A suicide bomber wearing a military uniform ... detonated his explosives at the main gate of the interior ministry," it said. Details will be announced later." (Writing by Maria Golovnina; |
| Thai court takes on new case as PM Yingluck's legal woes mount | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai Court accepted a new case against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday over her removal of the security chief three years ago, compounding her legal problems after months of sometimes violent anti-government protests. Yingluck's supporters plan mass rallies of their own this week to counter attempts to remove her from office by activists determined to stamp out the influence of her brother, ousted ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, seen by many as the real power behind the government. The Constitutional Court accepted a case brought by a group of 27 senators who petitioned it to rule that her removal of National Security Chief Thawil Pliensree in 2011 violated the constitution. Their case is that the prime minister abused her position by moving the security chief to an inactive post.
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| Australian wins legal fight for non-specific gender status | | | The Australian High Court on Wednesday ruled a Sydney resident be granted non-specific gender status 25 years after undergoing a sex change to become a female. Norrie, who goes by one name, was born male and underwent gender reassignment in 1989, but stopped taking hormones after the surgery and no longer identifies as male or female. Norrie, 52, was given gender neutral status in 2010, but this was withdrawn months later by the New South Wales state government, starting a series of appeals that eventually reached the High Court. The judgment handed down in Norrie's favour was unanimous. |
| Delhi HC upholds life term for Katara's killers | | | New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday upheld the life imprisonment awarded to three convicts in Nitish Katara murder and termed the case as of "honour killing". A division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice J.R. Midha dismissed the appeals of the three against a trial court verdict of May 2008 which awarded them life imprisonment for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in 2002. The bench posted for April 25 the appeal of Katara's mother Neelam Katara who sought death sentence to the three convicts - Vikas Yadav, brother of Katara's friend Bharti, and Vishal Yadav, Bharti's cousin, and contract killer Sukhdev Pehalwan - who are serving life terms in the Tihar Central Jail here. |
| FACTBOX - Main candidates in Afghanistan's presidential election | |  Afghanistan holds a presidential election on April 7 to elect a successor to Hamid Karzai. ASHRAF GHANI AHMADZAI The American-trained anthropologist returned to Afghanistan after the Taliban were ousted and held various government posts, including finance minister. Known in Afghanistan as Doctor Ashraf Ghani, he won about four percent of the vote in the last presidential election in 2009. One of Afghanistan's best-known intellectuals, Ghani spent almost a quarter of century abroad during the tumultuous decades of Soviet rule, civil war and the Taliban regime.
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| China city hit by protest over chemical plant vows to talk to citizens | |  Authorities in a protest-stricken city in southern China have promised to communicate better with citizens battling plans for a chemical plant, after protesters complained that violence by law enforcement officials killed several and injured dozens. The government has said no one was killed in the demonstrations, but it has not said if anyone was hurt. City officials in Maoming, site of the proposed plant, held peaceful talks with protesters on Tuesday afternoon, the city government said in a statement on Wednesday. "(The officials) chatted with them face to face, listened to their protests and opinions," it said, without acknowledging the demonstrators' complaints about the violence.
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| FACTBOX - Key facts about Afghanistan's presidential election | |  Afghanistan holds a presidential election on Saturday that is meant to mark the first democratic transfer of power in its history. President Hamid Karzai, who has led Afghanistan for more than 12 years since the fall of the Taliban, is constitutionally barred from seeking another term in office. Of the eight candidates, the three frontrunners are former foreign ministers Abdullah Abdullah and Zalmay Rassoul and former finance minister Ashraf Ghani. The process is almost certain to drag on for several months, partly due to Afghanistan's difficult terrain, which will require about 3,000 donkeys to carry ballots and voting boxes to the country's most inaccessible areas.
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| Xi Jinping says multi-party system didn't work for China | |  China experimented in the past with various political systems, including multi-party democracy, but it did not work, President Xi Jinping said during a visit to Europe, warning that copying foreign political or development models could be catastrophic. China's constitution enshrines the Communist Party's long-term "leading" role in government, though it allows the existence of various other political parties under what is calls a "multi-party cooperation system". But all are subservient to the Communist Party. Activists who call for pluralism are regularly jailed and criticism of China's one-party, authoritarian system silenced.
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| Egypt Muslim Brotherhood chief calls Sisi a "tyrant" | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 5:04 PM | |
|  By Samia Nakhoul CAIRO (Reuters) - The top leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood accused Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief widely tipped to become the country's next president, of being a tyrant and predicted he would fail to stay in power. Speaking on Tuesday from a cage in a courtroom where he faces trial for inciting violence, Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie also dismissed accusations by the military-backed government that the group engaged in terrorism. "The people will not accept an army tyrant," Badie said in reference to Sisi, who resigned from the military on Wednesday in order to contest a presidential election on May 26-27. Sisi toppled President Mohamed Mursi, who was freely elected in 2012 after many years rising through the Brotherhood, last July after mass protests against his rule.
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| Teenager killed in accident, three injured | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 4:46 PM | |
| | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A 16-year-old boy was killed while three others were injured when the motorbike he was riding with a friend collided with another motorcycle here Tuesday, police said. |
| Elderly woman, son found dead in Delhi home | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 4:40 PM | |
| | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A 60-year-old woman and her middle-aged son were found dead under mysterious circumstances in their home here Tuesday, police said. |
| Himachal ex-MLA booked for sexual assault | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 4:10 PM | |
| | Shimla, April 1 (IANS) A former BJP legislator in Himachal Pradesh was Tuesday booked on a complaint by a woman who alleged that she was sexually assaulted by him two years ago. In her complaint, the woman said she was sexually exploited in March 2012 by the accused Baldev Sharma, who was then a sitting legislator from Badsar in Hamirpur district. Superintendent of Police Abhishek Dullar said the woman said she had approached the legislator for the transfer of her husband. |
| Himachal Police officer killed in accident | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 4:04 PM | |
| | Shimla, April 1 (IANS) A Himachal Police officer was killed in a road accident here Tuesday evening, an official said. Superintendent of Police Chandrashekhar Pandit was killed on the spot when his vehicle skidded off the road and rolled down the hills on the outskirts of Shimla, police said. At the time of accident, Pandit was at the wheel in his private vehicle. |
| Delhi HC verdict on Nitish Katara murder Wednesday | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 3:42 PM | |
| | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court will Wednesday deliver its judgment on appeals of three convicts against a trial court verdict awarding them life imprisonment for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in 2002. A division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice J.R. Midha had reserved the judgment April 16 last year. The court was hearing appeals of convicts Vikas Yadav, brother of Katara's friend Bharti, and Vishal Yadav, Bharti's cousin, and contract killer Sukhdev Pehalwan, who are serving life terms in Tihar jail. |
| Attacked by Trinamool activists, say officials; EC seeks report | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 3:28 PM | |
| | Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) The Election Commission Tuesday sought a report from the district magistrate following allegations by a election Model Code of Conduct (MCC) team that they were roughed up by Trinamool Congress activists after posters and festoons of the ruling party were removed in West Bengal's Howrah district. "We have asked the district magistrate to submit a action-taken report in the incident immediately," Amit Roy Chaudhury, officer on special duty and ex-officio joint secretary in the chief electoral officer's department, told reporters here. The incident in Howrah's Vivekananda Road comes days after a block development officer in North 24 Parganas district lodged a police complaint alleging he was assaulted by Trinamool activists for removing party banners and posters. "Trinamool posters and festoons were put up inside a school which goes against the MCC. |
| Rapist jailed for 30 years | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 2:52 PM | |
| | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A court here has sentenced a man to 30 years in jail for repeatedly raping a woman by confining her for nine months. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat, in a recently delivered order, held Uttar Pradesh resident Shiva guilty of gang rape, rape and wrongfully confining the 30-year-old woman. Shiva will first undergo a jail term of 10 years for rape, criminal intimidation, wrongful confinement and causing hurt, and thereafter the sentence of 20 years rigorous imprisonment for gang rape will begin. He made her unconscious and took her to a room in Delhi where he raped her for nine months and also did not allow her to go anywhere. |
| 147 FIRs filed against political parties in Delhi | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 1:40 PM | |
| | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A total of 147 FIRs have been registered against political parties for violating the model code of conduct here, said an Election Commission official Tuesday. The model code of conduct came into force March 5 with the Lok Sabha election scheduled in the national capital April 10. "A total of 20 FIRs have been registered against the Bharatiya Janata Party, 15 against the Congress and 14 have been lodged against the Aam Aadmi Party," said the official. Poll panel officials have also seized 47 unlicenced arms from members of political parties. |
| Death toll in Syria's civil war above 150,000 - monitor | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 12:54 PM | |
| | At least 150,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year-old civil war, a third of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The UK-based Observatory, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of activists and medical or security sources, said that real toll was likely to be significantly higher at around 220,000 deaths. Efforts to end the conflict by bringing together representatives of President Bashar al-Assad's government and the opposition have so far failed. The United Nations peace mediator for Syria said last week that talks were unlikely to resume soon. |
| Trial in rape case against BSP MP to begin April 4 | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 12:50 PM | |
| | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A court here Tuesday fixed April 4 to begin recording of evidence in a case against BSP MP Dhananjay Singh, accused for allegedly raping a woman over nearly four years. The commencement of the trial was scheduled Tuesday but Additional Sessions Judge Sarita Birbal fixed it for Friday. Dhananjay Singh, member from from Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur, had been charge sheeted Jan 31 for allegedly repeatedly raping a 42-year-old married railway employee between July 2005 and March 2009. Dhananjay Singh's defence counsel S.P.M. Tripathi has denied the charges. |
| Humanitarian crisis looms in western Myanmar as foreign aid workers leave | | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 12:22 PM | |
| | With food stocks dwindling and prices rising by the hour in his camp for displaced Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state, Hla Maung decided to ask a friend in the neighbouring village for food. The situation is about to get dramatically worse for Hla Maung and tens of thousands of others dependent on food and water rations, said humanitarian workers evacuated after recent riots in the state capital, Sittwe. At least 20,000 people in displacement camps around Sittwe will run out of drinking water within 10 days, while food stocks will run out within two weeks, imperilling thousands more. The overall numbers of people facing shortages are likely much higher, because the aid workers were referring only to communities in the Sittwe area. |
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