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| Prosecutors say friend wanted to help accused Boston bomber | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday that a friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber charged with obstructing justice by removing evidence from the suspect's dorm room did so to protect his friend during an FBI manhunt. The defendant, Kazakh exchange student Azamat Tazhayakov, is charged with accompanying two friends to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the April 15, 2013, attack that killed three people and injured 264 and removing a laptop computer and backpack containing empty fireworks shells. The visit occurred hours after the FBI released photos of Tsarnaev and his older brother at the site of the bombing and asked for the public's help in learning their identities, said Assistant U.S. Attorney John Capin in closing arguments at U.S. District Court in Boston. "By the time the FBI searched the Tsarnaev dorm room, which was one of the first things they did when they identified Mr. Tsarnaev as a suspect in this investigation, it was too late," Capin said. |
| Afghanistan revises down death toll from market attack to 43 | |  Afghanistan on Wednesday revised down the casualty figure from a car bomb attack in the eastern province of Paktika to 43 from 89, saying at least 74 people had been wounded. A car packed with explosives detonated on Tuesday as it sped through a crowded market in northern Paktika, killing scores of people as it tried to escape from a police vehicle chasing it. The Defence Ministry put the death toll at 89 at the time but the Health Ministry said a day later that 43 people had been killed. The explosion took place not far from the porous border with Pakistan's North Waziristan region, where the military has been attacking hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban in the past few weeks, prompting militants to retreat toward Afghanistan.
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| Shootout in central Athens as police arrest wanted guerrilla | |  By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police shot and wounded a prominent member of a guerrilla group after a chase and gunfight in central Athens on Wednesday in which a policeman and two tourists were also wounded. Nikos Maziotis was charged in 2010 over a series of attacks claimed by the Revolutionary Struggle group, including a rocket-propelled grenade assault on the U.S. embassy in Athens in 2007 and a 2009 car bomb that damaged the Athens stock exchange. Maziotis, 42, was detained in Athens's busy shopping district in broad daylight, having been on the run since 2012. Maziotis was injured in the shoulder, the Athens news agency said.
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| Assad sworn in, vows to retake all Syria from rebels | |  By Marwan Makdisi DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad was sworn in on Wednesday as Syria's president for a new term, after an election his opponents dismiss as a sham but his supporters say proves that a rebellion to unseat him has failed after three years of war. After taking the oath of office before a Koran and a copy of the constitution, the president of 14 years delivered a defiant speech, vowing to recover all Syria from Islamist insurgents. Looking calm and confident, he repeatedly took aim at the West and Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab monarchies who have funded and armed the rebels that have taken control of much of the north and east of the country but failed to topple him in Damascus. "Soon we will see the Arab, regional and Western states that supported terrorism pay a high price," he said in the speech at the presidential palace in Damascus, broadcast on state TV.
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| Egyptian court sentences five men to life for sexual harassment | | | By Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced five men to life imprisonment on Wednesday for sexually harassing and attacking women during celebrations in June after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's election. The verdict may ease concerns that Egyptian authorities have done little to tackle widespread sexual harassment. In a separate case, three men were sentenced to life in jail for attacking a woman as she celebrated the anniversary of the 2011 revolt that toppled autocratic president Hosni Mubarak. Sisi ordered the interior minister to fight sexual harassment after the arrest of seven men for attacking women near Cairo's Tahrir Square during his inauguration celebrations. |
| Bangladesh charges 18 over garment factory collapse | |  Bangladesh's anti-corruption agency filed charges on Wednesday against 18 people accused of breaching regulations over the construction of a building that collapsed last year killing more than 1,130 people. Most of the victims were garment workers. The accused include the owner of the building, Mohammad Sohel Rana, and his parents, the local mayor, engineers and three owners of garment factories that used the building. The Anti-Corruption Commission had previously not listed Rana as his name did not appear in documents covering ownership of the land and design approval, which instead listed his parents.
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| Hard to justify Britain's data collection law - U.N.'s Pillay | |  An emergency data collection law being rushed through the British parliament may not address concerns raised by the European Court of Justice and is difficult to justify, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday. "The United Kingdom is one of the most well-established democracies in the world so it is a surprise to me they have not undergone a public dialogue on these key issues," Navi Pillay said. The draft law, brokered behind closed doors by Britain's three main parties, will force telecoms firms to retain customer data for a year, a measure that Prime Minister David Cameron has said was vital for security. The government rushed the proposed law through the lower house of parliament on Tuesday and plans to get the backing of the upper house, the House of Lords, in time for it to become law by the end of the week.
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| Refugee survey suggests higher death toll in C.African Republic | |  Fighting in Central African Republic may have claimed more lives than previously thought because many Muslim victims were never taken to state hospitals and families buried their dead at home because of security fears, according to aid workers. Violence spiralled in the former French colony after the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted the government of President Francois Bozize in March 2013 and Seleka leader Michel Djotodia declared himself president of the majority Christian country. Medical charity MSF said on Wednesday a survey of nearly 33,000 Central African refugees in neighbouring Chad had shown 8 percent questioned had lost at least one member of their family. Previous estimates of the death toll in the landlocked country based on the number of bodies collected by Red Cross workers had been in the region of 1,000 to 2,000 dead, mostly during a flare-up in fighting in December and January.
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| Japanese artist jailed for vagina boat says outraged, vows legal fight | | | By Minami Funakoshi TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese artist who made figures of Lady Gaga and a kayak modelled on her vagina said on Wednesday from jail she was "outraged" by her arrest and vowed a court fight against obscenity charges. Megumi Igarashi, 42, says she was challenging a culture of "discrimination" against discussion of the vagina in Japanese society. Igarashi, who worked under the alias Rokudenashiko, which means "good-for-nothing girl" in Japanese, built a yellow kayak with a top shaped like her vagina after raising about $10,000 through crowdfunding. Igarashi sent 3D printer data of her scanned vagina - the digital basis for her kayak project - as a thanks to a number of donors. |
| Britain arrests 660 suspected paedophiles during six-month operation | | | Police forces across Britain have arrested 660 suspected paedophiles during a six-month covert operation to find people accessing indecent images of children online, Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday. Doctors, teachers, scout leaders, care workers and former police officers were among those detained in the action, which involved 45 police forces around the United Kingdom. The NCA said more than 400 children had been "safeguarded" thanks to the operation. "Some of the people who start by accessing indecent images online go on to abuse children directly. |
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