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| Charlie Hebdo cartoonist says he will no longer draw Prophet | |  The French cartoonist Luz, who drew Charlie Hebdo's cover picture of the Prophet Mohammad after the Islamist killings at the satirical weekly in January, has said he will no longer draw the Prophet. "He no longer interests me," he told Les Inrockuptibles in an interview published on its website on Wednesday. For Muslims, any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous, but Charlie Hebdo's next edition carried on its cover Luz's cartoon of a tearful Mohammad holding a "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") sign under the words "All is forgiven".
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| France investigates alleged child abuse by its troops in Central Africa | | | A French prosecutor is carrying out a preliminary investigation into allegations of child abuse by French soldiers stationed in Central African Republic, a Justice Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Responding to a report in British daily the Guardian that a senior U.N. aid worker had been suspended after disclosing to prosecutors an internal report on the sexual abuse of children by French troops, the spokesman said: "A preliminary investigation has been opened by the Paris prosecutor since July 31, 2014. There was no immediate comment from the United Nations. |
| U.N. chief Ban voices 'deep regret' at Indonesian executions | |  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced "deep regret" at Indonesia's decision to execute on Wednesday eight drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, despite desperate pleas from their governments to spare their lives. "(Ban) expresses deep regret at the executions carried out in Indonesia on April 29 despite numerous calls in the country and internationally for a reprieve," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters. "He again urges the government to exercise its authority and commute all death sentences. ...
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| Russia warned Boston bomber's brother was budding terrorist | |  By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Russian authorities contacted the FBI two years before the Boston Marathon bombings to flag Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a budding terrorist, according to a congressional report read in a U.S. court on Wednesday. The testimony about the now-dead older brother of convicted marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev came as his lawyers sought to spare him the death penalty, arguing he was a pawn in Tamerlan's al Qaeda-inspired scheme to attack the world-famous race. Russian authorities appealed to the FBI in 2011 to alert them if Tamerlan traveled to Russia, where they said he was angling to join terrorism cells, according to a March 2014 House Committee on Homeland Security report read to jurors in federal court in Boston.
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| Clinton dives into debate on police tactics, urges justice reform | |  Diving into the debate over police use of force, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged police departments throughout the country to use body cameras and urged an end to excessive prison sentences that burden black communities. In a speech at New York's Columbia University, Clinton called on America "to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice" in the aftermath of this week's Baltimore riots. "There is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes," said Clinton, the front-running Democrat in the 2016 race for the White House.
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| Italy's Renzi wins first confidence vote on electoral law | |  By Roberto Landucci ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi won the first of three confidence votes on a fiercely contested new electoral law on Wednesday, brushing aside opposition from rebels on his own side who walked out of parliament in protest. The motion passed with 352 votes in favour and 207 against, with 38 members of his own centre-left Democratic Party (PD), including some of the most senior members of the party old guard, refusing to cast a ballot. "I'm satisfied, we're in line with other confidence votes," Institutional Reform Minister Maria Elena Boschi told reporters, noting that the vote was the second highest secured by the Renzi government since it came to power last year.
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| Heavy fighting in Yemen, Saudi Arabia trains tribal fighters | |  By Mohammed Mukhashaf and Amena Bakr ADEN/DOHA (Reuters) - Saudi-led air strikes hit five Yemeni provinces as fighting raged in the southern city of Aden on Wednesday, and sources in the region said the kingdom was training armed tribesmen to fight the Iran-allied Houthi group. Houthi rebels' tanks and snipers killed at least 12 civilians overnight in Yemen's Aden as they advanced toward the centre of the city, residents said, and a Saudi-led coalition airdropped arms to anti-Houthi fighters in the city of Taiz. The Houthis took the capital Sanaa in September, demanding a more inclusive government, and swept south, rattling top world oil exporter Saudi Arabia and its allies, who fear what they see as expanding Iranian influence in the region. Arab coalition air strikes have, over the last month, backed local fighters in Aden and nationwide battling Shi'ite Houthis.
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| Google launches security feature for Chrome web browser | |  By Yasmeen Abutaleb NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc on Wednesday announced a free extension for its Chrome web browser that better protects Google accounts, including email, against online attackers trying to steal passwords and other personal information. The extension, called Password Alert, can be downloaded on Google Chrome and warns users before they enter account information on "phishing" pages, or imitation sites designed to steal passwords and access personal information, such as emails or online bank accounts. Millions of phishing emails and websites are sent every day, Google said. Nearly 2 percent of messages sent through Gmail, Google's email service, are designed to steal passwords.
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| Egypt's Sisi says parliamentary election to be held before year-end - El Mundo | |  An Egyptian parliamentary election that was due in March will be held before the end of the year, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo in an interview published on Wednesday. The election was put on hold after the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that part of the election law was unconstitutional. "We wanted to launch the (election) process in March but it was stalled by the constitutional appeals ... We're discussing it with all political parties. I give my word that they will be held before the end of the year," Sisi was quoted as saying.
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