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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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| Boston bomber trial focuses on older brother | |  Lawyers seeking to spare Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the death penalty will delve deeper into his older brother's Islamist militant beliefs in court on Wednesday in an effort to cast him as the mastermind of the 2013 attacks. The 21-year old ethnic Chechen was found guilty earlier this month of killing three people and injuring 264 in the April 15, 2013 attack, the worst on U.S. soil since September 2001, but jurors must now decide whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death or spend life in prison. Defense lawyers have argued that Tsarnaev should be spared capital punishment because he was a pawn in a scheme to attack the world-renowned marathon that was led by his older brother Tamerlan, 26, who was killed days later in a shootout with police.
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| Baltimore streets quiet after first night of curfew enforcement | |  By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The streets of Baltimore were largely quiet overnight, with only scattered arrests reported during a curfew imposed after the latest wave of rioting fueled by anger against U.S police killings of black men. In a rare move, the Major League Baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox will be played as scheduled Wednesday but closed to the public.
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| Majority of Republicans would attend a loved one's gay wedding - Reuters/Ipsos poll | | | By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of U.S. Republicans would attend the same-sex wedding of a loved one, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday, highlighting the political risks for Republican presidential candidates who stake out positions against gay marriage. Though some Republican White House hopefuls have tried to insert nuance into their positions on gay marriage - something that polling shows most Americans back - their opposition is clear. The question of whether or not a candidate would attend the gay wedding of a loved one has become an increasingly common litmus test for candidates on the issue. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said on Tuesday he would attend the same-sex wedding of someone he cared about. |
| Hong Kong police hunt kidnap gang that fled with $3.6-million ransom | | | Hong Kong police on Wednesday launched a city-wide hunt for a gang that made off with a ransom of HK$28 million ($3.6 million) paid by the family of a 29-year-old kidnap victim. Hong Kong, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997, has seen several dramatic kidnappings. In a high-profile case in the 1990s, Victor Li, the son of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, was kidnapped by notorious Chinese ganster Cheung Tze-keung, also known as "Big Spender". Cheung also kidnapped Hong Kong property tycoon Walter Kwok in 1997, holding him for six days before payment of a ransom of HK$600 million. |
| 'Guerrilla gardening' takes root in hunger-hit Mali | | | By Chris Arsenault BAMAKO, Mali (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the green banks of the Niger River in downtown Bamako alongside heavily guarded foreign hotels, a group of urban farmers busily weed and water vegetables on some of Mali's prime real-estate. In North America and Europe "guerrilla gardening" usually means an act of political protest against industrialised food production or a lack of green space but in Bamako and across Africa the growing trend for urban gardens is about survival. "We don't worry about being forced off the land," said Bakary Diarra, a large balding man in his mid-fifties, as he rested in the shade, taking a break from pulling weeds. The small group of farmers working on a series of plots use makeshift plastic hoses to pump water from the Niger River onto their rows of broccoli, cabbage and other green vegetables. |
| Three killed in attack in Mali after rebels vow action | | | Two soldiers and a civilian were killed on Wednesday when gunmen attacked the village of Goundam in northern Mali, an army spokesman and local residents said, amid rising tensions after two days of clashes between pro- and anti-government militia. The separatist rebel umbrella organisation, the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), said in a statement on Tuesday it would defend itself after the Gatia militia favourable to Bamako seized the northern town of Menaka. "At around 5:30 am this morning, armed men attacked the village of Goundam," Souleymane Maiga, head of the army's information office, said. The violence came after separatist fighters shot at U.N. peacekeepers outside the town of Timbuktu in northern Mali on Tuesday. |
| Deal to target drug network, not the mule, saved Filipina's life | |  By Rosemarie Francisco and Randy Fabi MANILA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - As the clocked ticked on Tuesday towards midnight, the hour when nine drug traffickers were expected to be executed on a high-security prison island in Indonesia, mandarins in the Philippines waited nervously for some word from Jakarta. There never was a response to a last-ditch appeal their government had made to spare Filipina Mary Jane Veloso. "We did it!" read a text message sent by a colleague to Philippines Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras, who explained on Wednesday that the Southeast Asian neighbours had effectively agreed to target a drug network rather than one of its small-time mules like Veloso, a housemaid and mother of two. "I think both sides ... have decided let's pursue this legal angle of not just hitting a mere courier and trying to go to the bigger root of the problem," he told reporters in Manila, explaining the unexpected reprieve for the Filipina.
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| Less than half of Hong Kong backs govt electoral reforms - survey | |  By Nicole Li and Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) - Less than half of Hong Kong supports the government's electoral reform proposal which would see a pro-Beijing nominating committee select candidates for the city's next leader in 2017, even after major pro-democracy protests demanding open nominations crippled parts of the city last summer. Only 47 percent of the 1,167 people surveyed were in favour of the proposal, which outlines a two-step process for the city's 1,200-strong nominating committee to select two or three candidates for chief executive ahead of a public vote. It is the first public opinion survey since Hong Kong officials published their electoral blueprint last week, and comes ahead of a vote on the controversial proposal by lawmakers in early summer. The Hong Kong government has forged ahead with a plan first outlined by China's parliament last summer.
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| Insight - In anti-terrorism lawsuits, verdicts are just the first battle | | | The three litigants and their co-plaintiffs all prevailed in court actions, winning judgments that collectively totaled more than $1.3 billion against Syria, an alleged sponsor of the groups involved in the attacks. Instead, plaintiffs in the three lawsuits found themselves in a Chicago court facing entirely new adversaries: each other. In the ten years following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the number of lawsuits filed under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act and similar laws more than tripled compared to the decade before, and plaintiffs have won billions of dollars worth of judgments in U.S. courts, according to Westlaw data. |
| Houthis advancing into Yemen's Aden kill 12 civilians - residents | | | Houthi rebels' tanks and sniper fire 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. Fighting was still raging in the Khor Maksar district of Aden, seen as the main bulwark against the Houthis, early on Wednesday. Residents and city officials said the group shelled government buildings and residential neighbourhoods controlled by their armed opponents, and dozens of families had fled. |
| Indonesia executes drug traffickers, sparks anger from Australia, Brazil | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Indonesian firing squad executed eight drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, in the early hours of Wednesday, sparking condemnation from Australia and Brazil who had made final, desperate pleas to save their nationals. The mass execution cements the hard line on enforcing the death penalty adopted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as part of his war on drugs, an approach criticised by the United Nations as applying double-standards.
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