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| Baltimore mayor criticized for police response to rioting | |  By Ian Simpson and Warren Strobel BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The day after rioters tore through Baltimore, the city's mayor was criticized on Tuesday for a slow police response to some of the worst U.S. urban unrest in years after the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said he had called Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake repeatedly Monday but that she held off calling in the National Guard until three hours after violence first erupted. "The mayor of Baltimore had the city of Baltimore police on the ground. The death of Freddie Gray gave new energy to the public outcry that flared last year after police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, New York City and elsewhere.
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| Obama calls for 'soul searching' in wake of Baltimore riot | |  U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on police departments across the country to do some "soul-searching" on how they handle African-American suspects after race-related rioting erupted in Baltimore. Obama said it was important for police departments to recognize that some of them have a problem in how they deal with criminal suspects of color. Obama, at a joint news conference with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, made his first public statement about a Maryland black man, Freddie Gray, who died April 19 of a broken spine after being arrested by Baltimore police. Gray's funeral on Monday prompted wave after wave of rioting in Baltimore that included looting and the burning of a CVS drug store.
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| Drug convicts executed in Indonesia, Filipina not among them - media | |  CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - Eight drug convicts were executed by an Indonesian firing squad early on Wednesday but a Filipina who was on death row with the Australians, Nigerians, a Brazilian and an Indonesian was unexpectedly not among them, local media reports said. (Reporting by Kanupriya Kapoor; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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| Burundi tells diplomats to stay neutral over unrest | |  By Patrick Nduwimana and Edmund Blair BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi's government told diplomats on Tuesday to stay neutral and not side with protesters who accuse President Pierre Nkurunziza of violating the constitution by announcing he will seek a third term in office. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets for a third straight day and were confronted by police firing teargas and shots in the air, as Burundi faced its worst political crisis since the end of an ethnically fuelled civil war in 2005. The United States, other Western nations and regional African countries had pushed Nkurunziza, 51, not to seek a third term. "In such a situation, the Burundi government asks you to observe diplomatic neutrality," the first deputy president, Prosper Bazombanza, told a meeting with ambassadors from the United States, Europe and African nations to discuss the crisis.
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| Saudi says foiled suicide car bombing plot against US embassy | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - A militant cell involving two Syrians and a Saudi citizen planned a suicide car bombing against the U.S. embassy in Riyadh but the plot was detected in March, Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday. One of the two Syrian suspects and the Saudi suspect were among 93 people - including at least 65 Saudi nationals - detained for allegedly belonging to the Sunni Muslim militant group Islamic State, the official Saudi Press Agency said on Tuesday. (Reporting By Noah Browning, Editing by William Maclean and Dominic Evans) |
| Xenophobia row exposes rivalry between South Africa and Nigeria | |  By Joe Brock and Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The recall of Nigeria's top diplomat after a spate of xenophobic attacks in South Africa follows several similar spats that expose the two countries' deep rivalry for economic and political dominance in Africa. Nigeria's Acting High Commissioner to South Africa Martin Cobham said on Saturday he had been "invited" to Abuja to discuss this month's anti-immigrant attacks in South Africa, which have killed at least seven people. Televised images of armed gangs attacking immigrants and looting foreign-owned stores in Johannesburg have sparked a backlash in Nigeria, where hundreds protested in front of shops owned by South African brands like MTN and Shoprite. South Africa's foreign ministry on Sunday called Cobham's recall an "unfortunate and regrettable step", before taking a swipe at Abuja for its own record on protecting foreigners.
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| Burundi government tells diplomats stay neutral over political unrest | |  Burundi told diplomats on Tuesday to stay neutral in a political crisis sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to stand for a third term, a move that sent protesters onto the streets for three days. "In such a situation, the Burundi government asks you to observe diplomatic neutrality," the first deputy president, Propser Bazombanza, told a meeting with ambassadors from the United States, Europe and African nations in Bujumbura. In his opening address at the same meeting, Foreign Minister Laurent Kavakure said some protest organisers were winning "a lot of sympathy" from some of Burundi's international partners, without naming them.
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| Asia's people smugglers exploit rising migration, raise trafficking fears - UN | |  Human smuggling networks are exploiting rising migration within Asia, leaving growing numbers of migrants at risk of being trafficked and abused, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Migrant smugglers are capitalising on a lack of legal migration avenues to demand fees of up to $50,000 a person, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a major report on the criminal trade which is worth $2 billion in Asia. Migration within Asia is expected to grow at unprecedented rates due to new infrastructure and the opening of borders, making smuggled migrants more difficult to identify among increasing numbers of regular migrants, according to the report.
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| Bangladesh opposition boycotts mayoral elections, calls them rigged | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's main opposition party on Tuesday boycotted three mayoral elections over accusations of massive rigging, fanning fears of further unrest in the South Asian nation. Political uncertainty has prevailed since January 2014, when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League won a second consecutive term after a bloody parliamentary election boycotted by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The BNP, led by rival Khaleda Zia, has stepped up protests this year to try and force Hasina to step down and hold a new vote after last year's poll, deemed by international observers to be flawed. |
| Sweden's Supreme Court says will hear Assange appeal over arrest warrant | |  Sweden's Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would hear an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to overturn the arrest warrant against him issued by prosecutors who want to question him over allegations of sexual assault. The 43-year-old Australian has been stuck inside Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault against two women in 2010. Prosecutors first insisted Assange should come to Sweden for questioning, but in a U-turn in March agreed to conduct the interview in London.
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| Saudi Arabia arrests 93 Islamic State suspects - state news agency | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has arrested 93 people suspected of belonging to the Sunni Muslim militant group Islamic State, including at least 65 Saudi nationals, the interior ministry said in a statement carried on the official Saudi Press Agency on Tuesday. The kingdom and some other Sunni Gulf monarchies have taken part in U.S.-led air strikes against the group in Syria. (Reporting by Noah Browning; Editing by William Maclean and Louise Ireland) |
| Explosion at radio station in central Nigeria kills four - police | | | It was unclear whether the attack on the local language Ta'o FM station in Okene town was orchestrated by Nigeria's Boko Haram militants or the powerful organised robbery and kidnapping rings that operate in the West African country. We are investigating who could be responsible and why," Shola Adebayo, the public relations officer for state police, told Reuters. While Kogi is a way off from northeastern Nigeria, where Islamist group Boko Haram has waged a six-year insurgency, the region has also experienced intermittent attacks by the militants intent on creating a caliphate in west Africa. |
| "Flash crash" accused trader due back in court after failing to raise bail | |  Navinder Sarao, the British trader accused of helping provoke the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash", is due to appear in a London court on Wednesday after failing to raise the bail needed to secure his release from custody, a court official said. Sarao, 36, who traded from his parents' modest home in west London, has been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with wire fraud, commodities fraud and market manipulation over a period of several years but told a hearing last week he would fight extradition. He was granted bail provided he produced a surety of just over 5 million pounds and met other conditions, but an official at London's Westminster Magistrates' court said on Tuesday he had been unable to raise the cash and would return for a "lack of surety hearing".
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