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| Italy PM defies critics with confidence vote on election law | |  By Roberto Landucci ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government said on Tuesday it would put its bitterly contested electoral reform to a confidence vote in parliament, forcing rebels in Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's centre-left Democratic Party (PD) to back him or face new elections. The announcement by Institutional Reform Minister Maria Elena Boschi prompted shouts of anger from opposition politicians, who accuse Renzi of seeking a power grab with the bill, which is one of the government's chief reform priorities.
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| Media says drug convicts executed in Indonesia, but Filipina spared | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - Eight drug-trafficking convicts from several countries were executed by an Indonesian firing squad shortly after midnight on Wednesday, media said, but a Filipina who was on death row with them was unexpectedly spared at the last minute. Earlier, Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency to be granted the drug traffickers from Nigeria, Australia, Brazil and Indonesia, ordering their mass execution to proceed within hours. A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said the execution of Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two who was arrested in 2010 after she arrived in Indonesia with 2.6 kg of heroin hidden in her suitcase, had been delayed. People holding a vigil outside the Indonesian embassy in Manila cheered and clapped on hearing the news.
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| Boston bomber's lawyers focus on brother's obsession with Islam | |  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - The older brother of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev changed from a boisterous boxer known for flashy outfits into someone with a bushy beard and drab clothes and obsessed by Islam, following a trip to Russia in 2012, witnesses said on Tuesday. The testimony before a federal jury in Boston comes as lawyers for Tsarnaev build their argument that the 21-year-old ethnic Chechen was a pawn in his now-dead brother's scheme to bomb the race on April 15, 2013, and should be sentenced to life in prison, not death. Tsarnaev was convicted this month of killing three people and injuring 264 in the bombing, and shooting dead a police officer three days later alongside the older brother, Tamerlan, a 2009 New England boxing champion. Rogerio Franca, who lived near the Tsarnaevs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told jurors Tamerlan was a partier before his trip to Russia, but transformed into someone more closely resembling a devout Muslim when he returned.
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| Indonesia delays execution of Filipina drug convict | |  The execution of a Filipina drug convict by an Indonesian firing squad was delayed at the last minute after one of her recruiters surrendered to police in the Philippines, the attorney general's spokesman said on Wednesday. "The execution of Mary Jane (Veloso) has been postponed because there was a request from the Philippine president related to a perpetrator suspected of human trafficking who surrendered herself in the Philippines," said Tony Spontana, spokesman for the attorney general.
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| Missing British girl's parents win damages from Portuguese ex-policeman | |  A Portuguese court ruled on Tuesday that a former investigator of the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann pay 500,000 euros damages to her parents for alleging in a book that the girl had died in an accident and the McCanns had covered it up. The Civil Court of Lisbon also banned all sales and reprints of the 2008 book by ex-police inspector Goncalo Amaral, "Maddie - The Truth about Lies", and a video based on it, a court official said.
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| Mali peacemaking in danger after rebel attack near Timbuktu - U.N. | | | By Tiemoko Diallo and Souleymane Ag Anara BAMAKO (Reuters) - Tuareg rebels shot at peacekeepers outside the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali on Tuesday in an attack that endangers the United Nations-brokered peace process, the U.N. mission in the West African country said. In another northern town, Menaka, fighting erupted anew as separatists sought to wrest it back from pro-government armed groups who had seized it the day before, the rival groups said. Mongi Hamdi, U.N. special envoy in Mali, said the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), which combines various Tuareg and Arab separatist groups, claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack on U.N. peacekeepers on Timbuktu's outskirts. |
| Sri Lanka parliament passes diluted reforms | |  By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's parliament overwhelmingly passed reforms on Tuesday reducing some of the president's powers, in a move that did not go as far as President Maithripala Sirisena had promised but is nevertheless seen as a victory for the leader. Sirisena became president in January after he defected from the party of the former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose rule had become increasingly authoritarian and is the subject of multiple investigations into allegations of corruption and rights violations. Rajapaksa has denied all the accusations. Sirisena, a health minister in Rajapaksa's government, alleged Rajapaksa abused power and promised to abolish the executive powers of a president.
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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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| 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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