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| Festive Baltimore rallies in hope after police charged | | Sunday, May 03, 2015 2:21 AM | |
|  By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Thousands of people took to the streets of Baltimore on Saturday as anger over the death of a young black man turned to hopes for change following swift criminal charges against six police officers. There was an upbeat mood at the march from the housing projects where 25-year-old Freddie Gray was arrested last month to a plaza in front of city hall where the city's chief prosecutor announced charges on Friday ranging from murder to assault in his death. A 10 p.m. curfew was kept in place for Saturday, but police were in uniform rather than riot gear and relaxed marchers snapped selfies with officers as the protest moved to the West Baltimore intersection that was the scene of looting on Monday. Rioting and looting broke out after the funeral for Gray, who died on April 19, a week after suffering a fatal spinal injury while in police custody.
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| Seattle police say prepared for more protests after May Day clashes | |  By Victoria Cavaliere SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle police said on Saturday they were preparing for more weekend protests after a May Day march that turned violent when crowds hurled bottles and wrenches at officers, who responded with pepper spray and flash grenades. Sixteen people were arrested in the violence, which erupted late Friday after a day of peaceful demonstrations to call attention to workers' rights, immigration issues and police treatment of minorities in the United States. Three officers were hurt, including one who suffered a broken wrist and another with a dislocated shoulder, police said. Law enforcement was prepared for more weekend protests, department spokesman Drew Fowler said.
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| Thai mass grave held bodies of 26 suspected trafficking victims | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre PEDANG BESAR, Thailand (Reuters) - Dozens of police and volunteers have exhumed 26 bodies at a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp on a hillside deep in a southern Thai jungle, police said on Saturday. The digging site, in Sadao district in Songkhla province, yielded five bodies on Friday and 21 more on Saturday, all believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh. "A total of 26 bodies were uncovered - 24 men, one woman and one unknown," said Police General Jarumporn Suramanee, adding the operation was now completed. Illegal migrants, many of them Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and Bangladesh, brave often perilous journeys by sea to escape religious and ethnic persecution and to seek jobs in Malaysia and Thailand, a regional trafficking hub.
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| Baltimore heads into weekend of rallies after officers charged | |  By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A jubilant Baltimore headed into a weekend of rallies on Saturday after six police were criminally charged over the death of a black man that fueled national outrage over police conduct in black communities. Several thousand people were expected to take part in a Saturday rally at Baltimore city hall, with marchers leaving from the Gilmor Homes housing projects where the victim, 25-year-old Freddie Gray, was arrested. Demonstrations were also expected in other cities around the United States, Baltimore streets were calm on Saturday ahead of the march, with a large police and national guard presence near city hall. Using social media hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackSpring, rallies in solidarity with Freddie Gray were planned on Saturday in more than 20 U.S. cities including Dallas, New York and Los Angeles.
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| Maldives police arrest nearly 200 protesters, opposition leaders | | | Maldives police arrested 193 people including three opposition leaders after clashes broke out on Friday during protests over the jailing of former president Mohamed Nasheed, whose trial was condemned by foreign governments as having been deeply flawed. Police said the opposition leaders had incited violence against the police when addressing the crowds and that Sheikh Imran Abdulla, who heads the small but influential Islamic Adhaalath Party, had organised the protests to topple the government. The protests were called to demand the release of Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, who was jailed in March for ordering the arrest in 2012 of a judge. |
| Kerry visits Sri Lanka, pledges support for new government | |  By Lesley Wroughton and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday the United States wants to renew ties with Sri Lanka and urged its new government to work with the United Nations to ensure an investigation into war crimes met international standards. Kerry arrived in the South Asian island nation earlier on Saturday, the first time in a decade that a U.S. secretary of state has visited Sri Lanka. He announced the start of an annual bilateral dialogue and said the United States would immediately send experts to advise the new government on economic growth, trade and investment.
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| Chinese police shoot man dead at railway station - Xinhua | | | Chinese police shot dead a man at a railway station in the country's north-eastern Heilongjiang province on Saturday, saying that he was threatening public security and assaulting police, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Public sensitivity to security at China's railway stations has heightened following a series of incidents including a mass stabbing at a train station last March in the south-western city of Kunming that left 31 dead. |
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