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| New York police officer dies after being shot in head | |  By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City plainclothes police officer shot in the head over the weekend as he tried to question a local man sought on gun charges died on Monday, police and City Hall officials said. Officer Brian Moore, 25, was shot on Saturday evening as he and his partner were seated in an unmarked car in a middle-class residential neighbourhood of Queens. He is the first New York City officer killed in the line of duty since two uniformed officers were ambushed in December. Moore had been hospitalized in critical condition but died on Monday, the New York Police Department and a City Hall official said.
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| Gangsters release kidnapped Pakistani police | | | By Amjad Ali ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police rescued seven colleagues on Monday who had been kidnapped by gunmen at a checkpoint the previous day. The abductors abandoned the seven in a forest near the Indus river and fled as police scoured the area, said provincial interior minister Shuja Khanzada. He was killed accidentally by his own fire," Ghulam Mubashir Maken, District Police Officer told Reuters. Pakistani Taliban militants killed 153 people, most of them children, at a high school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Dec. 16. |
| Obama says inequality facing minority men behind unrest in Baltimore, Ferguson | |  Following a week of racially charged protests in Baltimore, U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said obstacles facing minority men from birth put them in a position of having "the odds stacked against them." Obama said black and Latino men feel that disadvantage, and he credited their sense of frustration about their lives and opportunities for the intensity of recent protests around the country. He spoke at Lehman College in the Bronx to announce the launch of My Brother's Keeper Alliance, a nonprofit organization that is a spinoff of a White House initiative to increase opportunities for young minority men. "That sense of unfairness, powerlessness, people not hearing their voices, that's helped fuel some of the protests that we've seen in places like Baltimore, Ferguson and right here in New York," Obama said, referring to demonstrations that followed the deaths of unarmed black men after interactions with police.
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| Boston bomber's brother voiced a 'rage of hatred,' court hears | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's brother frightened at least one relative during a visit to Russia in 2012 when he espoused radical Islamist beliefs, a family member said on Monday. Several of Tsarnaev's relatives appeared in federal court in Boston to testify at the second phase of his trial, where a jury will determine whether Tsarnaev is sentenced to death for killing three people and wounding 264 in the April 15, 2013, bombing attack on Boston's best-attended sporting event. Defence attorneys have been trying to paint the 21-year-old bomber as a secondary player in an attack conceived and led by his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died after a gunfight with police four days after the bombing. Naida Suleimanova, a cousin of the brothers, said she was scared when she learned Tamerlan had adopted extremist views.
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| Israel's Lieberman says won't join new government | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced on Monday he would not join the new government being formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the coalition was not sufficiently "nationalist". The walkout by the far-right Lieberman raised the prospect that Netanyahu, whose conservative Likud party won the most votes in a March 17 election, will have to settle for a narrower alliance to secure a majority in the 120-seat parliament. Netanyahu could ask the leading centre-left opposition party Zionist Union to join forces in a "national unity" government but both sides have so far played down any such possibility. Briefing reporters, Lieberman said his party, which won just six seats in the election, had been offered two cabinet posts as part of the coalition talks but remained unsatisfied.
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| Gunman in Mohammad cartoon attack in Texas monitored for years | |  By Jon Herskovitz and David Schwartz GARLAND, Texas/PHOENIX (Reuters) - Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Two law enforcement officials who asked not to be named identified one of the dead shooters as Elton Simpson, under surveillance since 2006 and convicted in 2010 of lying to FBI agents over his desire to join violent jihad in Somalia. The second shooter was identified as Nadir Soofi, a roommate of Simpson, according to two sources close to the investigation. Phoenix FBI spokesman Perryn Collier confirmed agents were at the Autumn Ridge Apartments in connection with the shooting in Texas.
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| U.S. cannot confirm al Qaeda claim in blogger's killing in Bangladesh | | | The United States is not able to confirm a claim by al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) that the group killed a blogger who was also a U.S. citizen in Bangladesh in February, a U.S. official said on Monday. The SITE Intelligence Group reported on Sunday that AQIS leader Asim Umar claimed responsibility for the killing of Avijit Roy, a U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi origin, in a video listing several people killed in Bangladesh and Pakistan. |
| Around 7,000 Europe-bound migrants rescued, baby girl born on Italian navy ship | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Around 7,000 migrants were rescued from overcrowded boats crossing the Mediterranean to Europe over the weekend and on Monday, including a woman who gave birth to a baby girl on an Italian navy ship, the coast guard said. A photo posted online showed her daughter, called Francesca Marina, sleeping in a makeshift cradle decorated with a pink bow. Marina, a common name in Italy, also means navy in Italian "Both mother and daughter are in good health," the navy said. Navy ships were en route to another rubber boat with 89 people on board on Monday, and the privately funded Phoenix rescue ship said it had already picked up 104 migrants.
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