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| Boston bomber's lawyers, prosecutors spar over youngest victim | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday rejected a claim by the Boston Marathon bomber's lawyers that they had not proven that the death of the attack's youngest victim took a heavy enough toll on his family to influence a jury to sentence bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death. The prosecution's statement, in a filing in U.S. District Court in Boston, comes a day before the two sides are to give their closing arguments. On Monday, defence attorneys had argued that prosecutors had not shown evidence to back up the claim that the death of 8-year-old Martin Richard was one of the "aggravating factors" that the jury could take into account in making its decision on Tsarnaev's fate. None of the Martin family was called to testify in the trial's sentencing phase after they asked federal prosecutors in a statement published on the front page of the Boston Globe newspaper to drop their quest for the death penalty.
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| Accused Russian spy's U.S. legal fees paid by Moscow-owned bank | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A state-owned Russian bank is paying for the legal defense of an employee charged with posing as a banker in New York while secretly spying for Moscow, his lawyer confirmed on Tuesday. Evgeny Buryakov and two other Russian citizens, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy, are accused of conspiring to gather economic intelligence on behalf of Russia, including information about U.S. sanctions against the country, and to recruit New York City residents as intelligence sources. Buryakov's lawyer, Scott Hershman of the firm White & Case, told U.S. District Judge Richard Berman that his firm had signed a retainer agreement with Buryakov's employer, state-owned Vnesheconombank. Federal prosecutors had raised the possibility that permitting a third party to finance Buryakov's defense could pose a conflict of interest. |
| Bangladesh rescues Malaysia-bound illegal migrants from boat | | | By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh coastguard and navy team rescued 116 Malaysia-bound migrants on Tuesday, including several children, from a boat that had been abandoned by its crew in the Bay of Bengal, the coastguard said. Coastguard Station Commander Dickson Chowdhury said the migrants were taken into police custody after the Thai-owned boat was discovered near St Martin's Island, off the coast of Myanmar. Twenty-two of those on board were Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, and the rest were Bangladeshis. Malaysia, one of Southeast Asia's wealthier economies, has long been a magnet for illegal immigrants. |
| Blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh, third this year | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - A blogger was hacked to death by machete-wielding attackers in Bangladesh on Tuesday, the third killing of an online critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation in less than three months. Ananta Bijoy Das, a blogger who advocated secularism, was attacked by four masked assailants in the northeastern district of Sylhet on Tuesday morning, senior police official Mohammad Rahamatullah told Reuters. Roy's widow, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, who was maimed in the attack and is in hiding in the United States, told Reuters Das' case was similar to that of her husband. "This is serial killing." According to monitoring service SITE Intelligence Group, Islamist militant group Ansar al-Islam Bangladesh said al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) had claimed responsibility for the attack. |
| India defers land, tax reforms, spooks investors | |  In a setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reform programme, the opposition Congress party on Tuesday succeeded in delaying the measures in parliament, prompting a more than 2 percent fall in shares. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has the biggest majority in Lok Sabha in 30 years but it is dependent on Congress and other parties to pass bills in Rajya Sabha. "We're more concerned about the fate of the land acquisition bill." Opposition parties are resisting a bill that seeks to exempt land purchases for certain industrial, housing and infrastructure projects from requiring the consent of 80 percent of landowners, calling it 'anti-farmer'.
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| U.S. withdraws nominee for first Somalia envoy in over two decades | | | The nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Somalia has withdrawn, slowing down the appointment of the first envoy since the United States pulled out a military mission in the early 1990s as the country plunged into civil war and chaos. The withdrawal of the military mission, which had been supporting an aid effort, was prompted by the "Black Hawk Down" incident in which 18 U.S. soldiers were killed when their helicopters were shot down by Somali militias in Mogadishu. A White House official said that Katherine Dhanani, who had been named in February, withdrew for personal reasons, without giving more details. Washington had touted the nomination of the career diplomat Dhanani as signalling the deepening relationship between the two countries. |
| Asia's drifting boatpeople a looming humanitarian crisis - U.N. | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Aubrey Belford LHOKSUKON, Indonesia/LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) - Several thousand migrants, many of them hungry and sick, are adrift in boats in Southeast Asian seas and governments of the region must rescue them quickly to avert a "massive humanitarian crisis", the United Nations said on Tuesday. It appealed to authorities in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia not to push back boats that are packed with refugees who have been abandoned by smugglers following a Thai government crackdown on traffickers. There has been a surge in migrants from impoverished Bangladesh and Myanmar to Malaysia and Indonesia following the clampdown in Thailand, usually the first destination in the region's people-smuggling network.
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