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| BP wins right to appeal some Gulf spill damages claims | |  A U.S. federal appeals court said on Friday BP Plc deserves the right to appellate review of some damage claims awarded to people and businesses in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans could help BP limit its payout to victims of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 workers and caused the largest U.S. offshore oil spill. About $5.13 billion has been paid out so far to 63,597 claimants, according to a website maintained by claims administrator Patrick Juneau. In its appeal, BP complained that rules adopted by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier compromised its right to appeal awards he approved and which the company did not like to the 5th Circuit.
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| Canada police investigate possible murder-suicide after Facebook confession | | | By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canadian police said on Friday they are investigating several deaths in the Vancouver area that may be a murder-suicide linked to a message on Facebook in which a man appeared to confess to killing his daughter, wife and sister. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said multiple members of one family, including the suspect, were believed to be dead at two crime separate scenes, in the Vancouver area and a nearby rural town. The RCMP said in a statement they were tipped off by "information obtained through social media that indicated a ... man had harmed his family members." The first body was found at a home in the Vancouver suburb of Langley on Thursday. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Friday posted a screen shot of a message on Randy Janzen's Facebook page, in which the British Columbia man confesses "over the last 10 days I have done some of the worst things I could have ever imagined a person doing ... now my family is pain free and in heaven." The post, written around noon on Thursday, details his daughter Emily's struggle with migraine headaches and depression, stating "I took a gun and shot her in the head and now she is migraine free." The confession then details how he killed his wife, Laurel, "because a mother should never have to hear the news her baby has died" and his sister, Shelly, to protect her from the shame he caused. |
| China accelerates land reclamation in disputed islands - Pentagon | | | By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China embarked upon extensive land reclamation efforts at five outposts in the disputed Spratly Islands last year, adding huge amounts of terrain to bolster its civil and military presence in an area claimed by rivals, a new Pentagon report said on Friday. Chinese building and land-filling efforts have accelerated this year, with the total acreage added to the outposts in the South China Sea growing from 500 in December to about 2,000 today, a U.S. defence official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Spratly chain, where China has built at least one previously submerged reef into an island, is claimed by at least three other countries: the Philippines, Taiwan and Malaysia. "We do not support South China Sea land reclamation efforts by any party," the official said. |
| U.S. urges probe of U.N. handling of Central Africa abuse charges | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Friday described as horrifying accusations of sexual abuse of children by French and African troops in Central African Republic, and called for a separate inquiry into how the United Nations handled the allegations. An internal U.N. report detailed the alleged abuse by troops from France, Chad and Equatorial Guinea between December 2013 and June 2014 at a centre for displaced people at M'Poko airport in the Central African Republic capital, Bangui. The accusations came to light in April after the U.N. report summarizing victim interviews was leaked. The soldiers from Equatorial Guinea and Chad were accused of sodomising children.
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| Deadline may force compromise on U.S. surveillance law | |  By Patricia Zengerle and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leaders insist that spy agencies continue to have access to data on Americans' telephone calls despite a court ruling that the practice is illegal, but aides said on Friday they may have to compromise on proposed reforms of the programme before it expires on June 1. Senate aides said the deadline could force supporters and opponents of the bulk data collection programme to work out a deal before May ends. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican Majority Leader, and Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, defended the data collection shortly after a federal appeals court three-judge panel in New York ruled the practice illegal on Thursday. McConnell and Burr vowed to fight efforts to scale back the phone surveillance, a counter-terrorism measure in the USA Patriot Act, known as Section 215.
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| EU, U.S. close to data sharing deal for security cases - sources | |  By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States are close to completing negotiations on a deal protecting personal data shared for law enforcement purposes such as terrorism investigations, three people familiar with the matter said. The two sides have been negotiating since 2011 over the so-called "umbrella agreement" that would protect personal data exchanged between police and judicial authorities in the course of investigations, as well as between companies and law enforcement authorities. The protection of personal data in the United States has been a sore point in the EU since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed mass U.S. surveillance programmes involving EU citizens.
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| U.S. threatens Burundi sanctions, alarmed at arms spread | |  By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States threatened sanctions on Friday on anyone involved in violence in Burundi against those protesting the president's bid for a third term and expressed alarm at the spread of weapons among youth militia loyal to the president. Demonstrators have clashed with police on the streets of the country's capital for nearly two weeks, saying President Pierre Nkurunziza's plan to run for office again violates the constitution and a peace deal that ended an ethnically charged civil war in 2005. Speaking to reporters after a closed-door United Nations Security Council meeting on Burundi, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said there was an "apparent lack of judicial impartiality that led to this decision." "The United States is very carefully monitoring the situation and we are prepared to take targeted measures, including visa bans or sanctions, against those who plan or participate in widespread violence," she said.
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| U.S. asks China to investigate cyber attack targeting American sites | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it has asked Beijing to investigate reports that China interfered with Internet content hosted outside the country and used it to attack U.S. websites. "We are concerned by reports that China has used a new cyber capability to interfere with the ability of worldwide Internet users to access content hosted outside of China," State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said. "The cyber attack manipulated international web traffic intended for one of China's biggest web services companies and turned it into malicious traffic directed at U.S. sites," Rathke told a news briefing. He said the United States asked Chinese authorities to investigate the cyber attack and report its findings.
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| Human traffickers killed by police in beach gunfight in Bangladesh | | | Three human traffickers were killed on Friday during a police raid on a meeting of people smugglers on a beach at Cox's Bazar, a town in southeast Bangladesh bordering on Myanmar, a police official said. The three were on the interior ministry's list of suspected human traffickers and faced several criminal charges, he added. Human trafficking from Bangladesh and neighbouring Myanmar is an active business. Thai police recently discovered suspected human trafficking camps in the southern province of Songkhla and recovered 26 bodies a shallow grave. |
| U.S. Justice Dept. opens civil rights probe into Baltimore police | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday launched an investigation into the Baltimore police department's use of force and whether there are patterns of discriminatory policing. The probe, announced by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, was requested by Baltimore's mayor in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who sustained fatal injuries while in police custody, and the outrage it sparked in Maryland's largest city. The Justice Department has conducted similar reviews of U.S. police departments. An investigation of police in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager last year, concluded in March that the department routinely engaged in racially biased practices.
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| Thousands attend funeral for slain New York City policeman | |  By Sebastien Malo SEAFORD, N.Y. (Reuters) - Thousands of policemen from around the United States gathered on Friday at the funeral of a 25-year-old New York City officer who was shot in the head while on patrol, making him the third member of the NYPD killed in the line of duty since December. Services for the New York Police Department's Brian Moore at a Roman Catholic church in a Long Island suburb were attended by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner William Bratton and dozens of other dignitaries. Moore, who was promoted posthumuously to the rank of detective, is the latest reminder of the dangers faced by law enforcement officers in American cities.
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| Norway court sentences three for joining, helping Islamic State | | | A Norwegian court sentenced three men to jail on Friday for joining or aiding the Islamic State militant group in Syria, in the first case of its kind in the Nordic region. Djibril Bashir, 30, and Valon Avdyli, 28, "shall be sentenced for participating in the ISIL terror organisation", the Oslo District Court said in its verdict, referring to the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria and is active in Libya. Bashir was sentenced to four years and three months in prison and Valon Avdyli to four years and nine months. A third man, Visar Avdyli, 25, the brother of Valon, was sentenced to seven months in prison for providing aid to the group. |
| PM Modi defends ban on Delhi gang rape documentary | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended his government's decision to ban a controversial documentary film about the fatal gang rape of a woman in New Delhi, saying it was to ensure the dignity of the victim was protected. The film "India's Daughter" - which features an interview with one of the men who raped and tortured a 23-year-old woman on a bus in December 2012 - was banned in March as his comments were considered to be derogatory towards women. The director of the documentary, Leslee Udwin, said the ban obstructed free speech, and critics have said the move was aimed at concealing widespread misogynistic attitudes in India. In his first remarks about the case, Modi told Time Magazine that broadcasting the documentary would have "violated the dignity of the victim".
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| Thailand wants meeting with Myanmar, Malaysia over human trafficking crisis | |  By Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Friday called for a three-way meeting with neighbours Malaysia and Myanmar to try to resolve a regional human trafficking crisis following the discovery of a mass grave in the country's far south. Thirty-three bodies, believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been found in shallow graves over the past week in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border. Three suspected trafficking camps have also been found. "I have ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to liaise with Malaysia and Myanmar to hold a meeting to resolve this," Prayuth told reporters.
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| Sahara agrees to pay bail to release jailed boss | |  Subrata Roy has been held in jail for more than a year after Sahara failed to comply with a court order to refund billions of dollars it had raised in outlawed bonds. Sahara, once one of India's most high-profile firms, has in the past made several failed attempts to raise the bail money using its prized overseas hotels that include the Plaza in New York and Grosvenor House in London. The Supreme Court in March allowed Sahara three more months to raise cash for the bail money. "All the formalities for the bail bond would be completed before Thursday," he said, declining to be named.
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| Charities warn Modi that crackdown will hurt the poor | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Charities in India on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop a government crackdown on thousands of foreign-funded non-profit groups saying it would hurt the lives of poor and marginalised people. Since Modi swept to power almost a year ago, his right-wing nationalist government has tightened surveillance on foreign-funded charities. Charities reject the accusations, but admit there may be some groups which had unintended funding discrepancies. "Funds are being frozen, intelligence reports are being selectively released to paint NGOs in poor light, disbursal of funds are being subjected to case-by-case clearance, and their activities are reportedly being placed on 'watch lists'," said an open letter to Modi signed by 171 charities and activists.
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| China hikes cigarette tax in anti-smoking drive | |  By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - China is set to raise the wholesale tax rate for cigarettes to 11 percent from 5 percent, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday, in a move to deter smokers in the world's biggest maker and consumer of tobacco. China has accelerated a campaign against smoking over the past year, despite persistent opposition from the tobacco industry. Domestic and foreign anti-smoking activists say China's cigarette habit has come at a heavy cost to the healthcare system. The parliament passed legislation last month banning tobacco ads in the mass media, public places, on public transport and outdoors.
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| Bay of Bengal people-smuggling doubles in 2015 - UNHCR | | | By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - An estimated 25,000 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis boarded people-smugglers' boats in the first three months of this year, twice as many in the same period of 2014, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday. Thirty-three bodies, believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been found in shallow graves over the past week in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border. Many of the migrants are Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and from Bangladesh hoping to escape religious and ethnic persecution and work abroad. The most common smuggling route takes them from Myanmar and Bangladesh to the Ranong area of southern Thailand, followed by a day-long road trip to smugglers' camps towards the border with Malaysia. |
| Tribunal asks SEBI to prove insider trader charges against fund | | | An Indian appeals tribunal has ordered the country's market regulator to provide proof of its insider trading charges against Factorial Capital Management within two months, adding pressure on investigators to resolve a year-long case. The tribunal ruling concerns an interim order passed in June 2014 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) accusing Factorial of shorting shares of L&T Finance Holdings Ltd based on inside information in its most high profile insider trading case yet. SEBI banned Factorial from trading Indian securities but has yet to pass a final order providing concrete evidence of its accusations. Factorial has challenged the ban, and on Friday the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), which rules on securities-related matters, was critical of the regulator. |
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