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| Germanwings pilot rehearsed crash on outbound flight-investigators | |  The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a jet in the Alps in March practised entering the fatal descent settings on the previous, outbound flight, investigators said. The changes in autopilot settings, mimicking those which crashed the jet on its way back to Duesseldorf from Barcelona some two hours later, would barely have been noticeable because the jet was already descending, investigators said.
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| Accused "flash crash" trader tells UK court: "I did nothing wrong" | |  The British trader fighting extradition to the United States on charges of having contributed to the 2010 'flash crash' on Wall Street told a London court on Wednesday he had done nothing wrong and was just good at his job. Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, who traded from his parents' modest home in west London, has been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with wire fraud, commodities fraud and market manipulation.
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| Philippines, Japan coast guards hold anti-piracy drills | |  Philippine and Japanese coast guard teams staged an anti-piracy drill on Wednesday, featuring the storming of a cargo vessel after a mock hijack, in a show of maritime cooperation between the two nations amid rising tension in Asian waters. Both nations face a challenge from China's growing assertiveness over territorial claims in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, where it uses coast guard and fishing vessels to press into disputed areas. Wednesday's drill was the first held by Japan and the Philippines after signing a strategic partnership pact in 2012. The exercises in Manila Bay were watched by the coast guard chiefs of 17 Asian nations, including China, who are meeting to find ways to cooperate in boosting safety and battling piracy and transnational crime.
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| Bollywood star Salman Khan gets five years for hit-and-run | |  By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - A court on Wednesday sentenced Bollywood film star Salman Khan to five years in prison, for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident, the latest twist in the tumultuous career of a hero of India's silver screen.
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| Germanwings pilot rehearsed descent on previous flight - BEA | |  The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a jet in the Alps in March practised entering the fatal descent settings on the outbound flight and ignored repeated attempts to contact him from both ground and air, investigators said on Wednesday. A preliminary report on the crash showed that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had set the altitude dial on the Airbus A320's autopilot to 100 feet five times while alone in the cockpit on the previous flight from Duesseldorf to Barcelona on March 24.
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| Lok Sabha passes goods and services tax reform | |  The lower house of parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that seeks to transform India into a common market, harmonising myriads of state and central levies into a national goods and services tax which is expected to boost manufacturing and reduce corruption. The upper house of parliament would now have to pass the constitution amendment bill, after which more than a half of India's 29 states must approve it before the central and state governments would get equal powers to tax goods and services.
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| Somali Islamist militants shoot government official dead in Mogadishu | | | By Feisal Omar and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a government official in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and a spokesman for the group said. Abdifatah Barre, the deputy district commissioner of Mogadishu's Wadajir district, was shot dead in his car. The official died and the gunmen escaped," Major Ibrahim Hussein, a police officer, told Reuters. This is part of our operation in Mogadishu," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, its military operations spokesman, told Reuters. |
| Austrian charged for singing in film under Hitler portrait | | | Austrian prosecutors have charged the owner of a basement filled with Adolf Hitler paraphernalia as a Nazi sympathiser after his collection featured in a documentary film by cult director Ulrich Seidl last year. Re-engagement with National Socialism has been a crime since 1947 in Austria, which for decades maintained that it was Hitler's first victim and often glossed over the enthusiastic welcome he got from many Austrians. Nazi Germany annexed Austria, Hitler's birthplace, in 1938. |
| Thai army finds six more bodies near suspected human trafficking camp | |  By Surapan Boonthanom PADANG BESAR, Thailand (Reuters) - Authorities in Thailand have dug up the bodies of six suspected Rohingya migrants from Myanmar at a rubber plantation near a mountain where a mass grave was found at the weekend, the military said on Wednesday. The discovery was made in Thailand's Songkhla province near the country's border with Malaysia around 4 km from the site where the 26 bodies were found a few days ago. "Villagers living nearby told us the bodies buried here are the bodies of Rohingya migrants from Myanmar from nearby human trafficking camps," Colonel Jatuporn Klampasut, deputy secretary general of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) Region 4, told Reuters. Many illegal migrants in Thailand are Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and from Bangladesh who brave often perilous journeys by sea to escape religious and ethnic persecution.
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| German police detain 4 over planned attacks on Muslims, refugees | | | German police have detained four people suspected of setting up a new right-wing extremist group calling itself the "Old School Society" with the aim of carrying out bomb attacks on mosques, Salafist Muslims and shelters for asylum-seekers. "To this end, from what we know so far the four people detained obtained explosives for possible terrorist attacks by the group," said prosecutors, adding that it was not yet clear whether they "already had specific targets or dates in mind". They identified the four - all of them German citizens - as 56-year-old Andreas H., who was "president" of the group, 39-year-old "vice-president" Markus W., 22-year-old Denise Vanessa G. and 47-year-old Olaf O. German authorities only identify suspects by their first names and initials. |
| Watch what you say about us, Rolex warns Italy's prime minister | |  By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Luxury watchmaker Rolex demanded an apology on Wednesday from Italy's prime minister and interior minister for saying that violent demonstrators who devastated parts of Milan last week were "rich, spoiled brats with Rolexes". In his address to parliament on the riots - protests against Milan's Expo global fair - Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said police photos showed that one demonstrator who defaced a bank window appeared to be wearing a Rolex. Later, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi thanked the citizens of Milan for cleaning up the damage caused by "those with Rolexes who went around destroying shop windows".
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| Turkish electoral body rejects Kurdish complaint against Erdogan | |  Turkey's electoral commission has rejected a complaint from the Kurdish opposition that accused President Tayyip Erdogan of breaching the constitution with speeches backing the ruling AK Party ahead of a June election. The decision is likely to anger Erdogan's opponents who say institutions are unwilling to stand up to the president, who remains the country's most popular politician. The pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) had said Erdogan was acting against his constitutional neutrality as President by publicly praising the record of the AK Party -- which he co-founded -- while launching stinging attacks on its rivals.
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| U.S. envoy to India says worried by activist, charity clampdown | | | A clampdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government could have "chilling effects" on foreign-funded charities and activists and is a cause for concern, the U.S. ambassador to India said on Wednesday. "I read with some concern the recent press reports on challenges faced by NGOs operating in India," Ambassador Richard Verma told a news briefing in New Delhi. "Because a vibrant civil society is so important to both of our democratic traditions, I do worry about the potentially chilling effects of these regulatory steps focused on NGOs." Modi, a right-wing Hindu nationalist elected by a landslide last May, wants to increase investment in infrastructure and make it easier for businesses to buy land to boost Asia's third-largest economy. |
| Kerry visits Djibouti, U.S. military base as Yemen conflict drags on | |  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Djibouti on Wednesday for talks with the government and to visit a key U.S. military base from where pilots fly missions over Yemen and Somalia. The tiny Horn of Africa nation overlooking the Gulf of Aden has become an important center for Washington's interventions in Africa and against al Qaeda safe havens in Yemen. The United States has beefed up its small consular operations in Djibouti to help process Yemeni-American families fleeing the conflict in Yemen.
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| Arsonists carry out new attack on German asylum-seekers' refuge | | | Police in western Germany said on Wednesday that unidentified arsonists had set fire overnight to housing being prepared for aslyum-seekers, causing 50,000 euros worth of damage, before fleeing the scene in a car. "Other motives are also being investigated." There was no report of anyone being injured in the arson attack in the small town of Limburgerhof, where prefabricated housing was being erected to shelter 16 asylum-seekers. A similar arson attack last month in the eastern German town of Troeglitz sparked debate about hostility to asylum-seekers in some communities in Germany, after a 60 percent surge in the number of people seeking shelter in the country last year. |
| Afghan judge sentences four to death for mob killing of woman | |  By Mirwais Harooni and Kay Johnson KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan judge sentenced four men to death on Wednesday for the mob killing of 27-year-old woman accused of burning a Koran in Kabul, a case that sparked outrage and rare street protests against religious extremism in the capital. Judge Safiullah Mujadidi found 18 others not guilty due to lack of evidence.
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| Pakistan army accuses India of backing terrorism in rare rebuke | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's military has accused India's main intelligence agency of whipping up terrorism in Pakistan in rare public criticism that could increase tension between the nuclear-armed rivals. "The conference also took serious notice of RAW's involvement in whipping up terrorism in Pakistan," the army said in a statement, referring to India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), its external intelligence arm. While Pakistani army officers often privately accuse India of meddling, it is rare for the military to accuse India's spy agency in an official statement. Pakistan believes India is supporting separatists in resource-rich Baluchistan province, as well as militants fighting the state.
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