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| Boko Haram kills two soldiers in Cameroon - sources | | | Gunmen from Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militant group killed two Cameroonian soldiers in fighting at the weekend that also left three militants dead, military officers said on Monday. The clash highlights how pockets of Boko Haram fighters remain active despite progress this year by troops from Nigeria and neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon in breaking the militants' hold on vast swathes of territory. A Cameroonian officer said clashes erupted when soldiers were dispatched to check reports of Boko Haram militants moving towards the northern town of Zelevet, near the border with Nigeria. A second officer said three Boko Haram fighters were killed and a female militant captured. |
| Al Jazeera journalist sues employer for negligence - lawyer | | | An Al Jazeera television journalist on trial in Egypt has filed a lawsuit in a Canadian court accusing his employer of negligence and has demanded $100 million in compensation, his lawyer said on Monday. Mohamed Fahmy, who spent more than 400 days in a Cairo jail on charges of aiding a terrorist organisation, suggested Al Jazeera's actions landed him in jail. Al Jazeera had no immediate comment. Fahmy and another Al Jazeera journalist, Baher Mohamed, were originally sentenced to seven to 10 years in prison on charges that included spreading lies to help a "terrorist organization", a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood. |
| Bangladesh police arrest people smugglers, shoot four, amid crisis | | | Bangladeshi police arrested three human traffickers on Monday after killing four in recent days and arresting more than 100 in recent months as the poverty-stricken country cracks down on people smuggling amid an Asia-wide crisis, an officer said. There has been a huge increase in refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar drifting on boats to Malaysia and Indonesia in recent days after Thailand, usually the initial destination in the people smuggling network, announced its own crackdown on trafficking. "We have produced them before the court while another fled during the drive," Mohammad Ataur Rahman Khandaker, a senior police officer in Teknaf, told Reuters. An estimated 25,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar 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 has said. |
| Nineteen kidnapped Afghans released, 12 more could be freed soon - officials | | | By Mustafa Andalib GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nineteen Afghan men from among 31 kidnapped by gunmen from a bus in February were freed on Monday by their captors, and the rest could be released soon, officials said. The men are Hazaras, members of a largely Shi'ite ethnic minority persecuted under the Taliban movement's Sunni Islamist rule, although sectarian violence has been rare since the Taliban was ousted by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. The kidnapping increased anxiety among Hazaras, who fear becoming targets in a new, sectarian phase of Afghanistan's long war with Taliban insurgents and other Islamist militants. |
| UK's Cameron: Vote win gives me mandate for "tough" EU renegotiation | |  British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that renegotiating Britain's relationship with the European Union would be tough but that his decisive election victory last week had given him a mandate. "We have got a mandate, it will be tough obviously but we have got a mandate," Cameron told reporters before addressing a meeting of his lawmakers in parliament to loud applause and cheers, the first such meeting since his election victory. Cameron, who won a surprise outright majority last week, has promised to renegotiate Britain's EU ties before holding an in-out EU membership referendum by the end of 2017. The issue of Europe is one that has split his party before and led to the downfall of two of his predecessors, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Cameron is keen to ensure that some of his most Eurosceptic lawmakers do not rebel.
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| Thailand downplays probe into police links to human trafficking | | | Thai police have downplayed a probe into more than 50 officers transferred over suspected links to human trafficking networks, saying the transfers were "standard operating procedure" and that most of the officers were suspected only of negligence. Southeast Asia is being hit by a wave of migrants arriving in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, part of a regional human trafficking crisis driven by conflict, persecution and poverty. Police Lieutenant General Prawut Thawornsiri, spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, said on Monday the transfers of the policemen were part of normal procedure and that most did not have direct links to human traffickers. Rather, they had been negligent in the detection of human trafficking camps and gangs in southern Thailand. |
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