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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. |
| Delaware police release video of white officer kicking black suspect | | | Police in Delaware have released video from a 2013 incident showing a black suspect being kicked in the face by a white officer who has been charged with assault. The dash cam video was released by the Dover Police Department on Thursday after a federal judge ruled the images it contains are no longer confidential. The video was released three days after Dover Police Officer Corporal Thomas Webster was arrested on a charge of felony assault for kicking Lateef Dickerson as he kneeled to the ground during his arrest near a Dover gas station, police said. Dickerson suffered a broken jaw and was knocked unconscious, police said in a statement. |
| Salman Khan's jail term deferred pending appeal in hit-and-run case | |  The Bombay High Court postponed a five-year prison sentence handed down to Bollywood star Salman Khan on Friday pending an appeal, two days after a criminal court convicted him of killing a man in a hit-and-run accident 13 years ago. The postponement and bail extension drove up shares of at least one firm having commercial ties with Khan, one of Bollywood's most bankable actors who is working on several projects worth millions of dollars.
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| Thailand's trafficking crackdown adds to migrants' misery | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aubrey Belford NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Thailand (Reuters) - A crackdown on human trafficking networks in Thailand is putting migrants fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh at more risk as smugglers hold their captives for longer at sea and hide deeper in the jungle, say activists and officials. Police have found more than 30 bodies, mostly believed to be of stateless Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, since last Friday after raiding camps in the country's south where migrants were held for ransom under brutal conditions.
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