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| China launches new campaign against sex-selective abortions | |  China has begun a new campaign against illegal prenatal gender tests and sex-selective abortions to help address the country's gender imbalance, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday. Like most Asian nations, China has a traditional bias for sons, who are seen the only guarantee to pass on the family line. The new campaign will run under November, and concentrate on health centres and family planning institutions, as well as illegal fertility agencies, clinics and itinerant doctors, the report said. In late 2013, China said it would ease family planning restrictions to allow millions of families to have two children in the most significant liberalisation of the one-child policy - originally introduced to slow population growth - in decades.
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| German Catholic Church opens labour law more to divorced and gays | | | By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - Germany's Roman Catholic Church, an influential voice for reforms prompted by Pope Francis, has decided lay Catholic employees who divorce and remarry or form gay civil unions should no longer automatically lose their jobs. Catholic bishops have voted to adjust Church labour law "to the multiple changes in legal practice, legislation and society" so employee lifestyles should not affect their status in the country's many Catholic schools, hospitals and social services. The change came as the worldwide Catholic Church debates loosening its traditional rejection of remarriage after a divorce and of gay sex, reforms for which German bishops and theologians have become prominent spokesmen. Over two-thirds of Germany's 27 dioceses voted for the change, a Church spokesman said, indicating some opposition. |
| Christian sect killings in Angola shrouded in fear and mystery | | | By Herculano Coroado MOUNT SUMI, Angola (Reuters) - The only traces of thousands of Angolan Christian sect members who were camped in these hills are burnt-out vehicles, shacks pocked with bullet holes and bloodstains in the soil. The details of a police raid on April 16 in the remote hills of central Huambo province have been fiercely contested, sharpening the divide between the ruling MPLA and the main opposition party UNITA, which fought on opposing sides in a 27-year civil war that ended in 2002. It has also raised awkward questions about the government in Africa's second-largest oil producer, which spent $6.5 billion on defence in 2013, the biggest slice of its budget and more than any other country in sub-Saharan Africa. The Angolan police said 13 "snipers" from "The Light of the World" were killed during a raid to capture sect leader Jose Kalupeteka, a popular anti-authority preacher who says the world will end on Dec. 31. |
| Lok Sabha passes goods and services tax reform | |  The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill that seeks to transform the country into a common market, harmonising state and central levies into a national goods and services tax which is expected to boost manufacturing. The Rajya Sabha will now have to pass the constitution amendment bill, after which more than a half of India's 29 states must approve it before the federal and state governments get equal powers to tax goods and services. "The whole country, which is one-sixth of world's population, would become a single market and therefore it would give a necessary fillip as far as trade is concerned," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told lawmakers. Jaitley has called the goods and services tax (GST) the biggest reform since independence in 1947 that could add as much as 2 percentage points to the growth of Asia's third-largest economy.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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