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| Burundi army officer says sacks president, crowds celebrate | |  By Njuwa Maina BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - A Burundi army general said on Wednesday he had sacked Pierre Nkurunziza as president for seeking an unconstitutional third term in office, and was working with civil society groups to form a transitional government. The presidential office quickly rubbished the declaration by Major General Godefroid Niyombare, who was fired by Nkurunziza as intelligence chief in February. "We consider it as a joke not as a military coup," presidential aide Willy Niyamitwe told Reuters. Niyombare made his declaration to reporters at a military barracks in Bujumbura, while the president was out of the country at an African summit on the crisis.
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| Hezbollah, Syrian army make big gains in border battle | | | By Tom Perry, Mariam Karouny and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Syrian army made big advances against insurgents in mountains north of Damascus on Wednesday, Hezbollah and Syrian state media said, shoring up President Bashar al-Assad's grip on a crucial border zone. The gains in the Qalamoun region against groups including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front come at a time when Assad has suffered significant defeats elsewhere, notably in Syria's northwest near the Turkish border. Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Shi'ite group with a powerful militia, has been a vital ally for Assad in the four-year-long conflict that has become a focal point for the struggle between Tehran and Sunni Saudi Arabia that has backed the insurgency. Hezbollah fighters and the army seized Talat Moussa, the highest peak in the area targeted in the offensive. |
| Rajasthani child bride, now 19, faces $25,000 fine for rejecting marriage | | | By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The family of a 19-year-old girl has been ostracised and fined 1.6 million rupees by a village council after she rejected a marriage arranged when she was a baby, the girl and her parents said on Wednesday. Santadevi Meghwal, from Rajasthan, said she was married off at 11 months old to a nine-year-old boy in her village, 60 km south of Jodhpur. Meghwal became aware of her marriage at the age 16 and, with the support of her parents, refused to go and live with her husband and in-laws as they demanded. Meghwal's family said her husband's family refused to annul the marriage and took the matter to the council in Rohichan Khurd village, which imposed the fine and banished the family from the community. |
| Flak for childhood tea seller Modi over plans for some young labour in India | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to exclude some family jobs from a revamped child labour law in a move with an unmistakable echo of his own childhood, when he helped his father sell tea from kettles at a railway station. The cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to a 1986 child labour law, aimed at imposing a broader ban on childhood work but also introducing a loophole for family businesses that critics say undermines efforts to end the practice.
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| France's Sarkozy accused of pandering to racist sentiments | |  By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - France's ruling Socialists accused conservative former president Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday of appealing to racist sentiments in criticising the country's Morocco-born education minister. Sarkozy, expected by many to run for election in 2017, used no explicitly racist words but came under fire for singling out two non-white female ministers in a largely white government for charges of gross incompetence. Sarkozy's main target was Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, a young Franco-Moroccan minister in charge of a post-primary schooling reform plan that has irked many teachers and been slammed by many in Sarkozy's UMP opposition party. UMP chief Sarkozy weighed in at a political rally north of Paris last Monday, saying: "In the unrelenting quest for mediocrity, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is in the process of overtaking Christiane Taubira." Taubira is justice minister and was pilloried by political opponents when shepherding a bill through parliament to legalise same-sex marriage in 2013, with some of the invective mocking the racial origin of the French Guiana-born justice minister.
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| Slipper factory fire kills 31, dozens missing in Philippine capital | |  A fire at a Philippine rubber slipper factory killed 31 workers on Wednesday and dozens were missing and feared dead, government and fire officials said. Ariel Barayuga, head of bureau of fire protection, said investigators were trying to determine the cause of fire in the capital, Manila, that trapped workers at the two-storey factory building of Kentex Manufacturing Inc, which makes flip-flops and slippers. Thirty-nine workers had been accounted for, but 65 were reported missing and feared dead.
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| Gunmen kill seven in attack on Muslim council in Afghan south - police | | | Gunmen opened fire on a gathering of Afghan Muslim clerics in the southern province of Helmand, killing seven people, police said on Wednesday. The Ulemma Council, the highest religious authority in a deeply conservative country, came under attack after it had repeatedly announced its support for security forces fighting the hardline Islamist Taliban insurgents. "The meeting was ongoing when two Taliban gunmen attacked the gathering," police official Jan Aqa said. The Afghan Taliban, ousted from power in 2001, have been fighting to bring down the U.S.-backed government in Kabul, and stepped up attacks after most foreign forces pulled out at the end of last year. |
| Delayed reforms, market woes tarnish end to Modi's first year | |  By Manoj Kumar and Abhishek Vishnoi NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - A surprise delay to India's new goods and services tax (GST) marks one of the most painful setbacks suffered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government as it nears the end of a first year in power, with markets falling and farmers braced for a poor monsoon. Investors had hoped that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's majority in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, would ensure Modi could push through reforms far more smoothly, but that assumption has taken a battering. The introduction of the GST would constitute India's biggest tax reform since independence. The delay to the bill is a blow to a government that is already dealing with rural discontent over proposed land reforms, which have also still to be sent to the upper house for approval.
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| Asia boatpeople pushed back to sea as U.N. calls for rescue | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Fransiska Nangoy BANGKOK/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will continue to push boats holding thousands of migrants back to sea, a senior Thai official said on Wednesday, despite a U.N. appeal for a rapid rescue operation to avoid a humanitarian crisis. Several thousand migrants, many of them hungry and sick, are adrift in Southeast Asian seas in boats that have been abandoned by smugglers following a Thai government crackdown on human trafficking, the United Nations has said. "Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have decided not to receive boat people, as far as I am aware," Major General Werachon Sukhondhapatipak, spokesman for Thailand's ruling junta, told Reuters.
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| Congo rebels may have committed crimes against humanity - U.N. | | | By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A Ugandan Islamist rebel group committed human rights abuses in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last year that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a U.N. report published on Wednesday. "In total, ADF combatants attacked 35 villages. Some had their throats slit, were shot at while trying to flee, or were burned alive in their homes." Civil society groups in eastern Congo said the ADF had killed 13 people with machetes and hatchets in two overnight assaults over the last week. "These violations, which were both systematic and extremely brutal, may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity," the U.N. statement said. |
| Blood drips from bus doors after gunmen kill 43 in Pakistan's Karachi | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen on motorcycles boarded a bus and opened fire on commuters in Pakistan's volatile southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least 43, police said, in the latest attack directed against religious minorities this year. Police Superintendent Najib Khan told Reuters there were six gunmen and that all the passengers were Ismailis, a minority Shi'ite Muslim sect. Pakistan is mostly Sunni. Militant group Jundullah, which has attacked Muslim minorities before, claimed responsibility.
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| Islamic State kills dozens in Syrian army-held area - Observatory | | | Islamic State fighters killed dozens in an attack on Syrian army-held areas in Homs province overnight, an organisation monitoring the war said, as the group intensifies efforts to expand beyond its strongholds. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the monitoring group, said about 30 government soldiers and 20 Islamic State militants were killed in the fighting in and around the town of al-Sukhna, some 300 km (190 miles) northeast of Damascus. Syrian troops repelled the attack in places and were still fighting in others, a military source said. "(The army) repelled the attack in areas, there are areas where it is still ongoing." Islamic State has in recent months launched attacks in both the Syrian government-held as well as rebel-held areas far beyond areas of northern and eastern Syria where it is most firmly entrenched. |
| North Korea to launch live-fire drills near disputed sea border with South | | | North Korea notified the South of its plan to conduct live-fire drills this week near a disputed sea border, the scene of deadly clashes in recent years, the South's military said on Wednesday. North Korea conducted similar drills last year, with more than 100 rounds landing south of border, prompting the South to fire hundreds of rounds back. The South's joint chief of staff said in a statement that North Korea told Seoul that it would carry out the drills from May 13-15 north of the Northern Limit Line, the west coast maritime border. "If North Korea makes any provocation in our waters, we will strongly respond to it," the statement said. |
| N.Korea executes defence chief with an anti-aircraft gun- S.Korea agency | |  By Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea executed its defence chief by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers, which would be the latest in a series of high-level purges since Kim Jong Un took charge. Hyon Yong Chol, who headed the isolated nuclear-capable country's military, was charged with treason, including disobeying Kim and falling asleep during an event at which North Korea's young leader was present, according to South Korean lawmakers briefed in a closed-door meeting with the spy agency on Wednesday. His execution was watched by hundreds of people, according to NIS intelligence shared with lawmakers. It was not clear how the NIS obtained the information and it is not possible to independently verify such reports from within secretive North Korea.
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| Police torture in China still routine despite reforms - rights group | |  Six years after China took steps to crack down on torture by police, detainees continue to be beaten, hanged by their wrists and shackled to iron chairs, New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The report comes six months before China is due to face scrutiny by a U.N. panel against torture and following a pledge by President Xi Jinping to boost the rule of law. The ruling Communist Party is looking to quell public discontent over several high-profile miscarriages of justice, with China's top court unveiling legal reforms in February to halt the use of torture to gain evidence. "Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture," Human Rights Watch said in its report, however.
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