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| Thai mass grave held bodies of 26 suspected trafficking victims | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre PEDANG BESAR, Thailand (Reuters) - Dozens of police and volunteers have exhumed 26 bodies at a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp on a hillside deep in a southern Thai jungle, police said on Saturday. The digging site, in Sadao district in Songkhla province, yielded five bodies on Friday and 21 more on Saturday, all believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh. "A total of 26 bodies were uncovered - 24 men, one woman and one unknown," said Police General Jarumporn Suramanee, adding the operation was now completed. Illegal migrants, many of them Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and Bangladesh, brave often perilous journeys by sea to escape religious and ethnic persecution and to seek jobs in Malaysia and Thailand, a regional trafficking hub.
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| Baltimore heads into weekend of rallies after officers charged | |  By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A jubilant Baltimore headed into a weekend of rallies on Saturday after six police were criminally charged over the death of a black man that fueled national outrage over police conduct in black communities. Several thousand people were expected to take part in a Saturday rally at Baltimore city hall, with marchers leaving from the Gilmor Homes housing projects where the victim, 25-year-old Freddie Gray, was arrested. Demonstrations were also expected in other cities around the United States, Baltimore streets were calm on Saturday ahead of the march, with a large police and national guard presence near city hall. Using social media hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackSpring, rallies in solidarity with Freddie Gray were planned on Saturday in more than 20 U.S. cities including Dallas, New York and Los Angeles.
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| Maldives police arrest nearly 200 protesters, opposition leaders | | | Maldives police arrested 193 people including three opposition leaders after clashes broke out on Friday during protests over the jailing of former president Mohamed Nasheed, whose trial was condemned by foreign governments as having been deeply flawed. Police said the opposition leaders had incited violence against the police when addressing the crowds and that Sheikh Imran Abdulla, who heads the small but influential Islamic Adhaalath Party, had organised the protests to topple the government. The protests were called to demand the release of Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, who was jailed in March for ordering the arrest in 2012 of a judge. |
| Kerry visits Sri Lanka, pledges support for new government | |  By Lesley Wroughton and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday the United States wants to renew ties with Sri Lanka and urged its new government to work with the United Nations to ensure an investigation into war crimes met international standards. Kerry arrived in the South Asian island nation earlier on Saturday, the first time in a decade that a U.S. secretary of state has visited Sri Lanka. He announced the start of an annual bilateral dialogue and said the United States would immediately send experts to advise the new government on economic growth, trade and investment.
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| Chinese police shoot man dead at railway station - Xinhua | | | Chinese police shot dead a man at a railway station in the country's north-eastern Heilongjiang province on Saturday, saying that he was threatening public security and assaulting police, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Public sensitivity to security at China's railway stations has heightened following a series of incidents including a mass stabbing at a train station last March in the south-western city of Kunming that left 31 dead. |
| Germans cannot turn backs on Nazi past, Merkel says | |  By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany cannot simply draw a line under its Nazi past and must remain sensitive to the damage it caused to other countries including Greece, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, just ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Speaking in her weekly podcast, Merkel said she was looking forward to a May 10 memorial in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "There's no drawing a line under the history," Merkel said, dismissing a yearning that many post-war generations of Germans harbour. "We can see that in the Greece debate and in other European countries.
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| Clashes erupt in U.S. West Coast cities during May Day marches | |  (Corrects Gray death to "last month" in penultimate paragraph, restores dropped word "men" in paragraph 2, capitalizes West Coast) SEATTLE/OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Crowds clashed with police during May Day marches in several U.S. West Coast cities late on Friday, as officers responded with stun grenades and pepper spray, police and media said. Anti-capitalist protesters hurled wrenches and rocks at officers in Seattle, police said. Demonstrators in Oakland, California, and several other cities, rallied against a series of police killings of unarmed black men, local media reported. Footage on social media showed protesters smashing shop windows in Seattle and crowds scattering as police in riot gear threw in "flashbang" grenades.
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