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| Maldives police arrest opposition leaders after clashes | | | Maldives police arrested 193 people including three opposition leaders after clashes broke out on Friday during protests over the detention of a former president. Police said the opposition leaders had incited violence and urged confrontation with the police when addressing the crowds and that Sheikh Imram Abdulla 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. |
| 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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| 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 officers were criminally charged over the arrest of a 25-year-old black man whose death led to rioting earlier in the week. Demonstrations are expected to continue around the United States through the weekend, with a massive rally planned for Baltimore city hall with marchers leaving from the Gilmor Homes housing projects where the victim, Freddie Gray, was arrested. Many in the largely black city erupted with joy on Friday after the officers were charged with crimes ranging from murder to assault and misconduct in Gray's death on April 19 from severe spinal injuries while in police custody. Baltimore has largely followed the 10 p.m. curfew put in place after unrest that broke out after Gray's funeral.
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| More bodies exhumed at mass grave in suspected Thai trafficking camp | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre PEDANG BESAR, Thailand (Reuters) - Dozens of police and volunteers exhumed six more bodies on Saturday in the second day of digging out a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp on a hillside deep in a southern Thai jungle. The digging site, in Sadao district in Songkhla province, on Friday yielded four bodies believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh. Police General Aek Angsananont, deputy commissioner-general of the Royal Thai Police, told reporters authorities had known about the camp's existence for a while. He said police believed the deaths were due to "a disagreement within the human trafficking trade." 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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