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- Bangladesh police arrest people smugglers, shoot four, amid crisis
- Nineteen kidnapped Afghans released, 12 more could be freed soon - officials
- UK's Cameron: Vote win gives me mandate for "tough" EU renegotiation
- Thailand downplays probe into police links to human trafficking
- Heavy bombing on Yemen border area by Saudi forces and Houthis
- Sweden's Supreme Court upholds Assange detention order
- Court acquits Jayalalithaa in graft case
- Prince takes the stage for 'Rally 4 Peace' show in Baltimore
- Exclusive: Widow of slain U.S.-Bangladeshi blogger lashes out at Dhaka
- Violence, hostility slow Europe's progress on LGBTI equality - rights group
- Central African Republic militias agree to disarmament deal
- Man, woman charged with murdering two policemen in Mississippi
- Human rights group voices concern over Saudi treatment of migrant workers
- Lebanon's Hezbollah says it killed 20 Syrian al Qaeda militants
- Deadly gun battle deepens Macedonian crisis; 22 killed
- Swiss gunman killed 5, shooting was family matter, say police
- Cameron restores outspoken ally Gove to cabinet front line
- China detains 11 for smashing halal food shop
- 'Winner takes all' vote system exaggerates Britain's divisions
- Fifty inmates and 12 police killed in Iraq prison break - officials
- Two police officers shot, killed in Mississippi
- Egyptian court sentences Mubarak and sons to three years in jail for corruption
- Gunfire, explosions in Macedonia as police battle "armed group"
- Exclusive - Why a U.S. company's chairman threw support behind Prophet Mohammad cartoon event
- Egypt court sentences Mubarak, sons to three years in jail
- Ten Iraqi policemen, eight prisoners killed in jail break north of Baghdad
| Bangladesh police arrest people smugglers, shoot four, amid crisis | | | Bangladeshi police arrested three human traffickers on Monday after killing four in recent days and arresting more than 100 in recent months as the poverty-stricken country cracks down on people smuggling amid an Asia-wide crisis, an officer said. There has been a huge increase in refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar drifting on boats to Malaysia and Indonesia in recent days after Thailand, usually the initial destination in the people smuggling network, announced its own crackdown on trafficking. "We have produced them before the court while another fled during the drive," Mohammad Ataur Rahman Khandaker, a senior police officer in Teknaf, told Reuters. An estimated 25,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar 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 has said. |
| Nineteen kidnapped Afghans released, 12 more could be freed soon - officials | | | By Mustafa Andalib GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nineteen Afghan men from among 31 kidnapped by gunmen from a bus in February were freed on Monday by their captors, and the rest could be released soon, officials said. The men are Hazaras, members of a largely Shi'ite ethnic minority persecuted under the Taliban movement's Sunni Islamist rule, although sectarian violence has been rare since the Taliban was ousted by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. The kidnapping increased anxiety among Hazaras, who fear becoming targets in a new, sectarian phase of Afghanistan's long war with Taliban insurgents and other Islamist militants. |
| UK's Cameron: Vote win gives me mandate for "tough" EU renegotiation | |  British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that renegotiating Britain's relationship with the European Union would be tough but that his decisive election victory last week had given him a mandate. "We have got a mandate, it will be tough obviously but we have got a mandate," Cameron told reporters before addressing a meeting of his lawmakers in parliament to loud applause and cheers, the first such meeting since his election victory. Cameron, who won a surprise outright majority last week, has promised to renegotiate Britain's EU ties before holding an in-out EU membership referendum by the end of 2017. The issue of Europe is one that has split his party before and led to the downfall of two of his predecessors, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Cameron is keen to ensure that some of his most Eurosceptic lawmakers do not rebel.
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| Thailand downplays probe into police links to human trafficking | | | Thai police have downplayed a probe into more than 50 officers transferred over suspected links to human trafficking networks, saying the transfers were "standard operating procedure" and that most of the officers were suspected only of negligence. Southeast Asia is being hit by a wave of migrants arriving in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, part of a regional human trafficking crisis driven by conflict, persecution and poverty. Police Lieutenant General Prawut Thawornsiri, spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, said on Monday the transfers of the policemen were part of normal procedure and that most did not have direct links to human traffickers. Rather, they had been negligent in the detection of human trafficking camps and gangs in southern Thailand. |
| Heavy bombing on Yemen border area by Saudi forces and Houthis | | | Yemen's Houthi militia and Saudi forces traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in border areas on Monday, residents said, a day before a five-day humanitarian truce was due to take effect. The Houthis said they fired Katyusha rockets and mortars on the Saudi cities of Jizan and Najran on Monday, after the Saudis hit Saada and Hajjah provinces with more than 150 rockets. More than six weeks of air strikes by Sunni Muslim Gulf monarchies' jets have failed to push back the Shi'ite Houthis and militia and army units loyal to the Houthis' ally, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The rebels, whose ties to regional rival Iran has rattled the Gulf Arabs, remain the dominant political force in the impoverished Arab country that borders Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter. |
| Sweden's Supreme Court upholds Assange detention order | |  Sweden's Supreme Court said on Monday it rejected an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to revoke a detention order over allegations of sexual assault. The 43-year-old Australian has been stuck inside Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012 to avoid a British extradition to Sweden, which wants to question him on allegations of sexual assault. The detention order was issued by prosecutors in 2010.
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| Court acquits Jayalalithaa in graft case | |  The Karnataka High Court on Monday overturned the graft conviction of powerful politician and former movie star Jayalalithaa Jayaram, setting the stage for her return to power in Tamil Nadu. "We welcome our leader back," said party spokesman Rabi Bernard. Soon she will be our chief minister." Jayalalithaa, a former chief minister of Tamil Nadu and chief of her AIADMK party, was jailed last year for holding 530 million rupees ($8.7 million) in unaccounted cash and property. With her conviction set aside, Jayalalithaa can run for election when the state picks a new legislature next year.
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| Prince takes the stage for 'Rally 4 Peace' show in Baltimore | | | By Lacey Johnson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Reclusive rocker Prince took the stage on Sunday in a "Rally 4 Peace" concert in response to the death of a 25-year-old man, whose death from injuries suffered while in police custody triggered riots, telling the crowd: "We are here for you." The Grammy-winning musician, appearing at Royal Farms Arena along with his backing band 3RDEYEGIRL, performed such hits as "When Doves Cry" and "Raspberry Beret", as well as a new song called "Baltimore," which he dedicated to the city. We're going to figure this thing out," Prince said while performing "Purple Rain." "It's going to take the young people to fix it this time. Fan Jamal Terrell, 41, said: "I think he showed why he's still extremely important. Surprise guests were promised, and delivered, including Doug E. Fresh and Miguel. |
| Exclusive: Widow of slain U.S.-Bangladeshi blogger lashes out at Dhaka | |  The maimed woman, Rafida Ahmed, scanned the room nervously. The Atlanta financial executive has been hiding since Islamic militants wielding machetes attacked her on Feb. 26 in her native Bangladesh. During the assault, her husband - the Bangladeshi-American secular activist and blogger Avijit Roy - was hacked to death. On May 3, the Indian-born head of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent claimed responsibility for a string attacks in Bangladesh and Pakistan, including Roy's. The murder of Roy, an atheist who published a popular and provocative blog, marks an escalation by Islamist militants for control of Bangladesh.
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| Violence, hostility slow Europe's progress on LGBTI equality - rights group | |  By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia are the worst countries in Europe for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights, but violence against LGBTI people remains rife across the continent, a rights group said late on Sunday. Some countries have made historic strides towards giving LGBTI people legal equality, but progress has been marred by rollbacks in eastern Europe, where LGBTI rights are increasingly condemned as contrary to traditional family values, ILGA-Europe said. The group's annual Rainbow Map was launched on Sunday to mark the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on May 17, as an index that ranks European countries based on legal benchmarks for LGBTI equality.
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| Central African Republic militias agree to disarmament deal | | | By Sebastien Lamba BANGUI (Reuters) - Rival armed groups in Central African Republic agreed on Sunday to a peace accord requiring them to disarm and potentially face justice for war crimes committed during two years of conflict. The agreement signed between 10 armed groups and the Defence Ministry during a peace forum in the capital, Bangui, aims to draw a line under a conflict that has killed thousands and displaced nearly a million people in the impoverished former French colony. "On the path towards peace, the step made today is a very important one," said Babacar Gaye, the top U.N. official in the country. "The fighters of all the armed groups accept and commit to putting a definitive end to the armed conflicts in Central African Republic," the agreement said. |
| Man, woman charged with murdering two policemen in Mississippi | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 6:28 PM | |
| | By Therese Apel JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) - A man and woman in Mississippi were arrested and charged with murder on Sunday after two police officers were shot dead a day earlier while conducting a routine traffic stop in Hattiesburg, officials said. Marvin Banks, 29, and Joanie Calloway, 22, were each charged with two counts of capital murder, police said. Banks' brother Curtis, 26, was also arrested and charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of capital murder. Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree said members of the public quickly helped bring to justice those behind the first killing of a police officer in the city for more than 30 years. |
| Human rights group voices concern over Saudi treatment of migrant workers | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 5:21 PM | |
| | By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Human rights campaigners voiced concerns on Sunday that undocumented migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are being detained in squalid conditions, beaten and deported to countries where their lives could be at risk in a crackdown on foreign workers. Saudi authorities began a nationwide campaign in 2013 to deport foreigners working illegally or outside of sponsorship rules as part of labour market reforms aimed at reducing unemployment among its own citizens. The move also came as Britain and the United States raised alleged cases of forced labour among some nine million migrant workers - of which two million are estimated to be undocumented - in the conservative Muslim state of 28 million people. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its report that dozens of workers who were deported to Somalia and Yemen reported receiving little food or water, no medical care and being regularly beaten while detained. |
| Lebanon's Hezbollah says it killed 20 Syrian al Qaeda militants | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 4:36 PM | |
| | BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - The Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah said on Sunday it had killed over 20 fighters from Syria's al Qaeda wing and destroyed several hideouts and training camps the fighters had set up to launch attacks in Lebanon across the rugged border with Syria. Hezbollah's television station, Manar, said the Syrian army and the resistance, a reference to Hezbollah, had made "important progress" in their latest assault against Syrian militants opposed to Syrian President Bashar al Assad's rule. Hezbollah's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, vowed on Tuesday that his forces and their Syrian allies would clear the rebels out of the region, which insurgents use as a supply route for arms and fighters. |
| Deadly gun battle deepens Macedonian crisis; 22 killed | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 4:09 PM | |
|  By Matt Robinson and Fatos Bytyci KUMANOVO, Macedonia (Reuters) - Macedonia said on Sunday its police had wiped out a group of ethnic Albanian veterans of insurgencies in ex-Yugoslavia in a day-long gun battle that left at least 22 dead and deepened fears of instability following months of political crisis. The government said eight police and 14 members of an "armed group" were killed after police staged a raid in an ethnic Albanian area before dawn on Saturday seeking gunmen from outside Macedonia it said were planning to attack civilian and state targets. It said 37 officers were wounded in the fighting, which recalled clashes in 2001 between government forces of the Macedonian Slav majority and guerrillas from the ethnic Albanian minority. "The terrorist group is completely neutralised and eliminated," Interior Ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski told a news conference.
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| Swiss gunman killed 5, shooting was family matter, say police | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 1:19 PM | |
| | AARAU, Switzerland (Reuters) - Five people were killed in a shooting late on Saturday in Switzerland including the gunman, who knew his victims and was related to some of them, police told a news conference on Sunday. The shooting took place in Wuerenlingen, a community of some 4,500 people north-west of Zurich. (Reporting by Joshua Franklin; Writing by John Stonestreet) |
| Cameron restores outspoken ally Gove to cabinet front line | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 10:26 AM | |
|  Newly re-elected British Prime Minister David Cameron restored one of his most outspoken and combative allies to a leading cabinet role by naming Michael Gove as justice secretary on Sunday. Gove was last year shunted into the role of chief whip, responsible for keeping party members in line, in what was seen as a demotion from his previous role as education secretary. Cameron's Downing Street office confirmed Gove's appointment and also said Chris Grayling, the previous justice secretary, would now be leader of the House of Commons, a cabinet job that involves supervising the government's legislative agenda.
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| China detains 11 for smashing halal food shop | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 10:17 AM | |
|  Police in western China detained 11 people after a crowd of angry customers in early May smashed a halal shop suspected of mishandling food prepared according to Islamic custom, state media said. A group of "law-breakers" in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, broke into a store on May 1 and vandalised it after discovering that non-halal foods had been transported along with halal products, a violation of regulations. An investigation by authorities revealed that suspicions that sausages had been sold at the store were not true, state-run Xining Television reported on Friday. The owner made "sincere apologies" to the store's Muslim customers, the report said, adding that it was ordered to stop selling, transporting and producing halal products and received a fine.
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| 'Winner takes all' vote system exaggerates Britain's divisions | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 9:41 AM | |
|  By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron can thank Britain's winner-takes-all voting system for handing him an outright majority in parliament on just 37 percent of the vote. By Sunday morning, 100,000 people had signed a petition launched by the society and another campaign group, Unlock Democracy, that states: "The 2015 general election has shown once and for all that our voting system is broken beyond repair." It urges politicians of all parties to embrace reform.
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| Fifty inmates and 12 police killed in Iraq prison break - officials | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 6:15 AM | |
| | Fifty inmates and 12 police died in a prison escape organised by Islamic State, Iraqi officials said on Saturday, while supporters of the group acknowledged it staged the breakout but gave different details. After a riot erupted, dozens of prisoners escaped from the Al-Khalis facility about 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, security and police officials said. Militants of Islamic State, the group sometimes known as ISIS which has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria, broke in with the help of explosives to free 30 inmates and get into the jail's weapons stores, said Amaq News Agency, which supports the group. |
| Two police officers shot, killed in Mississippi | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 5:59 AM | |
| | Two police officers conducting a traffic stop were shot and killed on Saturday in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and at least one suspect fled in a police vehicle which was later found abandoned, authorities said. "The person or persons who did this are not safe in the city of Hattiesburg," Mayor Johnny DuPree told a news conference at the hospital. The officers' identities were not initially released. It was the city's first killing of a police officer since 1984, officials said. |
| Egyptian court sentences Mubarak and sons to three years in jail for corruption | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 3:44 AM | |
|  By Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in jail without parole on Saturday in the retrial of a corruption case, although the trio is unlikely to go to jail again. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist for 30 years, and his sons Gamal and Alaa already spent at least three years each in prison for other cases, so will probably not have to serve out the sentence. The retrial was of a case in which Mubarak was sentenced to three years in prison in May last year on charges of diverting public funds and using the money to upgrade family properties. "The ruling of the court is three years in prison without parole for Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and Gamal Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and Alaa Mohamed Hosni Mubarak," Judge Hassan Hassanein announced on Saturday.
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| Gunfire, explosions in Macedonia as police battle "armed group" | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 3:39 AM | |
|  By Ognen Teofilovski KUMANOVO, Macedonia (Reuters) - Five police officers died and dozens were wounded in a daylong gun battle in an ethnic Albanian suburb of northern Macedonia on Saturday, adding the threat of armed conflict to a deep political crisis rocking the ex-Yugoslav republic. Police said that acting on information about an "armed group" they had launched an operation in an ethnic Albanian district of the northern town of Kumanovo 40 km (25 miles) north of the capital Skopje. The region saw heavy fighting during an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001. The events will deepen concern in the West over stability in Macedonia, where the government is on the ropes over allegations by the main opposition, the Social Democrats, of illegal wire-tapping and widespread abuse of office.
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| Exclusive - Why a U.S. company's chairman threw support behind Prophet Mohammad cartoon event | | Sunday, May 10, 2015 2:25 AM | |
|  By Tim McLaughlin and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Shillman heads a publicly traded American technology company called Cognex Corp with a market value of $4 billion. He also says he is a big supporter of last Sunday's Prophet Mohammad cartoon contest in Texas that was attacked by two gunmen who opened fire before being shot dead by police. Shillman said he remains a director of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, whose Jihad Watch website helped organize the cartoon event in a Dallas suburb with activist Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks what it describes as extremist groups, has called the Freedom Center's founder, the right-wing commentator David Horowitz, "the godfather of the anti-Muslim Movement." The Freedom Center says it "combats the efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies to destroy American values." The SPLC also calls Geller's AFDI a hate group because of the way it talks about and depicts Muslims.
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| Egypt court sentences Mubarak, sons to three years in jail | | Saturday, May 09, 2015 10:54 AM | |
|  An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in jail without parole on Saturday in the retrial of a corruption case. Mubarak was sentenced to three years in prison last May for diverting public funds earmarked to renovate presidential palaces and using the money to upgrade family properties. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist for 30 years, and his sons Gamal and Alaa may not have to serve any jail time for those corruption charges because they already spent that amount of time in prison in other cases. "The ruling of the court is three years in prison without parole for Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and Gamal Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and Alaa Mohamed Hosni Mubarak," announced judge Hassan Hassanein.
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| Ten Iraqi policemen, eight prisoners killed in jail break north of Baghdad | | Saturday, May 09, 2015 7:49 AM | |
| | Ten Iraqi policemen and eight prisoners were killed late on Friday as dozens of inmates escaped from a prison holding 300 people charged with acts of terrorism, a security official and a police source said on Saturday. It was not clear if any high-profile prisoners were held in the prison or if any had escaped from the facility in Al-Khalis, about 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Diyala Province's security committee leader, Seyyid Sadiq al-Husseini, said. |
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