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| Publisher of slain blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh |
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| By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - A publisher of a slain online critic of religious militancy was hacked to death on Saturday in the Bangladesh capital, police said, hours after similar attacks on two secular writers and another publisher in the majority-Muslim country. Faysal Arefin published books by Avijit Roy, a U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi origin who was killed by Islamists militants in the same way in February. Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years, as the government has cracked down on Islamist groups seeking to turn the South Asian nation of 160 million people into a sharia-based state. |
| U.N. and ICRC chide states for "paralysis" in the face of conflict |
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| GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer made what they called an "unprecedented joint warning" on Saturday for states to stop conflicts, respect international law and aid refugees. "In the face of blatant inhumanity, the world has responded with disturbing paralysis," Ban said in a statement. "This flouts the very raison d'être of the United Nations." They also called for states to rein in armed groups and hold them accountable for abuses, and to stop the use of heavy weapons in populated areas. ... |
| 11 killed as Pakistanis vote in local government polls |
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 By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed when rival political parties fired on each other on Saturday as Pakistanis voted in local elections seen as a referendum on the national government halfway through its term. The violence occurred in the Khairpur district of the southern province of Sindh, which held the polls along with the central Punjab province. "Eleven people were killed when two groups opened fire," police deputy inspector general Kamran Fazal told Reuters.
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| Romanian nightclub fire kills 27, national mourning declared |
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 By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's government declared a three-day national mourning on Saturday, after an overnight fire in a Bucharest nightclub killed 27 people and injured 184 during a rock concert that featured fireworks used indoors. Officials and witnesses said fireworks were used inside the club, while Colectiv Club's Facebook page advertised pyrotechnic effects at the show. Deputy Interior Minister Raed Arafat said 17 of the 27 dead had yet to be identified and 146 people remained in hospital.
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| Russia opens criminal case after airliner crashes in Egypt - agencies |
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| Russia's top Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against airline Kogalymavia after one of its planes with 224 people aboard crashed in Egypt on Saturday, Russian news agencies said, quoting the committee's spokesman. The Airbus A-321 jet was flying from the Egyptian Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak. RIA news agency reported that the Investigative Committee's case had been brought under an article regulating "violation of rules of flights and preparations for them". |
| China sentences "cult" leader to life in prison amid crackdown - Xinhua |
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| China has sentenced the head of what it calls a cult to life in prison on charges including rape and fraud, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, continuing a crackdown on what it views as dangerous illegal movements. After a probe lasting more than a year, a court in the southern province of Guangdong on Friday sentenced Wu Zeheng, founder and leader of the Buddhist-inspired Huazang Dharma group, and fined him 7.15 million yuan ($1.13 million), Xinhua cited the court as saying. Wu intends to appeal, according to Xinhua. |
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