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| Kolkata court sentences three to death for student rape, murder | | | By Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A court in Kolkata sentenced three men to the death penalty for raping and killing a 20-year-old woman in a case that sparked massive protests against the state government of West Bengal and led to calls for greater safety for women. "We are happy with the verdict and sentencing," said the brother of the victim after the sentencing was announced by judge Sanchita Sarkar of the Bankshall Court in Kolkata on Saturday. Public prosecutor Anindya Rout said: "The is a rarest of rare case owing to the brutality inflicted on the victim. |
| Trump, Cruz jockey for U.S. conservative vote in Iowa crunch time | |  Trump, the billionaire New York real estate developer who has previously said same-sex marriage was the law of the land, told Fox News that if elected, he would seek to appoint judges who could overturn the ruling. Trump has maintained a narrow lead over Cruz, the Texas senator, ahead of the caucuses in the mid-western state, the first real test for candidates in a year in which outsiders have upended establishment politics.
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| Israel approves mixed-sex Jewish prayer site at Western Wall | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli government approved on Sunday the creation of a mixed-sex plaza at Jerusalem's Western Wall to accommodate Jews who contest Orthodox curbs on worship by women there. Most religious rites take place in the men's section in accordance with centuries-old Orthodox standards that hold sway in Israel. More liberal streams of Judaism, which outside of Israel have larger followings than Orthodoxy, chafe at the restriction.
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| Syrian opposition delegates could quit peace talks - senior official | |  The Syrian opposition delegation in Geneva for peace talks could walk out of the process if President Bashar al-Assad's forces and allies continue to escalate a bombing campaign in rebel-held areas and hamper delivery of humanitarian aid, a senior negotiator said on Sunday. Hijab was not among the group that arrived in Geneva and his comments came after a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Riyadh, where Hijab was quoted as expressing his concern about the intensifying aerial bombing on Syrian cities and refugee camps.
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| Syrian government says considering humanitarian moves | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of Syria's delegation at peace talks in Geneva branded the opposition as terrorists backed by foreign powers on Sunday, but said his government was considering humanitarian moves as demanded by the opposition delegation. "We don't deal with terrorists," Bashar al-Jaafari told reporters in Geneva. "There are foreign powers endorsing foreign agendas, aiming at making political pressure on the Syrian government by using terrorism as a political weapon. ...
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| Odds are against dismissal of Cosby's sex assault case - experts | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Cosby's lawyers may face difficulty in convincing a Pennsylvania judge this week to throw out sexual assault charges in light of what the disgraced comedian's defense team characterizes as a decade-old non-prosecution deal, legal experts said. Cosby is due back in court in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, after the 78-year-old entertainer was charged last month with sex assault in 2004. The alleged victim says Cosby had plied with alcohol and drugs.
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| Tanzania launches manhunt after poachers kill British helicopter pilot | | | Tanzanian authorities have launched a manhunt after poachers shot down a helicopter and its British pilot during an operation to track down elephant killers, officials said on Sunday.British pilot Roger Gower was tracking poachers on Friday in the Maswa Game Reserve when his helicopter was hit by an AK-47 rifle fired from the ground, Tanzania's tourism and natural resources minister, Jumanne Maghembe, said. The mission had been a collaboration between the Friedkin Conservation Fund and the Tanzanian government, which has struggled to respond to what conservation groups say has been an explosion of "industrial-scale" poaching in recent years. "The government has launched a manhunt to find those responsible for this attack," Maghembe told reporters. |
| Twelve people dead after fire at a sewing room in Moscow | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twelve people were found dead after a fire in a sewing room in Moscow, Russia's Investigative Committee said on Sunday. The committee, which has opened a criminal case over the fire, said the blaze broke out late on Saturday. It was investigating possible causes, including a technical problem or deliberate arson. Interfax news agency said that according to preliminary information, among the 12 people dead was a small child. The rest were workers from Central Asia. (Reporting by Katya Golubkova; Editing by Angus MacSwan) |
| Attacks on Iraq's Sunnis could constitute war crimes - rights group | | | The abduction and killing of scores of Sunni civilians in eastern Iraq this month and attacks on their property by Iranian-backed Shi'ite militiamen could constitute a war crime, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday. Shi'ite militiamen deployed this month in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, after two blasts killed 23 people near a coffee shop where they often meet. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks which it said had targeted Shi'ites. |
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