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| Protesters hurl rocks at police after teenager shot in Salt Lake City | | Monday, February 29, 2016 3:00 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - Protesters threw rocks at police in Salt Lake City after officers shot a black teenager who was attacking a man late on Saturday, authorities said. Relatives of the teenager identified him as Abdi Mohamed, 17, and told the local Fox 13 television news channel he was in a coma at a hospital after being shot three times. The Salt Lake City Police Department said he was shot after officers in the downtown Rio Grande area saw two people attacking a male victim with metal objects and ordered the pair to drop their weapons. |
| Pakistan hangs man who killed governor over call to reform blasphemy law | | Monday, February 29, 2016 2:59 AM | |
|  Pakistan on Monday executed a man who killed the governor of Punjab province over his call to reform the country's strict blasphemy laws that carry a death sentence for insulting Islam, police said. Mumtaz Qadri, a bodyguard of Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab province, shot him dead in the capital, Islamabad, in 2011. "Qadri was hanged at around 4:30 a.m.," senior police officer Rizwan Omar Gondal told Reuters by telephone.
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| U.N. plans aid for 154,000 besieged Syrians in next 5 days | | Monday, February 29, 2016 2:56 AM | |
|  The United Nations and partner aid organisations plan to deliver life-saving aid to 154,000 Syrians in besieged areas in the next five days, the U.N. Resident Coordinator in Damascus Yacoub El Hillo said in a statement on Sunday. Pending approval from parties to the conflict, the U.N. is ready to deliver aid to about 1.7 million people in hard-to-reach areas in the first quarter of 2016, he said. The U.N. estimates there are almost 500,000 people living under siege, out of a total 4.6 million who are hard to reach with aid, but it hopes that a cessation of hostilities that began on Friday night will bring an end to the 15 sieges.
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| Top Vatican Cardinal says Church made enormous mistakes over sex abuse | | Monday, February 29, 2016 2:44 AM | |
|  By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Cardinal George Pell said on Sunday the Catholic Church made "enormous mistakes" and dismissed cases of sexual abuse of children in "scandalous circumstances", as he became the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on Church abuse. Giving evidence in front of abuse victims in a Rome hotel room, Pell told Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse that children were often not believed and abusive priests shuffled from parish to parish. "The Church has made enormous mistakes and is working to remedy those, but the Church in many places, certainly in Australia, has mucked things up, has let people down," Pell said via video link to the commission in Sydney.
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| Syria rebels say attacks by army and Russian planes threaten truce | | Monday, February 29, 2016 2:41 AM | |
|  By Mariam Karouny and Tom Miles BEIRUT/ GENEVA (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition warned on Sunday that attacks by the army, backed by Russian warplanes, threatened a U.S.-Russian deal for a cessation of hostilities with collapse and endangered future peace talks. "We are awaiting the response of states to these violations, the situation is in the balance now and self restraint will not last long," colonel Fares al Bayoush told Reuters.
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| Twin suicide bombing kills 70 in Baghdad's deadliest attack this year | | Monday, February 29, 2016 2:38 AM | |
|  By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A twin suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 70 people in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Sunday in the deadliest attack inside the capital this year, as militants launched an assault on its western outskirts. Police sources said the suicide bombers were riding motorcycles and blew themselves up in a crowded mobile phone market in Sadr City, wounding more than 100 people in addition to the dead. In a statement circulated online, Islamic State said it was responsible for the blasts: "Our swords will not cease to cut off the heads of the rejectionist polytheists, wherever they are," it said, using derogatory terms for Shi'ite Muslims.
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| Protesters hurl rocks at police after Salt Lake City, Utah shooting | | | Police in Salt Lake City, Utah, faced rock-throwing protesters after officers shot a young man who was involved in a fight with another man late on Saturday, the city's police department and local media said. The Salt Lake City's police department said on Twitter that officers on an unrelated call in the downtown Rio Grande area were "alerted to assault in progress, (and) tried to engage altercation." It said the investigation continues. The shooting comes as police departments nationwide are under increased scrutiny over allegations of excessive force. |
| Militants launch largest attacks in months on Baghdad outskirts | |  By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants attacked Iraqi security forces on the western outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday in their largest assault near the capital for months, while two suicide blasts in a mainly Shi'ite district killed 31 people. Suicide bombers and gunmen in vehicles and on foot launched the attack on Abu Ghraib at dawn, seizing positions in a grain silo and a cemetery, and killing at least 17 members of the security forces, officials said. Fighting was still raging at the silo site on Sunday evening, security officials said.
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| Syria's truce largely holding for second day | |  By Mariam Karouny and Tom Miles BEIRUT/ GENEVA (Reuters) - Fighting in Syria appeared to have mostly stopped on Sunday, the second day of a U.S.-Russian deal on a cessation of hostilities which seemed to be holding despite accusations of violations and air strikes in Aleppo province. The agreement is the first of its kind to be attempted in four years and, if it holds, would be the most successful truce of the war. Under the accord accepted by President Bashar al-Assad's government and many of his foes, fighting should cease so aid can reach civilians and talks can open to end a war that has killed more than 250,000 people and made 11 million homeless.
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| Pragmatic Rouhani hails poll wins, ally salutes will of people | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and reformist partners won a big vote of confidence in elections that could speed up Iran's emergence from isolation, and a key ally told long dominant hardliners to accept that voters wanted them to step aside. The polls for parliament and a leadership body were seen by analysts as a potential turning point for Iran, where nearly 60 percent of its 80 million population is under 30 and eager to engage with the world following the lifting of most sanctions. While advances by moderates and independents in Friday's polls were most evident in the capital, the scale of the gains in Tehran suggests a legislature more friendly to the pragmatist Rouhani is distinctly possible.
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