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| Colombia, leftist ELN rebels to begin formal peace talks - source | |  Colombia will announce formal peace talks with its second-largest leftist rebel group, a government source told Reuters on Wednesday, moving the nation a step closer to ending the five-decade conflict. The government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) have been in preliminary talks for over two years. The group recently freed two hostages, which President Juan Manuel Santos had demanded ahead of the start of formal talks.
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| CORRECTED: "Tell the truth", Auschwitz survivor urges accused in Nazi trials | |  (Corrects penultimate paragraph to say Schwarzbaum's parents arrived in Auschwitz in 1943, not 1942) BERLIN (Reuters) - A Holocaust survivor said on Tuesday that four suspects accused by German prosecutors of being accessory to murder at Auschwitz must have known of the mass killings taking place at the camp because of the "unbearable stench" of burning bodies. Germany is holding what are likely to be its last trials linked to the Holocaust, in which more than six million people, mostly Jews, were killed by the Nazis. Three men and one woman in their 90s are accused of being an accessory to the murder of hundreds of thousands of people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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| Modi at EU summit wants to defuse row over Italian marine | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - India blamed Italy for delaying the repatriation of an Italian marine who has been detained in Delhi for four years as Prime Minister Narenda Modi arrived at a summit with the EU in Brussels hoping to defuse the long-running row. In 2012, India arrested two Italian marines who were escorting an oil tanker on suspicion of shooting dead two fishermen they mistook for pirates. Massimiliano Latorre was allowed to return home last year for medical treatment.
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| Tears flow as Myanmar swears in first president with no army ties in more than 50 years | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Aung Hla Tun NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) - Members of Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears on Wednesday as Myanmar swore in its first president with no military ties in more than half a century. Htin Kyaw, a close friend and confidant of the Nobel peace prize laureate, was hand-picked by her to run Myanmar's government because a constitution drafted by the former junta bars the democracy champion from the top office. In a short address to the chamber, Htin Kyaw reiterated Suu Kyi's stance on the importance of changing the 2008 charter, which entrenches the military's powerful position in politics, and called for national reconciliation.
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| Danish PM calls for action against hate speech | |  By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen proposed on Wednesday a plan to curb hate speech from radical imams after a meeting with political party leaders. The proposal followed a documentary series aired by news station TV2 revealing how imams in eight mosques in Denmark advocated illegal practices such as stoning, corporal punishment and bigamy, to Muslim women and children. Rasmussen proposed the creation of a list of registered "hate preachers" in order to prevent them from speaking publicly in Denmark. ...
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| Bangladesh issues arrest warrant for Khaleda Zia | |  A Bangladesh court issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia over a deadly firebombing attack last year, a prosecutor said. "The court passed the order after accepting the charges against them," public prosecutor Shah Alam Talukdar said. Bangladeshi politics has been mired for years in rivalry between Hasina and Khaleda.
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| Turkish police detain 16 suspected Nusra Front members - news agency | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 16 people in the southeastern province of Adiyaman on Wednesday on suspicion of belonging to the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Counter-terrorism police carried out simultaneous raids on 20 locations including in Adiyaman town centre and the Celikhan district, the agency said. Turkey designates Nusra, which is one of the main parties fighting in the Syrian civil war, as a terrorist organisation. ... |
| Egypt asks Cyprus to extradite EgyptAir hijacker - state TV | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor has asked Cypriot authorities to hand over an Egyptian man accused of hijacking a passenger plane and diverting it to Cyprus, Egyptian state television reported on Wednesday. The suspect, whom Cypriot and Egyptian authorities have identified as Seif Eldin Mustafa, 59, surrendered on Tuesday after commandeering a domestic Alexandria-Cairo flight with 72 passengers and crew on board. All hostages were released unharmed. ...
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| Dutch minister misinforms parliament again about Belgium attack intelligence | |  By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch interior minister said on Wednesday he had made another factual error in a letter informing parliament that U.S. intelligence warned the authorities about two Belgian brothers a week before the pair carried out the Brussels attacks. A series of blunders by Belgium's security and intelligence agencies have come to light since the attacks that killed 32 and wounded hundreds last week. It has also exposed weaknesses in communication between intelligence agencies across Europe.
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