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| Colombia, ELN rebels to begin peace talks in Ecuador | |  CARACAS/BOGOTA (Reuters) - The Colombian government will begin formal peace talks with lefitst National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, moving the country a step closer to ending its five-decade-old conflict, the two sides said in joint statement on Wednesday. There is no start date yet for the Ecuador-based negotiations, which were announced by the leaders of the peace delegations in Caracas, Venezuela. Colombia and the ELN, the Andean nation's second-largest guerrilla group, have been in preliminary talks for over two years.
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| 'Blade Runner' Pistorius sentencing set for June 13-17 - report | |  Disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will face sentencing in June following his conviction for murdering his girlfriend, Sky News reported on Wednesday. Citing sources, Sky News said Pistorius will be sentenced between June 13 and 17. Pistorius, known as "Blade Runner" for the carbon fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence.
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| Kenya tables anti-doping bill but set to miss deadline | |  Kenya tabled a much-anticipated anti-doping bill in parliament on Wednesday but it will not be passed in time for the country to meet a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) deadline. The bill is a key requirement for the east African nation, famed for its distance runners but tarnished by some 40 doping cases in recent years, to be declared compliant with the WADA code ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics starting on Aug. 5. Kenya was given a deadline to enact the law or be declared non-compliant, which brings WADA sanctions, but the country's parliament goes into recess for 10 days on Thursday so the bill cannot become law before time runs out on April 5.
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| Cyprus remands suspected hijacker who wanted to see ex-wife | |  By Yiannis Kourtoglou LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) - An Egyptian man accused of hijacking a passenger plane and diverting it to Cyprus has told police he acted because he wanted to see his estranged wife and children, saying "what should one do?". 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. Egypt's public prosecutor has asked Cypriot authorities to hand over Mustafa, Egyptian state television reported, but a Cyprus police spokesman and a government official have said that any talk of extradition right now was premature.
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| Thousands attend funeral for controversial Toronto mayor Rob Ford | |  By Andrea Hopkins TORONTO (Reuters) - Thousands of people turned out on Wednesday for the funeral of former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose tumultuous four years as the leader of Canada's largest city included an admission that he smoked crack cocaine and a history of erratic behaviour. Supporters lined the streets of downtown Toronto to witness the funeral procession from city hall, where some 5,000 people had passed Ford's casket during a two-day public visitation, to the church where he was remembered for his populist appeal. Ford, who was married and the father of two young children, died March 22 at age 46.
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| Around 20 Islamic State recruiters arrested in Moscow - RIA | | | Around 20 Islamic State followers were arrested in Moscow trying to recruit new fighters for the group, Russia's RIA news agency cited a security source as saying on Wednesday. "During a joint operation of the FSB (Federal Security Service) and the police, around twenty people suspected of connections to ISIS (Islamic State) were arrested," RIA quoted the source as saying. "According to preliminary information, they were searching for and recruiting new members in Moscow," RIA said, citing the source. |
| France investigates man on suspicion of planning 'imminent' attack | | | PARIS (Reuters) - A French judge on Wednesday put under formal investigation a Frenchman arrested last week on suspicion of planning an imminent attack, Paris' prosecutor said. Francois Molins said that the large amount of weapons, including assault rifles and handguns as well as chemicals that could be used for a bomb, had been found at Reda Kriket's apartment. "Everything suggest that the discovery of this cache avoided a act of extreme violence by a terrorist network ready," Molins told a news conference, adding that Kriket was suspected of going to Syria end 2014. ... |
| Ex-security guard hits Elton John with sexual harassment lawsuit | |  Elton John's former personal security guard has sued the British singer for sexual harassment and battery in southern California, according to court documents. Unwelcome touching occurred on many occasions over several years since Jeffrey Wenninger began his employment as a personal security guard in 2002, and escalated in frequency and intensity after 2010, the lawsuit said. Representatives for the "Rocket Man" singer, 69, who is married to producer David Furnish, called the lawsuit "baseless." John's attorney Orin Snyder said the lawsuit was "brought by a disgruntled former security officer seeking to extract an undeserved payment.
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| Austria plans to further restrict number of asylum seekers | |  Austria plans to introduce measures as early as May to restrict even further the number of migrants it lets into the country, the interior and defence ministers said on Wednesday. Austria said in January it would limit the number of asylum claims it accepts this year to 37,500 - less than half of last year's 90,000. The country has mainly served as a conduit into Germany for refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa but has absorbed a similar number of asylum seekers relative to its much smaller population.
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| Corrected - Dutch minister misinforms parliament again about Belgium attack intelligence | |  (Corrects throughout to say security and justice minister, not interior minister) By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch security and justice 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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| Uncertainty in Turkey as migrant returns set to start under EU deal | |  By Tulay Karadeniz and Dasha Afanasieva ANKARA (Reuters) - Five days before Turkey is due to start taking back illegal migrants from Greece under a landmark deal with the European Union, uncertainty remains over how many will come, how they will be processed, and where they will be housed. Turkey agreed with the EU this month to take back all migrants and refugees who cross illegally to Greece in exchange for financial aid, faster visa-free travel for Turks and slightly accelerated EU membership talks. Rights groups and some European politicians have challenged the legality and feasibility of the deal, questioning whether Turkey has sufficient safeguards in place to defend refugees' rights and whether it can be considered a safe country for them.
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| U.N. expert decries Israeli soldier's killing of Palestinian attacker | |  A U.N. expert on human rights on Wednesday condemned the killing by an Israeli soldier of a wounded Palestinian assailant last week as he lay on the ground, saying it appeared to be an extrajudicial execution. Video taken by Israel's B'Tselem human rights group last Thursday shows an infantryman firing into the head of a Palestinian as he lay on the ground in Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Minutes earlier, the Palestinian had stabbed and wounded another soldier.
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| Rousseff calls impeachment effort "coup," vows to keep social programs | |  RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday called current efforts to impeach her in Congress a "coup" and said she would continue to fight for social programs despite an ongoing recession. Rousseff, announcing the third tranche of a government housing program, during a speech in Brasilia discredited efforts by opposition lawmakers to oust her because of irregularities in the government budget. (Reporting by Paulo Prada, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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| Shelter empties in southern Germany as migrant flow nearly halts | |  By Christine Soukenka FREILASSING, Germany (Reuters) - As migrant arrivals to Germany slow to a trickle, a registration centre on the border with Austria stands almost deserted, with rows of beds unused and rooms for fingerprinting refugee arrivals empty. At the shelter in Freilassing, which registered up to 2,000 people a day at peak times last September, barely a handful of migrants arrived on Wednesday night. "(After last summer's peak), we had around 1,200 refugees per day and this went on until the beginning of February, when the Balkan route was closed," said Josef Flatscher, the mayor of Freilassing, a town across the border from Austria's Salzburg.
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| Trump, Kasich ditch Republican Party loyalty pledge, Cruz backs away | |  By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and his two rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, backed away from their pledges to support the eventual nominee, potentially setting the stage for a deeply divided party and a chaotic convention in July. Trump on Wednesday stuck by his decision to abandon the pledge, saying the Republican Party had not treated him fairly. The billionaire businessman also said that if he becomes the party's nominee for the Nov. 8 general election, he did not care if Cruz supported him.
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| Police will not be charged in Minneapolis death of black man | |  By Todd Melby MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Two Minneapolis police officers involved in the shooting death of a 24-year-old black man will not be charged, prosecutors said on Wednesday, because evidence showed Jamar Clark was not handcuffed and that he reached for an officer's gun. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman told a news conference that Clark struggled with Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze and at one point had his hand on a gun. Freeman said the officers said that without the use of deadly force Clark would have taken possession of the gun.
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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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