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| Missing children in Tamil Nadu raise trafficking fears | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At least two children go missing every day in Tamil Nadu, raising concerns they may be trafficked into prostitution, handed over to criminal gangs or sold for illegal adoption, the national human rights commission said. Alarmed by the disappearance of 271 children in Tamil Nadu in the first three months of 2016, the commission asked state authorities this week to account for the situation. "The mafia that controls begging and even those involved in child prostitution and adoption rackets could be behind these disappearances," the commission said in a statement. |
| South African opposition vows action to remove Zuma | |  By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's main opposition party said on Friday it would take all steps necessary to remove President Jacob Zuma from his post, a day after the country's top court ruled he had flouted the Constitution over renovations to his private home. Leaders of the ruling African National Congress party were due to meet to formulate a response to the Constitutional Court ruling, which held that Zuma had failed to uphold the law by ignoring instructions to pay back some of the $16 million in state money spent on the renovations. The opposition has launched impeachment proceedings against the president, but these are unlikely to be successful because of the ANC's strong majority in parliament.
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| France asks for U.N. Burundi vote, U.S. support unclear - diplomats | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council could vote as early as Friday on a French-drafted resolution that would request options for a U.N. police deployment to Burundi, diplomats said, but it was not clear if it had the support of the United States. Council diplomats said on condition of anonymity that the United States, which has veto power as a permanent member of the council, was unhappy with vague language that asks the U.N. to work with the government of Burundi in the areas of disarmament, security and rule of law. The United States is concerned about linking the United Nations efforts to broker peace in Burundi with the country's security forces, who have been accused of human rights abuses, one council diplomat said.
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| Smugglers use Facebook to advertise boat trips to Italy after EU-Turkey deal - Guardian | | | By Tom Esslemont LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Smugglers based in Turkey are offering to take migrants to Italy instead of Greece where they are likely to be deported under a deal between the Ankara government and European Union, according to a newspaper report. The Guardian said on Thursday that smugglers had used Facebook to advertise a boat trip to Italy from the Turkish port of Mersin - at a cost of $4,000 per person, four times the price of a journey from Turkey to Greece. "The trip is on Saturday, from Mersin to Italy, on a merchant ship 110 metres long, equipped with food, water, life jackets and medicine," the Guardian quoted the post as saying. |
| Pakistan asks Iran to investigate suspected Indian spy's Iran links | | | Pakistan has asked Iran to investigate the case of a suspected Indian spy who Pakistani authorities say has confessed to spying against Pakistan from Iran, according to a copy of an Interior Ministry letter to Iran obtained by Reuters on Friday. Last month, Pakistan said it had detained the suspected spy, Kulbhushan Jadhav, in the violence-plagued province of Baluchistan after he had illegally entered the country from Iran. |
| Myanmar's ruling party, military clash over Suu Kyi role | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Timothy Mclaughlin NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's upper house of parliament approved a bill on Friday that gives Aung San Suu Kyi a powerful government role, despite opposition from the military on the second day of her party's new administration. The bill creates the post of state counsellor and would allow the Nobel laureate to coordinate ministers and influence the executive. It would help Suu Kyi circumvent a constitution written under the former junta that prevents her leading the country because her two sons are not Myanmar citizens.
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| Protests as espionage trial of prominent Turkish journalists resumes | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of people including opposition politicians protested outside the trial of two prominent Turkish journalists facing life in prison on espionage charges on Friday, hours after President Tayyip Erdogan denied curbing press freedoms. Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul are accused of trying to topple the government with the publication last May of a video purporting to show Turkey's state intelligence agency helping to ferry weapons into Syria by truck in 2014.
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