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| Special court to try Naveen Jindal over alleged coal scam | | | An Indian court on Friday ordered businessman Naveen Jindal to face trial on charges of criminal conspiracy over an alleged scam involving government allocations of coalfields. Naveen Jindal is chairman of Jindal Steel and Power which said in a statement it denied any wrongdoing by the company or its management, adding the coal block allocation to the company had been made on merit. The special court -- which was set up to hear cases related to the alleged scam -- will specify charges against Jindal on May 11, it said in an order seen by Reuters. |
| Charleston church shooting suspect's friend to plead guilty to lying | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A friend of the gunman accused of slaying nine black parishioners in a 2015 attack on a South Carolina church will plead guilty on Friday to lying to investigators and concealing knowledge of the plan, court documents show. Joseph Meek, 21, plans to plead guilty to withholding information about a crime and making false statements to authorities investigating the massacre in Charleston, according to the documents filed earlier this week. Under a plea agreement, he could be called to testify against his childhood friend Dylann Roof, 22, who has been accused of opening fire during a June 17 Bible class at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church.
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| Uber v Ola: How fight for Indian taxi market ended up in court | |  By Aditi Shah and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A flurry of complaints from Uber drivers about an unusually high number of cancelled bookings was the spark that ignited a bitter legal fight with Ola, Uber's rival for dominance of India's $12 billion taxi market, according to court documents and a source with direct knowledge of Uber's case. A seven-member internal team was set up to investigate the drivers' complaints in November, and its findings are the basis of a lawsuit filed by Uber accusing Ola of a campaign to disrupt its business and poach its drivers, said the source. Ola, an Indian company backed by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, denies any wrongdoing.
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| Paris police arrest 27 after overnight violence | | | By Brian Love and Simon Carraud PARIS (Reuters) - French riot police arrested 27 people during overnight clashes with dozens of youths in central Paris, following a day of protest marches over labour law reforms that turned violent. Some opposition lawmakers and police union representatives urged a government crackdown on demonstrations and said it was time for an outright ban on the daily, mostly peaceful, youth protests at the site of Thursday night's skirmishes. The latest trouble erupted when police moved in to clear a group of about 150 youths from the Place de la Republique square in the early hours of the morning. |
| Brazil losing forest the size of two football fields per minute | |  By Chris Arsenault RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Latin America's largest country is still losing tropical forests the size of two football fields every minute, despite attempts to tackle illegal logging and improve local land rights, a former head of Brazil's forestry service has said. Deforestation rates in Brazil, home to the world's biggest expanse of tropical forests, slowed significantly between 2004 and 2010, but have picked up again in recent years due to a lack of innovation and government planning, Tasso Azevedo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Preserving forests is a key way to reduce emissions of planet-warming gases and combat climate change, as trees suck carbon out of the atmosphere.
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| Five killed in gun attack in opposition district of Burundi capital | | | Five people were killed in a gun and grenade attack in a district of Burundi's capital which is stronghold of opposition to President Pierre Nkurunziza, police said. Tit-for-tat attacks between Nkurunziza's security forces and his opponents have escalated since April 2015 when he announced a disputed bid for a third term. Thursday night's attack struck a bar in Bujumbura's Musaga neighbourhood, where protests were held against the president last year, said deputy police spokesman Moise Nkurunziza. |
| Former Auschwitz guard apologises at trial, says it was 'nightmare' | |  By Elke Ahlswede DETMOLD, Germany (Reuters) - A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard on trial in Germany apologised in court to victims on Friday, telling them he regretted being part of a "criminal organisation" that had killed so many people and caused such suffering. "I'm ashamed that I knowingly let injustice happen and did nothing to oppose it", said Reinhold Hanning, a former Nazi SS officer, seated in a wheelchair in the court in Detmold. Hanning is charged with being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people.
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| Political splits threaten Tunisia's economic reform | |  By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Political divisions in Tunisia's ruling coalition risk undermining economic reforms and paralysing the government as it tries to revive the country's post-revolution economy and tackle Islamist militancy. Until recently, compromise between secular and Islamist parties in the governing alliance had helped keep Tunisia's transition on track after the 2011 overthrow of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, which inspired uprisings across the Arab world. When lawmakers voted for part of an economic reform package last week, the ruling alliance managed to force the bill through by just two votes after many of its lawmakers opposed the motion or abstained.
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| Bohra Muslim leader speech urging FGM is 'huge disappointment' for India campaign | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A speech by the spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community, in which he appears to be urging followers in India to continue the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), has angered and upset campaigners trying to end the centuries-old practice. The audio clip of Syedna Muffadal Saifuddin's speech at a mosque in Mumbai, has been authenticated by several members of the community. A person described as a close friend of the Syedna family told the Times of India newspaper that the remarks were a "general comment" and that people were "interpreting it differently".
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| South African court orders review of decision to drop Zuma charges | |  By Tanisha Heiberg PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's High Court ruled on Friday that a decision seven years ago to drop 783 corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma was irrational and should be reviewed, another setback for the scandal-ridden leader who faces calls for his resignation. The decision in April 2009 to set aside the charges allowed Zuma to run for president in elections the same month. The South African leader has been beset by scandal during his tenure.
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| North Korea sentences Korean American to 10 years hard labour | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a Korean American man to 10 years of hard labour for subversion, North Korean media reported, in the latest conviction of a foreigner for crimes against the isolated state. Kim Dong Chul, 62, was arrested in North Korea in October and had admitted to committing "unpardonable espionage" including stealing military secrets, the North's official KCNA news agency reported earlier. North Korea, which has been criticized over its human rights record for years, has used detained Americans in the past to extract high-profile visits from the United States, with which it has no formal diplomatic relations.
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| Trump praises Sanders but may struggle to win over his voters | |  By Alana Wise and Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Donald Trump moves closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination, he has offered lavish praise for Bernie Sanders, who faces increasingly slim chances in his battle with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race. Trump has begun calling for Sanders to run as an independent if he does not win the Democratic nomination and said he may borrow talking points from Sanders' speeches criticizing Clinton to use in a possible matchup with the former secretary of state in the Nov. 8 general election. "He said some things about her that were so incredible - incredible - and so incredibly bad," Trump said on Tuesday after sweeping five Northeastern primaries, adding Sanders had "been telling the truth." Yet data and interviews with Sanders supporters suggest that winning over large numbers of them may be difficult for the New York billionaire businessman.
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| Thailand jails eight activists charged with sedition | | | A military court in Thailand on Friday jailed eight activists who posted comments critical of the ruling junta and a military-backed draft constitution, the latest opponents of the government penalised for airing dissent. The activists were detained by the military on Wednesday over Facebook posts criticizing the draft and junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha. |
| Platini appears before top tribunal to appeal six-year ban | |  By Brian Homewood LAUSANNE (Reuters) - Suspended UEFA president Michel Platini appeared before sport's highest tribunal on Friday to appeal against his six-year ban from soccer and said he was optimistic he would win his case, with FIFA ex-president Sepp Blatter among the witnesses. Platini, who arrived in a taxi for the hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), is hoping that the ban will be overturned in time for the Euro 2016 tournament, which will be held in his native France in June and July. "Today, we're at the beginning of the game, a new game, in the final ... I hope the outcome will be good," said Platini, who was the favourite to succeed Blatter as president of soccer's global governing body FIFA before he was banned.
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