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| Incest, lack of sex education drive teen pregnancies in El Salvador | | | By Anastasia Moloney SAN SALVADOR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rape at the hands of relatives and a lack of sex education are driving pregnancies among girls in El Salvador, which is struggling to stem one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Latin America, according to a top health official. More than a third of all pregnancies in the Central American nation are among girls aged 10 to 19, and girls as young as 9 have become pregnant, said Deputy Health Minister Eduardo Espinoza. Rape and incest at the hands of grandfathers, fathers and other relatives is often the cause of pregnancies in girls aged 10 to 14, although there are no official figures, Espinoza told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview. |
| Turkish parliament debate on lawmakers' immunity ends in a brawl | | | By Gulsen Solaker and Yesim Dikmen ANKARA (Reuters) - Members of Turkey's ruling AK Party and the pro-Kurdish opposition traded kicks and punches and threw water at each other in parliament on Monday, halting talks about lifting parliamentarians' immunity from prosecution. The law, championed by the ruling AKP, would strip members of parliament of their legal immunity. The Kurdish-rooted Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) says the bill is targeting them and is aimed at suppressing dissent. |
| Brazil judge orders WhatsApp blocked, affecting 100 million users | |  A Brazilian judge ordered wireless phone carriers to block access to Facebook Inc's WhatsApp for 72 hours throughout Latin America's largest country on Monday, the second such move against the popular messaging application in five months. The decision by the judge in the northeastern state of Sergipe applies to the five main wireless operators in Brazil and affects WhatsApp's more than 100 million users in the country. The reason for the order is not known due to legal secrecy in an ongoing case in the Sergipe state court.
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| Turkey says prevented 85 security "incidents" since January | | | Turkey has prevented 85 "major incidents" since January, many involving live bombs, the government's spokesman said on Monday, a day after the sixth suicide bombing in a Turkish city this year. "We are making great efforts in the struggle against terror," Numan Kurtulmus told reporters at a briefing in the capital, Ankara. "We have prevented 85 major incidents since January. |
| Saudi minister confirms warning on proposed U.S. law on 9/11 | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has warned the United States that a proposed U.S. law that could hold the kingdom responsible for any role in the Sept 11, 2001, attacks would erode global investor confidence in America, its foreign minister said on Monday. The minister, Adel al-Jubeir, speaking to reporters in Geneva after talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, which mainly focused on Syria, denied that Saudi Arabia had "threatened" to withdraw investment from its close ally. "We say a law like this would cause an erosion of investor confidence.
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| Honduras arrests suspects in killing of activist Caceres | |  Honduran authorities have arrested four people in connection with the murder of award-winning environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Caceres, the attorney general's office said in a statement on Monday. A spokesman for the armed forces, Lenin Gonzalez, told reporters that one of the accused was an active duty soldier and another a retired official. Caceres, a 43-year-old activist who had fought to stop the construction of hydroelectric plants and mines on indigenous territory, was shot and killed at her home in La Esperanza, Honduras, in early March.
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| Prisoners revolt in Syria's Hama jail, seize guards - Syrian Observatory | | | Syrian government troops surrounded Hama prison in the west of the country on Monday and fired tear gas after inmates revolted, seizing several guards, a monitoring group reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said inmates were protesting against a planned transfer of prisoners from Hama to Sednaya military prison north of Damascus. An insurgent group operating near Hama, located 210 km (130 miles) from Damascus, said it was ready to shell government militias in towns nearby in response to mistreatment of the inmates, who it said were demanding "basic rights" including trial, the British-based Observatory reported. |
| Hague court says India must release Italian sailor - Italy | |  By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - A U.N. court has ruled that India must allow an Italian marine detained in Delhi for more than four years to go home, Italy's Foreign Ministry said on Monday. India acknowledged the ruling but said Salvatore Girone would remain under the authority of its Supreme Court which might impose various conditions on his release. Girone is one of two Italian marines were arrested in India in 2012 on suspicion of killing two fishermen while on an anti-piracy mission on an Italian oil tanker.
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| Pakistan raps Trump over vow to free doctor who helped track bin Laden | |  By Kay Johnson ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan angrily criticised Donald Trump, frontrunner for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination, for saying he would force the country to free a jailed Pakistani doctor believed to have helped the CIA hunt down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Trump, a 69-year-old billionaire real estate developer, told Fox News on Friday that, if elected, he would get Pakistan to free Shakil Afridi "in two minutes", saying that Islamabad receives a lot of development aid from the United States. "Contrary to Mr. Trump's misconception, Pakistan is not a colony of the United States of America," Pakistani Interior Minister Cheudhry Nisar said in a statement on Monday.
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