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| 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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| Italian marine Salvatore Girone can return home - India | |  Italian marine Salvatore Girone, one of two sailors under investigation over the killing of two Indian fishermen during an anti-piracy mission in 2012, can return home, the Indian foreign ministry said on Monday. A U.N. arbitration court hearing the case ruled earlier that India should release Girone, who has been detained in Delhi for more than four years. "While remaining under the authority of the Supreme Court of India, he may return to Italy for the duration of the present arbitration," India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.
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| China to investigate Baidu over student's death, shares dive | |  China's Internet regulator said on Monday it will send a team to investigate Baidu Inc over the death of a university student who used the Chinese search engine to look for treatment for his cancer. Wei Zexi, 21, died last month of a rare form of cancer. Before dying, Wei accused Baidu online of promoting false medical information, as well as the hospital for misleading advertising in claiming a high success rate for the treatment, state radio said.
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