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| French rail strike bites amid labour law standoff | |  By Sophie Louet and Paul Taylor BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Striking rail workers halted about half of all French train services on Wednesday in a dispute over working time as a standoff between the militant CGT union and the Socialist government over a proposed labour law reform dragged on. The SNCF state railway said six out of 10 high-speed TGV trains were running, along with one-third of other inter-city services and half of regional trains. Heavy flooding also cut some lines in central France and the rail link to Luxembourg.
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| U.N. says four killed in attacks on two of its Mali sites | | | Attacks on United Nations sites in northern Mali killed four people, including one peacekeeper, and wounded more than a dozen, the U.N. mission said on Wednesday. Mali's peacekeeping mission was started in April 2013, after Tuareg separatists and Islamic militants began a rebellion in the desert north. One peacekeeper was killed and three seriously wounded by rockets or mortars fired at the U.N. peacekeeping mission -- known as MINUSMA -- in Gao late on Tuesday. |
| Inquests into UK's deadly Birmingham pub bombings to be reopened | | | Inquests into the deaths of 21 people killed in 1974 when bombs exploded in two Birmingham pubs, the deadliest attack on the British mainland in 30 years of Northern Irish violence, will be reopened to examine new evidence, a coroner ruled on Wednesday. Although the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was believed to have planted them, it never claimed responsibility. Birmingham coroner Louise Hunt, who has reviewed the case, ruled on Wednesday that new hearings should take place into the deaths, having concluded there was a "wealth of evidence" that had not been heard, the BBC reported. |
| EU executive steps up pressure on Poland in rule of law spat - source | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union executive arm on Wednesday adopted a formal opinion critical of the rule of law in Poland, a source said, in a growing standoff between Brussels and the bloc's largest eastern member. Brussels and Warsaw held a series of high-level talks in recent days aimed at soothing the dispute but the Commission's move steps up pressure on the euro sceptic, nationalist-minded government in Poland. ...
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| Alienation grows in Brussels district that bred Paris attackers | |  By Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) - When Moroccan-born former boxer Mohamed Idrissi orders a young man out of his gym for smoking, the respect is tangible. The youngster stubs out his cigarette and leaves, head bowed.
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| AQIM claims "battle" in northern Mali - SITE monitoring | | | DAKAR (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said on social media that they had engaged in "battle" with "crusader occupation forces" in the northern Mali city of Gao on Wednesday, according to SITE Intelligence Group, an extremist monitoring firm. The statement came after United Nations said attacks on two U.N. sites in Gao killed four people, including one peacekeeper, and wounded more than a dozen late on Tuesday. (Reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Edward McAllister) |
| Jordan king swears in new government to prepare for elections | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian King Abdullah swore in a new government led by a business-friendly politician on Wednesday, charging him with preparing for parliamentary elections by September and pushing legislation to spur sluggish growth. Hani Mulki, 64, who has held a string of senior diplomatic and ministerial posts, is a former chief commissioner of Jordan's economic zone in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba. Official sources said the government is expected to maintain traditional support for U.S. policies in the region and continue with International Monetary Fund-guided reforms.
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| Three North Korean restaurant defectors arrive in South - report | | | Three North Korean women who fled a restaurant they worked at in China have arrived in South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday quoting an unnamed government source. The women, one aged 28 and two 29, fled the North Korean restaurant in Shanxi province and made their way to Thailand from where they flew to the South, Yonhap said. South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles political ties with the North, could not confirm the report. |
| Special Report: After university crackdown, Egyptian students fear for their future | | | By Amina Ismail CAIRO (Reuters) - In June 2014, 23-year-old engineering student Mohammed Badawy was expelled from Cairo University. The university said it ejected him for obstructing the education process, and for rioting and destruction at a protest against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government. Badawy said it was because he protested against the government and supported the Muslim Brotherhood, a political movement that the Egyptian government has banned as a terrorist organisation. |
| Saudi Arabia sentences 14 to death for terrorism - lawyer | | | Saudi Arabia sentenced 14 people to death for terrorism on Wednesday after they were convicted of attacks on police in the Shi'ite Muslim minority area of Qatif in Eastern Province, scene of past anti-government protests, their lawyer said. Another nine people were given jail sentences of three to 15 years and one was acquitted, their defence lawyer, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters. Some Saudi Shi'ites complain they suffer systematic discrimination in Saudi Arabia, whose majority follow a strict form of Sunni Islam that regards the minority sect as heretical. |
| German cabinet approves state fund for nuclear storage costs | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday that adopted recommendations requiring Germany's utilities to pay 23.3 billion euros ($25.98 billion) into a state fund to cover the costs of storing nuclear waste, government sources said. The new law will also close a loophole to ensure that if companies split up, they will still remain liable towards the newly established state fund, the sources said. A 19-member commission recommended in late April that Germany's "big four" power firms - E.ON, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall - pay a total 23. ...
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| Dead tiger cubs found in Thai temple amid trafficking fears | |  Thai wildlife authorities found 40 tiger cub carcasses in a freezer in Thailand's infamous Tiger Temple on Wednesday as they removed live animals in response to international pressure over suspected trafficking and abuse. The Buddhist temple in Kanchanaburi province west of Bangkok had become a tourist destination where visitors snapped selfies with bottle-fed cubs. A raid that began on Monday is the latest move in a tug-of-war since 2001 to bring the tigers under state control.
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| China to prosecute Xinjiang judge for letting off terror suspects | | | Authorities in China's violence-prone western region of Xinjiang will prosecute a former judge who reduced penalties and let off people suspected of terrorism, a regional government said. Hundreds have died in recent years in Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, in unrest blamed by Beijing on Islamist militants and separatists, though rights groups say the violence is more a reaction to repressive Chinese policies. Fulati Qiuwaer was a senior judge in Aksu, in heavily Uighur southwestern Xinjiang, but had been sacked and expelled from the ruling Communist Party for his leniency in dealing with terror suspects, the Aksu branch of the party's anti-graft watchdog said. |
| Germany investigates sexual attacks on women at music festival | | | German prosecutors are investigating claims by 26 women that they were sexually harassed at a music festival in the western city of Darmstadt at the weekend and police have arrested three men with Pakistani backgrounds, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The incident has set off alarm bells in Germany after mass sexual attacks on women at New Year's Eve in Cologne, which fuelled a backlash against Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door migrant policy. Hundreds of women said they were groped, attacked and robbed outside the Cologne train station and police said the suspects were mainly of North African and Arab appearance. |
| Malaysia uncovers immigration racket raising trafficking, security fears | |  By Rozanna Latiff and Emily Chow KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Authorities in Malaysia have uncovered an immigration racket involving the sabotage of a computerised passport-screening system at its main international airport, police said on Wednesday, raising worries about human-trafficking and security. The immigration department fired 15 officials on Tuesday, took disciplinary action against 22 and said it was investigating more in connection with the security breach at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, which could have been going on for years. "We have identified the suspects. We are still investigating but we will make arrests soon," deputy police chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim told reporters on Wednesday.
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