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| Kenyan government urges end to protests but opposition defiant | |  Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy on Wednesday urged the opposition to end weeks of demonstrations against the electoral commission, but opposition leaders said protests would continue if their demands for dialogue were not met. To help ease tensions, Kenyatta on Tuesday met his political rival, the leader of the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy Raila Odinga, but the rare meeting between the two appeared to have little impact. The opposition wants Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission scrapped, accusing it of bias.
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| Al Qaeda says conducted Mali raid that killed China peacekeeper | | | By Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an attack on two U.N. sites in northern Mali where a peacekeeper from China and three civilians were killed and over a dozen others wounded. China's Foreign Ministry said four of its peacekeepers were injured and called for an investigation into the attack late on Tuesday on the base in the town of Gao. The country said it has 2,400 peacekeepers stationed in Africa. |
| Somalia's al Shabaab says attacked hotel in capital using car bomb, three dead | | | Al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack targeting a hotel in central Mogadishu on Wednesday and said some of its fighters had stormed the premises, while police said three people had died. Mogadishu police said some militants had apparently burst into the hotel. |
| Traffickers in India force 300,000 children to beg in streets - police | |  By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At least 300,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and forced to beg every day, in what has become a multi million rupee industry controlled by human trafficking cartels, police and trafficking experts said. Writing in a report which is about to be circulated across the country's police forces, the authors urged law enforcers to carry out greater surveillance of children living on the streets. According to the National Human Rights Commission, up to 40,000 children are abducted in India every year, of which at least 11,000 remain untraced.
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| India to charge premium for transfer of mining rights | |  The Indian government has said a company acquiring mining rights from another firm will be charged 80 percent of royalty as premium if the acreage was originally obtained without bidding. The 80 percent charge will be on top of royalty that the new mining lease holder will pay to the state, the government said in an order on Wednesday. "When a mine is auctioned an additional premium has to be paid on royalty.
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| Thousands of U.S. voters in limbo after Kansas toughens election law | |  By John Whitesides WICHITA, Kansas (Reuters) - After moving to Kansas, Tad Stricker visited a state motor vehicle office to perform what he thought was the routine task of getting a new driver's license and registering to vote. Spurred by Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a national leader in pushing for anti-immigration and voting changes, more than 36,000 Kansas residents have joined Stricker in limbo since early 2013 under a state law that raises a new and higher barrier to voting in the United States: proof of citizenship. While you must be a U.S. citizen to vote in American elections, most states allow those wishing to register to simply sign a statement affirming they are citizens and provide a driver's license number, Social Security number, or other proof of residency. A Reuters analysis of the Kansas suspense list shows the law disproportionately hits young voters, who often do not have ready access to the needed documents, as well as unaffiliated and Democratic voters in the Republican-controlled state.
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| Poland says ready to talk "anti-crisis scenarios" in EU rule of law spat - PAP | |  Poland stands ready to discuss anti-crisis scenarios with the European Commission, but cannot accept all of its proposals regarding the government's attempted top court reform, Poland's deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday. In a growing standoff between Brussels and the bloc's largest eastern member, the European Union's executive on Wednesday adopted a formal stance critical of the rule of law in Poland. "We remain ready to discuss anti-crisis scenarios (with the European Commission), but that does not mean that we can agree to all detailed solutions (proposed by the Commission)," Konrad Szymanski told state news agency PAP.
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| French vessel detects signals likely from EgyptAir jet black box | |  A French naval search vessel has picked up signals believed to originate from one of the black boxes of EgyptAir flight MS804 which crashed into the Mediterranean last month, the Egyptian investigation committee said on Wednesday. It said in a statement the search for the black boxes was intensifying ahead of the expected arrival within a week of another vessel, the John Lethbridge, from Mauritius-based company Deep Ocean Search to help retrieve the devices. "Search equipment aboard French naval vessel Laplace... has detected signals from the seabed of the search area, which likely belong to one of the data boxes," the committee said.
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| Pakistani asylum seekers investigated over sex attacks at German festival | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - Three Pakistani men seeking asylum in Germany are being investigated after dozens of women said they were sexually harassed at a music festival over the weekend, prosecutors said. The accusations follow 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. After the festival in the western city of Darmstadt, which attracted 300,000-400,000 people over four days, 26 women made complaints of harassment and there are officially 18 injured parties, a spokeswoman for prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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| Drowned migrant baby was probably Somali - Italian police | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - A dead baby plucked out of the sea whose picture sparked international outrage this week was probably a six-month-old Somali boy whose mother also most likely died in the shipwreck, Italian police said on Wednesday. The baby was pulled from the sea last Friday by a German rescuer working for humanitarian organisation Sea-Watch after a wooden boat carrying more than 400 migrants capsized and sank some 58 km (36 miles) off the Libyan coast. Sea-Watch immediately handed the boy's body over to the crew of the Vega, an Italian navy ship.
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| Inquests into UK's deadly Birmingham pub bombings to be reopened | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - 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. The new inquiries will consider whether the authorities ignored warnings before the bombings in the crowded Mulberry Bush pub and The Tavern in Birmingham, central England, on Nov. 21, 1974. Although the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was believed to have planted the explosives, it never claimed responsibility. |
| 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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| Exclusive: Fed records show dozens of cybersecurity breaches | |  By Jason Lange and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve detected more than 50 cyber breaches between 2011 and 2015, with several incidents described internally as "espionage," according to Fed records. The Fed's computer systems play a critical role in global banking and hold confidential information on discussions about monetary policy that drives financial markets. The Fed declined to comment, and the redacted records do not say who hacked the bank's systems or whether they accessed sensitive information or stole money.
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| NATO likely to designate cyber as operational domain of war - German official | |  NATO members will likely agree during a summit meeting in Warsaw next month to designate cyber as an official operational domain of warfare, along with air, sea, land and space, a senior German defence ministry official said Wednesday. Major General Ludwig Leinhos, who heads the German military's effort to build up a separate cyber command, told a conference at the Berlin air show that he expected all 28 NATO members to agree to the change during the coming Warsaw summit. Leinhos, who previously held a senior job at NATO headquarters, said he also expected NATO members to agree to intensify their efforts in the cyber security arena.
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