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| Protesters occupy Taiwan government building over China trade pact | |  By Michael Gold TAIPEI (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators occupied part of Taiwan's government headquarters on Sunday night in protest against a controversial trade pact with mainland China. President Ma Ying-jeou says the pact with Taiwan's main export market is essential for the island's prosperity. However, the main opposition party says it could hurt small service companies, and many others are reluctant to let China expand its influence over a fiercely independent and democratic territory that China still sees as a renegade province. Parliamentary approval of the agreement on April 8 would open 80 of China's service sectors to Taiwan and 64 Taiwanese sectors to China.
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| Gunmen seized $600,000 in heist in Libyan Islamist stronghold | | | Gunmen stole $600,000 in a heist on a van taking cash to a bank in an Islamist stronghold in the volatile east where there is little state control, media said on Sunday. Five man stopped the van which was transporting 750,000 Libyan dinars from an office of telecommunications company Libyana in the city of Derna, state news agency LANA said. Derna, east of Benghazi, is a coastal city largely out of government control and home to hardline Islamists. |
| Election observers pull foreign staff out of Afghanistan after hotel attack | |  By Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - Two major foreign election observer and support missions have pulled staff out of Afghanistan after a Taliban attack on a Kabul hotel, observers said on Sunday, in a move which could undermine confidence in the outcome of the crucial vote. "It's really bad news," said Jandad Spingar, director at the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan, the largest Afghan monitoring group. "Having international observers in the election is really, really important... (to) give legitimacy to the process." The National Democratic Institute (NDI) said it had pulled its observers from the country, while a senior European diplomat said observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) had been pulled out to Turkey.
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| Turkish PM Erdogan says won't be listening to critics | |  By Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rallied hundreds of thousands of supporters on Sunday, dismissing accusations of intolerance by Western and domestic critics. Erdogan, tackling a corruption scandal that could damage his AK Party at local polls next Sunday, used a speech in the western city of Izmit also to announce Turkish forces had shot down a Syrian fighter that had crossed into Turkish air space. Supporters waved red Turkish flags and blue and gold emblems of the AK Party he founded in 2001 and led to power a year later vowing to root out the corruption that had dogged rivals. Western nations and rights groups have accused Turkey of intolerance for closing down the Twitter networking site over anonymously posted audio tapes that implicate Erdogan in graft.
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| Adolfo Suarez dies, steered Spain out of post-Franco turmoil | |  By Elisabeth O'Leary MADRID (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez, who died on Sunday, steered Spain through one of the most turbulent periods in its political history and built bridges between the "two Spains" after fascist dictator General Francisco Franco died in 1975. Suarez, who was 81, was hospitalised on March 17 with a respiratory infection. Many Spaniards remember Suarez's unruffled behaviour during one of the most tense moments in the country's modern history, an attempted coup on February 23 1981. Six years earlier, after Franco's death, King Juan Carlos called on Suarez, a young Francoist minister, to try to unite the two factions who were still in a sense fighting the 1936-1939 civil war, and indeed were further apart than ever after nearly 40 years of fascism exiled thousands of left-wingers.
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| Saudi says it catches suspect in German diplomat shooting | | | Saudi Arabia has detained a man accused of firing at German diplomats as they drove through the Eastern Province village of al-Awamiya in January, the kingdom's interior ministry said on Sunday. The investigation has also led to the detention of another man wanted in a different case, he said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. Awamiya, a village in the Qatif district of the Eastern Province, has been a focal point for protests against the Saudi government and ruling family, as well as occasional attacks on security forces and police raids to detain activists. Around 20 people have been killed in Qatif, mainly in Awamiya, since demonstrations started there during the Arab uprisings in 2011. |
| Gunmen kill four in "terrorist" attack on Kenyan church | | | By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Two gunmen stormed a church near the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa on Sunday and opened fire on worshippers, killing four people and wounding others, in what police called a terrorist attack. I fell to the ground and could hear screams," said Lilian Omondi, who was leading a prayer recital at the time. "Then they started shooting at those of us who were standing outside." Somali militant group al Shabaab and local sympathisers have carried out multiple attacks in Kenya, in revenge for the Kenyan army's intervention in Somalia to crush the Islamist rebels. Along Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, tension is high particularly among Muslim youths who claim the security forces have been heavy handed in their crackdown on militant recruitment. |
| Charge sheet in phone-tap case in a week: Himachal CM | | | Shimla, March 23 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh Sunday said the inquiry into the mass phone tapping of politicians and government officials duringb the previous BJP regime was complete and the charge sheet would be filed in the court within a week. "I don't know who all are involved (in the phone tapping), but the investigations are almost complete and the charge sheet would be filed within a week," he told reporters here. Refuting allegations of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal that the government was tapping their phones, Virbhadra Singh said: "It was like pot calling the kettle black. The present Congress government accused the previous government deaded by Dhumal of illegally tapping certain telephone numbers through the criminal investigation and the vigilance departments. |
| Tusker poached in Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve | | | Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) A fully grown elephant was shot dead by alleged poachers in Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, a forest official said here Sunday. |
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