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| French court sentences Rwandan ex-soldier for genocide role | | | A Paris court sentenced a former Rwandan soldier to 25 years in jail on Friday for his role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, in France's first trial to punish those responsible for the three-month wave of violence. The court found Pascal Simbikangwa, 54, described by prosecutors as a former soldier who rose to become the No. 3 in Rwanda's intelligence services, guilty of genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity. Under French law, Rwandans suspected of involvement in the genocide can be tried in a French court. France was long considered a safe haven for those fleeing prosecution for their role in the massacre. |
| U.S. prosecutors again indict diplomat Khobragade | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A grand jury in New York has returned a new indictment against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud, two days after a U.S. judge dismissed a similar indictment because she had diplomatic immunity. Khobragade's arrest in December and a subsequent strip search drew outrage in India, causing a major diplomatic rift between the United States and India. "Unfortunately, I can have no comment at this stage," Khobragade's lawyer, Daniel Arshack, said in an email. "The government of India will respond in due course." The new indictment effectively returns the case to where it was before Wednesday's dismissal.
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| Sri Lanka arrests Tamil woman who pressed case for disappeared rebel son | |  By Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - An ethnic Tamil woman who has become a prominent face in the effort to find out what happened to the tens of thousands who disappeared in the final stages of Sri Lanka's 26-year war has been arrested, the main Tamil party TNA said on Friday. Sri Lankan police said Balendran Jayakumari, a 50-year-old widow and mother of four, was arrested in Sri Lanka's former northern war zone of Kilinochchi on the charge of harboring a criminal who shot at a police officer to evade arrest. The Tamil National Alliance, which was the political proxy of the now-defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), said she was being punished for repeatedly protesting over the fate of her son, an under-age rebel who disappeared after the Tigers surrendered to the government at the end of the war in May 2009. Those people may not come out to tell what happened to their beloved ones in the future," TNA lawmaker Eswarapatham Saravanabavan told Reuters.
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| U.N. rights official says Crimea's Tatars 'feel threatened' | | | By Mirjam Donath UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior U.N. human rights official who has been effectively denied entry to Crimea expressed concern on Friday about the region's ethnic minority Tatars, saying they felt threatened and were afraid for their future. Sunni Muslims of Turkic origin and making up 12 percent of Crimea's population of two million, Tatars say they are apprehensive about the prospect of the region leaving Ukraine and becoming part of Russia in a referendum this Sunday. Ivan Simonovic, U.N. assistant secretary-general for human rights, said the number of Tatars fleeing Crimea had so far not been "massive", adding that he had met some of them in the Ukrainian city of Lviv. |
| Ukraine accuses Russia of fomenting violence in east | |  By Lina Kushch DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - The new governor of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk on Friday said Russians were behind violent clashes between rival demonstrators in which one man was killed, and accused Moscow of distorting the truth in its account of what happened. Russia warned it could move in to protect compatriots - a similar justification as used in last week's military takeover of Crimea. And Ukraine's acting president raised the alarm over a Russian troop build-up on the eastern border that has fuelled fears in Kiev of a broader invasion by its former Soviet ruler. Serhiy Taruta, a steel tycoon and one of several oligarchs appointed to take control of possibly restive, Russian-speaking regions after last month's overthrow of Ukraine's Moscow-backed president, scoffed at the Russian Foreign Ministry's implication that Russians had been victims of Thursday night's violence.
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| 7,000 kg ammonium nitrate seized in Rajasthan | | | Jaipur, March 15 (IANS) About 7,000 kg of explosive ammonium nitrate that was to be used for blasting in in illegal mining in Rajasthan's Alwar was seized Friday, police said. Superintendent of Police Vikas Kumar said that the seizure was made from Chopanaki area in Alwar district, some 150 km from Jaipur. "Illegal mining is a major issue in some parts of the district and police have launched a campaign against it. On a tip-off, we raided an abandoned makeshift house from where we recovered 140 bags of ammonium nitrate weighing around 7,000 kg. |
| Carcasses of 14 peacocks recovered in Ajmer | | | Jaipur, March 14 (IANS) Carcasses of 14 peacocks have been recovered in Rajasthan's Ajmer district, wildlife activists said Friday. He added that peacocks are protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and poachers can be sentenced to imprisonment with a fine. |
| Pistorius' watch vanished while police combed house, court told | |  By John Mkhize PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African police faced further embarrassment at the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius on Friday when it emerged that a valuable watch had vanished from the crime scene and a ballistic expert had handled the athlete's gun without gloves. The Olympic and Paralympic 'Blade Runner' denies the premeditated murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year, saying he shot her in a tragic accident after mistaking her for a night-time intruder. On day 10 of the trial, Colonel Schoombie Van Rensburg, the first policeman to arrive at Pistorius' home in an upmarket Pretoria estate, expressed his anger at forensic blunders but had his own work called into question by the defence. Van Rensburg said the missing watch was one of eight found in the house.
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