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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. |
| Indian aircraft join search for missing Malaysian plane | | | New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Two Indian aircraft Sunday began a search for the missing Malaysian airliner MH370, following a commitment from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to assist Malaysia, the government said Sunday. The two aircraft - one P8-I of the Indian Navy and one C-130J of the Indian Air Force - reached Malaysia March 21 to assist the country in locating the missing plane. "After extensive briefings at the Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC) established by Malaysia, both Indian aircraft took off this morning (Sunday) for the search areas," said a statement from the external affairs ministry. |
| Dowry law cannot be harassment tool, says court | | | New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) A court here has observed that dowry prohibition law cannot be allowed to become a tool for harassment. Granting relief to a man, who was booked in a dowry harassment case by his wife, the court ordered investigation against the complainant for filing a false case. The man's wife in July 2012 filed a first information report (FIR) against him in a South Delhi police station, alleging that he demanded dowry and subjected her to cruelty, which resulted in her miscarriage. Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan, accepting the cancellation report of Delhi Police, said Sections 498A (subjecting woman to cruelty) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) and Dowry Prohibition Act are special legislations enacted for the "protection of women" and have serious penal consequence for the offender. |
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