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| 23 killed in family feud in southern Egypt: officials | | | At least 23 people were killed in clashes between rival families in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, health and security officials said on Saturday. The violence erupted late Friday after students from the feuding families had scrawled insulting graffiti on the walls of a school, security sources said. One family is from the Nubian ethnic group and the other from the Arab Beni Helal clan, the sources said. The two sides used gunfire and petrol bombs and several houses were burned to the ground before police were able to stop the fighting on Saturday morning, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. |
| Afghanistan runs out of ballot papers as election turnout surprises | |  By Jessica Donati and Hamid Shalizi KANDAHAR/KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's landmark election on Saturday was marred by a shortage of ballot papers that left many voters still queueing to cast their vote with polling due to close, as the organisers appeared unprepared for a high turnout. The Independent Election Commission ordered voting to be extended by at least an hour, with ballot papers being dispatched where they were needed for people to vote for a successor to President Hamid Karzai. Organisers of the vote - meant to be the first democratic handover of power in Afghan history - had feared that a low turnout and Taliban violence would derail the election but as polling stations began to close, those fears had not materialised. "People did not expect this number of people to come out to vote," Toryalai Wesa, governor of the southern city of Kandahar, told reporters.
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| 'Media soft-pedals riot coverage' | | | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The media has traditionally "soft-pedalled" coverage of violence during riots in the country, senior journalist Manoj Mitta said here Saturday. Giving examples of the 1984 anti-Sikh and the 2002 Gujarat riots, he said the media, except in some cases, largely remained silent when violence was being unleashed in certain worst-affected areas. He said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on Gujarat riots showed journalists did not ask a single question about the Gulbarg society massacre in Ahmedabad to Chief Minister Narendra Modi at a press conference held within an hour of the incident. |
| 'Media soft-peddles riot coverage' | | | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The media has traditionally "soft-peddled" coverage of violence during riots in the country, senior journalist Manoj Mitta said here Saturday. Giving examples of both the 1984 anti-Sikh and the 2002 Gujarat riots, he said the media, except in some cases, largely remained silent when violence was being unleashed in certain worst-affected areas. He said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on Gujarat riots showed journalists did not ask a single question about the Gulbarg society massacre in Ahmedabad to Chief Minister Narendra Modi at a press conference held within an hour of the incident. |
| BSP MP moves bail application in rape case | | | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) BSP MP Dhananjay Singh Saturday moved bail application after the woman who accused him of raping her, denied the charge in a court here. Singh moved his bail application before Additional Sessions Judge Sarita Birbal, who fixed the hearing for Monday. The married railway employee, who lodged a rape case against the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP, told the court here Friday that she had deposed against the accused before a magistrate under pressure from relatives. She has said that a case was lodged against the MP as she feared that he was interfering in her matrimonial life. |
| US cop's arrest has nothing to do with Khobragade case | | | New Delhi/New York, April 5 (IANS) A New York police officer arrested at Delhi airport last month for carrying three live bullets in his luggage is out on bail, authorities in India said Saturday, as officials dismissed US media reports describing it as India's revenge over the Khobragade affair. US police officer Manny Encarnacion was arrested on March 11 after three 9 mm bullets were found in the pocket of a jacket in his checked luggage at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), a senior airport official told IANS. |
| Italian priests, Canadian nun kidnapped in Cameroon | | | Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun were kidnapped in northern Cameroon overnight, a bishop and a government source said on Saturday, months after a French priest was seized nearby. It was not immediately clear who took them, though Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram is known to operate in the area. He named the priests as Giampaolo Marta and Gianantonio Allegri, both missionaries sent out by the diocese of Vicenza in northeast Italy, and the nun as Gilberte Bissiere. Pope Francis was aware of the kidnappings and praying for those taken, the Vatican press office said. |
| For Congress party, soul-searching and questions about Rahul Gandhi | |  By Sruthi Gottipati AURANGABAD, India (Reuters) - On the eve of India's mammoth general election, even some members of the ruling Congress party appear to have accepted it will not return to power, raising a question mark on the future of its leader, Rahul Gandhi. The frontrunner to become prime minister after the five-week election starting on Monday is opposition Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi, although opinion polls suggest he will fall short of a majority and will need to form a coalition. Congress, which has ruled India for over 50 of the 67 years since independence, was forecast to win between 111-123. Apparently resigned to a poor performance in this election, some Congress insiders have started trying to put a positive spin on a likely spell in opposition.
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| Supporters of Thai PM converge to counter anti-govt protests | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra demonstrated on the outskirts of Bangkok on Saturday, part of a three-day rally aimed at countering months of sometimes violent anti-government protests. In their largest show of force in months, the pro-government "red shirts", or United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship as the group is formally known, said they were prepared to thwart any move to dismiss Yingluck who faces mounting legal cases that could see her removed from office in coming weeks. Leaders of the movement said they were not seeking a fight with the thousands of anti-government protesters holding their own rally at their headquarters in Bangkok's Lumpini Park, near the city's financial district.
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