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| Thai PM, Election Commission agree new vote in July, opposition defiant | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Election Commission and the prime minister agreed on Wednesday to hold a general election in July, but anti-government protesters who disrupted a vote in February said they still wanted to see electoral reforms before a new poll. The protesters have been trying to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra since November, part of a long-running crisis that broadly pits Bangkok's middle class and royalist establishment against the mainly poor, rural supporters of Yingluck and her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. "The prime minister and the Election Commission agree on a July 20 election," Puchong Nutrawong, secretary-general of the commission, told reporters after a meeting with Yingluck. He said the commission would ask the government to issue a royal decree and get the king's endorsement for the vote.
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| Toppled 'mafia' president cost Ukraine up to $100 billion, prosecutor says | |  By Guy Faulconbridge, Anna Dabrowska and Stephen Grey LONDON (Reuters) - Ukraine's chief prosecutor has accused Viktor Yanukovich of heading a mafia-style syndicate whose crimes cost the former Soviet republic up to $100 billion and said some of the stolen money was now being used to fund Russian-backed separatists. Ex-President Yanukovich fled to Russia in late February after a revolt that prompted Vladimir Putin to annex Ukraine's Crimea province, triggering the biggest confrontation between the Kremlin and the West since the end of the Cold War in 1991. Acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky said that while president from 2010, Yanukovich personally ran a multi-billion dollar criminal syndicate whose tentacles reached almost all walks of the Ukrainian state and Ukrainian life. "Ex-President Viktor Yanukovich headed a mafia structure in Ukraine which spread across different state structures," Makhnitsky told Reuters in London on Tuesday after meeting U.S. and British officials about ways to recover stolen assets.
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| Afghan govt says West holds prisoners illegally in south | | | By Hamid Shalizi and Jeremy Laurence KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has accused British and U.S. forces of secretly holding Afghans in jail, saying one man had been held for more than two years while others had "disappeared", further souring ties between Kabul and its Western allies at a sensitive time. The latest dispute could complicate relations as Washington seeks to implement a security agreement allowing a small force to stay in the country for counter-terrorism and training purposes, a pact incumbent leader Hamid Karzai refuses to sign. The allegations, presented in a state-backed document obtained by Reuters, were made as Afghanistan prepares to induct a new president more than 12 years after U.S.-led forces drove the Taliban from power. "This a clear violation of Afghanistan's sovereignty," Karzai's spokesman Aimal Faizi told Reuters. |
| Putin "walks the walk" over Ukraine but not as Obama wants | |  By Timothy Heritage MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has "walked the walk" since the West imposed new sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but not in the way Barack Obama intended. In a move that seemed designed to mock Obama's choice of words, state television lingered on Putin striding with knowing confidence across a vast hall to deliver his verdict on the sanctions to reporters during a visit to neighbouring Belarus. Completely unruffled, Putin denied U.S. charges that Russian troops are in Ukraine, blamed the crisis on the West and ratcheted up the war of words by warning that Moscow could bar some Western companies from involvement in Russia's economy. And Western Kremlin watchers remain deeply uneasy about forecasting just what the president might do next in Ukraine.
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| India among countries on U.S. piracy, patents blacklist | |  The United States on Wednesday named India and China among countries on its blacklist of countries failing to properly protect U.S. copyrights and patents but kept their status unchanged from the previous review. The U.S. Trade Representative did not designate any countries a "priority foreign country," the worst label in its annual scorecard on how well countries protect U.S. patents, copyrights and other intellectual property rights. "The United States will redouble its efforts to seek opportunities for meaningful, sustained, and effective engagement on IP-related matters with the new government," the report said. The USTR said no action would be taken against Ukraine, which was named a "priority foreign country" last year, despite ongoing concerns about copyright, due to the current political situation.
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| Modi in police trouble as election nears climax | |  By Aditi Shah AHMEDABAD India (Reuters) - Police opened a investigation against Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, tipped to be the next prime minister, after he flashed his party's symbol and made a speech after casting his vote in a violation of election rules. About 139 million people were registered to vote in the eighth round of a marathon contest pitting Modi against the ruling Congress party, led by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Voting in his home state of Gujarat, the opposition leader, whose pro-business policies have delighted investors, brandished a white cutout of a lotus flower and made a scathing speech against Congress heavyweights - taunting them for shying away from the fight. The finance minister is not fighting the election.
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| Spanish police detain Alves banana thrower | |  Spanish police have detained the Villarreal supporter who threw a banana on the pitch near Barcelona defender Daniel Alves on Sunday and charged him with a "breach of fundamental rights and civil liberties". Images of Alves, a Brazil international, picking up the banana and taking a bite during the La Liga match were beamed around the world and he was widely backed by fellow players and other public figures who denounced the apparent racist taunt.
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