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| Egypt court sentences police captain in southern province to death | | Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:36 AM | |
| | An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced a police officer to death for the 2012 killing of two men in the southern province of Qena, state news agency MENA reported. Mahmoud Fathi Ali Al-Ataar, a police captain, was standing trial on charges of killing a local driver and a salesman in January 2012 and stealing 130,000 Egyptian pounds from the men. The judge in Qena ruled that the policeman's file be referred to the mufti, the country's highest religious authority to whom death sentences are always sent for review. The judge scheduled the next hearing in the trial until June 2, pending the mufti's review of the sentences, state news agency MENA reported. |
| U.N. chief says C. African Republic peacekeepers 'overwhelmed' | | Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:31 AM | |
|  By Hubert-Mary Djamany BANGUI (Reuters) - French and African soldiers serving in Central African Republic are "overwhelmed" by the "state of anarchy" in the country, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday, a day after Chadian troops began withdrawing from the peacekeeping mission. The U.N. Security Council is due to approve next week a 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force for the former French colony. The force will take over authority from African Union troops in an attempt to restore order to the country. "I commend the African Union and French forces for making a difference," he said in a speech before the interim government.
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| Italian priests, Canadian nun kidnapped in Cameroon | | | By Anne Mireille Nzouankeu and Bernard Fonka Mutta YAOUNDE (Reuters) - 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. Local governor Augustine Fonka Awa told Reuters that Bissiere was in her 70s and ill and had intended to return to Canada when she was seized. |
| Shelter for Delhi old age inmates after fire | | | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) About 150 homeless inmates residing in a makeshift old age home in Delhi that caught fire, have been provided a temporary shelter while a search is on to locate the people who went missing, police said Saturday. Ravi Kalra, director of NGO Earth Saviours Foundation that was running the home for over five years in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj, told IANS some tents have been arranged as temporary shelter for the homeless. Two inmates died and two more were injured while 10 tents were destroyed and 28 homeless people are reported missing. |
| Relief in Afghanistan after largely peaceful landmark poll | |  By Mirwais Harooni and Jessica Donati KABUL/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A fghanistan's presidential election closed on Saturday amid relief that attacks by Taliban fighters were fewer than feared for a vote that will bring the first-ever democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by conflict for decades. It will take six weeks for results to come in from across Afghanistan's rugged terrain and a final result to be declared in the race to succeed President Hamid Karzai. This could be the beginning of a potentially dangerous period for Afghanistan at a time when the war-ravaged country desperately needs a leader to stem rising violence as foreign troops prepare to leave. "On behalf of the people, I thank the security forces, election commission and people who exercised democracy and ... turned another page in the glorious history of Afghanistan." One of the eight candidates will have to score over 50 percent of the vote to avoid a run-off with his nearest rival.
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| Brazil army occupies shantytowns ahead of World Cup | |  By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Brazilian Armed Forces occupied a massive compound of slums north of Rio de Janeiro early on Saturday without firing a shot, securing a focal point of violent crime two months ahead of the soccer World Cup. Wresting control of the area from drug gangs was a priority for authorities because it surrounds the expressway to the Galeão International Airport where tens of thousands of fans will land in June for the World Cup. Rio de Janeiro state authorities requested the occupation after a spree of attacks against police in the area. About 2,050 army troops and 450 marines in armored cars and helicopters took over the so-called Complexo da Maré, reinforcing police presence where 130,000 people live in 15 shantytowns, Major Alberto Horita said.
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| Two men held for attacking six people from northeast | | | Gurgaon, April 5 (IANS) Two men living in rented accommodation here were arrested for attacking six people from the northeast, police said Saturday. They were identified as Vijay Kumar, a resident of 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, and Rambihari from village Sikanderpur Sahu in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district. |
| 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. |
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