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| West Germany's Cold War ransoming of prisoners encouraged fraud - research | | | By Monica Raymunt BERLIN (Reuters) - Former West Germany's decision to buy the freedom of political prisoners in the communist East during the early years of the Cold War may have encouraged fake ransoms demands and more arrests, according to new research. Between 1963 and 1989, West Germany paid to free more than 33,000 political prisoners from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in exchange for around 3 billion deutsche marks' worth of goods that the East badly needed such as food and petroleum. But the ransom payments did not have the humanitarian effect the West had hoped, especially in the early years, author Jan Philipp Woelbern told Reuters in a telephone interview on Thursday. "On the one hand, of course the West Germans helped those prisoners," said Woelbern, who has just published a book on "Human trafficking or humanitarian actions? |
| Pennsylvania officials seek motive for school stabbing rampage | |  By Elizabeth Daley MURRYSVILLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Pennsylvania officials sought a motive on Thursday for what may have driven a 16-year-old student to turn on his classmates with two kitchen knives, stabbing startled victims in the stomach and back, leaving nearly two dozen wounded. Sophomore Alex Hribal was charged with attempted homicide and aggravated assault using 8-inch steel blades in a stabbing frenzy through the hallways of Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville near Pittsburgh on Wednesday. Three teenage boys remained hospitalized in critical condition with stab wounds, while other survivors and witnesses struggled on Thursday to explain the attack. The teen had no psychiatric or disciplinary problems, and his family described him as a good student who mingled well with others, said family lawyer Patrick Thomassey in television interviews.
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| U.N. Security Council OKs peacekeepers for C.African Republic | |  By Michelle Nichols, Crispin and Dembassa-Kette UNITED NATIONS/BANGUI (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council authorized on Thursday the creation of a nearly 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic in a bid to end violence between Christians and Muslims that has threatened to spiral into genocide. At least 13 people were killed when Christian militia forces, known as the "anti-balaka," attacked a town held by Muslim Seleka rebels in a rural area of Central African Republic earlier this week, residents said on Thursday. The 15-member Security Council authorized a U.N. force, to be known as MINUSCA, of up to 10,000 troops, 1,800 police and 20 corrections officers. It also authorizes French troops in the landlocked former French colony to support U.N. peacekeepers.
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| Prosecutor, defence urge community service for Berlusconi | |  By Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) - Both the prosecution and defence have asked a Milan court to order former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to serve a one-year sentence for tax fraud doing community service, judicial sources said on Thursday. The ruling will be crucial in determining what role the 77-year-old - still the most influential political figure on Italy's right - can continue to play in public life over the coming year. Berlusconi could in theory be sent to prison or put under house arrest, but as both the prosecutor and his lawyers favour community service, this appears the most likely outcome. An Italian government agency earlier asked for Berlusconi to work in a centre for the elderly.
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| Group of deputies wants Gorbachev investigated over Soviet break-up | |  By Gabriela Baczynska MOSCOW (Reuters) - A small group of lawmakers have asked Russia's top prosecutor to investigate whether the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, should face treason charges over his role in the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev dismissed the request as an act of publicity-seeking and said there were no grounds to charge him. It follows a surge of patriotism since Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last month, which has revived nostalgia among some Russians for the Soviet Union and boosted President Vladimir Putin's popularity ratings. The seven-page request for an investigation says Gorbachev and other senior Soviet officials violated the law and the will of the people by letting the republics that made up the Soviet Union declare independence and break away.
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| Berlusconi asks to serve fraud sentence helping the disabled | |  By Emilio Parodi ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi has asked to serve his one-year sentence for tax fraud helping disabled people, judicial sources said ahead of a hearing to decide what form of punishment the former Italian prime minister will receive. The court could in theory rule that Berlusconi must go to prison, but this is considered highly unlikely. Berlusconi's most immediate concern is to be able to campaign at the head of his Forza Italia party for European Parliament elections next month. Berlusconi's lawyers proposed to the court that their client could "motivate" disabled people at a new home to be opened in the countryside outside Milan.
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| Rapists do not deserve death, boys commit mistakes: Mulayam | | | Moradabad, April 10 (IANS) In remarks that raised a storm, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said Thursday the death penalty in rape cases was "unfair" as boys make "mistakes". At a Lok Sabha election rally in Moradabad, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister told the gathering that if his party leads the government at the centre, he would change the law. Referring to the Shakti Mills rape case in Mumbai, Mulayam Singh whose party is in power in Uttar Pradesh, said: "Two or three accused have been given the death sentence in Mumbai. |
| One dead, 326 incidents of violence during Bengal poll campaign | | | Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) One person was killed and 313 were injured in 326 incidents of violence related to campaigning and political rivalry in West Bengal since the March 5 announcement of the Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission said Thursday. "One person was killed in Nadia district in an incident March 20," said Amit Roy Chowdhury, the poll panel's officer on special duty. "Such nominees will not have the legal status of election agent but may represent the candidates for meeting officials and may perform non-statutory functions on behalf of the candidate," he said. |
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