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| 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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| Prosecutor tells Pistorius: "Your version is a lie" | |  By Ed Cropley PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African prosecutor accused Oscar Pistorius on Thursday of lying and altering his story when the Olympic and Paralympic athlete described the night he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. The double amputee sprinter, once revered across the world for his triumph over physical adversity, faces life in prison if convicted in the Pretoria High Court of the murder of Steenkamp, a 29-year-old law graduate and model. Pistorius, known as 'Blade Runner' due to the prosthetics he wears on the track, says he shot Steenkamp in a tragic accident, firing at what he thought was an intruder hiding behind a toilet door in his luxury Pretoria home on February 14 last year. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel, whose reputation as one of South Africa's toughest attorneys has earned him the nickname 'The Pitbull', cross-examined Pistorius while looking through photographs of the couple's bedroom taken after the shooting.
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| Former household staffer says was insulted by Netanyahu's wife | |  A former maintenance man at Benjamin Netanyahu's residence has filed a lawsuit alleging abusive conduct by the prime minister's wife, Sara, another in a series of complaints faced by Israel's first lady. Aides to the Netanyahu family issued a statement denying Guy Eliahu's allegations, calling his lawsuit "a continuation of an organised and orchestrated campaign to recruit embittered former employees" to sue the Israeli leader and damage him politically. A copy of the lawsuit provided on Thursday to Reuters by Eliahu's attorneys, said Sara Netanyahu had chided him with the remark "you're not elegant" and once summoned him back to the residence after midnight to complain that he had not said "goodnight" to the family and demand he heat up some soup. Eliahu, the court papers said, was forced to work "inhuman hours and endure extreme mood changes and inappropriate behaviour" by Sara Netanyahu.
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| Rapists do not deserve death, boys commit mistakes: Mulayam | | | Moradabad, April 10 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday said death penalty in rape cases was "unfair" as boys make "mistakes". Speaking at an election rally in Moradabad, in Uttar Pradesh, the former chief minister told the gathering that death for rapists was not okay and if voted to power at the Centre, he will change the law. "Ladkon se aisi galtiyan ho jaati hain to iska ye matlab nahin ki phaansi de di jaye (Boys do make such mistakes but that does not mean that they should be sent to the gallows)," he told the gathering. |
| Trinamool activists attack poll officials, under EC scanner | | | Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) Trinamool Congress activists Thursday allegedly assaulted Election Commission officials in West Bengal's Malda district for objecting to a party candidate's rally, the district authorities said. The incident happened in Manikchak area in the district, when the officials objected to a motorbike rally being taken out in support of the party's candidate from Malda South, Moajjim Hussain as such rallies are prohibited. As soon as the officials protested, several Trinamool activists assaulted them. Malda District Magistrate S.K. Dwivedi told IANS: "A report in this regard has been sought from the block development officer, and whoever is found guilty will be punished." "The party workers had not taken any police permission for the rally and there were about 250-300 bikes in the rally despite this being prohibited. |
| Death sentence unfair punishment for rape: Mulayam Singh | | | Moradabad, April 10 (IANS) SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday said death penalty in rape cases was "unfair" as boys make "mistakes". At an election rally in Moradabad, in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief also said that if his party leads the government at the Centre, he would change the law. "Death penalty for rape is unfair, boys make mistakes... will change rape laws when we come to power," Mulayam Singh said. |
| FIR against Congress' Bengal chief in murder case | | | Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) A first information report (FIR) has been filed against West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in connection with the murder of a Trinamool Congress supporter in the state's Murshidabad district, police said Thursday. "The FIR was filed late Wednesday night in connection with the murder of Badal Sheikh. 28 people have been named including Chowdhury. So far we have arrested two people," said an officer of Jalangi police station before which the FIR was filed. |
| Seven killed in Himachal accident | | | Shimla, April 10 (IANS) Seven people, including five of a family from Jharkhand, were killed Thursday when their vehicle skidded off the road in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, police said. The people were travelling in a pick-up vehicle when it rolled down 1,200 feet near Jangi village, some 40 km from district headquarters Rekong Peo, Deputy Superintendent of Police Kushal Kumar told IANS over phone. |
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