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| Dutch police storm Greenpeace ship trying to block Arctic oil delivery | | | Dutch police stormed a Greenpeace ship on Thursday to prevent environmental activists blocking delivery of the first oil from Russia's new Arctic drilling platform reaching port in Rotterdam. The Rainbow Warrior was crewed by the activists who were detained last year by Russia in the Arctic, the campaign group said. Greenpeace is opposed to drilling in the Arctic Sea which it says risks causing a catastrophe in a fragile ecosystem. A Reuters photographer said activists had draped banners saying "No Arctic Oil" from the Russian vessel. |
| China blames religious extremists for station bombing | |  By Michael Martina URUMQI China (Reuters) - An attack at a train station in China's western city of Urumqi was carried out by two religious extremists, who both died in the blast, the government said on Thursday. Three people were killed, including the assailants, and 79 wounded in a bomb and knife attack at the station on Wednesday, according to the government and state media, as President Xi Jinping was wrapping up a visit to the area. The Xinjiang regional government said on its official news website (www.ts.cn) that the two attackers who were killed had "long been influenced by extremist religious thought and participated in extremist religious activities". It identified one of them as Sedierding Shawuti, a 39-year-old man from Xayar county in Xinjiang's Aksu region.
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| Two inmates dead, scores injured, in suspected gas explosion at Florida jail | | | By Eric M. Johnson REUTERS - Two inmates were killed and between 100 and 150 prisoners and guards injured in an apparent gas explosion at a jail in northern Florida late on Wednesday, a county official said. The blast partly levelled the four-story Escambia County Jail's central booking facility, which held roughly 600 inmates, at about 11 p.m., county spokeswoman Kathleen Castro said. "The building is still standing, its just unstable and partially collapsed," Castro told Reuters, describing the incident as an "apparent gas explosion". There was no fire," she said, adding that the blast may have been related to severe storms that have hit the southern United States. |
| Riot police clash with May Day protesters in Istanbul | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Evrim Ergin ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber pellets on Thursday to try to stop thousands of people, some armed with fire bombs and fireworks, from defying a ban on May Day rallies and reaching Istanbul's central Taksim square. Citing security fears, authorities shut parts of the city's public transport system and deployed thousands of riot police, blocking access to Taksim, a traditional union rallying point and the focus of weeks of anti-government protests last summer. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who warned last week against efforts to march on Taksim, has cast both last year's street protests and a corruption scandal dogging his government since December as part of a plot to undermine him. The Istanbul governor's office said it had advance information that "illegal terror organisations and their extensions" would resort to violence to stoke unrest.
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| Thai government supporters fear July poll disruption | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai government supporters welcomed on Thursday the prospect of a July election and said the Election Commission had to prevent disruption by anti-government protesters who insist that reforms are brought in before any vote. The government and Election Commission agreed on Wednesday to hold a general election on July 20 but there are doubts an orderly vote can be held or can end a long-running political crisis and restore investor confidence. "Protesters could block the polls and the result could be nullified again." A Feb. 2 election was held after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament in December in response to street protests aimed at ousting her. But the main opposition party boycotted the polls and protesters prevented voting in 28 constituencies.
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