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| Police arrest 140 for religious clashes in Vadodara as Modi tours U.S. |
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 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police in Vadodara have arrested 140 people after two men were stabbed during violence between Hindus and Muslims that left more than a dozen injured and was triggered by an image posted on Facebook, officials said on Monday. The violence in Gujarat coincides with a visit to the United States by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is set to meet President Barack Obama later on Monday on a trip emphasizing India's economic potential. ...
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| Delhi must regulate agencies to stop abuse of maids, activists say |
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 By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in the Indian capital must enforce an order to regulate hundreds of employment agencies behind the trafficking, abuse and exploitation of children and women working as domestic servants in middle-class homes, activists said on Monday. Many maids in India face physical and sexual violence or have their salaries withheld in a business that has for years thrived on human trafficking by unregulated employment agencies. ...
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| Jailed Azeri activist awarded human rights prize |
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| STRASBOURG France (Reuters) - A pan-European rights watchdog awarded a prize on Monday to a democracy campaigner jailed in Azerbaijan, underlining its concern about human rights in the former Soviet republic. Anar Mammadli, the head of the independent Baku-based Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre, was jailed in December on charges of tax evasion and illegal business activity after documenting widespread electoral violations. Critics have said his imprisonment is part of a government-led crackdown on dissent in the oil-rich nation. "Mr. ... |
| Belgium launches its biggest Islamist extremist trial |
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 By Robert-Jan Bartunek ANTWERP Belgium (Reuters) - Belgian prosecutors accused 46 members of Islamist group Sharia4Belgium on Monday of belonging to a terrorist organisation and brainwashing young men in Belgium into fighting a holy war in Syria. Only eight of those charged were present in the heavily secured court room in the northern Belgian port city of Antwerp on Monday. The others were still said to be in Syria. Belgium's biggest case against Islamist extremism highlights its status as a fertile recruiting ground for militants. ...
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| China censors try to blunt Hong Kong protests, don't always succeed |
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 By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese censors and opponents of the protests sweeping Hong Kong are engaging in a cat-and-mouse game with demonstrators and commentators in a bid to stop news of the unrest spreading online and, in particular, reaching the mainland. Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters have braved police tear gas to make their views known. Spreading the word over Western and Chinese social networks is a lot safer, but it is becoming increasingly difficult as mobile phone networks are disrupted and concerns about possible surveillance grow. ...
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| German govt condemns pictures showing refugees abused |
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| By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government on Monday condemned suspected cases of abuse against refugees in which asylum-seekers were maltreated by security guards and even forced to lie in a bed filled with vomit. Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said pictures published in German media that appear to show private security guards abusing refugees were repulsive and shocking. Rights groups also criticised the apparent abuses, which evoked the violations by American guards at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq that emerged in 2004. ... |
| UK's Osborne vows crackdown on tax-avoiding tech firms |
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 By William Schomberg and William James LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne said on Monday he was examining changes to clamp down on tax avoidance by multinationals which the government says are depriving Britain's public coffers of hundreds of millions of pounds each year. "Some technology companies go to extraordinary lengths to pay little or no tax here," Osborne told an annual conference of his Conservative Party. "If you abuse our tax system, you abuse the trust of the British people. And my message to those companies is clear: we will put a stop to it. ...
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| Spanish diplomat found stabbed to death at home in Khartoum - police |
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| KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Spanish diplomat was found stabbed to death in his home in Sudan's capital Khartoum on Monday, Sudanese police said. The 61-year-old official headed the Spanish embassy's visa section and had worked in the country for three years, a police statement said. A diplomatic source in Spain confirmed the death, telling Reuters: "Local authorities have opened a police investigation at the highest level." Attacks on foreigners are rare in the desert city sited at the meeting point of the Blue and White Niles. ... |
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