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| Al Shabaab car bomb kills four Somalis in U.N. convoy | |  By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Four Somalis were killed when a car bomb hit a United Nations convoy near the capital's international airport on Wednesday, showing the threat still posed by insurgents despite their recent loss of territory. Al Qaeda-aligned Somali Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility. The group, which wants to topple the Western-backed Mogadishu government and impose its version of Islamic law, damaged a U.N. vehicle but did not kill any U.N. staff, a spokesman for the U.N.'s Somalia mission, Aleem Siddique, said. ...
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| Suicide car bomb hits Iran envoy's residence in Yemen, three dead | |  By Yara Bayoumy and Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - A suicide attacker drove a car laden with explosives at the Iranian ambassador's residence in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, security officials said, killing three people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which occurred while Iran's envoy was away. But it mirrored past bombings carried out by al Qaeda's Yemen branch, Sunni Muslim jihadists who often targets state institutions and regard Shi'ite Muslims as heretics. ...
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| Modi under pressure over minister's tirade against non-Hindus | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under growing pressure to sack a minister over a tirade she made against religious minorities, as his outraged opponents disrupted parliament for a second day on Wednesday. Niranjan Jyoti, the junior minister for food processing industries, asked whether the country should be governed by "the children of Ram or the children of bastards" at an election rally. The comment was widely believed to have been an attack on the legitimacy of the country's Muslim and Christian minorities. ...
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| Chinese bank worker shoots colleagues, kills two - Xinhua | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - An employee of China's central bank shot and killed two colleagues on Wednesday at the branch he was working at in the northeastern province of Liaoning, the Xinhua state news agency reported. Incidents of gun violence are rare in China as firearms are tightly controlled and private gun ownership is restricted. Xinhua said the gunman, armed with a hunting rifle, also wounded two people, who were in stable condition. The incident occurred on Wednesday at the branch of the People's Bank of China in Dashiqiao city, the news agency said. ... |
| In Egypt, Mubarak verdict signals return of old order | |  By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Gaber Sayyed lost the use of his legs when an armoured police vehicle crushed them during the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule and ignited hopes for a new era of freedom and accountability. Almost four years on, he says a court's decision to drop charges against Mubarak over the killing of hundreds of demonstrators during the Tahrir Square revolt has extinguished any hope that his sacrifice would have a purpose. "Our hope is only in God. Justice here is lost, justice is broken," he said. ...
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| Hong Kong "Occupy" leaders surrender as pro-democracy protests appear to wither | |  By Clare Jim and Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) - Leaders of Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement surrendered to police on Wednesday for their role in democracy protests that the government has deemed illegal, the latest sign that the civil disobedience campaign may be running out of steam. Three founders turned themselves in a day after calling on students to retreat from protest sites in the Asia financial centre amid fears of further violence, just hours after student leader Joshua Wong had called on supporters to regroup. ...
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