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| Hezbollah, Syrian army make big gains in border battle | |  By Tom Perry, Mariam Karouny and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah and Syria's army made big advances against insurgents in mountains north of Damascus on Wednesday, Hezbollah and Syrian state media said, shoring up President Bashar al-Assad's grip on the border zone. The gains in the crucial Qalamoun region close to Lebanon against groups including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front follow significant defeats for Assad elsewhere, notably in Syria's northwest near the Turkish border. Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Shi'ite group with a powerful militia, has been a vital ally for Assad in the four-year-long conflict that has become a focal point for the struggle between Tehran and Sunni Saudi Arabia, which has backed the insurgency.
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| Suspected Boko Haram militants attack Nigeria's Maiduguri | | | Suspected Boko Haram militants are attacking Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri in Borno state from a cashew plantation a few kilometres from the Giwa barracks, a military source said. "I'm trapped near the University of Maiduguri now," local resident Kabir Olaoye told Reuters by phone. |
| Gunmen storm guest house in upmarket area of Afghan capital | | | By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a building in an upmarket area of the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday night, and shooting was continuing, an army commander said. Police and special forces were at the scene, said Qadam Shah Shaheem, commander of the Afghan National Army's 111th Corps. Kolola Pushta is home to several international guest houses and hotels. The Taliban have stepped up attacks since they announced their "spring offensive" last month, after most foreign forces pulled out at the end of last year. |
| Barca chiefs to stand trial in Neymar tax fraud case | |  A Spanish judge has ordered Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu, his predecessor Sandro Rosell and the club to stand trial on charges they committed tax fraud in the signing of Brazil forward Neymar. Judge Jose de la Mata has given the defendants, who deny any wrongdoing, 10 days in which to present their defence in writing, according to court documents published on Wednesday. Bartomeu was a vice president under Rosell when Neymar was signed from Santos in 2013 in a complex deal involving multiple contracts with the player and his father. In total, Bartomeu, Rosell, who resigned over the allegations, and the club have been accused of defrauding the tax office of nearly 13 million euros ($14.77 million).
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| Russian court quashes bid to jail Kremlin critic Navalny | |  By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court on Wednesday rejected a bid by law enforcement officials to have Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny jailed for violating the terms of his suspended five-year sentence on embezzlement charges. Navalny, who led mass street protests against President Vladimir Putin in 2011-2012, denies any wrongdoing in the 2013 case that saw him convicted for stealing from a state firm and says it is part of a Kremlin campaign to stifle dissent. A judge ruled that any violations of his suspended sentence were not "systemic" and that he could remain at liberty. Navalny is also serving another suspended sentence of three and a half years in jail for a separate conviction last year that saw his brother Oleg imprisoned.
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| North Carolina man sentenced for providing material support to Islamic State | | | A North Carolina man accused of seeking to join Islamic State insurgents fighting in Syria was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 20 years in prison for trying to provide material support to the group, the Justice Department said. Donald Ray Morgan, 44, pleaded guilty in October to allegations he tried to help the militants between January and August of last year, according to U.S. prosecutors in Greensboro, North Carolina. Prosecutors said Morgan left North Carolina for Lebanon and tried unsuccessfully in May 2014 to travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants. |
| EU plans migrant quotas, Britain opts out | |  By Robin Emmott and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU announced a plan on Wednesday to distribute asylum-seekers more fairly around its member states and take in 20,000 more refugees, but Britain's newly re-elected Conservative leaders rejected any quota system imposed from Brussels. Shocked by thousands of deaths among people trying to reach Europe from North Africa across the Mediterranean, the European Union is trying to put in place a fairer way to resettle asylum-seekers at a time when anti-immigration parties are on the rise. Italy and other southern European countries are clamouring for help to relieve the influx. Germany, Sweden, Austria and others are favoured destinations for migrants who, once ashore, travel across the bloc's open borders to claim asylum.
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| Burundi army officer says he has deposed president, crowds cheer | |  By Njuwa Maina BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - A Burundian general said on Wednesday he had deposed President Pierre Nkurunziza for seeking an unconstitutional third term in office and was forming a transitional government, after more than two weeks of protests against the election bid. With Nkurunziza abroad at an African summit to discuss the crisis, the presidency rubbished the declaration by Niyombare, who had been fired as Nkurunziza's intelligence chief in February, saying on Facebook that the coup had been "foiled". "We consider it as a joke, not as a military coup," presidential aide Willy Niyamitwe told Reuters East African leaders in Tanzania condemned the bid to oust the president and called for a return to "constitutional order". A Tanzanian official said Nkurunziza had not attended the summit meetings in Dar es Salaam, and had left to return to Burundi.
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| Music producer sentenced to 10 years in prison for fraud | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A music producer who once worked with the likes of Whitney Houston and Kenny G was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Wednesday for a multimillion-dollar scheme that defrauded dozens of investors. Charles Huggins, 69, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein in New York seven months after a jury convicted him on fraud and conspiracy counts. Instead, he used the proceeds to finance an expensive lifestyle, including a Mercedes Benz, a luxury Manhattan apartment and high-end restaurant bills, authorities said. Among the victims was former National Football League star Emmitt Smith, according to court papers. |
| UK Prince Charles' letters to ministers finally made public | |  Prince Charles said British troops were under-resourced during the war in Iraq, according to letters from him published on Wednesday which the government had tried to keep secret in case they cast doubt over the future king's political neutrality. The comment about the armed forces came in a letter from the 66-year-old prince to former Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2004, one of 27 letters he wrote to former ministers in 2004 and 2005 which were released to the public after a decade of government attempts to block publication. "I fear that this is just one more example of where our Armed Forces are being asked to do an extremely challenging job (particularly in Iraq) without the necessary resources," the prince wrote in the letter to Blair.
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| Gunmen kill 43 in bus attack in Pakistan's Karachi | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen on motorcycles boarded a bus and opened fire on commuters in Pakistan's volatile southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least 43, police said, and militants affiliated with Islamic State claimed responsibility. Police Superintendent Najib Khan told Reuters there were six gunmen and that all the passengers were Ismailis, a minority Shi'ite Muslim sect. Pakistan is mostly Sunni. Militant group Jundullah, which has attacked Muslim minorities before, claimed responsibility.
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| Israel's vulnerable governing coalition passes first test | |  By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emerging government scraped by its first parliamentary test on Wednesday, paving the way for the new cabinet to be sworn in after two months of difficult coalition building. By a narrow 61-59 vote, parliament ratified a legislative amendment allowing Netanyahu to increase the number of ministers he can appoint to his cabinet, enabling him to meet demands from his own Likud party and other coalition partners. The guidelines of the right-leaning government, released on Wednesday, made no mention of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - the foundation of U.S.-led peace efforts, which collapsed in April last year.
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| Scottish nationalists to PM Cameron: You cannot rule out another referendum | |  Scottish nationalists cautioned British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday that he could not rule out giving Scotland another independence referendum if Scots voted for one in a parliamentary election. On Sunday, Cameron ruled out another independence referendum despite spectacular gains by Scottish nationalists in the May 7 election, saying Scots had "emphatically" rejected a breakaway in last year's referendum. Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon said there could only be another independence vote if Scots voted for a party which proposed one in a Scottish parliamentary election.
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