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| Pizza crust links man to Washington, D.C. quadruple slaying - media | | | (Reuters) - Police in Washington, D.C., said they have identified a suspect in the killing of four people found in a home that was torched last week, with local media reporting that a pizza crust may have tied him to the scene. The bodies of four people including businessman Savvas Savopoulos were found inside the multi-million dollar house in a neighborhood near Vice President Joe Biden's official residence last week after a blaze that Washington police immediately labeled as "very suspicious." Police have now identified a Maryland man, Daron Dylon Wint, 34, as a suspect in the case and have obtained a warrant for his arrest. |
| Exclusive: Turkish intelligence helped ship arms to Syrian Islamist rebel areas - court documents | | | By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ADANA, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's state intelligence agency helped deliver arms to parts of Syria under Islamist rebel control during late 2013 and early 2014, according to a prosecutor and court testimony from gendarmerie officers seen by Reuters. The witness testimony contradicts Turkey's denials that it sent arms to Syrian rebels and, by extension, contributed to the rise of Islamic State, now a major concern for the NATO member. Syria and some of Turkey's Western allies say Turkey, in its haste to see President Bashar al-Assad toppled, let fighters and arms over the border, some of whom went on to join the Islamic State militant group which has carved a self-declared caliphate out of parts of Syria and Iraq. |
| Phone-hacking victims win large damages from UK's Trinity Mirror | | | By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Eight mostly celebrity victims of phone-hacking won a total of 1.2 million pounds ($1.9 million) in damages from Britain's Trinity Mirror newspaper group on Thursday in a court ruling likely to raise the cost of dealing with any future claims. The owner of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror tabloids said it had raised its provision to deal with the fallout from phone-hacking by 16 million pounds in addition to the 12 million pounds it had already set aside. The victims awarded damages were actress Sadie Frost, retired footballer Paul Gascoigne, BBC executive Alan Yentob, three TV soap opera actors, a TV producer and a flight attendant who had dated former England footballer Rio Ferdinand. |
| Egypt's judges new frontline in battle against militancy | | | By Yara Bayoumy and Haitham Ahmed CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces have grown accustomed to being targeted by Islamist militants. Militants are estimated to have killed more than 600 soldiers and police since the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013. A violent campaign against judges could spell trouble for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has only just managed to deliver some stability following years of upheaval in Egypt. |
| Forced sex camps prepare girls for child marriage in Zambia and Mozambique | | | By Emma Batha CASABLANCA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Girls as young as eight in Mozambique and Zambia are forced to go to camps where they are shown how to please a man in bed in order to prepare them for married life, activists said at an international conference on ending child marriage. Anglican priest Jackson Jones Katete said initiations in Zambia happen among girls between the ages of eight and 13, and may involve girls being cut by women for not performing sexual movements correctly. |
| Eight British men appear in court over multi-million pound gem heist | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Eight British men appeared in court on Thursday accused of carrying out a daring raid in London's jewellery business district that involved abseiling down an elevator shaft and drilling through a two-metre thick wall. The eight, who range in age from 48 to 76, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court charged with conspiracy to burgle the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Ltd building over the course of two nights during the long Easter weekend last month. British media have estimated that the raid on a vault full of boxes in which many of the area's gold, diamond and jewellery businesses kept some of their goods may have been the country's biggest ever heist by value. |
| Greenpeace staff to work for free after India blocks funds | |  By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Greenpeace is determined to keep operating in India even after the central government froze its bank accounts, leaving it with no funds to pay wages to hundreds of staff, its country head said on Thursday. Greenpeace took legal action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist government after bureaucrats found holes in its balance sheet and suspended transactions for six months. "The government has made it impossible for us to operate but our employees are willing to work without pay for one month because they see that the larger commitment has always been to fight against injustice," said Greenpeace India head Samit Aich.
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| Amnesty report says Qatar still failing migrant workers | |  BERNE/DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup, is doing little to improve conditions for migrant workers despite promising reform last year, Amnesty International said on Thursday, but Doha said several of the allegations were inaccurate. Amnesty said little had changed for the 1.5 million migrant workers and soccer's governing body FIFA had a "clear responsibility" to put pressure on Qatar to do more. "Without prompt action, the pledges Qatar made last year are at serious risk of being dismissed as a mere public relations stunt to ensure the Gulf state can cling on to the 2022 World Cup," said Amnesty researcher Mustafa Qadri.
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