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| Gunmen storm guest house in Afghan capital, dozens trapped | |  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a guest house popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday evening just before it was due to host a concert, and up to 100 people were reportedly trapped inside as security forces fought to clear the building. Authorities cordoned off the area around the Park Palace guest house in Kabul's Kolola Pushta area immediately after the attack began around 8:30 p.m. local time (1600 GMT). Qadam Shah Shaheem, commander of the Afghan National Army's 111th Corps, said police, army and special forces had rescued at least 16 people, but police cited witnesses as saying as many as 100 people were still inside. "The rescue operation is still on ... It is a big, two-storey building with several rooms, so it will take some time to clear it." Kolola Pushta is home to several international guest houses and hotels and is near both the Ministry of Interior and the Indian embassy.
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| Exclusive - Czechs stopped potential nuclear tech purchase by Iran: sources | | | By Louis Charbonneau and Robert Muller UNITED NATIONS/PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic blocked an attempted purchase by Iran this year of a large shipment of sensitive technology useable for nuclear enrichment after false documentation raised suspicions, U.N. experts and Western sources said. The incident could add to Western concerns about whether Tehran can be trusted to adhere to a nuclear deal being negotiated with world powers under which it would curb sensitive nuclear work in exchange for sanctions relief. The negotiators are trying to reach a deal by the end of June after hammering out a preliminary agreement on April 2, with Iran committing to reduce the number of centrifuges it operates and agreeing to other long-term nuclear limitations. |
| Syrian opposition armed groups reject U.N. invitation | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian armed groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad have rejected an invitation to U.N. consultations in Geneva, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday, dealing an blow to hopes of reviving talks to end the conflict. The letter from 30 opposition armed groups to the U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is presiding over the consultations, accused him of abandoning his neutrality and "standing on the side of one party without the other". De Mistura's low-key process, which involves him talking separately to scores of interested parties, follows failed attempts by his predecessors to stop the fighting. De Mistura's spokeswoman Jessy Chahine said he had taken note of the letter.
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| Life on the line as Boston bombing jury weighs Tsarnaev's fate | |  By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Wednesday began deliberating whether to sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death or to life in prison for the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264. Federal prosecutors wrapped up their case by arguing that the 21-year-old ethnic Chechen was a terrorist who wanted to punish America in one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. Defence attorneys, meanwhile, contended Tsarnaev was in the thrall of his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who conceived and drove the attack and that he deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of release but not to die by lethal injection. Citing a note that Tsarnaev wrote while hiding in a boat, bleeding, after a gunfight with police four days after the April 15, 2013, attack, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Mellin said Tsarnaev had turned against the country he moved to from Russia with his family a decade before the bombing.
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| Suspected Boko Haram militants attack Nigeria's Maiduguri | | | By By, Lanre and Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri in Borno state on Wednesday from a cashew plantation a few kilometres from the Giwa barracks, military sources said. Abdul Musa, a resident, said the intense fighting had dwindled to a few intermittent gunshots. The city of around two million people is the birthplace of Boko Haram, which has killed thousands in its attempt to carve out an Islamist state in the country's northeast. Maiduguri has not been attacked since two major takeover attempts in late January and early February and several bombings in March. |
| Derailed Amtrak train was not fitted with latest U.S. safety controls | |  By Patrick Rucker and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The commuter rail route where an Amtrak train left the track on Tuesday was not governed by an advanced safety technology meant to prevent high-speed derailments, officials familiar with the investigation said on Wednesday. Positive train control (PTC) automatically slows or even halts trains that are moving too fast or heading into a danger zone. Regulators are examining whether excessive speed led to the derailment on an Amtrak line in Philadelphia, said officials familiar with the investigation. Amtrak has begun installing components of a PTC system but the network is not yet functioning, federal officials said.
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| Crowds cheer as Burundi army officer says he has deposed absent president | |  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 re-election bid. With Nkurunziza having gone to Tanzania to discuss the crisis with East African leaders, the presidency dismissed 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. A Tanzanian official said he had not attended the talks in Dar es Salaam, and had left to return to Burundi.
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| Brotherhood leader dies in detention in Egypt - sources | | | An imprisoned leader of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood died on Wednesday, security sources said, with supporters claiming his death was caused by authorities' failure to provide proper medical attention. Farid Ismail, 57, was a parliamentarian under president Mohamed Mursi, the Brotherhood leader overthrown in mid-2013 by then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following mass protests. Sisi, now president, pledged to eradicate the Brotherhood and launched a security crackdown that has landed thousands of Mursi supporters in prison. The security sources said Ismail had died of liver failure in a Cairo hospital, where he had been moved days earlier from a jail in the Nile Delta town of Zagazig. |
| White House says concerned about Syria chemical weapons allegations | | | The White House on Wednesday said it is concerned that international inspectors have received "credible allegations" that chemical weapons are still being used in Syria. The government of Bashar al-Assad had pledged to hand over its chemical weapons stockpiles after the United States threatened military intervention in 2013 following sarin gas attacks that killed hundreds of residents in a Damascus suburb. |
| 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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| 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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| 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. |
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