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| Myanmar rebel leaders want greater autonomy before signing ceasefire | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters - Rebel leaders in Myanmar on Wednesday urged the government to amend the military-drafted constitution to give more autonomy to ethnic minorities, a step they said would make it easier to sign a national ceasefire agreement. In a statement released at the end of a six-day summit in Pansang on the border with China, the heads of a dozen rebel armies risen from various ethnic groups in Myanmar also called on the government to cease its military offensives against them and to create a federal system. The rebel leaders had gathered at the headquarters of the powerful United Wa State Army to discuss a draft ceasefire agreement finalised in March after almost two years of talks by negotiators.
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| Thai army finds six more bodies near suspected human trafficking camp | |  By Surapan Boonthanom PADANG BESAR, Thailand (Reuters) - Authorities in Thailand have dug up the bodies of six apparent Rohingya migrants from Myanmar not far from a mass grave found at the weekend, the military said on Wednesday, and U.N. officials called for a regional effort to end human trafficking. The discovery was made at a rubber plantation in Thailand's Songkhla province near its border with Malaysia around 4 km (2.5 miles) from the site where the 26 bodies were found a few days previously. "Villagers living nearby told us the bodies buried here are the bodies of Rohingya migrants from Myanmar from nearby human trafficking camps," Colonel Jatuporn Klampasut, deputy secretary general of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) Region 4, told Reuters. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR appealed for a joint response to human trafficking by countries in the region, including addressing the root causes that drove people to turn to smugglers in the first place.
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| Indonesia says tourism not hit by campaign over death sentences | |  By Matt Smith DUBAI (Reuters) - The number of Australian visitors to Indonesia rose in March and the island nation's tourism industry has seen no impact from a Boycott Bali protest over death sentences passed on two Australian drug traffickers, a government official said. Nia Niscaya, director of international tourism promotion at the Minister of Tourism, said however that figures for April, the month when the executions of a total of eight drug traffickers were actually carried out, were not yet available. Visitors from Australia, with has deep commercial and political ties with its neighbour, rose 6.6 percent to 84,400 in March, according to data from Indonesia's tourism ministry.
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| U.S. to discuss pause in Yemen fighting with Saudis - Kerry | |  By Lesley Wroughton DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - The United States is concerned about the worsening humanitarian situation in Yemen and will discuss a possible pause in fighting with Saudi officials on Wednesday to try to get food, fuel and medicine to civilians, Secretary of State John Kerry said. "The situation is getting more dire by the day and we are concerned about that," Kerry told a news conference during a visit to Djibouti, the first secretary of state to visit the Horn of Africa nation. Kerry said the United States had urged both sides in the Yemen conflict to comply with humanitarian laws and to ensure that civilians were spared in the fighting. He announced $68 million in new aid for relief agencies working in Yemen as humanitarian groups warned fuel shortages could affect their efforts to tackle the crisis.
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| Baltimore asks U.S. Justice Dept to investigate police practices | |  REUTERS - Baltimore will ask the U.S. Justice Department to review its police department for civil rights violations after the death of a black man from injuries sustained in police custody, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said on Wednesday. The investigation will look into police "patterns and practices" and potential violations of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which bars unreasonable searches and seizures, Rawlings-Blake told a news conference. (Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Susan Heavey)
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| Russian report blames Kiev for downing of MH17 airliner - newspaper | |  An independent Russian newspaper on Wednesday published what it said was a report by Russian military engineers suggesting a Malaysian airliner shot down in Ukraine was hit by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile fired by Ukrainian forces. Novaya Gazeta, an investigative newspaper, said the report did not prove whether Kiev's forces or the pro-Russian separatists they are fighting had shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17 last year, killing all 298 people aboard. "It is most likely that Flight MH17 was destroyed in mid-air by the impact of a 9M38M1 surface-to-air missile ... the main missile in the 'BUK-M1' system," said the report published by Novaya Gazeta. The report, which the newspaper published in full, said the military engineers' calculations, largely based on open sources, suggested the plane was fired on from a position where Ukrainian government forces' BUK missile systems were stationed.
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| India investigates bank accounts of Gates Foundation - source | |  By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is investigating the finances of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a senior Home Ministry official said on Wednesday, part of a growing crackdown on thousands of foreign funded charities and activists that has alarmed Washington. A spokeswoman for the Gates Foundation said it had not been informed of any investigation. Home Ministry spokesman K.S. Dhatwalia denied the government was investigating it. The senior ministry official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, said authorities found discrepancies in financial transactions between the foundation and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), a renowned policy institute.
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| McCarthy loses more than hair in barbershop robbery | |  Former South Africa striker Benni McCarthy became a target for more than autograph hunters when he was robbed at gunpoint in a Johannesburg barbershop. McCarthy, 37, back in his homeland as a pundit for a local television station's coverage of Europe's Champions League, which he won with Porto in 2004, had jewellery and other personal items stolen but was not harmed. McCarthy's long-time friend Percy Adams, who was with him at the time, told PowerFM: "The one man went straight to Benni and put his gun to his ear.
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| Germany uncovers right-wing cell as arsonists hit refugee shelter | | | By Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - German police detained four people suspected of setting up a right-wing extremist group that was planning bomb attacks on Muslims and refugees, as a separate investigation began into arsonists who damaged a shelter for asylum-seekers. The developments underline concern about increasing hostility towards rising immigration in Germany, which last year saw the emergence of grassroots anti-Islam group PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West). PEGIDA's marches in Dresden have been peaceful, but the new group, called "Old School Society" (OSS), intended to "carry out attacks in Germany in small groups against notable Salafists, mosques and asylum-seekers' shelters," public prosecutors said. "To this end, from what we know so far the four people detained obtained explosives for possible terrorist attacks," said prosecutors, adding that it was not yet clear if the group already had specific targets or dates in mind. |
| Bollywood star Salman Khan gets 5 years in prison for hit-and-run | |  By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - A court sentenced Bollywood film star Salman Khan on Wednesday to five years in prison for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident, the latest twist in the tumultuous career of one of the country's biggest box-office draws. The district criminal court's order drove down shares of firms connected to the actor and, if upheld, will derail major projects in the pipeline of what is the world's most prolific movie industry.
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| India closer to biggest tax reform in decades | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A major tax reform cleared a key hurdle in the parliament on Wednesday, when the Lok Sabha passed a bill to replace a patchwork of levies by the central and state governments with a single nationwide sales tax. One of major reforms proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the goods and services tax (GST) has been hailed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as the biggest reform in India since independence in 1947. Approval in the Lok Sabha marks an important victory for Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but the bill still must pass in the Rajya Sabha.
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| Almost 40,000 flee Burundi amid political crisis | |  By Patrick Nduwimana BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Nearly 40,000 refugees have fled Burundi to neighbouring Rwanda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last month, amid protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term, the United Nations said on Wednesday. A total of 16 people were injured in protests held in different parts of the capital on Wednesday, the Burundi Red Cross said. The opposition says Burundi's constitution and a peace deal that ended the civil war limits Nkurunziza to two terms. Chauvineau Mugwengezo, spokesman for the alliance for Democratic Change, a coalition of five opposition parties rejecting Nkurunziza's bid for the third term, accused their opponents of causing most of Wednesday's injuries.
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| Corrected - U.S.' Kerry talks diplomatic ties on surprise visit to Somalia | | | (Corrects paragraph 8 to make clear the "Blackhawk Down" incident was "one of the deadliest days" for the U.S. military since Vietnam, not "the deadliest day") By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The United States will begin the process of reestablishing a diplomatic mission in Somalia after a more than 20-year break, John Kerry said on Tuesday as he became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the Horn of Africa nation. Western nations have poured aid into Somalia to help reconstruction and prevent it from sliding back into the hands of al Shabaab. "In recognition of the progress made and the promise to come, the United States will begin the process of establishing the premises for a diplomatic mission in (the Somali capital) Mogadishu," Kerry said in a statement. During a three-hour visit inside the perimeter of the city's airport, surrounded by seven-foot walls of sandbags, Kerry met Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the prime minister and provincial leaders. |
| Gay couple win UK surrogacy battle over baby girl | | | By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A baby girl conceived through surrogacy will be removed from her biological mother and live with her father and his gay partner instead, a High Court judge in Britain has ruled. The father, who donated sperm, said the mother had agreed to be the gay couple's surrogate, but she said they had agreed that she should be the baby's main parent. Ms Justice Alison Russell ruled that the mother had misled the two men when making the informal arrangement over the child, now 15 months old, and had always intended to keep it, rather than changing her mind during the pregnancy. Surrogacy campaigners say such cases are very rare and highlight the importance of surrogacy arrangements being built on friendship and trust between the mother and couple involved. |
| Hezbollah fighters target Syrian al Qaeda group gathering along border | | | AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah militants targeted a gathering of leaders of Syria's Nusra front in an area near Lebanon's eastern border with Syria, the group's television channel said on Wednesday. The Shi'ite Muslim group, which is a staunch ally of Syria's President Bashar al Assad, has sent hundreds of combatants to fight alongside his forces. The television channel gave no details except that the operation took place in an area along the border that witnesses frequent clashes. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Dominic Evans) |
| Pakistan seizes 3 tonnes of hashish bound for Middle East, Europe | | | By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have seized more than 3 tonnes of hashish bound for the Middle East and Europe on an oil tanker, one of the country's largest hauls of the drug ever, police and coastguard officials said on Wednesday. The tanker had set sail from Karachi and three Pakistani men from the southwestern province of Baluchistan had been arrested for drug trafficking, police said. "The hashish was kept in secret compartments especially meant for drug smuggling," said police officer Chakar Khan. Pakistan is a producer of hashish and opium, which is refined into heroin, but most of the drugs smuggled out of the country come from neighbouring Afghanistan, the world's biggest producer of both drugs, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. |
| Boston bomber's lawyers aim to paint Tsarnaev as teen gone astray | |  Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will call more witnesses on Wednesday as they seek to spare his life by painting him as a normal teen who went astray when he followed his older, domineering brother in carrying out the attack. He was also convicted of killing a police officer three days later. Over the past two weeks lawyers for Tsarnaev have called three dozen witnesses who described him as a mild-mannered teenager who, even as his college grades slipped, remained the kind and well-liked youngster he had been as a child. "He never caused harm to anybody or disrespected anybody,"college student Henry Alvarez, who wrestled on the same team as Tsarnaev in high school, told jurors on Tuesday. Martin Richard, 8, Chinese exchange student Lu Lingzi, 23, and restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, died in the bombing. The Tsarnaev brothers also shot dead Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier.
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| China launches new campaign against sex-selective abortions | |  China has begun a new campaign against illegal prenatal gender tests and sex-selective abortions to help address the country's gender imbalance, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday. Like most Asian nations, China has a traditional bias for sons, who are seen the only guarantee to pass on the family line. The new campaign will run under November, and concentrate on health centres and family planning institutions, as well as illegal fertility agencies, clinics and itinerant doctors, the report said. In late 2013, China said it would ease family planning restrictions to allow millions of families to have two children in the most significant liberalisation of the one-child policy - originally introduced to slow population growth - in decades.
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