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| Kerry pushes for pause in Yemen fighting in Saudi meetings | |  By Lesley Wroughton RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday to press for a pause in Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen, so food and medicine can be delivered to people caught in the fighting. "The situation is getting more dire by the day and we are concerned about that," Kerry said before flying to Riyadh. I am convinced of their desire to implement the pause." Kerry suggested he spoke to Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif this week to convince the Iranian-backed Houthi fighters to also agree to a pause. A Saudi-led Arab coalition began air strikes in Yemen on March 26 against the Houthi fighters.
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| Israel's Netanyahu clinches deal for new coalition government - sources | |  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clinched a deal on Wednesday to form a new government after reaching agreement with a far-right party, political sources said, just two hours before a deadline was due to expire. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Netanyahu's Likud party and the Jewish Home had plans to announce the deal shortly and then sign it. The coalition will rule by only the slimmest of majorities, 61 of 120 members in Israel's turbulent parliament. (Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan)
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| Turkey holds prosecutors over spy agency's Syria-bound truck | | | Turkey on Wednesday arrested four prosecutors and a gendarme officer for trying to carry out a search of Syria-bound trucks belonging to the state intelligence agency that they suspected of illegally carrying arms for rebels fighting Syria's government. Local media said the arrests were part of a crackdown by President Tayyip Erdogan on followers, within the judiciary and police, of a U.S.-based Islamic cleric he accuses of trying to oust him. The MIT intelligence agency, regarded as strongly loyal to Erdogan, refused to allow the search of the trucks stopped in the southern province of Adana last year. Turkey denies that allegation and any suggestion it has delivered arms to Islamist militants. |
| Afghan judge sentences four to death for mob killing of woman | |  By Mirwais Harooni and Kay Johnson KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan judge sentenced four men to death on Wednesday for the mob killing of 27-year-old woman accused of burning a Koran in Kabul, a case that sparked outrage and rare street protests against religious extremism in the capital. Eight defendants were jailed for 16 years for participating in the attack in which a crowd beat and kicked the woman, named Farkhunda, and set her body on fire in central Kabul as bystanders chanted "God is great". Judge Safiullah Mujadidi found 18 others not guilty due to lack of evidence.
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| First Libor jury trial delayed in London | |  The London trial of Tom Hayes, a former UBS and Citigroup trader who is the first person in the world to face a jury trial over allegations of a conspiracy to rig Libor interest rates, has been delayed by two weeks. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Wednesday the high-profile trial at London's Southwark Crown Court, that had been due to begin on May 11, would now open on May 26. Libor, the London interbank offered rate, is used as a benchmark to help price an estimated $450 trillion of financial contracts around the world, from complex derivatives to loans for households, businesses and individuals.
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| Burundi president says a third term would be his last | |  By Patrick Nduwimana BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi's president said on Wednesday that, if elected for a third term in June, it would be his last and he would not run for office again after that, his spokesman said on Wednesday. President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term has triggered protests in the past week. The constitutional court ruled his first term did not count because he was picked by lawmakers not elected by a vote. East African foreign ministers met Nkurunziza in Burundi on Monday to discuss crisis, which has stoked tensions in a region with a history ethnic conflict and driven almost 40,000 Burundians to flee to neighbouring states.
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| Baltimore asks U.S. Justice Dept to review police practices | |  Baltimore officials asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate 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 review will look into police practices such as frisks, street stops of suspects and arrests to see if they violate the U.S. Constitution, Rawlings-Blake said at a news conference. The request follows the April 19 death of Freddie Gray, 25, who sustained spinal injuries after being arrested by police. His death sparked protests and a day of arson and looting in the largely black city, and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan lifted a state of emergency for Baltimore on Wednesday.
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| Australia to send small refugee group to Cambodia "very shortly" - minister | | | Australia wants to transfer a small group of refugees from one of its offshore detention centres to Cambodia shortly and encourage other asylum seekers to take the same route themselves, its immigration minister said on Wednesday. Canberra has been widely criticised for a tough immigration policy under which asylum seekers have been sent to camps in impoverished Papua New Guinea and the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru, where they face long periods of detention. "We are very keen to get a small group to Cambodia which I have to say will happen very shortly," Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told reporters after talks in Colombo with top Sri Lankan government and navy officials. |
| Burundi president says third term will be last - spokesman | |  Burundi's president told African ministers that, if elected for a third term in June, it would be his last and he would not run for office again after that, his spokesman said on Wednesday. President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term has sparked protests in the past week. Protesters say the constitution limits the president to two terms. "He told them (the ministers) that if re-elected he would not seek another term," presidential spokesman Gervais Abayeho said, after the president met a mission by east African foreign ministers to discuss the political crisis.
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| Germanwings pilot rehearsed crash on outbound flight | |  By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a jet in the French Alps rehearsed the fatal manoeuvre on the morning of the disaster, and had twice been refused medical papers needed to fly, investigators said on Wednesday. The French BEA accident investigation agency said the co-pilot had five times set the autopilot to take the Airbus down to just 100 feet while the captain was out of the cockpit on the outbound flight to Barcelona from Duesseldorf. A preliminary report on the return flight that crashed on March 24, killing all 150 people on board, confirmed a growing picture of painstaking preparations carried out by the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz. Digging into data and cockpit recordings recovered from the jet's "black boxes", the BEA gave the most detailed picture so far on what happened in the cockpit of return flight 9525.
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| Boxing fans accuse Pacquiao of concealing injury | |  Boxer Manny Pacquiao has been sued in several U.S. courts by people who said they paid to watch him fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the "Fight of Century" but felt defrauded by Pacquiao's failure to disclose a pre-bout shoulder injury. At least five lawsuits were filed against Pacquiao on Tuesday in federal courts in California, Illinois, Nevada and Texas. "The lawsuits are factually wrong and legally wrong, and we expect they will be dismissed in due course," Daniel Petrocelli, an attorney for Pacquiao and Top Rank Inc, a promotions company that represents Pacquiao and was also sued, said in a statement on Wednesday. One of the lawsuits also named as defendants Mayweather, Mayweather's promotions company, and several businesses involved in broadcasting and promoting the fight: Time Warner unit Home Box Office Inc, CBS Corp unit Showtime Networks Inc, AT&T Inc, Comcast Corp and DirecTV.
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| Boston bomber "would always go along" with older brother, friend says | |  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - A longtime friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's family on Wednesday told jurors deciding his sentence that he was a studious youth and adored his older brother, who cultivated a deep interest in Islam, politics and conspiracy theories before the 2013 attack. Attorneys for Tsarnaev are seeking to spare his life by painting him as a normal teen who went astray when he followed his older, domineering brother Tamerlan in carrying out the attack on the world-renowned race. "Anytime Tamerlan would say 'Let's do this or that,' he would always go along. He would be a good younger brother, I would say," Elmirza Khozhugov told jurors via a remote video feed from Kazakhstan in Central Asia, where he now lives.
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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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| 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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