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| Computer error a possible cause of Poland airline outage:prosecutors | | | Polish prosecutors are looking into whether the outage which grounded dozens of jets operated by Polish airline Lot at Warsaw's main airport on Sunday may have been caused by a computer system error, a spokesman for the Warsaw prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. The prosecutor's spokesman said computer error was one of the versions being examined. Lot's spokesman was not immediately available for comment. |
| About 40 killed in suspected Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria - witnesses | | | About 40 people have been killed by suspected Boko Haram militants who torched houses and shot people as they fled in two villages in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, witnesses told Reuters on Wednesday. The attackers, who arrived on motorcycles and vehicles mounted with guns, shot residents and looted shops in the villages of Debiro Biu and Debiro Hawul late on Monday night and into Tuesday morning, the witnesses said. Details of the attack did not emerge for several hours due to poor telecommunications networks in the remote villages in northeast Nigeria, a region in which Boko Haram has killed thousands in a six-year bid to set up an Islamic state. |
| German robbers chased away by shopkeeper wielding vacuum cleaner | | | A German shop assistant in a late-night convenience store chased away two armed robbers demanding money with the hose of a vacuum cleaner she was using to clean her shop in Berlin's Neukoelln district, police said on Wednesday. One of the two would-be robbers was brandishing a pistol and demanded she turn over the money from her cash register in the attempted robbery just after midnight on Tuesday. "They then fled without the loot," Berlin police said in a statement. |
| Feature - Dreams for safer Rio fade a year before Olympics | |  By Stephen Eisenhammer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - When shots rang out last month in the first gun battle in seven years between Rio de Janeiro police and drug traffickers in Santa Marta, its reputation as a peaceful slum with stunning views and a popular samba night was shattered. No one was injured in the maze of alleys and steps of the "favela" that is home to 6,000 people, but the shootout raised concerns a police campaign - for which Santa Marta was the model - is running out of steam a year before half a million visitors arrive for the 2016 Olympics. The shootout, in the wake of the stabbing deaths of a cyclist and a German tourist, sparked fears that after years of progress, violence was on the rise again in Brazil's postcard city.
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| Indonesia bill allows MPs hundreds of millions in setback to war on graft | | | Indonesia's parliament voted to allow MPs use of nearly a billion dollars in state funds to develop their constituencies, which a minister said on Wednesday would only encourage more graft in one of the world's most corrupt countries. At the same time, the house pressed ahead with debating a bill that would further weaken the country's anti-corruption agency. Indonesia consistently ranks among the most corrupt countries in the world, according to Transparency International, which also rates its parliament, the house of representatives, as one of its most corrupt public institutions. |
| Cricket tycoon Lalit Modi declares "war," rattles government | |  Pressure is growing on the foreign minister and a top member of the ruling party over help they gave to a disgraced cricket tycoon, as the first major scandal to touch Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government begins to threaten his reform agenda. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has faced days of scrutiny for her ties to Lalit Modi, scion of an industrial family who almost singlehandedly turned the Indian Premier League into the world's richest. "This is war," Modi, who is not related to the prime minister, has declared in recent days from a hotel in Montenegro.
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| Turks unlikely to change their vote for snap election - pollster | | | Turks are unlikely to change their vote in any snap election soon, pollsters said on Wednesday, even after the June 7 election deprived parliament of a single-party government and raised the possibility of coalition politics. Analysts, politicians and at least one previous poll have suggested the governing AK Party would win stronger support in the case of a snap election, citing wide discomfort in the electorate with the prospect of a coalition government. "People have not regretted their choices at the ballot box," said Ozer Sencar, head of the Metropoll Research Center, which carried out the survey. |
| World's largest charity launches anti-slavery centre | | | By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - United Way Worldwide, the world's largest charity, has launched a centre to combat modern-day slavery and is pushing to make the eradication of human trafficking a priority for the next U.S. president. Mara Vanderslice Kelly, the centre's executive director, said she wants every U.S. presidential candidate to answer the question of how much money they would put towards ending trafficking. Experts estimate more than 21 million people worldwide are victims of human trafficking, with many working in the sex industry, as domestic help, on farms, in fisheries and construction sites. |
| Palestinians to submit first case material against Israel to ICC | | | The Palestinian Authority will hand over documentation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the first time on Thursday outlining alleged Israeli crimes in the occupied West Bank and the 2014 Gaza war, its mission to the Netherlands said. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki will give two files to the court's prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, the statement issued on Wednesday said. The Palestinian Authority joined the Hague-based court in April and Bensouda has launched a preliminary inquiry into the situation. |
| Exclusive: International tribunal looks like best chance for MH17 justice - Dutch sources | |  By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands is discussing with its allies an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing a Malaysian airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine last year, sources familiar with the discussions have told Reuters. The chance of a successful prosecution is considered slim at best but the Dutch still hope that, by pushing for a U.N.-style court with the backing of Western allies, they could pressure Russia, whose role in the process is critical, into cooperating. Of the 298 dead passengers and crew on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, two-thirds were Dutch.
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| Iraqi Shi'ite special forces take lead in Baiji fight | |  By Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite force said it is relying more heavily on elite units who fought in Syria in the battle against Islamic State for control of a critical Iraqi refinery and is now well placed to counter the militants' guerrilla warfare. Iraq's biggest refinery complex near the town of Baiji north of Baghdad has changed hands several times over many months of fighting and is one of the main fronts in Iraq's bid to retake the third of its territory held by the Sunni insurgents. Haji Jawad al-Talabawi, a military commander and spokesman for the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, said it is now more effective in street combat and he is hopeful that the tide will turn in favour of government troops and their Shi'ite militia allies.
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| Israel arrests Druze suspects in Syria ambulances attacks | | | By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel arrested nine Druze Arabs on Wednesday over two attacks, one of them fatal, on ambulances bringing casualties from Syria's civil war to Israeli hospitals, security sources said on Wednesday. Monday's attacks in northern Israel and the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights drew strong censure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government is trying to prevent a spillover of sectarianism from Syria while offering limited humanitarian aid. Inflamed by media reports suggesting some of the hundreds of wounded Syrians who have been admitted to Israel for medical care belong to jihadi rebel groups fighting the Druze in Syria, the crowds of Druze blocked two army ambulances for inspection. |
| Soldier's heroics lift gloom for Afghans tired of Taliban attacks | |  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - On Monday morning, Essa Khan was just another Afghan soldier earning about $200 a month to guard national institutions in Kabul from militant attack. Khan's overnight fame underlines Afghans' yearning for good news in a year when violence has risen, Taliban insurgents appear to be gaining ground and a government formed after last year's messy election is still mired in disputes. Recalling the dramatic events, Khan told Reuters on Tuesday that as soon as a car bomb exploded outside the parliamentary compound, he prepared for more insurgents to attack.
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