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| GM pays $900 million in U.S. criminal settlement over ignition switches |
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 General Motors Co has agreed to pay $900 million and enter a deferred prosecution agreement to end a U.S. criminal investigation into its handling of defective ignition switches in many of its vehicles and which are linked to 124 deaths. The automaker admitted to failing to disclose to its U.S. regulator and the public a potentially lethal safety defect with the switches that kept airbags from deploying in some vehicles. It also admitted to having affirmatively misled consumers about the safety of vehicles affected by the defect.
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| Blasts in central Baghdad leave 23 dead, 68 wounded |
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 At least ?23? people were killed and 68 others wounded when three bombs went off in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods in central Baghdad on Thursday, security and medical sources said. Two suicide blasts claimed by Islamic State killed at least 19 people in the commercial district of Bab al-Shargi, a demonstration that the Sunni insurgent group can still launch attacks in the heart of the capital despite government efforts to thwart them. Baghdad is trying to dislodge Islamic State from large swathes of the country's north and west, but advances have been slow, particularly in the western province of Anbar, where Baghdad has been focusing its attention for months.
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| UK police watchdog examines new political sex abuse cover-up claims |
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| By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's police watchdog said on Thursday it would investigate more than a dozen new claims that officers covered up or shut down child sex inquiries or prosecutions between 1970 and 2000 because they involved public officials or lawmakers. Since 2012 when it was revealed the late BBC TV presenter Jimmy Savile was a prolific sex offender, there has been a flood of speculation and accusations that powerful figures including senior politicians were involved in paedophile rings and were protected by high-ranking police officers. In May, an officer leading a nationwide investigation into historical child sex abuse said more than 1,400 people had been named as suspects including 261 "people of public prominence". |
| Interview: Somali president says rebel attacks don't mean resurgence |
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 By Abdi Sheikh and Abdirahman Hussein MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has dismissed the capture of settlements by al Shabaab militants this month, saying they had no strategic value and it did not signal a resurgence of the Islamist group. Al Shabaab, which wants to topple Mohamud and his Western-backed government, retook the central Somali town of Buqda and two other southern settlements this month and has attacked African troops. The raids follow a military campaign by the African Union's AMISOM forces and Somali troops that pushed the rebels out of towns on the coast and drove them into increasingly small pockets of countryside mostly in the south of Somalia.
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| Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor walk through London to support refugees |
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 Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei and British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor led a protest march through central London on Thursday to press for "human rather than political" responses to the refugee crisis. The two artists each carried a tatty, grey blanket as a symbol of the needs of the world's refugees, whose number reached a record 60 million this year, according to the United Nations refugee agency. Ai, who called last week for the British government to accept greater numbers of refugees streaming across European borders, said on Thursday at the start of the march that the problem "concerns everybody." Kapoor also urged European governments to do more.
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| China defends Xi visit to U.N. forum despite activists' detention |
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| By Ben Blanchard and Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - China's achievements on women's issues are obvious to an impartial observer, the government said on Thursday in announcing President Xi Jinping's attendance at a U.N. women's summit, brushing off concern about its detention of women activists in March. The five activists were taken into custody on the weekend of March 8, International Women's Day, after they had planned to demonstrate against sexual harassment on public transport. Asked whether Xi had the right to talk about women's issues considering the activists' detention, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the government pays great attention to "encouraging women to use lawful means to ensure their rights". |
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