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| Interview: Somali president says rebel attacks don't mean resurgence | |  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 | |  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 | | | 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". |
| Japan takes key step to passage of security bills despite protests | |  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan took a step on Thursday towards enacting legislation for a policy shift that would allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, part of the prime minister's agenda to loosen the limits of a pacifist constitution. The security policy shift, which Abe says is vital to meet challenges such as a rising China, has sparked protests and sharply eroded his popular support. Opponents argue it violates the constitution and fear it could ensnare Japan in U.S.-led conflicts.
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| UK MI5 spy chief calls for more powers to counter terror threat | |  The head of Britain's domestic spy service, MI5, called on Thursday for greater powers for the security agencies to keep pace with technology used by militants in the first live media interview by a British intelligence chief. Prime Minister David Cameron's government plans new laws later this year to bolster the capabilities of spies and police, but faces a battle from privacy and human rights campaigners who say such measures represent an assault on freedoms. In an interview with BBC radio, MI5 Director General Andrew Parker said Britain was facing its most serious terrorism threat since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and had foiled six attempted attacks in the last year.
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| UK's Corbyn says he can't imagine campaigning for 'Brexit' | |  Britain's newly elected opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he cannot imagine his Labour Party campaigning to leave the European Union at an upcoming referendum, easing fears that he would force the party to adopt a eurosceptic position. Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron is seeking to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership and plans to hold a referendum by the end of 2017 on whether to remain in or leave. Since Corbyn won an election to lead Labour on Saturday, his party has sent mixed messages on how it would campaign in the referendum, with senior figures adopting seemingly conflicting positions.
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| Britain says killed 330 Islamic State fighters in air strikes | | | About 330 Islamic State fighters have been killed in British air strikes since the Royal Air Force began carrying out raids against the group in September last year, Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said. "This figure is highly approximate, not least given the absence of UK ground troops in a position to observe the effects of strike activity," Fallon said in a written parliamentary statement. "We do not believe there have been any civilian casualties as a result of UK strike activity." Britain has regularly conducted attacks on Islamic State (IS) targets in Iraq as part of U.S.-led air strikes, but does not take part in raids in Syria after Prime Minister David Cameron lost a 2013 parliamentary vote to approve military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. |
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