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| Uproar after two children burned alive, Haryana police arrest four | | | By Adnan Abidi BALLABHGARH, India (Reuters) - Police in Haryana have arrested four men over allegations that they burnt alive two low-caste children, an official said on Wednesday, a case that triggered a street protest and drew condemnation from an opposition leader. Authorities ruled out caste violence as a motive for the crime but India has a long history of such incidents, and the attack will feed concerns over rising intolerance after the rumour-fuelled killing of a Muslim man by a Hindu mob recently. On Wednesday, two men carried the bodies of the dead children wrapped in white shrouds during a protest by about 1,000 people who blocked a major highway to Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, and argued with police. |
| Israel's Netanyahu stirs trouble by linking late Muslim leader to Holocaust | |  By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim elder in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews. In a speech to the Zionist Congress late on Tuesday, Netanyahu referred to a series of Muslim attacks on Jews in Palestine during the 1920s that he said were instigated by the then-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Husseini famously flew to visit Hitler in Berlin in 1941, and Netanyahu said that meeting was instrumental in the Nazi leader's decision to launch a campaign to annihilate the Jews.
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| Two Chinese consulate staff killed at Philippine restaurant lunch | | | A Chinese woman shot and wounded China's consul general to the Philippine city of Cebu at a restaurant lunch on Wednesday and killed two consulate staff, a police spokesman said. Consul General Song Ronghua was rushed to a hospital, Chief Superintendent Prudencio Banas said, adding the woman arrested and her husband held for questioning. |
| Migrants stranded in Balkans suffer bad weather, bottlenecks | |  By Marja Novak and Aleksandar Vasovic LJUBLJANA, Slovenia/BERKASOVO,Serbia (Reuters) - About 3,500 migrants spent the night camped out in freezing cold at the Berkasovo-Bapska border crossing between Serbia and Croatia after the Croatian government closed the gates to limit the number of people entering the country. At first light on Thursday, groups of refugees bypassed the official border crossing and walked through orchards into Croatia. The crossing is one of the new focal points of Europe's biggest refugee and migrant crisis since World War II, which has seen hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa this year to try to reach Europe's rich countries.
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| Three jailed as Thai police launch sweeping royal defamation probe | | | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai military court jailed three people on Wednesday, including an aide to the crown prince, as part of a major probe into a group of people who allegedly falsely claimed links to the monarchy. Thailand's lese-majeste laws are the world's harshest and make it a crime to defame, insult or threaten the royal family. The investigation comes at a time when the government is cracking down on perceived royal defamation with prosecutions skyrocketing since a May 2014 coup. |
| Steenkamp's mother says wants no revenge against Pistorius | |  The mother of slain model Reeva Steenkamp said on Wednesday she did not want retribution against South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, who was released into house arrest this week just under a year into his five-year jail term. The disgraced track star, who was found guilty of culpable homicide for killing Steenkamp by firing four shots through a locked bathroom door, will be confined to his uncle Arnold's home in a suburb of the capital, Pretoria. "I don't want him thrown in jail and be suffering ... that's not going to bring Reeva back.
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