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| Women demanding access to temples take fight to Maharashtra | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Government officials in Maharashtra have called for talks between protesters who tried to storm a Hindu temple that bars entry to women and temple officials, as a campaign for equal access to temples gathers momentum. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis met women activists on Wednesday, a day after hundreds of them tried to force their way into the Shani Shingnapur temple in Ahmednagar, clashing with villagers. Fadnavis said state officials would facilitate talks between the activists and temple authorities, as #RightoPray trended on Twitter for a second day in India. |
| Five Kenyan police killed after truck hits explosive device | | | By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Five Kenyan policemen were killed on Tuesday in the coastal county of Lamu after their truck hit an improvised explosive device planted on the road by Islamist militants al Shabaab, police sources and a local governor said. It was the latest in a series of attacks near Kenya's border with Somalia. Al Shabaab took credit for the attack but said it had killed eight Kenyan soldiers. |
| Curfew widened in southeast Turkey after clashes kill 23 | |  Security forces killed 20 Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey while a rebel attack killed three Turkish soldiers, the military said on Wednesday, as authorities widened a curfew in the mainly Kurdish region's largest city, Diyarbakir. The southeast has endured the worst violence in two decades since a 2-1/2-year-old ceasefire between the state and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants collapsed in July, reviving a conflict that has killed 40,000 people since 1984. The army said 11 PKK members died in the town of Cizre, near the Syrian border, and nine more in Diyarbakir's Sur district on Tuesday, bringing the militant death toll in the two towns to some 600 since security operations began there last month.
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| Simply not cricket: Pakistan man faces jail for flying India flag | |  A Pakistani man has been arrested for hoisting the flag of arch rival India on his roof, an act police described as "anti-state" but which the accused says was a tribute to Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli, officials said on Wednesday. Umar Draz, from the eastern Pakistani district of Okara in Punjab, was charged under the Pakistan Penal Code, which is reserved for crimes considered contravening Pakistan's sovereignty and carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Police said they received information on Monday that Draz had hoisted the Indian flag.
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| German police arrest two suspects linked to Nazi propaganda website | | | German police on Wednesday arrested two people in raids against a far-right group suspected of using an Internet portal to incite violence against foreigners, spread Nazi propaganda and deny the Holocaust, the public prosecutor general said. About 60 policemen and investigators took part in the operation, which involved searching properties in four German states and one location in Spain, prosecutors said in a statement. "The destiny of this earth lies in the race," one user who goes by the name of Patron and has a profile picture of a stamp featuring Hitler and the Nazi flag wrote in one post. |
| Brazilian police launch new raids in sweeping corruption probe | | | BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Federal Police on Wednesday launched the latest stage of a sweeping investigation into corruption at state-controlled firms, with six arrest and 15 search warrants issued in the states of São Paulo and Santa Catarina. According to TV Globo channel, raids were being conducted in São Bernardo do Campo, the political stronghold of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose Workers' Party is involved in the probe. Dozens of executives and politicians have been arrested or are under investigation on suspicion of overcharging Petrobras and other state firms on contracts and using part of the proceeds to bribe members of President Dilma Rousseff's ruling coalition. |
| Russia, China cracking down as leaders fear grip may wane - Human Rights Watch | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Russia and China are imposing their biggest clampdown on civil society in a generation and Europe's efforts to manage its migrant crisis risk undermining its core values, Human Rights Watch says in its annual global review. The review of more than 90 countries' human rights records, released in Istanbul on Wednesday, highlighted Russia and China but said rights crackdowns are also taking place in countries from Ethiopia to Turkey. "In China and Russia ... the leadership has an implicit pact with their people: 'We will give you increased prosperity, if you let us govern without accountability," the group's executive director, Kenneth Roth, said in an interview.
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| One shot dead as FBI arrests Oregon occupation leader, others | |  One protester was shot dead and eight others were arrested on Tuesday after authorities confronted members of an armed group that has staged a month-long occupation of a federal wildlife reserve in Oregon, activists and officials said. The FBI said gunshots rang out after officers stopped a car carrying protest leader Ammon Bundy and others near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Activists said Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher who acted as a spokesman for the occupiers, was killed.
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| Israel letter shows Eichmann sought clemency as "mere instrument" of Nazis | |  Israel made public on Wednesday a handwritten request for clemency by Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, who was executed by Israel in 1962 following a war crimes trial. In his letter to then-President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Eichmann said he was a "mere instrument" of leaders responsible for the killing of 6 million Jews in World War Two. A spokesman for Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said although the plea for clemency had been public knowledge since Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, the actual letter had only recently been found when documents were being scanned for digital archiving.
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| Malaysian police find more bodies of migrants from Indonesian boat | | | Malaysian police said on Wednesday they had recovered five more bodies from the waters off the southern state of Johor, a day after a boat carrying illegal migrants capsized in big waves. District police chief Rahmat Othman said the boat had been travelling from Indonesia's Batam island and was believed to have been carrying up to 40 people. |
| S.Korea says suspects N.Korea may have attempted cyber attacks | |  South Korea said on Wednesday it suspected North Korea of attempting cyber attacks against targets in the South, following a nuclear test by the North this month that defied United Nations sanctions. South Korea has been on heightened military and cyber alert since the January 6 test, which Pyongyang called a successful hydrogen bomb test, although U.S. officials and experts doubt that it managed such a technological advance. "At this point, we suspect it is an act by North Korea," Jeong Joon-hee, a spokesman of the South's Unification Ministry, told a news briefing, when asked about reports that the North might have attempted cyber attacks.
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| Brazil sees worst decline in global corruption rankings | |  Brazil suffered the sharpest deterioration in public perceptions of corruption last year, global watchdog Transparency International (TI) said in its annual report published on Wednesday that showed graft remains pervasive worldwide. Brazil tumbled to 76th place out of 168 countries, down seven positions from 2014. Latin America's largest economy was rocked by a massive corruption scandal at state-run companies, including oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), which involved allegations against top government officials.
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