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| Haryana protesters keep up blockade; Delhi water restored | |  By Rupam Jain and Douglas Busvine BAHADURGARH, India/DELHI (Reuters) - Rural protesters blockaded highways and paralysed Haryana on Monday despite a deal giving them more government jobs, but there was relief for New Delhi's 20 million residents as the army retook control of their main water source. Days of rioting and looting across Haryana by the Jat rural caste have killed at least 15 people and threaten to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of better days for Indians who elected him in 2014 with the largest majority in three decades. Thousands of troops have been deployed to quell protests, which flared again on Monday near the town of Sonipat as protesters set fire to a freight train.
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| Australian abuse inquiry says will sit in Rome to hear Vatican treasurer | |  An Australian government inquiry into child abuse said on Monday that it has found a hearing room in Rome where victims may be able to watch the Vatican's Australian-born treasurer testify about his knowledge of molestation within the church. Cardinal George Pell, a former archbishop of Sydney and Melbourne, is the star witness in the long-running inquiry but angered victims last year when he delayed travelling from the Vatican to Australia to testify because of heart problems. This month, the inquiry allowed Pell to stay in Rome and testify via videolink, prompting a local radio station to help 10 victims and five supporters raise A$204,000 to travel to Rome to watch the cardinal testify in person.
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| Stability still elusive despite peaceful Central African election | |  By Joe Bavier BANGUI (Reuters) - As rival gunmen tightened their stranglehold on Central African Republic during three years of inter-religious bloodshed, women like Madeleine Nzanga became, and remain, lifelines for the nation's war-weary people. Each day she crosses the Ubangi River to Democratic Republic of Congo to bring back essentials -- even firewood and manioc, the local staple food -- that have grown scarce since militias seized the countryside. "During the shooting, everything has to come across from Congo," said Nzanga, a trader at Port Sao, a strip of sandy riverbank just upstream from the tumbledown capital Bangui.
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| Japan's scandals, shaky economy erode Abe's support as polls loom | |  By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Voter support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slipped to below 50 percent in a weekend opinion poll, sending a warning signal to the government with an election less than six months away. Disapproval rose 3.6 points to 38.9 percent and 77.7 percent of the respondents said they felt the administration was "growing slack." Abe took office at the end of 2012 and has enjoyed unusual longevity for a Japanese prime minister. "The decision for Amari to quit was made promptly and seemed almost clear cut, so that didn't harm ratings so much," said Atsuo Ito, a commentator who has written books on the mathematics of politics.
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| Saudi Arabia puts Shi'ites on trial for spying for Iran | | | Saudi Arabia has put 32 people on trial, including 30 members of its own Shi'ite Muslim minority, accused of spying for Iran, several local newspapers and television reported on Monday. The trial is the first in recent memory for Saudis accused of spying and may stoke tensions between local Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims and with Iran, which strongly denied the accusations at the time. The bitter rivalry between the Sunni-ruled kingdom and Iran, a Shi'ite theocracy, has aggravated wars and political struggles in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Bahrain and is regarded by many analysts as a cause of regional instability. |
| San Bernardino victims to oppose Apple on iPhone encryption | |  Some victims of the San Bernardino attack will file a legal brief in support of the U.S. government's attempt to force Apple Inc to unlock the encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the shooters, a lawyer representing the victims said on Sunday. Stephen Larson, a former federal judge who is now in private practice, told Reuters that the victims he represents have an interest in the information which goes beyond the Justice Department's criminal investigation. Larson said he was contacted a week ago by the Justice Department and local prosecutors about representing the victims, prior to the dispute becoming public.
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| Heavy gunfire heard as operation to flush out gunmen in Kashmir enters third day | |  Indian security forces battled for a third day amid heavy gunfire on Monday to clear militants who stormed a government building in the disputed Kashmir region and killed six people, officials and a witness said. After a lull in fighting overnight, army commandos and police launched a fresh offensive to clear the five-storey training institute captured by the militants. Gunfire and explosions could be heard at the building complex near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, a Reuters witness said.
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| Judge blocks attempt to halt deposition of Bill Cosby's wife | |  A federal judge in Massachusetts on Sunday night rejected attempts by the wife of comedian Bill Cosby to halt her upcoming deposition in a defamation case brought by seven women against the disgraced entertainer, court records showed. Camille Cosby's lawyers late on Saturday filed an emergency motion to delay her deposition, scheduled for Monday, pending an appeal of a judge's Friday ruling not to stay the proceeding. U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni ruled late on Sunday night that the deposition would go ahead on Monday morning.
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| Uber driver suspected in Michigan shootings, six dead | |  A Michigan man who worked as an Uber driver was under arrest on Sunday in the fatal shooting of six people in Kalamazoo, as police investigated reports he may have driven customers of the car-hailing service the night of the rampage. Prosecutors alleged that Jason Dalton, 45, opened fire, apparently at random, in parking lots outside an apartment building, a car dealership and at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Kalamazoo, about 150 miles (240 km) west of Detroit. Authorities could not confirm Dalton was working for Uber during the nearly five-hour shooting spree on Saturday evening.
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| U.S. businessman detained in Iran denied access to lawyer | |  By Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin WASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian-American businessman detained in Iran since October has been denied access to his lawyer by authorities, his attorney and family said in an interview and on social media over the last two days. Siamak Namazi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, was detained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in October while visiting family, according to a source familiar with the matter who declined to be identified. After their release, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that he had commitments from Iran that Namazi's case would be resolved soon.
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