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| Jat protesters keep up blockade; Delhi water restored | |  By Rupam Jain and Douglas Busvine BAHADURGARH, India/DELHI (Reuters) - Rural protesters 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. Thousands of troops have been deployed to quell protests, which flared again on Monday near Sonipat as protesters set fire to a freight train. In neighbouring Rajasthan, Jats attacked and burned buses.
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| FIFA says Thailand's Makudi banned for three months | |  FIFA's disciplinary committee has banned Worawi Makudi, former president of the Football Association of Thailand and a former member of the FIFA Executive Committee, for three months for failing to comply with an earlier suspension, FIFA said. The global soccer body's ethics committee in October had banned Makudi from all football activities for 90 days. "The disciplinary committee found that Mr Makudi was still involved in FAT affairs during this period...and has therefore decided to ban him from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level for a period of three months," a FIFA statement on Monday said.
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| German government condemns anti-migrant protests in Saxony | |  The German government on Monday denounced anti-refugee protests that took place in eastern Germany, calling the events in which a group of people hindered asylum seekers from getting off a bus to enter a shelter "deeply shameful". "How cold-hearted, how coward one has to be to plant oneself in front of a refugee bus, to swear and to roar in order to scare the people sitting inside, among them several women and children," government spokesman Steffen Seibert said during a regular news conference. On Thursday night a group of about 100 people blocked the entry to a refugee shelter in Clausnitz, a small town in Germany's eastern state Saxony.
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| Ukraine's Eurovision song mourns Moscow purge of Crimean Tatars | |  By Matthias Williams KIEV (Reuters) - A Crimean Tatar who sings about Joseph Stalin's deportation of hundreds of thousands of people from her Black Sea homeland will represent Ukraine at the Eurovision song contest, two years after Russia annexed the territory. After she finished her song "1944" - the year of the mass deportation of Tatars from the Crimean peninsula - Jamala and one of the judges on the panel struggled to hold back tears as they talked about Russia's annexation of Crimea 70 years later.
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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. |
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