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| Two shot dead, four wounded after Mississippi Mardi Gras parade | | | Two people were shot dead and four wounded on Sunday following a Mardi Gras parade in a Mississippi Gulf town, media said. Two men, aged 29 and 43, were killed at the event in Pass Christian, a Gulf town of 4,600 about 25 miles west of Biloxi, the Sun Herald newspaper reported on its web site, citing the Harrison County Coroner. Authorities had estimated some 50,000 people had turned out for the afternoon Mardi Gras parade. |
| Myanmar presidential vote to start on March 17 as transition talks drag on | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Aung Hla Tun NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's parliament will begin its election of the new president on March 17, cutting very close to an April 1 deadline, suggesting talks between Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious party and the military are likely to take longer than planned. Senior NLD members had told the media they would hold presidential elections in February, but the parliament on Monday decided the process would start two weeks before the new government is scheduled to begin its term, on April 1. The NLD swept the historic Nov. 8 election, securing some 80 percent of elected seats in parliament, or enough to push through its president.
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| Vatican treasurer may front Australian abuse inquiry remotely - judge | | | By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Vatican's Australian finance controller was cleared on Monday to testify at a child abuse inquiry in his homeland via videolink because of a heart condition, a ruling bound to frustrate victim groups who wanted him to appear in person. Cardinal George Pell, once seen as a contender to become pope, was scheduled to testify at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Dec. 16 but asked to give evidence by videolink instead. The judge chairing the inquiry said he accepted a Jan. 29 medical report saying the former archbishop of Sydney and Melbourne had hypertension and ishcemic heart disease complicated by a previous heart attack, and said he could testify remotely. |
| German police raid homes of suspected militants near western city of Mainz | | | German police on Sunday raided the apartments of two men suspected of having links to a militant organisation, a spokesman for the Federal Prosecutor Office said. The raid took place near the city of Mainz in western Germany. The two men are suspected of having taken part in the Syrian civil war as members of a foreign terrorist organisation, the spokesman said. |
| Director hopes Oscar-nominated film will help end Pakistan honour killings | |  By Syed Raza Hassan and Krista Mahr KARACHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An Oscar-winning filmmaker hopes her latest Academy Award-nominated documentary will help bring tougher laws against honour killings in Pakistan, which account for the deaths of hundreds of women and men each year. The film, which follows the story of a young woman who survived attempted murder by her father and uncle after marrying a man without their approval, was nominated for an Oscar in January, prompting Pakistan's prime minister to pledge to take a firm stand against the "evil" practice. More than 500 men and women died in honour killings in 2015, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
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