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| Turkish soldiers clash with Kurdish militants crossing from Syria - army | | | By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - One Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded when security forces clashed with Kurdish militants crossing over from Syria, the army said on Wednesday, hours after Ankara summoned the U.S. ambassador over Washington's support for Syrian Kurds. The latest clash could add to Turkish frustrations with its NATO ally Washington which supports the PYD Syrian Kurds in the battle against Islamic State in Syria. |
| Kremlin says incident with opposition leader Kasyanov is hooliganism | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The incident with Russian opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov must not be associated with the leadership of Chechnya, and should be viwed as an act of hooliganism, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Kasyanov said a group of men burst into a Moscow restaurant where he was dining on Tuesday night and threatened him, days after Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a staunch ally of President Vladimir Putin, issued a video showing him in the cross-hairs of a sniper's rifle. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing hy Dmitry Solovyov)
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| Turkey detains 34 people with explosives, suicide vests at Syrian border - media | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish military detained 34 people and seized up to 15 kg of explosives and four suicide-bomber vests as they tried to enter Turkey from Syria, Turkish media reported the army as saying on Wednesday. The private Dogan news agency and other media outlets said the group, consisting of four men, 10 women and 20 children, was detained on Tuesday night in the Oguzeli district of southeastern Gaziantep province, across the border from an area controlled by Islamic State militants. (Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by David Dolan) |
| Baby dies in Los Angeles shooting after bullet pierces wall | | | A one-year-old girl was killed on Tuesday when a bullet from an apparent gang-related shooting pierced the wall of her Los Angeles home and struck her in the head, law enforcement officers said. The toddler was in her crib when a gunman opened fire on a converted garage in Compton, south of downtown Los Angeles, the County Sheriff's Department said. The area is one of the most violent in Los Angeles County, with 475 violent crimes, including eight homicides, in the past six months, data compiled by the Los Angeles Times shows. |
| Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov says life threatened in Moscow incident | |  Opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov said a group of men burst into a Moscow restaurant where he was dining on Tuesday night and threatened him, days after an ally of Vladimir Putin issued a video showing him in the cross-hairs of a sniper's rifle. Kasyanov, who filed a police complaint saying his life and safety had been threatened, is a fierce critic of Putin. Kasyanov's liberal opposition Parnas party is planning to contest parliamentary elections later this year.
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| Tajiks to vote in 'president-for-life' referendum | | | Tajikistan will hold a referendum in May on constitutional changes that would tighten veteran leader Imomali Rakhmon's grip on power, effectively giving him unlimited presidential terms and extending a ban on the main opposition party. The former Soviet republic's parliament, dominated by Rakhmon's allies, announced the vote on Wednesday after it was approved by the constitutional court. Previous constitutional changes have allowed Rakhmon to successfully run for president four times, most recently in 2013, when he was re-elected for a seven-year term. |
| Trump, Sanders ride U.S. anti-establishment tide to New Hampshire win | |  By Steve Holland and Amanda Becker MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders coasted to victory on a wave of voter anger in the New Hampshire presidential nominating contest, thrashing traditional U.S. politicians in a display of anti-establishment power. Sweeping wins by Trump, a New York billionaire, and Sanders, a democratic socialist, on Tuesday testified to the sizable share of American voters upset at U.S. economic conditions and willing to send a shockwave to Washington in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
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| In crucial vote, Hillary Clinton fails to rally women to her history-making bid | |  By Amanda Becker and Emily Stephenson MANCHESTER, N.H./COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton made the prospect of her being elected the first woman U.S. president a centerpiece of her campaign, then lost a critical nominating contest to a 74-year-old man in part because women preferred him. NBC News exit polls showed Clinton, a former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, won 44 percent of the women's vote in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary to 55 percent for her Democratic Party rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. Young women contributed significantly to Clinton's loss, and the candidate acknowledged that she struggled with young voters.
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| Insight: Zika, disease of the poor, may not change abortion in Brazil | |  By Stephen Eisenhammer RECIFE (Reuters) - Six months pregnant with her first child, Eritania Maria has a rash and a mild fever, symptoms of the Zika virus linked to brain deformities in newborn children in Brazil. Like other women in the slums of Recife, which squat on stilts over mosquito-ridden marshland in northeast Brazil, Maria has few options if her child develops microcephaly, the condition marked by an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain that has been linked to Zika. Brazil has amongst the toughest abortion laws in the world and is culturally conservative.
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