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| Netanyahu defends top general in excessive force debate | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel's military chief on Sunday after the general was criticised for saying he would not want soldiers confronting a wave of Palestinian stabbings to "empty a magazine" into a girl wielding scissors. One member of Netanyahu's right-wing cabinet said Lieutenant-General Gadi Eisenkot's remarks last week could be misinterpreted by Israel's international critics as confirming allegations, which it denies, that disproportionate force has been used against assailants, many of them youths. Netanyahu called the internal political debate "hollow" and said Israel's top general was merely "stating the obvious" about rules of military engagement, under which soldiers can open fire only when lives are in danger.
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| PM Cameron urges London Mayor Boris not to join EU leave campaign | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron urged rival Boris Johnson on Sunday not to join the campaign for a British exit from the European Union as the London mayor kept Britain guessing over a decision that could influence millions of voters in a June referendum. Cameron called the June 23 poll after clinching a deal from other EU leaders that he said will give Britain special status in the world's biggest trading bloc, though six of his cabinet rebelled and are campaigning to leave the EU. Johnson, a political showman whose buffoonish and eccentric exterior masks fierce ambition to succeed Cameron, has so far been silent, though British media has speculated that the 51-year-old will join the campaign to leave the EU.
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| Army deployed to quell protests, water cut to Delhi | |  By Rupam Jain and Douglas Busvine BAHADURGARH, India/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India deployed thousands of troops in Haryana on Sunday to quell protests that have severely hit water supplies to Delhi, a metropolis of more than 20 million, forced factories to close and killed 10 people. Rioting and looting in Haryana by the Jats, a rural caste, is symptomatic of increasingly fierce competition for government jobs and educational openings in India, whose growing population is set to overtake China's within a decade. The central government has already deployed 4,000 troops and 5,000 paramilitaries in a massive show of force, and ordered an end to the protests by Sunday night.
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| Three Turkish journalists freed after kidnapping by Kurdish militants - agency | | | Three journalists from Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency were freed on Sunday after being kidnapped by members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) while on assignment in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the news agency said. The journalists were abducted while in the southeastern province of Mardin and held for more than 48 hours, Anadolu said on its website. The three - a correspondent, a photojournalist and a cameraman - were assigned last week to Mardin's Nusaybin district to cover stories in the region, Anadolu said. |
| Pope calls for worldwide abolition of death penalty | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty, saying the commandment "You shall not kill" was absolute and equally valid for the guilty as for the innocent. Using some of his strongest words ever against capital punishment, he also called on Catholic politicians worldwide to make "a courageous and exemplary gesture" by seeking a moratorium on executions during the Church's current Holy Year, which ends in November. "I appeal to the consciences of those who govern to reach an international consensus to abolish the death penalty," he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.
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| Turkey's Anadolu says three of its journalists kidnapped by PKK | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three journalists working for Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency in the southeastern Mardin province have been kidnapped by members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the agency said on Sunday, confirming earlier media reports. Anadolu confirmed the kidnapping on its website. No further information was immediately available. (Reporting by Orhan Coskun in Ankara; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Janet Lawrence) |
| Three journalists from Turkish state news agency kidnapped by PKK - media | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three reporters for Turkey's state-owned Anadolu Agency have been kidnapped by insurgents from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Mardin, in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the Hurriyet newspaper and other Turkish media reported on Sunday. No other information was immediately available. (Reporting by Murad Sezer in Istanbul and Seyhmus Cakan in Diyarbakir; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Janet Lawrence) |
| Moderates could gain influence over choice of next leader in Iran vote | |  By Babak Dehghanpisheh BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran's Assembly of Experts, made up mostly of elderly clerics, has not mattered much for years. The body's main task is choosing Iran's supreme leader, but that job has not come vacant since 1989. This time it's different. Given the ailing health of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 76, the Assembly to be elected on Feb 26 for an eight-year term is likely to pick his successor, charting the course of the country for many years to come. ...
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| Suspected Islamist militants kill Hindu priest in Bangladesh | | | Suspected Islamist militants stabbed and killed a Hindu priest at a temple in Bangladesh on Sunday, and shot and injured a devotee who went to his aid, police said. Bangladesh has suffered a wave of Islamist militant violence in recent months, including a series of bomb attacks on mosques and Hindu temples. Some of the attacks have been claimed by Islamic State, which has also said it is behind the killings of a Japanese citizen, an Italian aid worker and a policeman. |
| U.N. under pressure to show it can help end Burundi violence | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - When U.N. Security Council envoys flew to Burundi in January to try to end months of violence, the central African country's leader flatly rejected their offer of help and hundreds protested against what they saw as meddling. A month later, with fears of a new ethnic conflict growing a decade after a civil war ended, diplomats say Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will step up peace efforts by visiting Burundi for talks on Tuesday with President Pierre Nkurunziza. The U.N. is under growing pressure to show it can halt the bloodshed in Burundi, two decades after the 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus by the Hutu majority in neighbouring Rwanda, which has a similar ethnic make-up.
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| Seven people killed in random Michigan shootings, suspect in custody | | | (Reuters) - Seven people were shot and killed and several others wounded in Michigan on Saturday night in a series of apparently random public shootings, according to authorities and local media. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety said on its Facebook page that six people had been shot and killed and several others seriously wounded in three shootings in Kalamazoo County, in southwest Michigan. Local media said early on Sunday a teen-aged girl who was shot had died, becoming the seventh fatality. |
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