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| India drafts new anti-trafficking bill, raises penalty for offenders | |  By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new bill being drafted in India aims to curb the steep rise in human trafficking by unifying several existing laws, raising the penalties for offenders and providing for victims' rehabilitation, government officials said on Wednesday. The bill calls for the creation of an organized crime investigation agency, a special court to deal with trafficking cases and severe penalties for repeat offenders and the trafficking of minors, they said. "Human trafficking in India has taken on many forms, with people being trafficked for forced labour, domestic work and even begging," a senior Women and Child Development Ministry official working on the draft bill told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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| Turkey's Erdogan chastises U.S. over support for Syrian Kurds | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan upbraided the United States for its support of Syrian Kurdish rebels on Wednesday, saying Washington's inability to understand the group's true nature had turned the region into a "sea of blood". Erdogan's comments, a day after Turkey summoned the U.S. ambassador over its support for the Syrian Kurds, illustrate Ankara's growing frustration with its NATO ally, which backs Syrian Kurdish rebels in the battle against Islamic State.
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| Egyptian court acquits Mubarak-era minister of corruption charges | | | An Egyptian court acquitted former information minister Anas al-Fiqi on corruption charges, state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday, the latest ruling to clear a prominent figure from the era of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. Fiqi, who from 2004 until the 2011 uprising that ended Mubarak's 30-year rule headed the state's sprawling media apparatus, was accused of using his position and influence to illegally make 33.4 million Egyptian pounds ($4.27 million). |
| France's Fabius leaves office, wider reshuffle due | |  By Ingrid Melander and John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced on Wednesday he was leaving the government ahead of a wider reshuffle that President Francois Hollande hopes can help bolster his chances for the 2017 presidential elections. Fabius, 69, who played a prominent role in sealing an international deal with Iran limiting its nuclear programme and helped broker a global climate change deal, told reporters Wednesday's cabinet meeting would be his last before he took up a new post as head of the constitutional court. "I will be leaving office," Fabius said.
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| Sunderland's Johnson admits one count of sexual activity with child | |  England international Adam Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a child, but denied two other charges, when he appeared at Bradford Crown Court on Wednesday. The 28-year-old Sunderland winger, who has played 12 times for England, also admitted one count of grooming a girl under the age of 16, a court official said. Johnson, who began his career at Middlesbrough and also played for Manchester City, joined Sunderland for 10 million pounds in 2012 on a four-year contract.
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| Stalin-era prison chief jailed for 20 years in Romania | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A 90-year-old Stalin-era prison commander faced the rest of his life in prison on Wednesday after Romania's top court dismissed his last appeal against a 20-year jail term for murder and crimes against humanity. Alexandru Visinescu was convicted in July of direct involvement in the deaths of 12 inmates, the first case of its kind since the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in 1989. The last survivor of the jail where Visinescu worked, Valentin Cristea, 85, told Reuters he did not want to comment on the case but added: "I'm now old and sick ... What can I say?
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| Afghan police officer killed after firing on coalition troops | | | An Afghan police officer who was shot during an exchange of gunfire with members of NATO's force in Afghanistan has died, the Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday. NATO force soldiers returned fire, wounding the gunman, said U.S. military spokesman Colonel Michael Lawhorn. No NATO force members were wounded in the exchange, he said. |
| At least six killed at Cameroon funeral by two suicide attackers | | | At least six people were killed and 30 injured in northern Cameroon on Wednesday by two Islamist suicide bombers at a Muslim funeral gathering, two officials in the region said. The attackers were from Boko Haram, the group based in neighbouring Nigeria that has stepped up cross-border attacks in Cameroon's far north despite the setting up of a roughly 9,500-strong regional military task force. One of the officials said the attack in Nguetchewe, about 10 km (6 miles) east of the Nigerian border, is the first known Boko Haram strike in Cameroon at a funeral gathering, although the militants have made an attack on a baptism in the past. |
| Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov says life threatened in Moscow incident | |  Russian 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 a Kremlin ally 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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| 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. |
| 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. |
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