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| Pakistani university reopens after attack; teachers allowed guns | |  The university in northwest Pakistan where Taliban gunmen killed at least 20 people last month reopened for classes on Monday with teachers - but not students - allowed to carry weapons. Pakistani Taliban militants have threatened more assaults on schools and universities since the Jan. 20 attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, fueling a growing sense of insecurity in the country. The attack had reminded Pakistanis of the horrors that took place a little over a year earlier, when militants massacred 134 pupils at an army school just 19 miles (31 km) away, in Peshawar, the main city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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| U.N. experts condemn trial of foreign nationals in the UAE, call for release | | | U.N. human rights experts urged the United Arab Emirates on Monday to release several foreign nationals whom they said had been detained arbitrarily, tortured and forced to sign confessions. "The arbitrary nature of their detention was confirmed by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary detention in a recent decision and we called on the Emirati authorities to release them without delay," human rights expert Seong-Phil Hong, who heads the panel, said in the statement. UAE authorities could not be contacted for comment. |
| Cameron seeks French, EU help on deal, avoids Farage | |  By Elizabeth Pineau and Kylie MacLellan PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron embarks on a final push for support in Europe for a deal to help keep Britain in the EU when he meets French President Francois Hollande on Monday and then leaders of a wary European Parliament in Brussels. Two weeks after a draft accord won initial backing from fellow national leaders who will try to iron out remaining differences with the British prime minister at a summit on Thursday, Tuesday's meeting with EU lawmakers highlights some of the risks of political turbulence before a British referendum. Not only was a plan to meet leaders of all the European Parliament's party blocs cancelled -- allowing Cameron to avoid a confrontation with his eurosceptic arch critic Nigel Farage -- but the need for the assembly's approval of key elements raised questions about how binding any summit agreement will be.
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| Turkmenistan drafts new constitution extending presidential term | |  A commission led by Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has drafted a new constitution which extends the presidential term to seven years from five and removes the upper age limit on candidates for presidency. The move solidifies Berdymukhamedov's already sweeping powers at a time when the gas-rich Central Asian nation is suffering from a sharp drop in export revenues. Turkmenistan's rubber stamp parliament may pass the new constitution, published by main state newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan on Monday for national discussion, later this year.
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| Investigator asks U.N. to notify N.Korea's Kim of possible probe for crimes against humanity | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. expert on human rights in North Korea has asked the United Nations to officially notify North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he may be investigated for crimes against humanity. A landmark 2014 report on North Korean human rights, co-authored by Marzuki Darusman, concluded that North Korean security chiefs and possibly Kim himself should face justice for overseeing a system of Nazi-style atrocities.
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| Turkey, Israel close to deal on compensation over Mavi Marmara - Turkish official | |  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Talks between Turkey and Israel have reached the point at which both sides can now sign an agreement on compensation for the killing of 10 Turkish activists by Israeli commandos in 2010, a Turkish ruling party official said on Monday. The erstwhile allies have stepped up efforts in recent months to restore a relationship that was severely damaged following the Israeli raid on a Turkish boat, the Mavi Marmara, which had been trying to breach a blockade on the Gaza Strip. ...
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| Several wounded in clashes between Ugandan police and opposition - Reuters witness | | | Several people were wounded in battles between police and supporters of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye in the capital Kampala on Monday, a witness and an opposition official said. A Reuters photographer saw police fire bullets and teargas while opposition supporters hurled rocks and erected barricades in the streets around the Wandegeya suburb. "I have seen many people on the road bleeding profusely, the situation is still very tense," added Ingrid Turinawe, a senior official from Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party. |
| Samarra's Sunnis fear displacement a decade after Iraq shrine attack | |  By Stephen Kalin and Kareem Raheem SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Sunlight once again glints off the golden dome of one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines, almost fully restored 10 years after suspected al Qaeda militants blew it up in northern Iraq. The shrine's destruction on February 22, 2006 sparked a wave of revenge attacks that killed tens of thousand of people and plunged Iraq into a sectarian civil war. In the attack, gunmen in police uniforms burst into the shrine, tied up guards and planted explosives that brought down its 100-year-old dome, one of the Muslim world's biggest and best known.
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| Bulgaria charges three Syrians with trying to join Islamic State | | | Bulgarian prosecutors have charged three Syrians with attempting to join Islamic State militant group after border patrols arrested them as they tried to enter Turkey from Bulgaria, the interior ministry said on Monday. The three Syrians, who had refugee status from Germany, had already made one unsuccessful attempt to enter Turkey through Greece earlier this year, the ministry said. "During operational activities their affiliation to Islamic State has been established, as well as their intention to join the terrorist group," the ministry said in a statement. |
| Pope heads to Mexico's indigenous south as Catholic fervor fades | |  By Philip Pullella and Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis travels on Monday to Mexico's poor, indigenous south, which has fallen far behind wealthier parts of the country and where he will authorize the use of native languages for Mass in a bid to stem a tide of Protestant conversions. Mired in poverty and plagued by rising insecurity, the state of Chiapas was the scene of the Zapatista uprising of Maya rebels in the 1990s. It is now the frontline of a government crackdown on illegal immigration to the United States from Central America.
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| Students protest in thousands as government cracks down on dissent | |  Outrage over the arrest of the left-wing student leader, who had organised a rally to mark the anniversary of the execution of a Kashmiri separatist, has led to demonstrations in at least 18 universities. "The government does not want students to have a say," said Rahila Parween, vice-president of the Delhi unit of the All India Students' Federation, a left-wing student union.
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| Former U.N. war court convict arrested in Bosnia on fresh war crimes charges | |  Bosnia's police arrested an ex-convict of the U.N. war crimes court and two other Bosnian Serbs on Monday for war crimes committed early in the country's 1992-95 war, which claimed 100,000 lives. Former Bosnian Serb policeman Darko Mrdja was jailed in 2004 for 17 years by the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal after he confessed to taking part in a 1992 massacre of more than 150 Bosniaks - Bosnian Muslims - in central Bosnia. The mass killings on Mount Vlasic occurred as part of a wave of ethnic cleansing carried out by rebel Bosnian Serb forces who were trying to create a Serb statelet by removing Bosniaks and Croats from the area.
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| Platini says done 'nothing wrong' as appeal hearing starts | |  By Cecile Mantovani ZURICH (Reuters) - Banned UEFA President Michel Platini arrived on Monday at a hearing to appeal against his suspension from the sport and said he had done nothing wrong. Platini was banned for eight years in December along with FIFA President Sepp Blatter over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2 million) made to the Frenchman in 2011 by FIFA with Blatter's approval for work done a decade earlier. Former France captain Platini arrived at FIFA headquarters on foot from a nearby hotel.
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| Buddhist monks scuffle with troops in Thailand over leadership protest | | | A handful of Buddhist monks scuffled with troops in Thailand on Monday during a protest against what they called state interference in religious affairs and a bid to overthrow the governing body of their religion. Religion is becoming a proxy war for the colour-coded politics that Thailand's junta has quashed since taking power in 2014 in an effort to end a decade of political violence. A battle for the top post in Thai Buddhism has divided Thailand between supporters of the leading candidate, a 90-year-old abbot facing investigation for a tax scam involving luxury cars, and those who oppose him. |
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