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| Pope calls for worldwide ban on death penalty | |  Pope Francis on Sunday called for a worldwide ban on the death penalty, saying the commandment "You shall not kill" was just as valid for the guilty as for the innocent. Speaking to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, the pope also called on Catholic politicians worldwide to work for a moratorium on any 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 said.
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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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| Army deployed to quell protests in Haryana, 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 city of more than 20 million people, 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. It has ordered an end to the protests by Sunday night, an official in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office said.
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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. |
| Egypt jails author for two years over sexually explicit novel | | | An Egyptian court has sentenced an author to two years in jail for public indecency after excerpts of his sexually explicit novel were published in a literary newspaper. A chapter from Ahmed Naji's novel Istikhdam al-Hayat, or Using Life, was serialised in a state-owned literary newspaper and a case was brought against him last year by a private citizen who claimed the excerpt caused him distress and heart palpitations. In the initial ruling the court said it acquitted Naji because freedom of expression was enshrined in the constitution, adding that morality was subjective. |
| Insight: After winning EU deal, Britain's Cameron faces harder battle | |  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - When Prime Minister David Cameron sealed a deal designed to keep Britain in the European Union after two days of talks in Brussels, his relief was short-lived. Within hours of Friday's agreement, one of Cameron's closest allies, Justice Secretary Michael Gove, and five other ministers declared they would campaign against him in a June 23 referendum on whether Britain should stay in the bloc. It was the first blow in what could be a new "civil war" in Cameron's Conservative Party over Europe.
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