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| Pakistan police rescue 9-year-old girl from wedding | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE (Reuters) - Pakistani police rescued a nine-year-old girl from being married off to a 14-year-old boy to settle a family dispute on Friday and arrested four village elders who had ordered the "compensation wedding". The intervention in Pakistan's largest province, Punjab, is rare in a country where it is often culturally acceptable to use marriage to build and strengthen alliances, settle disputes or pay off debts. Police arrested all four members of the village council who had decreed that the girl be given in vani, or compensation marriage, to settle a dispute between two families in Rahim Yar Khan district of Punjab province.
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| Indian women reclaim public spaces, defying male critics | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It began with two Indian women hanging out on Mumbai streets in defiance after a series of violent crimes against women. It has since grown and even spread to Pakistan, as women assert their right to public spaces in male-dominated societies. It came as an intense spotlight fell on women's safety in India following the 2012 fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in Delhi and the 2014 rape of a woman by her Uber taxi driver in Delhi.
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| PM Modi faces voters in five states as reforms slow | |  Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will face elections in five states beginning next month, according to a schedule released on Friday, at a time when its approval ratings are slipping and it is under pressure to deliver on economic growth. State elections are important for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be able to gain control of the Rajya Sabha, where members are indirectly elected by state legislatures. A lack of a majority in that house has stalled Modi's economic reforms agenda and delayed passage of a key tax bill.
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| Gunmen kill at least 15 in old people's home in Yemen, including 4 nuns from India | | | ADEN (Reuters) - Four gunmen attacked an old people's home in the Yemeni port of Aden on Friday, killing at least 15 people, including four Christian nuns from India, local officials and medical sources said. The gunmen, who first told the guard they were on a visit to their mother, stormed into the home with rifles and opened fire, one local official said. As well as the nuns, the dead included two Yemeni women working at the facility, eight elderly residents and a guard. The motive of the gunmen was not immediately known. They fled after the attack, the official said. ... |
| Brazil's ex-president Lula detained in anti-graft bust | |  By Brad Haynes and Alexandre Caverni SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police detained former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for questioning on Friday in a anti-corruption and money laundering operation and said that illegal gains had financed campaigns and expenses of the ruling Workers Party. Police said they had evidence that Lula received illicit benefits from the kick-back scheme at state oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) in the form of payments and luxury real estate. "Ex-president Lula, besides being party leader, was the one ultimately responsible for the decision on who would be the directors at Petrobras and was one of the main beneficiaries of these crimes," a police statement said.
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| Families of missing MH370 passengers sue airline as deadline nears | |  The families of 12 passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 filed suits against the airline on Friday before a two-year deadline for legal action expires. MH370 disappeared en route to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board. Family members of two Ukrainian passengers filed suits in the Malaysian High Court against Malaysia Airlines (MAS).
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| Two Italian hostages freed in Libya after companions die | | | By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Two Italian civilians held hostage in Libya since last July were freed on Friday, just 48 hours after two fellow captives were allegedly executed by Islamic State militants in the north African state. The four were employees of Italian construction company Bonatti and were seized last year near the western Libyan city of Sabratha, near a compound owned by the energy group Eni. The families of Gino Pollicardo and Filippo Calcagno confirmed the pair had been released and photos posted on Facebook showed the bearded men calling home. |
| U.S. tech companies unite behind Apple ahead of iPhone encryption ruling | |  Tech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed legal briefs on Thursday asking a judge to support Apple Inc in its encryption battle with the U.S. government. The rare display of unity and support from Apple's sometime-rivals showed the breadth of Silicon Valley's opposition to the government's anti-encryption effort, a position endorsed by the United Nations human rights chief. Apple's battle became public last month when the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained a court order requiring the company to write new software to disable passcode protection and allow access to an iPhone used by one of the shooters in the December killings in San Bernardino, California.
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| Drone kills four suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen | | | A drone strike killed four suspected al Qaeda militants in a car in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa on Friday, local officials and residents said. Al Qaeda propaganda brochures were scattered over the ground by the road, local officials said. During nine months of civil war and military intervention by a Saudi-led Gulf Arab coalition last March, the United States has kept up drone strikes against jihadist groups in Yemen. |
| Turkish court jails two Syrians over drowning of toddler Aylan - media | |  A Turkish court on Friday sentenced two Syrians to four years in jail over the drowning of five people including toddler Aylan Kurdi, the image of whose dead body sparked global sympathy last September over the fate of migrants, Dogan news agency said. The two Syrians were each sentenced to four years and two months in jail for smuggling, Dogan reported. Since Aylan's death, the European Union has faced a growing crisis over how to deal with hundreds of thousands of migrants from Syria and elsewhere, a crisis that threatens to tear the 28-nation bloc apart.
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| China's annual parliament meets under economic clouds | |  By Pete Sweeney and Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China commences its once-a-year parliamentary session this weekend to map out plans for dealing with a wobbling economy and worries the ruling Communist Party is losing its credibility as a competent manager. Overhanging this year's sitting are concerns about the social impact of deep structural reforms in the world's second-largest economy, gyrating financial markets and deteriorating global trade. "Cutting capacity in some traditional sectors could create pressure on employment, but employment problems should be manageable as our services sector still grows at a fast pace," said Wen Bin, chief economist at Minsheng Bank in Beijing.
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| Suspected Northern Ireland car bomb injures prison officer | | | By Ian Graham BELFAST (Reuters) - Police in Belfast said a suspected car bomb had detonated early on Friday in the city, injuring a prison officer who has been taken to hospital. "We can confirm that the man injured following the explosion of a device under his van is a serving prison officer," a police spokeswoman said. A 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland between Protestants who want to remain British and Catholics favouring unification with Ireland, but pockets of division and sporadic violence remain. |
| Philippines' Pacquiao slides in opinion poll after anti-gay comments | |  The popularity of Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao has declined following his anti-gay comments, but the former eight-division world champion could still win May Senate elections, an independent opinion poll showed on Friday. The Bible-quoting Pacquiao's description of gays as "worse than animals" drew criticism last month on social media at home and abroad, and cost him an endorsement deal with Nike, the world's largest sportswear maker. "There was a big drop in his numbers in the latest survey," Ronald Holmes, president of Pulse Asia, which did the survey of 1,800 people, told Reuters.
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| Turkish police detain businessmen in Gulen-linked probe - Dogan news agency | |  Turkish police detained prominent businessmen on Friday over allegations of financing the group of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally turned foe of President Tayyip Erdogan, the Dogan news agency reported. It said that the police detained Memduh Boydak, chief executive of furniture-to-cables conglomerate Boydak Holding, as well as the group's chairman Haci Boydak and two board members, and that the police were continuing searches of the company. Erdogan has led a crackdown against once influential followers of preacher Gulen, his former ally, after police and prosecutors seen as sympathetic to the cleric opened a corruption investigation into Erdogan's inner circle in 2013.
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| "Social curse" of huge personal debt raises worries in wealthy Qatar | |  Generous government salaries and free healthcare, funded by vast natural gas reserves in a country with only about 300,000 citizens, do not always translate into healthy bank balances for ordinary Qataris. Instead, they can come under intense social pressure to live way beyond their means, spending lavishly on everything from the latest smart phones and designer fashions to family weddings. Many are borrowing enormous sums from local banks to finance lifestyles they cannot afford, according to a study by Qatar University.
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