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| Putin calls for end to violence in Nagorno-Karabakh | |  By Nailia Bagirova and Hasmik Mkrtchyan BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - Russia made a concerted effort to end conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia after a fresh wave of fighting broke out in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region on Saturday, raising concerns over violence spreading in South Caucasus. Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic Armenians, has run its own affairs with heavy military and financial backing from Armenia since a separatist war ended in 1994. Azerbaijan frequently threatens to take Nagorno-Karabakh region back by force.
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| Belgian charged with terrorism over foiled attack plot | | | A Belgian national named only as Y.A. was charged on Saturday with participating in the activities of a terrorist group in connection with a joint Belgian-French investigation into an apparently foiled attack plot. Federal prosecutors said in a statement that the 33-year-old had appeared on Friday before a judge, who had remanded him to custody. Prosecutors said the charge related to the investigation into Reda Kriket, a Frenchman arrested in a Paris suburb on March 24, two days after the Brussels bombings, and suspected of planning an imminent act of "extreme violence". |
| Mass grave found in Syria's Palmyra after city recaptured from Islamic State - state media | |  Syrian troops found a mass grave containing around 40 bodies in Palmyra city, captured from Islamic State last Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said on Friday. SANA said the grave, which contained many women and children, was in the north-eastern edge of Palmyra. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which monitors the five-year-old Syrian conflict through a network of sources on the ground, said that Islamic State had killed a number of people at an earlier time and buried them on the outskirts of the city.
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| Tanks, heavy artillery deployed in new wave of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh | | | BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - Clashes erupted between troops from Azerbaijan and the rebel Nagorno-Karabakh region on Saturday, the two sides said, disputing who had violated a fragile ceasefire again. Nagorno-Karabakh's military also said that Armenian anti-aircraft forces downed an Azeri helicopter, although the report was denied by Azerbaijan. Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic Armenians, has run its own affairs with heavy military and financial backing from Armenia since a separatist war ended in 1994. |
| Turkish police capture suspected car bomber who targeted police | | | The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for Thursday's bombing in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, one day before Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited the city and outlined plans to confiscate and rebuild a historic neighbourhood ruined in clashes since July. Sources said police apprehended a man they believe parked the bomb-laden car and detonated it when a minibus carrying police officers passed it on a busy street. Separately, militants late on Friday used a car bomb to strike a military outpost near the town of Kiziltepe by the Syrian frontier. |
| Anti-apartheid activist jailed with Mandela urges Zuma to resign | |  By Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An anti-apartheid activist jailed alongside Nelson Mandela called on Jacob Zuma to step down, adding pressure on South Africa's president to quit after a court ruled he acted dishonestly over improper state spending at his private home. Adding his voice to similar calls from opposition parties, Ahmed Kathrada said in a signed letter published on Saturday on media websites that Zuma's resignation would give the country's government the chance to recover from "a crisis of confidence". Mandela and Kathrada were among eight African National Congress (ANC) activists sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of trying to overthrow the apartheid government during the 1963-1964 Rivonia Trial.
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| Salah Abdeslam refused to blow himself up, brother says - BFM TV | |  Salah Abdeslam, the Paris attacks suspect who was arrested in Brussels last month, refused to blow himself up on the day of the attacks, his brother Mohamed told French news channel BFM TV. Abdeslam, who will be extradited to France, has renewed an offer to cooperate with French authorities investigating the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people, his lawyer said this week. "There would have been more victims had I done it," Salah Abdeslam told his brother.
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| U.N. investigating sex abuse allegations against Tanzanian peacekeepers in Congo | | | The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo said late on Friday that it has received allegations of sexual abuse against Tanzanian peacekeepers based in Congo's northeast, the latest in a series of such accusations against U.N. forces. The mission said in a statement that it received the allegations against members of its Force Intervention Brigade, tasked with offensive operations, in the village of Mavivi on March 23 and immediately launched an investigation. |
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