Military transfer Bashir to
prison in Khartoum
CAIRO, Apr 17: A Sudanese official and a former minister say the military has transferred ousted President Omar al-Bashir to a prison in the capital, Khartoum. They say al-Bashir was moved from a "safe place" - the presidential residence inside the military headquarters - where he was held since his ouster, to Kopar Prison. The two spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because they weren't authorized to talk to reporters. — AP
Teen climate activist asks EU for action
BRUSSELS, Apr 17: Swedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg says time is running out to halt climate change and she's urging European politicians "to panic." Thunberg told EU lawmakers on Tuesday: "I want you to act as if the house is on fire." She said that "if our house was falling apart you wouldn't hold three emergency Brexit summits and no emergency summit regarding the breakdown of the climate and environment." — AP
Egypt court jails Islamists for five years
CAIRO, Apr 17: An Egyptian court has sentenced 36 people convicted of joining the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood organisation to five years in prison. The Alexandria criminal court on Tuesday also sentenced the defendants to five years of probation. They were arrested in Alexandria in 2017. The sentences can be appealed. — AP
Bahrain revokes citizenship
of 138 defendants
DUBAI, Apr 17: A Bahraini court sentenced 69 people to life in prison and revoked the citizenship of 138 defendants on terrorism-related charges, the public prosecutor said Tuesday, in one of the largest mass trials ever held in the country. It also marked the single largest revocation of citizenship in Bahrain, a small island-nation off the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula that hosts the US Navy's 5th Fleet. — AP
Shelling in Tripoli kills two people
TRIPOLI, Apr 17: Two people were killed and eight others were injured late Tuesday in heavy shelling of unknown source in the Libyan capital Tripoli amid violent clashes between the east-based army and the UN-backed government, local official has said. "The number of victims of the indiscriminate shelling on Abusalim (southern Tripoli) is two dead and eight injured," Osama Ali, spokesman of the Heath Ministry's Emergency Department said. — Xinhua
New bill to give Thai spy
agency more powers
BANGKOK, Apr 17: Thailand's spy agency is set to be handed carte blanche powers to obtain information believed to threaten the country's security using "any methods", according to a bill announced on Wednesday. The bill, published by palace mouthpiece the Royal Gazette, comes less than a month after disputed elections which saw both the ruling junta and an opposition coalition claim the right to form a government. — AFP
China detains mother after vaccine protest
BEIJING, Apr 17: A Chinese health activist has been detained for more than a month, her husband said on Wednesday, after she participated in a protest over faulty vaccines - a re-occurring issue in China. According to police documents posted online by Li Xin, his wife He Fangmei is under "criminal detention" at the Xinxiang detention centre in central Henan province. — AFP
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