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BBC:Arvind Kejriwal apologises for Delhi rally after farmer's 'suicide'
Arvind Kejriwal apologises for Delhi rally after farmer's 'suicide'
The chief minister of Indian capital, Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, has apologised for continuing his speech after a farmer hanged himself at his rally.
"I think I was wrong, I should not have gone ahead with my speech and called off the rally. I apologise if I hurt anyone," he told news agency ANI.
Gajendra Singh hanged himself from a tree on Wednesday at the gathering attended by a few thousand people.
Politicians have been trading blame over his death.
BBC:Chile volcano Calbuco causes flight problems
Chile volcano Calbuco causes flight problems
International flights are being delayed or cancelled because of concerns over the ash cloud created by the Calbuco volcano in Chile.
The eruption on Thursday created a cloud of ash that went up 20km (12 miles) into the air.
Volcanic ash can be extremely dangerous to aircraft as the fine particles can damage engines.
Many international flights have been affected in the last few hours, with one forced to turn back to Australia.
BBC:Yemen conflict: Ex-leader Saleh appeals to Houthi allies
Yemen conflict: Ex-leader Saleh appeals to Houthi allies
Yemen's former president has called on his Houthi rebel allies to withdraw from territory they have seized in return for a halt to Saudi air strikes.
Ali Abdullah Saleh appealed to various Yemeni factions and the Saudis to enter UN-mediated peace talks.
Yemen was thrown into turmoil after the Houthi rebels forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee to Aden and then to Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
A Saudi-led campaign seeking to restore Mr Hadi was launched last month
BBC:South African shops in Malawi shut in xenophobia boycott
South African shops in Malawi shut in xenophobia boycott
South African-owned shops in Malawi have remained closed after calls for a boycott from activists angered at recent xenophobic attacks.
In the commercial capital Blantyre, armed police guarded several leading South African chain stores.
Several hundred Malawians have been evacuated from South Africa after the recent wave of xenophobic violence.
At least seven people have been killed and 5,000 left homeless since the attacks started last month.
BBC:Gallipoli centenary: Australia and New Zealand mark Anzac Day
Gallipoli centenary: Australia and New Zealand mark Anzac Day
Australia and New Zealand are remembering soldiers from the two countries who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War One.
An indigenous Australian didgeridoo player began the ceremony before dawn.
The events throughout Saturday will mark the centenary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) at Gallipoli on Anzac Day.
It is estimated more than 11,400 from Australia and New Zealand were killed in the fighting which followed.
BBC:Venezuela mango-thrower gets flat from president
Venezuela mango-thrower gets flat from president
A Venezuelan woman has had her wish for a flat granted by President Nicolas Maduro after she made her point by hitting him on the head with a mango.
Marleny Olivo threw the fruit at the president while he was driving a bus through the central state of Aragua.
It had a message on it, in which she pleaded for his help.
Mr Maduro displayed the mango with her telephone number on it during a live television show afterwards. He said he had agreed to her request for a flat.
Reuters:Flash crash charges garner increasing skepticism in high-speed world
Flash crash charges garner increasing skepticism in high-speed world
(Reuters) - The notion that one man trading from his parents' house in a working class London suburb had a material role in the 2010 Wall Street flash crash has aroused increasing skepticism from investors and traders since charges were brought on Tuesday.
The U.S. has asked UK authorities to hand over Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, after his arrest this week on charges that he manipulated markets over several years in a fraudulent scheme that helped cause the stock market rout.
The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Sarao used souped-up, off-the-shelf software to trick other market participants into thinking massive sell orders were about to hit, causing the so-called E-mini S&P futures prices to drop so he could buy at cheaper levels. In doing so, he made $40 million in profits, U.S. authorities allege.
But traders doubt that Sarao could have had the upper hand in a market dominated by Wall Street firms with powerful computer trading programs and huge technology budgets.
Reuters:Venezuela may have missed $24 billion in oil revenue in 2014
Venezuela may have missed $24 billion in oil revenue in 2014
(Reuters) - Venezuela, struggling to pay for essential items such as food and medicine amid strict foreign currency controls, may have failed to collect about a third of its potential oil revenue in 2014, a Reuters analysis suggests.
The OPEC member nation likely realized just over $50 billion in oil revenue in 2014, according to an analysis of publicly available data and estimates based upon past performances of Venezuela's oil sector.
But as a result of generous financing mechanisms to allied nations through cooperation agreements and imports of crude oil and various products, Venezuela potentially deprived itself of about $24 billion in oil revenue last year, the analysis suggests.
An exact figure for both realized and deprived revenues is unavailable given the absence of specific data from Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), and the government.
Reuters:Comcast drops Time Warner Cable bid after antitrust pressure
Comcast drops Time Warner Cable bid after antitrust pressure
(Reuters) - Comcast Corp abandoned its $45 billion offer for Time Warner Cable Inc on Friday after U.S. regulators raised concerns that the deal would give Comcast an unfair advantage in the cable TV and Internet-based services market.
The collapse of the deal opens the door for other possible offers for Time Warner Cable, but also casts heightened regulatory risk on merger activity in the U.S. cable industry, which has been rapidly consolidating in the face of competition from satellite TV and Web-based services.
The proposed acquisition had faced criticism from some politicians, media company executives and consumer and industry groups, who had worried it would create a monolith with too much control over what Americans do online and watch on TV. Comcast had argued the merger would bring faster service and better video services to more Americans.
"The pressure to consolidate in a very competitive industry is going to continue," Maxim Group analyst John Tinker said.
Reuters:Euro zone warns Greece no cash till full reform deal
Euro zone warns Greece no cash till full reform deal
(Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers warned Greece on Friday that its leftist government will get no more aid until it agrees a complete economic reform plan, as Athens lurches closer to bankruptcy.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis faced a harsh morning in which euro zone ministers bemoaned talks they felt "were going nowhere" and one minister said that maybe it was time governments prepared for the plan B of a Greek default.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who chaired the meeting in the Latvian capital, slammed the door on Varoufakis' proposal for early cash after partial reforms.
"A comprehensive and detailed list of reforms is needed," Dijsselbloem told a news conference following a meeting in Riga. "A comprehensive deal is necessary before any disbursement can take place ... We are all aware that time is running out."
Reuters:Tokyo finds high levels of radiation in children's park
Tokyo finds high levels of radiation in children's park
Reuters) - Authorities in the Japanese capital have cordoned off a playground where high levels of radiation were detected this week, reviving concerns about nuclear contamination four years after the Fukushima disaster.
Nuclear regulators measured elevated radiation levels on Thursday in a children's park in central Tokyo, city officials said, more than 250 km (155 miles) from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan.
One area of the park registered 480 microsieverts per hour, or nearly half the recommended annual limit of exposure.
That compares with radiation levels ranging from 0.7 to 23.2 microsieverts per hour measured this month in the air in Okuma, a town less than 20 km from the Fukushima plant.
Reuters:PM Abe to tell U.S. leaders Japan is ready for bigger security role
PM Abe to tell U.S. leaders Japan is ready for bigger security role
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will send a clear message to the United States when he visits Washington next week: Japan is ready to take more responsibility for security on the world stage.
Behind that message, the conservative leader will want fresh assurances that America will show up if needed in any clash with China, conversations with politicians and experts show.
"America of course has been committed to and has interest in Asia, but we would like it to turn its eyes even more to Asia, and build up its influence toward China," Hajime Funada, head of a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) panel on revising Japan's pacifist constitution, told Reuters in an interview.
"We have a sense of crisis that (Chinese President) Xi Jinping ... is increasing China's hegemonic motivation."
Wa Po:Sales of Apple Watches muted by small number of stores offering the device
Sales of Apple Watches muted by small number of stores offering the device
Select rollout mutes Apple Watch sales
A small group of Japanese tech addicts lined up in Tokyo to become the first consumers to buy the Apple Watch from selected stores Friday, but there was no sign of the frenzy that usually accompanies Apple product rollouts.
So far, buyers can get the device from only a handful of upscale boutiques and department stores. They include The Corner in Berlin, Colette in Paris, Maxfield in Los Angeles and Dover Street Market in Tokyo and London. Apple courted the shops to help present the watch as a fashion item rather than just another techie gizmo.
The device cannot be collected from Apple’s own stores yet. For the past two weeks, the company has been directing people to order online.