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Egypt activists call for mass protests

Cairo—Egyptian activists called for mass protests in Cairo on Friday to demand the resignation of the ruling military council, target of raging anger over the deaths of 74 people in football-related violence. Demonstrators were to stage marches from mosques across Cairo after noon prayers towards parliament, 28 pro-democracy groups said in a statement on the Internet.The activists said demonstrators would demand the immediate resignation of military council, which took power when an uprising toppled veteran president Hosni Mubarak last year.

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Philippines battles rebels after airstrike

Manila—Philippine troops battled Muslim extremists on a remote southern island on Friday where a day earlier three of Southeast Asia’s top terror suspects were killed in a US-backed air strike, the army said. Soldiers who approached the bombed area on the outskirts of a small village on Jolo island after the raid faced dogged resistance from surviving militants, regional military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang said.”

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Ex-Libyan envoy dies in custody

Tripoli—Libya’s ex-ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, has died in the custody of a militia from possible torture, less than 24 hours after he was detained by the armed group, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. HRW said a Tripoli-based militia from the town of Zintan detained Brebesh on January 19 and that a preliminary autopsy found the cause of death included “multiple bodily injuries and fractured ribs.”

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Suu Kyi postpones political rally

Yangon—Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has postponed a major political rally in the central city of Mandalay because the venue offered by the authorities is too small, according to her party. Tens of thousands of supporters turned out on Sunday to greet the Nobel Peace Prize winner on a campaign trip to the south ahead of April 1 by-elections, and an even bigger crowd had been expected this weekend.But the pro-democracy leader decided to postpone the two-day visit, which had been due to start on Saturday, because the football ground where she wanted to deliver a speech is not available, said a spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.”

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No one to play with at school: India’s infanticide crisis

As the only girl in her noisy classroom of 22 boys, Padma Kanwar Bhatti is one defiant symbol of the toll exacted by India’s deadly preference for male children. Padma, 15, lives with her parents and two elder brothers in Devda, a village of 2,500 residents in the Rajasthan state district of Jaisalmer, which has one of the worst female sex ratios in the country.”There is no other girl in my class and there are very few girls in our village,” she says hesitantly.

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