|  | | | | | | | | | | | | | World | | Pakistan said it was considering returning a captured Indian pilot, identified by Islamabad as Wing Commander Abhi Nandan, as Donald Trump said American mediation was helping to defuse a crisis between the two nuclear powers a day after both downed enemy jets. The pilot became the human face of the latest flare-up following the release of videos showing him being captured and later held in custody. | | | | A mass grave containing the bodies of dozens of people believed to be Yazidis held captive by Islamic State has been found in territory recently captured from the jihadists by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a SDF commander said. “They were slaughtered,” the commander said, adding that most had been decapitated. | | | | United Nations investigators said Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in killing 189 Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 at weekly protests in Gaza last year. Israel rejected the report as a “theater of the absurd”. Protests have been held at the frontier between Israel and the Gaza Strip since last year, calling for the easing of an Israeli blockade of the territory and recognition of the right of Palestinian refugees there to return to homes in Israel. | | | | | | Two @Reuters journalists have been detained in Myanmar since Dec. 12, 2017. See our coverage of the case: https://reut.rs/2EiBioU 7:35 AM - Feb 28, 2019 | | | Venezuela | | Inside a U.S. businessman's oil deal with Venezuela. In November 2017 Harry Sargeant III flew to Venezuela. The day after the wealthy American businessman arrived, he said a small convoy of SUVs took him to a house at the Fuerte Tiuna military base in Caracas. Inside, he said officials showed off a room with various live snakes, some venomous, on display in glass cages. Sargeant thought he would be meeting only with a PDVSA official he knew. Instead he said he found himself face-to-face with Maduro, whom he said was “friendly but serious.” | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tech | | Daimler and BMW deepened their alliance to share spiraling development costs for highly automated driving technologies, even as each carmaker pursues separate efforts to develop fully self-driving cars.
3 Min Read | | | | Facebook’s lead regulator in the European Union expects to conclude the first of seven investigations into the company’s use of personal data this summer and the remainder by the end of the year, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner said 2 min read | | | | A rocket carrying six satellites built by Airbus SE and partner OneWeb blasted off from French Guiana, the first step in a plan to give millions of people in remote and rural areas high-speed internet beamed down from space. 6 min read | | | | | | | | | | | Top Stories on Reuters TV | | | | | | | |
