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| Los Angeles teacher may have abused over 100 children, judge finds | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former Los Angeles elementary school teacher sent to prison for 25 years for taking bondage-style photos of his pupils may have abused over 100 children in all, groping and exposing himself to a number of them, a judge has found. The arrest of Mark Berndt in 2012 sparked widespread outrage when it was revealed that, between 2005 and 2010, he had taken pictures of blindfolded children, with some photographs showing spoonfuls of semen held to their faces. Berndt, 63, pleaded no contest last year to charges of lewd conduct involving 23 children in the criminal case centered on the photos. But revelations of a potentially wider scope of abuse have arisen in a civil lawsuit set for trial in July against his former employer, the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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| Genocide risk in South Sudan amid personal power struggle -U.N. | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Ethnic violence in South Sudan risks spiraling into genocide, with the country's leaders locked in a personal struggle for power, top U.N. officials said on Friday as a U.N. Security Council showdown looms over calls to impose targeted sanctions. Thousands of people have been killed and more than 1 million have fled their homes since fighting erupted in the world's newest nation in December between troops backing President Salva Kiir and soldiers loyal to his sacked deputy, Riek Machar. Adama Dieng, U.N. special adviser on prevention of genocide, and U.N. Human Rights chief Navi Pillay briefed the 15-member council on Friday. "If such attacks are not immediately halted it could plunge the country into serious violence that could spiral out of control," said Dieng, who has visited South Sudan with Pillay.
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| Turkish party keeps term limit, hinting at Erdogan presidency | | | By Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK Party decided on Friday to maintain a three-term limit for its deputies, the clearest signal yet that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will run in the nation's first direct election for president in August. There has been speculation the AKP would change its rules to enable Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade, to stay on as prime minister for a fourth term and finish off a power struggle with an influential Islamic cleric he accuses of seeking to topple him. But in a five-hour meeting to discuss election strategy, chaired by Erdogan, the party's executive board decided not to amend the three-term limit, an internal regulation which the prime minister himself has long publicly championed. "It was decided appropriate to take no steps on the three-term rule," AKP spokesman Huseyin Celik said in a statement. |
| Dozens die in Odessa, rebels down Ukraine helicopters | |  By Maria Tsvetkova SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Dozens of people were killed in a fire and others were shot dead when fighting between pro- and anti-Russian groups broke out on the streets of Odessa on Ukraine's Black Sea coast on Friday, opening a new front in a conflict that has split the country. In the east, pro-Russian separatists brought down two Ukrainian military helicopters involved in a pre-dawn operation to try to dislodge the militants from their strongholds in the town of Slaviansk. The separatists said three of their number had been killed, and two civilians, while the defence ministry said two crew from the downed helicopters died and two other servicemen were killed when separatists attacked them on Friday evening. "Heavy fighting is continuing," the Ukrainian Defence Ministry said.
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| Dozens die in Odessa blaze, rebels down Ukraine helicopters | |  By Maria Tsvetkova SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Dozens of people were killed in a fire and others were shot dead when fighting between pro- and anti-Russian groups broke out on the streets of Odessa on Ukraine's Black Sea coast on Friday. In the country's east, pro-Russian separatists brought down two Ukrainian military helicopters involved in an operation to try to dislodge the militants from their strongholds in the town of Slaviansk. Eastern Ukraine has been a focus of concern in Western capitals since Moscow annexed mainly Russian Crimea from Ukraine in March. Clashes have also broken out in largely Russian-speaking Odessa, not far from Crimea, but they had never involved deaths before.
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| More than 40 killed in fire, clashes in Ukraine's Odessa | | | By Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - More than 40 people were killed in Odessa on Friday, most caught in a building set on fire after pro-Russian activists and supporters of Ukrainian unity fought running battles across the southern port city. In the worst violence in the Black Sea port since President Viktor Yanukovich was ousted in February, police said 38 people had choked to death on smoke or were killed when jumping out of windows after the trade union building was set on fire. The opposing sides in a battle that is being repeated in other parts of Ukraine, especially in its east, have clashed before in Odessa, but the violence has never before resulted in deaths. Waving the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag, wearing helmets and holding batons, thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets to march in support of the European path taken by Kiev. |
| Rebels down Ukraine helicopters, four dead in Odessa | |  By Maria Tsvetkova SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian helicopters trying to retake separatist-held Slaviansk in the country's east on Friday and four people were killed as fighting broke out on the streets of Odessa on the Black Sea. Separatists said Ukrainian forces killed three of their fighters and two civilians when they moved in on Slaviansk in the early hours in what Moscow called a "criminal" assault. Kiev said two helicopter crew had died and seven servicemen had been wounded in the operation. On the other side of Ukraine, police said three people were shot dead and in 15 others were wounded in clashes between people backing Kiev and pro-Russian activists in largely Russian-speaking Odessa.
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| At least 38 killed in fire in Ukraine's southern Odessa port | | | At least 38 people were killed in a fire on Friday in the trade union building in the centre of Ukraine's southern port city of Odessa, regional police said. |
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