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| Jury told of Boston bomber's bright childhood | |  By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was once a bright, hardworking child who won the adoration of his teachers and classmates alike, his former instructors testified on Wednesday for defense attorneys trying to spare him the death penalty. During the sentencing phase of Tsarnaev's trial in federal court in Boston, his lawyers have been trying to paint him as a mostly normal American kid who fell under the spell of his now-deceased older brother, ultimately joining him in the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon. Tracey Gordon, who taught Tsarnaev in fifth and sixth grade at a Cambridge school, described him as an exceptionally intelligent child who easily mastered English after arriving in the United States from Russia and "was eager to learn whatever school had to offer." "He was a person who you enjoyed being around," Gordon testified, adding that he would "befriend anybody and help anybody in need." Jurors were also shown photos of a young Tsarnaev smiling as he learned how to dance, did classroom chores and cradled a teacher's newborn.
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| Baltimore finds fragile calm while awaiting answers to man's death | |  By Scott Malone, Ian Simpson and Warren Strobel BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Reeling from its worst civil unrest in decades, Baltimore found a semblance of calm on Wednesday, but police dashed expectations they would release a report this week on the death of a 25-year-old black man that set off rioting. Citizens await answers about the fate of Freddie Gray, who died after suffering spinal injuries while in police custody, while also highlighting the need to reform policing practices in the largely black city. The violence in Baltimore prompted national figures - from the new U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton - to weigh in on Wednesday and vow to work on improving law enforcement and criminal justice in minority communities nationwide. At a news briefing on Wednesday afternoon, police spokesman Captain Eric Kowalczyk said the conclusions would not be made public.
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| U.S. diplomat in Burundi amid anti-president protests | |  By Edmund Blair and Patrick Nduwimana BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - A senior U.S. diplomat arrived in Burundi on Wednesday to try to help halt escalating unrest and defuse the country's biggest crisis in years, set off by President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term. Police in the east African nation have clashed for four days with protesters who say Nkurunziza's plan to run again in the June 26 election violates the constitution and threatens a peace deal that ended the ethnically fuelled civil conflict. Before arriving, Tom Malinowski, U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour, wrote on Twitter: "Disappointed President Nkurunziza violating Arusha Accord." He added it was not too late for a "peaceful democratic path." In response, presidential media adviser Willy Nyamitwe told Reuters: "This is not neutral, but we are in a democratic process and anyone is free to have his own point of view." A senior State Department official said U.S. concerns about Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term had been raised with government officials in Burundi and in the region.
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| Militants kill two Tunisian reporters kidnapped last year in Libya | | | TRIPOLI/TUNIS (Reuters) - Islamic State militants in Libya have killed two Tunisian journalists kidnapped last year, Libyan officials said on Wednesday, following the murder of five television reporters discovered this week. The Tunisian government will immediately send a delegation to Libya to discuss the case, said a Tunis official, declining to confirm the deaths of Sofian Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari who were kidnapped about eight months ago. A spokesman for Libya's official government based in eastern Libya said an arrested militant had admitted that his group had killed the two reporters. The spokesman said that was the same group of Islamic State militants that had killed five journalists - an Egyptian and four Libyans - working for Libya Barqa TV channel. |
| France to set up centre for returning young jihadists by year-end | | | France will open a centre late this year to help reintegrate young French citizens who return from conflict zones such as Syria but are not subject to prosecution, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday. France is a top Western source country for jihadi volunteers and more than 100 have returned home after fighting in Syria and Iraq, which can land them in prison. |
| France investigates allegation of child abuse by its troops in Central Africa | | | By Chine Labbe and Marine Pennetier PARIS (Reuters) - France is investigating allegations of child abuse in Central African Republic by soldiers that it sent there to stem an outbreak of sectarian killing, officials said on Wednesday. The alleged abuse took place between December 2013 and June 2014 at a centre for displaced people at M'Poko airport in the capital Bangui, and concerned about 10 children, France's Defence Ministry said. "A preliminary investigation by the Paris prosecutor has been open since July 31, 2014," a Justice Ministry spokesman said. "The investigation is ongoing." A Defence Ministry source said no suspects had yet been identified. |
| Texas trooper files suit over punishment for Snoop Dogg picture | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas state trooper who says he was reprimanded after posing for a photograph with rapper Snoop Dogg filed a civil suit on Wednesday over the punishment he felt was unjust. The Department of Public Safety (DPS) told Trooper Billy Spears, who was off duty but working in uniform as security at a music festival, that he posed "with a public figure who has a well-known criminal background including numerous drug charges" and it reflected poorly on the agency, according to the suit. Snoop Dogg posted the picture with a caption that read "Me n my deputy dogg." After the photo went out, DPS dispatched an agent to Spears to serve him with a copy of his counselling record, which the lawsuit said was meant to show the department's anger.
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| Mugabe says neighbours should stop flow of migrants to South Africa | |  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Other African nations should stop their citizens from migrating to South Africa to prevent violence against foreigners, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday A wave of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa has claimed seven lives in Durban and Johannesburg over the past four weeks. The South African government has deployed troops to stop the fighting. After a summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) called to discuss industrialisation in southern Africa, Mugabe told reporters that South African President Jacob Zuma had briefed regional leaders on the violence. "I was suggesting that we, the neighbours, must do what we can to prevent more people going into South Africa.
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| Charlie Hebdo cartoonist says he will no longer draw Prophet | |  The French cartoonist Luz, who drew Charlie Hebdo's cover picture of the Prophet Mohammad after the Islamist killings at the satirical weekly in January, has said he will no longer draw the Prophet. "He no longer interests me," he told Les Inrockuptibles in an interview published on its website on Wednesday. For Muslims, any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous, but Charlie Hebdo's next edition carried on its cover Luz's cartoon of a tearful Mohammad holding a "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") sign under the words "All is forgiven".
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| U.N. chief Ban voices 'deep regret' at Indonesian executions | |  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced "deep regret" at Indonesia's decision to execute on Wednesday eight drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, despite desperate pleas from their governments to spare their lives. "(Ban) expresses deep regret at the executions carried out in Indonesia on April 29 despite numerous calls in the country and internationally for a reprieve," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters. "He again urges the government to exercise its authority and commute all death sentences. ...
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| Clinton dives into debate on police tactics, urges justice reform | |  Diving into the debate over police use of force, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged police departments throughout the country to use body cameras and urged an end to excessive prison sentences that burden black communities. In a speech at New York's Columbia University, Clinton called on America "to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice" in the aftermath of this week's Baltimore riots. "There is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes," said Clinton, the front-running Democrat in the 2016 race for the White House.
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