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| Angry with London elite, some pro-union Scots to vote for nationalists | | | By Sarah Young GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) - Shirleen Barrowman is one of a growing band of Scots who support the United Kingdom, and yet plan to vote in next week's general election for the party dedicated to breaking up Britain. Such is their anger with the London-based political elite, and the Labour Party in particular, that they will back the Scottish National Party (SNP) on May 7, even though they rejected independence in last year's referendum. This apparent conflict of loyalties offers the secessionist SNP an opportunity to reach the heart of British power, and may frustrate Labour leader Ed Miliband's hopes of defeating conservative Prime Minister David Cameron. "I believe the union should stay together," Barrowman told Reuters in Glasgow, Scotland's biggest city. |
| Italy's Renzi wins second confidence vote on electoral law | |  By Roberto Landucci ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi won the second of three confidence votes on a fiercely contested new electoral law on Thursday, defying opposition parties and dissidents within his own Democratic Party (PD). The new electoral law, which would come into effect in July next year, is based on proportional representation, but awards a heavy majority to the winning party or coalition, with the aim of ensuring that a clear victor emerges. Opposition parties and PD dissidents say that, in tandem with a constitutional reform abolishing the Senate as an elected chamber, it will hand too much power to the winning party, and therefore undermines democracy. They are even more furious about Renzi's decision to force the bill through in confidence votes, which oblige parliament to either vote in favour or bring down the government.
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| Israeli military worries over troops' use of social media | | | By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's armed forces see a growing threat in instant messaging applications -- both to battlefield secrecy and to the privacy of women soldiers. "First of all, it's not under my aegis," she said. |
| Police give prosecutors findings on Baltimore man's death | |  By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Baltimore police have handed prosecutors the findings of an internal investigation into the death of a black man who suffered spinal injuries while in custody, officials said on Thursday, a day after protests spread to other cities. Police have said there were no plans to make the findings public, but the report was turned over to Baltimore City's chief prosecutor a day earlier than expected, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts told a news conference. "That is why we have finished it a day ahead of time." Batts said the police investigation of the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray on April 19 was not over. Prosecutors have said they would conduct their own investigation before deciding whether to charge six police officers involved in Gray's arrest on April 12.
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| German police foil Islamist attack ahead of Frankfurt cycle race | | | By Peter Maushagen FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Police in Germany have thwarted a planned Islamist attack after detaining a couple with suspected Salafist militant links, one of whom was seen along the route of a popular May Day cycle race in Frankfurt, officials said on Thursday. Public prosecutor Albrecht Schreiber said a search of their home had turned up an automatic assault weapon, 100 rounds of live ammunition, chemicals commonly used in preparing home-made bombs and a canister full of petrol. "Investigations by the police indicate that we have been able to prevent a terrorist attack," Peter Beuth, the interior minister of Hesse, told reporters. "This incident shows that we must all remain very alert." The 35-year-old man had dual Turkish-German citizenship and a criminal record, said Hesse police chief Stefan Mueller. |
| Baltimore waits for answers on black man's death in police custody | |  By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Residents of Baltimore and activists across the United States waited on Thursday for official word on the cause of a black man's death in police custody earlier this month, as protests over the case spread to other cities. More than 100 people were arrested in New York overnight on Wednesday during protests against police violence, while Baltimore saw a largely peaceful night as a curfew held after rioting over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. Thousands of National Guard troops and police remained in the mostly black city of Baltimore on Thursday morning to maintain order and enforce a 10:00 p.m. curfew set after unrest on Monday saw buildings and cars burned, stores looted and 20 officers hurt. Baltimore officials tried to tamp down expectations that there would be a quick answer on the fate of the six police officers involved in the arrest that preceded Gray's death.
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| France's Hollande vows no mercy to soldiers if African child abuse proven | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande vowed on Thursday to make an example of any French troops found guilty of child sex abuse in Central African Republic as a judicial source said as many as 14 could be implicated. The allegations, which came to light this week when Britain's Guardian newspaper published extracts of an internal U.N. report, risks damaging the reputation of France's peacekeeping operations in Africa. A judicial source who requested anonymity told Reuters that an initial reading of the full report suggested 14 soldiers had been involved in alleged abuse between December 2013 and June 2014. If they are serious, the punishment will be harsh," Hollande told reporters during a visit in western France.
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