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| Five killed in Boko Haram attack on Niger village | | | At least five people were killed when militants from Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group attacked a village in southwestern Niger, two Niger military officers said on Thursday. The attack occurred overnight Tuesday to Wednesday in the village of Koukodou near the Nigerian border in Niger's Dosso region. A second officer said the raiders looted homes and shops before withdrawing back across the border into Nigeria. Boko Haram, which is seeking to establish an Islamist emirate in northeast Nigeria, has killed thousands of people during a six-year insurgency, but attacks in Niger have been relatively rare. |
| U.S. operation kills Al Qaeda man who claimed Paris attacks - sources | | | A U.S. operation has killed the senior Al Qaeda figure who issued the claim of responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, according to U.S. sources familiar with the matter and a reported video posted by the group. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said that its ideologue Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi was killed with his eldest son and other fighters in Yemen in a U.S. air strike, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which cited the online video. |
| Cameron's Conservatives to be biggest party, close to majority - UK exit poll | |  British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives are on course to win the most seats in parliament but will be just shy of an outright majority, an exit poll showed on Thursday after voting closed in a national election. The poll put the Conservatives on 316 seats and the opposition Labour Party on 239. The Scottish National Party (SNP) is set to win 58 seats and the centrist Liberal Democrats 10 seats in the 650-seat Westminster parliament, according to the poll, released by national broadcasters.
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| Canada risks being sidelined in Pacific trade deal - USDA head | | | By David Dolan , ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Canada risks getting left behind in a 12-nation Pacific trade deal because it has been reluctant to negotiate opening its markets, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Thursday. Vilsack also told Reuters that longstanding disagreements with Japan over rice exports would not threaten the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and that the United States and Japan were working towards a compromise. Canada, like Japan, has been reluctant to put down a final offer in the talks, over concern U.S. lawmakers could pick apart agreements afterwards. Canada remains keen to shield its dairy industry. |
| U.S. NSA's phone spying programme ruled illegal by appeals court | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. spying programme that systematically collects millions of Americans' phone records is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, putting pressure on Congress to quickly decide whether to replace or end the controversial anti-terrorism surveillance. Ruling on a programme revealed by former government security contractor Edward Snowden, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the Patriot Act did not authorise the National Security Agency to collect Americans' calling records in bulk.
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| Australian man could face death penalty in China drug trial | |  By James Pomfret GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - An Australian man tearfully pleaded for his life in a Chinese court on Thursday, blaming his plight on a shadowy Sydney gang leader, as he faced judges on charges of attempting to smuggle millions of dollars worth of drugs. The trial follows Indonesia's high-profile executions last week of two convicted Australian drug smugglers, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, alongside six others from several countries, despite international criticism of its use of the death penalty. The hearing in China's southern city of Guangzhou ended with a submission by New Zealand-born Peter Gardner that he had been duped by an intermediary who headed a large Australian gang. As his parents and New Zealand diplomats watched, the handcuffed Gardner told his three judges he was innocent.
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| U.S. Senate passes Iran nuclear review bill, House up next | | | By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to pass a bill giving Congress the right to review, and potentially reject, an international nuclear agreement with Iran. The 98-1 vote sent the measure to the House of Representatives, which is expected to consider it as soon as next week. The White House has said President Barack Obama would sign it into law if it also passes the House, as expected. Republican House Speaker John Boehner issued a statement supporting the bill shortly after the Senate vote. |
| Texas shooting sign of lone wolf attacks to come in U.S. - experts | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attacks like Sunday's shooting at a Texas event featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad are a bigger threat in the United States than any by foreign fighters returning radicalised from Syria or Iraq, security experts told a U.S. Senate panel. The so-called lone wolf attackers will be American, inspired by the Islamic State militant group, radicalised online and have easy access to guns, Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation think tank said at a Senate hearing. U.S. investigators are examining the influence of Islamic State on the two men shot to death by authorities after they opened fire in Garland, Texas. There is no evidence either man travelled to Syria or Iraq but they exchanged Twitter messages with Cybercaliphate, an Islamic State affiliate.
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| Goldman Sachs must face $120 million suit over mortgage securities - court | |  New York's top state court on Thursday revived a bond insurer's $120 million lawsuit claiming Goldman Sachs Group Inc lied about a pool of securities backed by subprime mortgages during the period leading up the financial crisis. The New York Court of Appeals in a 5-2 decision said the suit by ACA Financial Guaranty Corp should move forward because the insurer had raised issues about the role of billionaire John Paulson's hedge fund in a collateralised debt obligation called Abacus. ACA Financial said Goldman had deceived it into believing hedge fund Paulson & Co was a long investor in Abacus when it knew Paulson was betting the underlying mortgages would fail. ACA says it lost approximately $900 million on the deal when the subprime mortgage market collapsed.
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| Man burned alive in Burundi protest against presidential bid | |  By Patrick Njuwimana and Njuwa Maina BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Protesters burned a man alive in Burundi's capital on Thursday, saying he was a member of the ruling party's youth wing which had attacked them during their rallies against the president's bid for a third term, a witness said. Tensions have been building on Bujumbura's streets for almost two weeks between protesters and police using tear gas, water cannon and, demonstrators say, live rounds. The chairwoman of the African Union bloc's Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, joined government opponents on Thursday in saying the situation had deteriorated so far that the June 26 presidential election should be postponed. "Until there is peace in Burundi, we can't go for elections," she said on her Twitter feed.
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| Bosnian Serb police hold 11 Muslims in wake of gun attack | | | Bosnian Serb police are holding 11 people on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts in the wake of a fatal gun attack on a police station last week, a prosecutor said on Thursday. Police in Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic conducted raids on 32 locations on Wednesday, triggering complaints from some Muslim Bosniaks that they were being unfairly targeted for their religious beliefs. A lone gunman shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) stormed a police station in the mainly Serb town of Zvornik last week. Darko Ilic, chief investigator at the Special Prosecutor's office in the Serb Republic, said 31 people had been detained and that police had found weapons, ammunition, military uniforms and propaganda material. |
| Iraqi journalist shot dead by unknown assailant | | | The body of an Iraqi journalist critical of the government has been found at his home in Baghdad with a single bullet wound to the chest after he received threats, relatives, acquaintances and police said on Thursday. "He paid the price of being a journalist in Iraq," said Jubbouri's brother Ahmed. The head of the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory and a person who knew Jubbouri said the presenter had been threatened several times before his death and gave them telephone numbers to call if anything should happen to him. Iraq has consistently ranked amongst the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, long-running civil conflict combining with political tensions in Baghdad. |
| German spies curb Internet snooping for U.S. after row - sources | |  By Thorsten Severin BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has halted its Internet surveillance for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in response to a row over the BND intelligence agency's cooperation with Washington, German intelligence sources said on Thursday. Allegations that the BND has helped the NSA spy on European officials and firms has put strains on Angela Merkel's governing coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and could damage U.S. relations and even the conservative chancellor's own popularity. German intelligence sources told Reuters that the BND's station in Bad Aibling this week stopped sending the NSA information garnered from Internet surveillance.
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| Baltimore probe into black man's death fails to support charges - CNN | |  The Baltimore police investigation into the death of a black man from injuries sustained in police custody fails to support some charges filed by the city prosecutor, CNN reported on Thursday. Citing officials briefed on the separate probes by prosecutor Marilyn Mosby and police into the death of Freddie Gray, the television news network said the lack of support for charges from the police findings could allow lawyers representing the officers to undercut the prosecution. Officials familiar with the probes say the homicide investigation run by police at most contemplated a manslaughter charge, not second-degree murder as Mosby charged one of the officers, Caesar Goodson. Homicide investigators briefed by the medical examiner's office believed the autopsy report would likely find the cause of death to fall short of homicide, one official familiar with the case told CNN.
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| Omar Khadr, once a Guantanamo inmate, freed on bail in Canada | |  By Dan Riedlhuber EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) - Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was once the youngest prisoner held on terror charges at Guantanamo Bay, will be released on bail from an Alberta prison on Thursday while he appeals a murder conviction by a U.S. military tribunal. A judge in an Alberta court ruled that Khadr, who was captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 and pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier, can be released on bail, denying an appeal by the Canadian government to keep him in custody. Khadr, 28, was transferred to Alberta from prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in 2012. Bail conditions imposed by an Alberta court include that Khadr wears an electronic monitoring device, lives with his lawyer in Edmonton, observes a nightly curfew, and has only monitored contact with his family.
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| Kosovo indicts 32 for fighting and recruiting for Islamic State | | | By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - A prosecutor in Kosovo indicted 32 people on Thursday for fighting alongside Islamist insurgents in Syria and Iraq and recruiting others from the impoverished Balkan country to fight. Security officials say more than 200 people from Kosovo have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq, stirring fears of the threat they might pose when they come home. "For some of the suspects there is strong evidence that they fought and joined the terrorist group in Syria known as ISIS," a statement from the state prosecutor's office said, referring to Islamic State. "Others have recruited people to send to the war in Syria and have collected money for terrorist organizations." All the indicted men were arrested in August 2014, when police began a large-scale operation to deter would-be Islamic State fighters. |
| Athlete dies, three others critical after suicide pact in Kerala | | | By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Kerala police are investigating the death of a 15-year-old female athlete and attempted suicide by three others girls who ate poisonous fruit at a state-run sports institute, a minister said on Thursday. The teen athletes were reported to have eaten othalanga, a toxic local fruit, in a suicide pact at the centre in Alappuzha in Kerala which is run by the Sports Authority of India (SAI). All four were believed to have signed a suicide note, said officials, but no details have been given about the contents of the letter. "Law will take its own course, but I assure you that if anybody from Sports Authority of India is found to be guilty in this connection, we will be taking strictest possible action against her or him," Sonowal said in a statement. |
| Boston bombing jury told of prison conditions Tsarnaev could face | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON(Reuters) - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing, would spend most of his days alone in his cell if a U.S. jury decides to send him to prison instead of sentencing him to death, a penal expert testified on Thursday. The same jury found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty last month of killing three people and injuring 264 others at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, in one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. District Court jury in Boston can only sentence him to death or life in prison without possibility of release. If Tsarnaev goes to prison, he would be alone most of the time at the U.S. government penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, a former federal prison warden, Mark Bezy, told jurors.
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