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| U.N. calls for end to impunity for crimes in Darfur, Sudan | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Sudanese police and security forces have shot, killed and abducted civilians in Darfur with near-total impunity, the United Nations said on Friday in a report also documenting crimes committed by rebels last year in the remote western region. The military conducted aeriel bombing and ground attacks on civilians and burned villages in its campaign to end the insurgency in North and South Darfur in 2014, the U.N. human rights office said, citing serious violations of international law. Peacekeepers from the African Union and U.N., whose joint force in Darfur is known as UNAMID, documented 411 cases of abuses by all sides in the conflict, affecting 980 people, the report said. |
| U.N. chief urges North, South Korea not to escalate tensions | |  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed on Friday for North Korea and South Korea not to take any action that could further escalate tensions after Seoul refused to halt propaganda broadcasts and Pyongyang put its troops on a war footing. The countries appeared headed toward another clash after South Korea rejected an ultimatum by the North that it halt anti-Pyongyang broadcasts by Saturday afternoon or face military action. "He urges the parties to refrain from taking any further measures that might increase tensions," Kaneko said.
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| Black teen killed by St. Louis police shot in back - autopsy | |  An autopsy on the body of the black teenager shot and killed by white St. Louis police officers this week shows the 18-year-old died from a single gunshot that entered his back and struck his heart, a medical examiner said on Friday. The finding could escalate tensions that flared immediately after the shooting Wednesday, as protesters and family members of the slain teen questioned police accounts that Mansur Ball-Bey pointed a gun at officers. The results of the autopsy show Ball-Bey was struck in the upper right part of his back by a bullet that hit his heart and an artery next to the heart, said St. Louis Chief Medical Examiner Michael Graham.
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| Hollywood studios must face animators' anti-poaching lawsuit | |  Several major Hollywood studios failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a antitrust lawsuit accusing them of illegally conspiring not to poach each others' animators, to help drive down wages. In a Thursday night decision, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, rejected the dismissal request by Walt Disney Co and its Lucasfilm and Pixar units, Sony Corp, DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc and 21st Century Fox Inc's Blue Sky Studios.
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| IRA may still be active despite N.Ireland peace deal - minister | | | By Ian Graham BELFAST (Reuters) - The Irish Republican Army may still be active a decade after its public disbandment, a senior Northern Ireland official said on Friday, a revelation that if substantiated could bring down the government of the British province. The remark prompted a flat denial from a senior figure in Sinn Fein, a party whose position as part of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government is predicated on the dissolution of the IRA, its former armed wing. An end to the IRA was a central plank of the 1998 Good Friday accord that largely ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland between Catholics who favoured unification with the Republic of Ireland and Protestants wanting to stay British. |
| Thieves steal Rodin bust from Danish museum | | | A Rodin bronze bust "Man with the Broken Nose" has been stolen during opening hours from a museum in Copenhagen by two men posing as tourists, the museum said. The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum released surveillance pictures on Friday of the two suspects who can be seen in the video, one dressed in shorts and wearing a broad-brimmed hat, the other in jeans, a checked shirt and a baseball cap. According to the museum, it took the thieves 12 minutes to snatch the 25.5-cm bronze bust, from the moment they entered until they left. |
| Thailand increases reward for bombing suspect | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities have tripled to $85,000 a reward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the country's worst ever bombing. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said progress in the investigation was being made, but declined to give details. Police are trying to determine who carried out the Monday evening attack at one of Bangkok's top tourist attractions.
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| Greece's Syriza party splits, rebels form anti-bailout front | |  By Renee Maltezou and George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Rebels angered by Greece's international bailout walked out of the leftist Syriza party on Friday, formalising a widely-expected split after leader Alexis Tsipras resigned as prime minister to pave the way for early elections. The new anti-bailout Popular Unity party set up by the far leftists is expected to steal some anti-euro voters away from Tsipras. The split - which cost Tsipras 25 lawmakers or a sixth of Syriza's parliamentary group - came a day after he abruptly resigned to force early elections in a bid to cement his grip on power and deal with the growing rebellion in the party's ranks.
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| North, South Korea head towards new clash as deadline looms | |  By Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea appeared headed towards another clash on Friday as Seoul refused to halt propaganda broadcasts and Pyongyang put its troops on a war footing, prompting China to urge both sides to take a step back. South Korean Vice Defence Minister Baek Seung-joo said it was likely the North would fire at some of the 11 sites where Seoul has set up loudspeakers on its side of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the countries. North Korea fired four shells into South Korea on Thursday, according to Seoul, in apparent protest against the broadcasts.
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| Exclusive: FIFA team targets match-fixing, "many" cases of corruption - source | | | By Simon Evans and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA's independent ethics committee is probing "many" cases of suspected corruption, is accelerating its investigations and expects life bans for all but minor offences, according to a source familiar with the matter. Investigators are probing three main areas: cases related to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process, the distribution and use of development funds and match-fixing, which the source described as soccer's "big story". Ethics investigators say the days when corruption offenders could expect to receive only three-month bans were gone, the source told Reuters. |
| Men jailed 19 years for "brazen" attack on Hong Kong newspaper editor | | | By Adelaide Hui and Emma Ng HONG KONG (Reuters) - Two men who attacked a former chief editor of a widely respected Hong Kong newspaper with a meat cleaver were jailed on Friday for 19 years in a case that has raised concerns about press freedom in the Chinese-run city. Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah, both 39 years old, showed no emotion as the sentence was handed down for "grievous bodily harm with intent" in the stabbing of former Ming Pao chief editor Kevin Lau on Feb. 26 last year in broad daylight. Speaking to the court, Justice Esther Toh said the assault was carried out "in cold blood ... for financial gain", and that it was a "brazen attack on the rule of law in Hong Kong." Lau last week urged the police to continue investigating so that the "mastermind" behind the attack could be brought to justice, with the motives for the crime still unclear. |
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