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| Eleven-year-old Paraguay rape victim has baby, stokes abortion debate | | | An 11-year-old rape victim gave birth in Paraguay on Thursday after being denied termination of her pregnancy by doctors and judicial officials, stoking the debate over abortion in the overwhelmingly Catholic country. In Paraguay, two girls aged 10 to 14 give birth every day. The cases are often linked to sexual violence. |
| Greek ruling party heads towards split before bailout vote | |  By Lefteris Papadimas and George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's Syriza party looked set to split after the leader of its far-left faction called on Thursday for a new movement to fight a bailout deal that lawmakers are due to vote on in the coming hours. Days after striking a deal with foreign creditors, Tsipras is asking parliament to approve a bailout agreement that pledges tax rises and spending cuts in exchange for 85 billion euros in fresh loans. It will be Greece's third financial rescue programme agreed with creditors in five years.
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| U.S. returns stolen Picasso painting 'La Coiffeuse' to France | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities returned the stolen $15 million Picasso painting "La Coiffeuse" to France on Thursday, nine months after it was found in a FedEx shipment listed as a $37 handicraft. U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana turned over the 1911 cubist oil painting to French officials in a ceremony at the French Embassy. "La Coiffeuse," or "The Hairdresser," was last displayed in 1998 in Munich, Germany, and was returned to the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
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| State of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, extended at least 24 hours | |  The government of St. Louis County extended for at least 24 hours a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, which has been the scene of protests a year after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer. County Executive Steve Stenger extended the state of emergency in Ferguson, a suburb of the city of St. Louis, through at least Friday, said his spokeswoman, Allison Blood. In consultation with police, Stenger put the state of emergency in place on Monday for Ferguson and surrounding areas after police officers shot and critically wounded a man in an exchange of gunfire Sunday night, marring what had been a day of peaceful demonstrations.
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| Blatter urges Europe to revisit foreign player limits | |  By Simon Evans ZURICH, Aug 13 (Reuters) - - Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter wants European football to look again at stricter limits on foreigners, saying each club should have six players in their starting lineups who are eligible for the national side. Although European Union law considers such limits as nationality discrimination, Blatter believes Russia's recent move to have five players eligible for their national team on the pitch in league games can be copied. "In my opinion this scenario remains open to western Europe too," the Swiss wrote in his column for FIFA Weekly.
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| Britain says to protest to Ecuador over Assange asylum | |  Britain said on Thursday it would make a formal protest to Ecuador over its decision to provide asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in its London embassy and so prevent his extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes. "Ecuador must recognise that its decision to harbour Mr Assange more than three years ago has prevented the proper course of justice," British Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire said in a statement. Assange, who denies any wrongdoing, has been holed up in Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden.
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| U.N. Security Council to meet on Islamic State gay attacks | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two men, one Iraqi and one Syrian, targeted by Islamic State for being gay will brief the United Nations Security Council on their experience as part of a bid by the United States and Chile to draw attention to the "brutal attacks" by the militant group. Islamic State has declared a caliphate in swathes of territory it has seized across Iraq and Syria. The United Nations and rights groups say the militants rape and kill women, recruit child soldiers and attack religious minorities. |
| Pakistan military court sentences six to death in school massacre | | | A secret military court in Pakistan sentenced six men to death after convicting them of involvement in the Taliban massacre of 134 children at an army-run school in Peshawar, the military said on Thursday. The sentences are the first known convictions for the December massacre in the northwestern city after parliament in January approved military courts to try accused militants. The six defendants - civilians convicted of aiding six gunmen who attacked the army school - confessed before the court, according to a statement from the military's press wing. |
| Rights groups decry sentencing of leading Azeri activist | | | New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) decried as politically motivated the sentencing of a leading rights activist in Azerbaijan on Thursday to 8-1/2 years in jail, saying it was part of a campaign to muzzle dissent. Leyla Yunus, the head of the Baku-based Institute for Peace and Democracy, has been held in detention since July, 2014, on charges of treason, espionage and tax evasion. Critics of Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev accuse him of cracking down on dissent in the former Soviet republic. |
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