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| Tensions rise as North and South Korea exchange fire | | | By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea fired a barrage of artillery rounds into North Korea on Thursday after the North shelled across the border to protest against anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Seoul, moves that raised tensions on the divided peninsula. Washington urged Pyongyang to halt any "provocative" actions in the wake of the first exchange of fire between the two Koreas since last October. North Korea did not return fire but warned Seoul in a letter that it would take military action if the South did not stop the broadcasts along the border within 48 hours, the South's Defence Ministry said. |
| Islamic State destroys Syrian monastery, moves Christian captives - monitor | | | Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this month. The group has also transferred several dozen Christians, captured during its offensive, to a location near its stronghold in northeastern Syria, the monitor said. Militants used bulldozers to raze the monastery in the town of Qaryatain, which they had captured in early August, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. |
| Brazil's lower house speaker Cunha charged in corruption probe | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress was charged by prosecutors with corruption and money laundering on Thursday, becoming the first sitting politician to be charged in a burgeoning kickback and bribery scandal. Eduardo Cunha, a member of Brazil's largest political party, was accused of taking a $5 million bribe related to contracts for two drillships built for state-run oil company Petrobras , the focus of the country's biggest-ever corruption scandal. The prosecutor's office said it also laid unspecified charges against former president Fernando Collor de Mello, now a senator.
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| New York looks to curb topless women, Mickey and Thor in Times Square | |  By Daniel Bases NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City created a task force on Thursday to examine how it can rein in topless women and costumed cartoon and superhero characters who officials believe are aggressively soliciting tips after posing for tourists' pictures in Times Square. "Over the past several months, serious concerns have been raised about both the appropriateness of topless individuals in Times Square, as well as aggressive solicitation by topless individuals and costumed characters that often times becomes harassment of New Yorkers and visitors alike," Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said. Convened by the mayor and co-chaired by New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton and Planning Commissioner Carl Weisbrod, the task force will report its findings by Oct. 1.
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| Greek opposition party leader to get mandate to form government Friday | | | ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's main opposition party leader Vangelis Meimarakis will meet the country's president Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Friday morning to receive a mandate to form a new government, an official from Meimarakis' New Democracy party said. Given the arithmetic of the current parliament, New Democracy has little chance of pulling a coalition together after Greece's left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on Thursday, making national elections the most likely outcome. (Reporting by Renee Maltezou in Athens; Writing by Greg Roumeliotis; Editing by James Dalgleish) |
| South Sudanese journalist shot dead in capital | | | By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - A South Sudanese journalist has been shot dead in what a press freedom group described as a "very foreboding sign" just days after the president issued a warning to the media. Peter Julius Moi, who worked with the independent New Nation newspaper in Juba, was shot as he headed home after work, his colleagues at the paper said. President Salva Kiir issued a warning to journalists before flying to peace talks in Ethiopia. |
| Rumors fed unrest following St. Louis police shooting - alderman | | | Rumors that a black teenager killed by St. Louis police was only 13 years old helped stoke angry clashes between police and protesters, a city alderman said on Thursday, and police said they were ready should protests flare anew.City streets were largely calm a day after Wednesday's fatal shooting during a house search triggered the protests, but St. Louis Alderman Antonio French said it was hard to say if protesters would take to the streets again Thursday night. Small groups typically stage peaceful demonstrations nightly in Ferguson but others, not part of organised groups, can be unpredictable, he said, adding: "It's hard to say right now about what the mood is. Many arrived angry because they heard a 13-year-old kid was killed," said French, a prominent voice in the community since police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson killed an unarmed black teenager last year and sparked months of sometimes violent protests. |
| Pakistan's embattled comedians spin troubles into punchlines | |  By Katharine Houreld KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - The crowd exploded into laughter as Pakistani comedian Shehzad Ghias Shaikh threw them his final punchline, gripping the microphone as he roasted the dating app Tindr and traditional South Asian family matchmaking. "I want my mother to find me random girls to sleep with!" Shaikh, 26, has just returned from New York and is trying to reinvigorate live comedy in Pakistan, an Islamic nation. Aside from the usual financial struggles and small audiences, Pakistani comedians face harsh blasphemy laws and a barrage of death threats if their jokes offend the wrong person.
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| Two more women accuse Bill Cosby of assault in 1970s | |  By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two more women came forward on Thursday to accuse Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them in the 1970s, joining dozens of others who have made similar accusations against the veteran television star. The women appeared at a news conference with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing many of the more than 40 women who have said Cosby drugged and assaulted them. Charlotte Fox said Cosby, 78, sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in the 1970s, when she was a 23-year-old aspiring actress.
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| Ashley Madison founder emails leaked in new data dump | |  By Alastair Sharp and Josephine Mason TORONTO (Reuters) - Emails sent by the founder of infidelity website AshleyMadison.com appear to have been exposed in a second, larger release of data stolen from its parent company, cyber security experts confirmed on Thursday. The data dump by hackers who have attacked the site appears to include email messages linked to Noel Biderman, founder and chief executive officer of its Toronto-based parent company Avid Life Media. In a message accompanying the release, the hackers said: "Hey Noel, you can admit it's real now." That appeared to be a riposte to the company's initial response to Tuesday's dump that the data may not be authentic.
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| As refugee crisis worsens, Merkel and Hollande want EU to move faster | |  By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and France will press the European Union to move faster and with more unity to deal with the worsening refugee crisis, amid complaints from Germany that it is shouldering too big a burden. Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will meet in Berlin on Monday to discuss how to speed up relief for thousands of migrants, many of whom risk dangerous sea voyages to reach southern Europe before making their way across the continent. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told a news conference on Thursday with his French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve that the EU must move more quickly as migrant numbers across the EU have surged in recent months.
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| Bolivia football HQ raided in corruption probe | | | State prosecutors raided the headquarters of the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) in the provincial city of Cochabamba after it failed to cooperate fully with an investigation into corruption, the prosecutors' office said on Thursday. Police arrested the head of the FBF, Carlos Chavez, on July 17 on graft charges linked to an alleged scam involving a charity fund set up for the family of a fan who died at an international match. "On various occasions we have sought information from the FBF and in reply we have received incomplete answers, simple photocopies. |
| Former reality TV star Josh Duggar admits cheating on wife | |  (Reuters) - Former reality TV star Josh Duggar on Thursday admitted cheating on his wife after reports that he had subscribed to the Ashley Madison affair website, apologizing for being "the biggest hypocrite ever." "While espousing faith and family values, I have been unfaithful to my wife," Duggar, 27, a former campaigner for family values who appeared on the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting," said in a statement posted on his family's website. "The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country I was hiding my own personal failures," he added, calling himself the "biggest hypocrite ever." The Discovery Communications-owned network last month canceled "19 Kids," after disclosures in May that Duggar had sexually abused four of his sisters when he was a teenager, one of whom was under 10 years old at the time.
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| FIFA give little away after secretive sponsors' meeting | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA discussed reforms with some of its leading commercial partners on Thursday during a secretive meeting at the headquarters of world soccer's scandal-plagued governing body. FIFA told its partners it was committed to reform and transparency but would not comment further on the meeting which it described as "internal." "During the meeting, FIFA reaffirmed its commitment to transparency, reform, and collaboration with its valued partners," said a statement. "No further comment will be made on the internal discussions between the parties." FIFA said that AB InBev, Adidas, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Visa were present.
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| Tsipras resigns, paving way for snap Greek election | |  By Renee Maltezou and Michele Kambas ATHENS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on Thursday, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece's creditors for a better bailout deal but had to cave in. Tsipras submitted his resignation to President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and asked for the earliest possible election date. Government officials said the aim was to hold the election on Sept. 20, with Tsipras seeking to crush a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party and seal public support for the bailout programme, Greece's third since 2010, that he negotiated.
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| Greek main opposition party leader says he'll try to form government | |  Greece's main opposition party leader said on Wednesday he would contact leaders of other parties to try to form a government after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned, adding that his New Democracy party was ready to contest elections too. Given the arithmetic of the current parliament, New Democracy has little chance of pulling a coalition together.
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