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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 quell 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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| More Ashley Madison affair website data leaked online - report | |  Hackers have released a second, larger batch of data stolen from infidelity website AshleyMadison.com's parent company, Vice's online technology site Motherboard reported on Thursday. The dump, the veracity of which Reuters was not able to immediately verify, appeared to include email messages linked to Noel Biderman, the chief executive officer of Ashley Madison owner Avid Life Media.
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| Greek PM announces to resign to pave way for snap polls | |  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he would resign on Thursday to pave the way for early elections, saying it was up to Greeks to judge whether he adequately represented them in a battle with foreign lenders on austerity demands. "The political mandate of the January 25 elections has exhausted its limits and now the Greek people have to have their say," Tsipras said in a televised address. Fresh from clinching a bailout deal, Tsipras opted for early elections to consolidate his position after nearly a third of lawmakers from his Syriza party refused to back the programme in parliament last week, robbing him of a guaranteed political majority.
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| "King of Rome" given Godfather funeral | | | The head of a notorious Rome crime family was given a lavish funeral on Thursday, with a helicopter dropping red rose petals on mourners and a brass band playing the theme tune from the Godfather movie. Italian politicians denounced the ostentatious sendoff for Vittorio Casamonica, 65, and called on the interior ministry to explain whether it had given special permits for the ceremony. An ornate hearse pulled by six, black-plumed horses, carried Casamonica's body to a Roman Catholic basilica in the Rome suburbs, where a funeral mass was celebrated. |
| Two Thai bomb 'suspects' deny link, international terrorism "unlikely" | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A bomb attack in Bangkok in which 20 people were killed was likely planned weeks in advance by a group of 10 people, Thai authorities said on Thursday. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, Thailand's worst bombing, on Monday evening at a popular Hindu shrine crowded with tourists. The elimination of foreign militant involvement would feed speculation that either Muslim separatists waging a low-intensity insurgency in southern Thailand, or domestic political activists, were involved.
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| Tensions rise as North and South Korea exchange artillery fire | | | By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea fired dozens of artillery rounds towards North Korea on Thursday after the North shelled across the border to protest against anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Seoul - the first exchange of fire in 10 months. 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 loudspeaker broadcasts along the border within 48 hours, the South's Defence Ministry said. |
| Germany charges suspected U.S and Russian spy with treason | | | German prosecutors said on Thursday they had charged a former employee of the BND foreign intelligence agency with treason and suspect he gave secrets to both the United States and Russia up until last year. The arrest last year of the man, identified as Markus R., chilled relations between Berlin and Washington, the closest of allies during the Cold War, and followed revelations of extensive snooping on Germany by the U.S. National Security Agency. Arrested in July last year on suspicion of spying for the Americans, he was charged on Aug. 11 this year on two counts of treason, breaking official secrets and corruption, said prosecutors. |
| Pakistan bans film on Mumbai attacks after accused mastermind protests | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Thursday banned an Indian film about the 2008 Mumbai attacks in response to a petition filed by the man New Delhi accuses of masterminding the killing of 166 people over three days. Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba which the United Nations has listed as a terrorist organisation, petitioned the court to ban the Kabir Khan-directed feature film "Phantom" on the basis that it maligns Pakistan and vilifies Saeed and his current organisation, Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The Lahore High Court issued a ban on Thursday, Saeed's lawyer said.
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| Greece to hold early elections on Sept 20 - source | | | Greece is likely to hold early elections on Sept. 20, a Greek government official told reporters on Thursday. "The aim is to hold elections on Sept. 20," a government source said after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met senior party officials and ministers to discuss the government's next move. Tsipras had been expected to seek early elections to quell a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party and seal support to implement a tough bailout programme. |
| Best of enemies: Blatter-Platini rift to shape FIFA election | |  By Simon Evans and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - An increasingly bitter rift between FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA chief Michel Platini looks set to define the campaign to elect the next leader of soccer's corruption-plagued world governing body. The tense relationship between the Swiss and the Frenchman, once described by Blatter as being "like father and son", has descended in recent days into open conflict. "Blatter will do whatever he can to stop Platini becoming president of FIFA," said a former senior official with the organisation.
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| Four Palestinian Hamas militants abducted in Egypt's Sinai - sources | | | GAZA/ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Four members of Hamas' armed wing were abducted in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday after the bus they were on was stopped by unidentified gunmen, sources close to the Palestinian group and Egyptian security officials said. Egypt accuses Hamas of supporting militant groups seeking to topple the Cairo government, an allegation the movement denies. Hamas warned in a statement that the abductions could strain ties with Egypt, which faces a serious security challenge from Islamist militants. |
| Videos show Libyan officials threatening jailed Gaddafi son | |  By Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) - New videos show Libyan security officials threatening Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi in an effort to force him to talk, two weeks after footage emerged showing guards beating him in the same Tripoli jail. Saadi has been held in Tripoli's Hadba prison since he was extradited last year from Niger, on charges over the killing of a football player when he was head of the Libyan soccer federation during the rule of his father, and other crimes. After the first video emerged, the Tripoli government invited journalists to see Saadi in his cell last week to prove he was being well-treated.
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| Pistorius parole ruling could take four months - South African government | |  By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's parole review board has up to four months to conclude its decision on when Oscar Pistorius can be released from prison, a Justice Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Paralympic gold medallist Pistorius, 28, was due to be released into house arrest on Friday after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend, model and law graduate Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013. Justice Minister Michael Masutha, however, on Wednesday blocked his proposed release because he said the decision was made without legal basis, an intervention the Pistorius family said left them "shocked and disappointed".
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| Islamic State claims Cairo courthouse bomb which wounded 30 | |  By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State's Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 30 people, including 8 policemen, near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb on Thursday. A statement circulated on Twitter by supporters of the group, Sinai Province, said the bomb was a reprisal for the execution of six of its members convicted of carrying out an attack north of the Egyptian capital last year. In May, Egypt executed six members of Sinai Province for attacking soldiers near Cairo in 2014.
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