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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. |
| Majority of Germans opposed to third bailout for Greece - poll | |  More than half of Germans are opposed to a planned third bailout for Greece and the vast majority do not believe the Greek government will implement economic reforms, a survey by Forsa for newspaper Handelsblatt showed. Having voted last month to accept reforms including tax hikes and spending cuts in exchange for 85 billion euros in fresh loans, the Greek parliament is due to vote in coming hours on the bailout agreement itself. The Forsa poll also showed that 47 percent of Germans preferred Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble's hardline stance on bailout negotiations with Greece to that of Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose more conciliatory approach 41 percent favoured.
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| Bangladesh says arrests 2 Islamists over killing of secularist blogger | | | Bangladesh police said on Thursday they had arrested two members of a banned Islamist group for alleged involvement in the killing of a blogger, the latest attack on critics of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation. Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years, while the government has tried to crack down on hardline Islamist groups seeking to make the South Asian nation of 160 million people a sharia-based state. Blogger Niloy Chatterjee, 40, an advocate of secularism, was killed by attackers armed with machetes in his flat in the capital Dhaka on Friday. |
| 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 for a new movement to fight a bailout deal that lawmakers will vote on later on Thursday. Days after striking an agreement with foreign creditors, Tsipras is asking parliament to approve a bailout agreement that pledges tax hikes 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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| Egypt police colonel gets 5 years jail at re-trial over deaths of 37 prisoners | | | An Egyptian police colonel was sentenced to a reduced five years in jail on Thursday in a re-trial over the deaths of 37 Islamist prisoners being transported to jail in an overcrowded van, lawyers and judicial sources said. It was one of the most disputed incidents during a fierce security crackdown on Islamists after the military deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July 2013 following mass protests against his rule. Thursday's verdict came a day before the second anniversary of the deaths of hundreds of pro-Mursi protesters when security forces stormed into two of their camps to disperse them. |
| 2020 logo designer asks for withdrawal of some designs after fresh plagiarism accusations | |  A Japanese designer who has been accused of plagiarism for his Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo said on Thursday he had asked a beer company to withdraw some of his designs due to new accusations of copyright infringement. Belgian designer Olivier Debie said in July the official logo for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was too similar to his design for the Theatre de Liege, but designer Kenjiro Sano denied any plagiarism.
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| At least five dead in spate of shootings around Boston | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in four apparently unrelated shooting incidents around Boston, police said on Thursday, provoking outrage from the city's mayor who said the violence "has to stop." Three of the deaths occurred in two apparently gang-related shootings in Boston late Wednesday - a man in the city's Mattapan neighborhood and two men in the Roxbury section, about 3 miles away, according to the Boston Police Department. The Boston victims appeared to have been targeted by their killers, said Boston Police Officer Rachel McGuire, noting, "They don't appear to be random." As of Sunday, some 151 shootings had been reported in Boston this year, a 25 percent increase from the same period last year. "It is my utmost priority to ensure the safety of our residents." Two other fatal shootings occurred in the neighboring cities, local police confirmed. |
| Kentucky county clerk's office defies order to issue marriage licenses | | | By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - A Kentucky county clerk's office defied a federal judge's order by continuing to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Thursday, saying the legal case was still pending. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported the Rowan County clerk's office had turned away David Moore and David Ermold, a gay couple seeking a marriage license, the newspaper said. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is currently on vacation but Nathan Davis, a relative who also works at the clerk's office, said Thursday morning the office was not currently taking licenses because of the active litigation. |
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