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| War crimes court hears of rape, slavery at trial of Congo's Ntaganda | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Accounts of rape and sexual slavery during the war in Congo in the early 2000s dominated the second day of militia leader Bosco Ntaganda's trial at The Hague war crimes court on Thursday. Lawyer Sarah Pellet described the pain girls suffered as forced "wives" to senior officers and said that girls as young as 12 were abducted into Ntaganda's Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) and forced to be sexually available to soldiers. Lawyers for Ntaganda, who denies all 18 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the 2001-02 war in northeast Congo's Ituri province, are due to make opening statements at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday.
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| Syria mired in conflict driven by foreign powers - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrians are caught between government bombardment of civilian areas and ruthless Islamist groups in a conflict increasingly driven by foreign powers and marked by the "spread of extremism", U.N. war crimes investigators said on Thursday. Islamic State or ISIS forces, who control large parts of northern and eastern provinces, have expanded into the centre and south, instilling terror and committing crimes against humanity, the investigators said. The latest U.N. report documenting murders, rapes and abductions committed by all sides between January and July is based on 355 interviews as well as photographs, satellite imagery and medical records.
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| French soldier in Central African Republic accused of sexual abuse - U.N. | | | A French soldier deployed to Central African Republic has been accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl in the latest in a series of misconduct allegations against peacekeeping forces there, the United Nations' top human rights official said. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said U.N. staff were informed on Aug. 30 of allegations that a French soldier sexually abused a girl in her mid-to-late teens last year. |
| Guatemala's President Perez resigns over graft scandal | |  By Alexandra Alper GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned, his spokesman said on Thursday, after becoming embroiled in a corruption scandal that has gutted his government and plunged the country into chaos days before a national election. Thousands of protesters had flooded the streets of the capital, Guatemala City, and other cities in recent weeks calling for Perez, a 64-year-old retired general, to quit over allegations of involvement in a customs racket. Perez has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and said he would not resign.
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| Half of Germans worried about asylum seekers, shows survey | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - Exactly half of Germans are concerned that the strong increase in the number of asylum seekers is overwhelming them and German authorities, a survey showed on Thursday. Europe is struggling to cope with an unprecedented influx of refugees and economic migrants and Germany is the EU's biggest recipient of asylum seekers, with 800,000 people expected this year, four times last year's level. The poll of 2,373 people by R + V insurance company was conducted between June 5 and July 17. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Madeline Chambers) |
| Venice film puts spotlight on Boston's paedophile priests | |  By Hanna Rantala VENICE (Reuters) - "Spotlight" starring Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo as reporters working on the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of paedophile Roman Catholic priests deals with just a fraction sexual predation in the Church, its director says. Reports of sexual misconduct by the late British entertainer Jimmy Savile and other high profile cases are an indication of the global scope of the problem, and of failures to deal with it, Tom McCarthy said before his film's screening on Thursday at the Venice Film Festival. The Globe's Spotlight team exposed the attacks over a period of decades by priests in the Boston archdiocese who molested young boys but instead of being reported to the police were given counselling and moved to a different parish.
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| Bulgaria detains 125 migrants, sending message to others | | | Bulgaria said it had detained 125 foreigners in the capital Sofia for illegally crossing into the country without submitting requests for asylum, signalling its determination to tackle an influx that has overwhelmed its neighbours. Georgi Kostov, secretary general of the interior ministry, said the migrants, detained late on Wednesday night, would be questioned and may be granted refugee status. Tens of thousands of migrants, most of them fleeing war and hardship in Syria, are trying to reach Hungary through the Balkans from Greece via Bulgaria's neighbours, non-EU Macedonia and Serbia. |
| Confusion and chaos as migrants pour into Budapest train station | |  By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian police allowed hundreds of migrants to pour into Budapest's main railway station on Thursday but authorities cancelled all trains to western Europe, triggering chaos and confusion. Hundreds of people, many of them refugees from conflicts in the Middle East, stormed a waiting train, cramming children through open windows in the belief a two-day standoff with police had ended and they were being allowed to continue their journey west to Austria, Germany and beyond. "There's a German flag on this train so we though it went to Germany.
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| Refugees threaten Europe's Christian roots, says Hungary's Orban | |  The influx of refugees into Europe threatens to undermine the continent's Christian roots and governments must control their borders before they can decide how many asylum seekers they can take, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. In an opinion piece for Germany's Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, Orban said the people of Europe were at odds with the majority of governments on the refugee crisis. "The people want us to master the situation and protect our borders," he wrote.
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| Guatemala judge orders detention of President Perez in graft scandal | |  By Alexandra Alper and Enrique Pretel GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan judge has issued a detention order for President Otto Perez, the attorney general´s office said on Wednesday, amid a graft scandal that has gutted his government and plunged Guatemala into chaos days before a presidential election. Perez had his immunity from prosecution stripped by lawmakers on Tuesday in a fast-moving climax to a crisis that has roiled Guatemala for months. Guatemala's top prosecutor's office tweeted late on Wednesday that Attorney General Thelma Aldana had sought an arrest order for Perez.
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