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| Outrage mounts over gorilla killing in boy's rescue at Ohio zoo | |  By Ginny McCabe CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Animal lovers mobilized on Monday as outrage mounted over the Cincinnati Zoo's killing of a gorilla to rescue a 4-year-old boy who fell into the animal's enclosure. More than 200,000 people had signed online petitions on Change.org protesting the shooting of Harambe, the Western lowland gorilla, whose species is listed as endangered. The most popular "Justice for Harambe" petition seeks police action and also urges child protective services to investigate the boy's home to guard against "further incidents of negligence." Witnesses said they heard the boy telling his mother he wanted to enter the enclosure.
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| In Egyptian village, attack on Christian grandmother fuels anger | |  By Ahmed Aboulenein and Omar Fahmy ALKARM, Egypt (Reuters) - Soad Thabet's house no longer has a door. Then come the reconciliation sessions, processes informally backed by the government that see local Coptic priests and Muslim clerics attempt to mediate a communal peace without resorting to the legal system.
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| Four civilians killed, 19 people wounded by blast in SE Turkey | | | DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Four civilians were killed and 19 people were wounded by an explosion in the town of Silopi in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast on Monday, security sources said. Five of the wounded were members of the security forces, the sources said. Silopi, like many towns across the southeast, has been scorched by violence since the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) abandoned its 2-1/2-year ceasefire with the government last year. (Reporting by Seyhmus Cakan and Ayla Jean Yackley; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Andrew Roche) |
| Strikes, protests pose new headache for Paris tourism | |  By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) - As Paris tourism struggles to overcome last November's Islamist attacks, the world's most visited city faces a new threat: a wave of protests and further planned strikes, tourism officials warned on Monday. "The scenes of guerrilla-type action in central Paris, beamed around the world, reinforce the feeling of fear and misunderstanding from visitors in an already angst-filled climate," Frederic Valletoux, head of the Paris region tourist board said in a statement on Monday. "There is still time to save the tourist season by putting an end to these blockades that are being shown the world over." Evelyne Maes, head of the UMIH-Paris-Ile de France hotel federation, told Reuters that bookings for June to August were down 20 to 50 percent from a year ago.
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| Former Croatia captain Boban given high-ranking FIFA role | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Former Croatia captain Zvonimir Boban was given a high-ranking role at FIFA on Monday when soccer's global ruling body named him as one of its two new deputy secretary generals. Boban, 47, will oversee the "football pillar" of FIFA's new administration, focusing on developing the game and the organisation of competitions, FIFA said in a statement. Marco Villiger, currently FIFA's legal director, was named as the other deputy secretary general and will be in charge of commercial and administrative operations.
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| Chad's ex-leader Habre, Cold War-era ally of West, gets life in prison for atrocities | |  By Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) - Former Chad president Hissene Habre, an ally of the West during the Cold War, was convicted on Monday of war crimes and crimes against humanity for ordering the killing and torture of thousands of political opponents during his eight-year rule. The verdict capped a 16-year battle by victims and rights campaigners to bring the former strongman to justice in Senegal, where he fled after being ousted in a 1990 coup. Habre, 73, was sentenced to life in prison by the Special African Chamber (CAE), a tribunal created in 2013 by Senegal and the African Union.
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| Turkey's Erdogan accuses Russia of arming PKK militants | |  By Orhan Coskun and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has accused Russia of providing anti-aircraft weaponry and rockets to militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), government officials said on Monday, confirming reports in local media. Speaking to reporters on board his airplane after a visit to the southeastern province of Diyarbakir over the weekend, Erdogan accused Moscow of transferring weaponry to the PKK via Iraq and Syria, the pro-government Star newspaper said. "At this moment, terrorists are using anti-aircraft guns and missiles supplied by Russia.
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| Brother of Paris attacker on trial over militant training | | | By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - Seven people went on trial in Paris on Monday accused of travelling to Syria to train as militant fighters, among them the brother of one of the militants who killed 130 people in the French capital last November. The seven, aged from 24 to 27, face up to 10 years in jail if found guilty of taking part in an Islamist recruitment network and receiving training in Syria from Islamic State. The accused, friends from eastern France, were part of a larger number who in December 2013 travelled to Syria, where two of them died. |
| UAE acquits two Libyan-Americans and Canadian of militancy charges | | | A security court in the United Arab Emirates on Monday acquitted two Libyan-American businessmen and a Libyan-Canadian charged with supporting Libyan militants, a lawyer and a family representative said. "The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Abu Dhabi Supreme Court State Security Chamber found American businessmen Kamal and Mohamed Eldarat not guilty, after nearly two years of arbitrary detainment and a four-month trial," a statement from the Eldarat family said. Kamal and son Mohamed were arrested at their home in the UAE in 2014, according to the family. |
| Kuwait jails three royals for insulting emir, judiciary | |  A Kuwaiti court sentenced three members of the country's ruling family to five years in jail on Monday for insulting the Gulf state's ruler and judiciary on an internet messaging service, a defendant in the case said, confirming local media reports. One of the convicted men is Sheikh Athbi al-Fahad al-Sabah, a former intelligence chief and brother of influential sports power broker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, the defendant said. Sheikh Athbi is also a nephew of Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.
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| Leadership row in Turkey's nationalist opposition helps Erdogan | |  Turkey's nationalist opposition on Monday blocked a move by party dissidents to hold a special congress next month to try to oust its veteran leader, dragging out a dispute that is key to President Tayyip Erdogan's ambitions for greater powers. Opinion polls suggest the removal of Devlet Bahceli as leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) could lead to a surge in support for his party, weakening Erdogan's chances of securing strong parliamentary support for the introduction of a full presidential system in Turkey. A court-appointed organising committee on Monday said the party's extraordinary congress would take place on June 19.
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| Mexican striker Pulido rescued after kidnap, in good health | |  Mexican soccer player Alan Pulido was rescued within a day of his kidnapping in the restive northeastern state of Tamaulipas after he was able to make a phone call and alert authorities of his location, a state official said on Monday. The 25-year-old Mexico national team player and striker for the Greek soccer team Olympiakos disappeared in his hometown of Ciudad Victoria on Saturday night, when he was intercepted by gunmen after leaving a party. "The most important thing is that is he is here with us," Tamaulipas Governor Egidio Torre Cantu told reporters in footage broadcast on local television, standing next to Pulido.
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| Bahrain more than doubles jail sentence of top opposition leader | |  A Bahraini appeals court on Monday more than doubled the prison term imposed on the country's most prominent opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, to nine years from four, a ruling that could increase political tensions in the Gulf kingdom. Bahrain's public prosecutor said the stiffer sentence related to "crimes of promoting change to the political system by force", according to state news agency BNA. Sheikh Salman's al-Wefaq Islamic Society denounced the decision as "provocative" and said it undermined any chance of resolving a political crisis in the Sunni-ruled kingdom tinged with sectarianism and rivalries among regional powers.
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| Suspect arrested at Cologne-Bonn airport after security breach | | | German federal police on Monday arrested a 62-year-old Spanish man suspected of entering the security area of Terminal 1 at Cologne-Bonn airport without being checked, a spokeswoman said. The breach led police to clear the security area of the departure floor in Terminal 1 at 12:15 local time (10:15 GMT) and to ground five planes in their parking positions, the airport said. The airport reopened the security area at 13:30 local time (11:30 GMT) and said operations were returning to normal at Terminal 1 but some departures were delayed. |
| Mauritius ramps up security after gunshots fired on French embassy | | | By Jean Paul Arouff PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius police said on Monday it had stepped up security after gunshots were fired at the French embassy and a hotel in the capital city. A police official said nobody had been injured and an inquiry had begun to identify and apprehend the perpetrators, adding graffiti mentioning Islamic state was discovered on the wall of the French embassy. "Police attended a request early in the morning in St Georges street and found traces of projectiles on the bay window of St Georges Hotel and a window found on the ground floor of the French embassy," police commissioner Mario Nobin told reporters. |
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