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| France acts to buy off social unrest before Euro soccer kickoff | | | By Brian Love and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - France's government sought to buy off social unrest and calm protests against labour law reform before a European soccer tournament kicks off, announcing a pay rise for school teachers and intervening in reorganisation talks at the SNCF railways. The Socialist government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls urged the hardline CGT union, which is leading a rail strike from Tuesday evening, to propose ways out of the confrontation over a labour reform bill to make hiring and firing easier. ... |
| U.S. top court rejects constitutional challenge to death penalty | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an appeal asserting that the death penalty violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment filed by a Louisiana man convicted of fatally shooting his pregnant former girlfriend. Two of the eight justices, liberals Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said they would have accepted the case, repeating concerns about the death penalty's constitutionality they raised in a different case last year. The justices, who have sharply disagreed among themselves over capital punishment, declined to consider the appeal brought by Lamondre Tucker, who was sentenced to death for the 2008 murder of 18-year-old Tavia Sills in Shreveport.
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| Turkey's Erdogan says German law on Armenian genocide could damage bilateral ties | |  A proposed German law to label the 1915 mass killings of Armenians a genocide would damage ties between Ankara and Berlin, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, comments that could further inflame his European critics. Turkey denies that the massacres constituted genocide. The vote coincides with deepening public wariness in Germany towards Turkey, and Erdogan in particular.
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| Gorilla killing sparks federal negligence complaint against Cincinnati Zoo | |  By Ginny McCabe CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Animal rights activists filed a federal complaint accusing the Cincinnati Zoo of negligence in maintaining its gorilla habitat after an ape was killed in order to rescue a boy who had fallen into its enclosure, a spokesman for Stop Animal Exploitation Now said on Tuesday. The complaint, which was filed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture after the 450-pound animal named Harambe was felled by a single shot on Saturday, seeks the maximum penalty of $10,000 for the zoo, said Michael Budkie, co-founder of SAEN said. "It's clear that this enclosure is not capable of keeping a 4-year-old child out and must violate federal regulations," he said.
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| Six men sentenced to death for bank robbery blamed on militants | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Six men were sentenced to death in Bangladesh on Tuesday for killing eight people during a bank robbery in Dhaka last year that police blamed on Islamist militants, the public prosecutor said. Although no group claimed responsibility for the robbery, police blame two outlawed groups, Ansarullah Bangla Team and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, which have been active in a recent surge of Islamist militant violence in Bangladesh. Since early last year, almost 30 people have been killed in militant attacks, some of which were claimed by Islamic State and al Qaeda. |
| Philippines president-elect says won't rely on United States | |  By Neil Jerome Morales DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday his country would not rely on long-term security ally the United States, signalling greater independence from Washington in dealing with China and the disputed South China Sea. The Philippines has traditionally been one of Washington's staunchest supporters in its stand-off with Beijing over the South China Sea, a vital trade route where China has built artificial islands, airstrips and other military facilities. Duterte, the tough-talking mayor of Davao City who swept to victory in a May 9 election, has backed multilateral talks to settle rows over the South China Sea that would include the United States, Japan and Australia as well as claimant nations.
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| Lionel Messi misses first day of tax fraud trial | |  The trial of Lionel Messi on charges of tax evasion opened in Barcelona on Tuesday, but injury prevented soccer's five-times World Player of the Year from attending. The Barcelona star will be in court on Thursday to testify. Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, are accused by the Spanish tax office of defrauding the government of 4.2 million euros ($4.7 million) between 2007 and 2009.
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| Closing arguments in U.S. trial of men accused of trying to join Islamic State | | | By David Bailey MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The federal jury trial of three Somali-American men from Minnesota accused of trying to help Islamic State militants and fight with the group in Syria neared its end on Tuesday as closing arguments began. Mohamed Farah, Abdirahman Daud and Guled Omar are charged with conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State and commit murder outside the United States, charges that could result in a life sentence for each if they are convicted. Farah, Daud and Omar are the only three to face trial in U.S. District Court in Minnesota. |
| Migrant crisis fuels sex trafficking of Nigerian girls to Europe | | | By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and Kieran Guilbert ABUJA/DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A promising student who dreamed of going to university, Mary was 16 when a woman approached her mother at their home and offered to take the Nigerian teenager to Italy to find work. Pushed to go by her family who hoped she would lift them out of poverty, Mary ended up being trafficked into prostitution. After being arrested by Italian police, Mary was repatriated to Nigeria's southern Edo state in 2001, but she was rejected by her family and left feeling like a failure. |
| Italy arrests 16 suspected boat migrant traffickers | | | Italian police have arrested 16 people suspected of trafficking migrants across the Mediterranean from Libya after a week in which thousands were rescued and hundreds drowned trying to make the journey. As Europe's worst migration crisis since World War Two continues, more than 2,500 people are thought to have died this year after being packed into rickety boats by traffickers. Police in Catania, Sicily, said in a statement on Tuesday they had detained 16 men who were rescued in international waters along with hundreds of migrants and brought to the port city on May 28. |
| Denmark will punish advocating criminal acts, ban "hate preachers" | | | Denmark will punish preachers who encourage criminal acts and blacklist "hate preachers" from Denmark, the government said Tuesday, after a documentary about imams advocating illegal acts sparked nationwide controversy in February. The documentary showed hidden camera footage of imams in Danish mosques advocating the corporal punishment of children, stoning and whipping unfaithful spouses and requiring women to have sex with violent spouses. "We will criminalize the sanctioning of punishable acts in religious education," said the church and culture minister, Bertel Haarder. |
| Philippines' incoming leader Duterte to pursue independent foreign policy | |  DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday he would pursue an independent foreign policy and would not rely on long-time security ally the United States, when asked about relations with China including over the disputed South China Sea. "I will be chartering a course on its own and will not be dependent on the United States," Duterte told a news conference after presenting his Cabinet, a day after he was officially proclaimed winner of the May 9 elections. (Reporting By Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by Mike Collett-White)
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| With Africa trip, Turkey's Erdogan aims to quash influence of Islamic cleric | |  By Orhan Coskun and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - When Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visits Uganda and Kenya this week, he will be seeking not only to increase trade but to stamp out the influence of an Islamic cleric whose network was long an instrument of Turkey's soft power in Africa. Ankara officially declared the Hizmet organisation of preacher Fethullah Gulen, which claims millions of followers worldwide, a terrorist group this week, stepping up pressure on a movement Erdogan once looked to for help in spreading Turkish cultural influence and commerce overseas. Erdogan now accuses his former ally of building a "parallel state" through followers in the police, judiciary, media and business, and of using it to try to overthrow him, allegations which Gulen denies.
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| 'We won't let them wreck our plant,' Tata's Dutch steelworkers say | |  By Barbara Lewis and Andy Bruce IJMUIDEN, Netherlands/LONDON (Reuters) - With Tata Steel's troubled British operations up for sale, Dutch workers at its only other European site for primary steelmaking are in defensive mood, and yet the plant may have a bright future. The slogan dates from contract talks last year but shows their defiant spirit during uncertain times for a European steel industry beset by overcapacity and cheap Chinese competition. More than 11,000 jobs are at risk at Tata's British plants but in the Netherlands, IJmuiden has several advantages - not least that it is excluded from the British sale process and, industrial sources say, it makes a profit.
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| Employers can forbid headscarf if general ban in place - EU court adviser | |  By Ines Kagubare BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Companies should be allowed to prohibit staff from wearing the Islamic headscarf but only as part of a general ban on religious and political symbols, an adviser to the European Court of Justice said on Tuesday. The Islamic headscarf is a contentious issue in some European countries, particularly in France which attaches importance to the separation of state and religious institutions. This is the first time Europe's highest court is handling a case on banning the headscarf, referred to it by a Belgian court hearing a compensation claim from a woman who was dismissed from her job for wearing an Islamic headscarf.
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| Ecstasy use jumps in Europe, no longer just a dance drug-report | |  By Axel Bugge LISBON (Reuters) - The drug ecstasy is making a comeback in Europe, spreading as a mainstream party narcotic away from its niche use at dance clubs and reaching new young users, the Lisbon-based European drug agency said on Tuesday in a report. The report found that 2.1 million people aged 15-34 had used ecstasy, or MDMA, in the past year in a reversal of declining use since the mid-2000s, when it was common at rave parties. "Europe has experienced a recent resurgence in the use of MDMA, with much stronger tablets and powders now commonly available," said Jane Mounteney, who heads content coordination and trend analysis at the drug agency.
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| Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft back EU hate speech rules | |  Facebook, Twitter, Google's YouTube and Microsoft on Tuesday agreed to an EU code of conduct to tackle online hate speech within 24 hours in Europe. EU governments have been trying in recent months to get social platforms to crack down on rising online racism following the refugee crisis and terror attacks, with some even threatening action against the companies. As part of the pledge agreed with the European Commission, the web giants will review the majority of valid requests for removal of illegal hate speech in less than 24 hours and remove or disable access to the content if necessary.
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