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| No fanfare as Philippines' Duterte prepares to take office | | Thursday, June 30, 2016 2:49 AM | |
| | By Neil Jerome Morales and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - There will be no fancy 'vin d'honneur' at Rodrigo Duterte's inauguration as president of the Philippines on Thursday, just simple fare at a low-key event. It's not going to be champagne bottles popping and cheese," incoming Communications Minister Martin Andanar told Reuters on the eve of the ceremony. Andanar said that instead of being driven around in the president's limousine, a bullet-proof Mercedes, Duterte wants to travel in a pick-up truck. |
| China risks 'outlaw' status if it rejects South China Sea ruling - lawyer | | Thursday, June 30, 2016 2:46 AM | |
| | By David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An international ruling next month is expected to deprive China of any legal basis for its claim to most of the South China Sea, and Beijing risks being seen as an "outlaw state" unless it respects the outcome, the Philippines' chief lawyer in the case said on Wednesday. In an interview with Reuters, veteran Washington attorney Paul Reichler expressed confidence that the Permanent Court of Arbitration, based in The Hague, would rule in Manila's favour on July 12 in a highly charged case against Beijing, which rejects the tribunal's jurisdiction and says it will ignore the ruling. The Philippines, a close U.S. ally, is contesting China's historical claim to about 90 percent of the South China Sea, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. |
| Home-grown militants and ex-major behind Bangladesh attacks, police say | | Thursday, June 30, 2016 2:39 AM | |
| | By Sanjeev Miglani DHAKA (Reuters) - Early in June, a man walked into the Dhaka premises of the Ramakrishna Mission, a Hindu centre for spirituality and learning in the Bangladesh capital, and delivered a handwritten note warning of an attack by Islamic State. "We are monks, we will live and die here, but people with families are worried," Swami Shivananda, a priest managing the administration of the mission, said of the country's Hindu community, which accounts for 10 percent of the population. Islamic State and al Qaeda have claimed responsibility for the killings of more than 30 people since early last year, in an escalation of militant violence targeting liberals, atheists, foreigners, gays and religious minorities. |
| UK parties head for leadership battles amid Brexit fallout | | Thursday, June 30, 2016 12:26 AM | |
|  By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main opposition Labour Party headed for a leadership battle, mirroring a fight for control of the ruling Conservative Party, after the decision by voters to leave the European Union last week led to upheaval in Westminster. Angela Eagle, a senior Labour lawmaker, will announce on Thursday that she will challenge leader Jeremy Corbyn who has been facing a growing revolt within the party, media reports said on Wednesday. Eagle, a former pensions minister, quit as Labour's top business official on Tuesday, one of more than 20 people to resign from Corbyn's opposition policy team.
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| Chinese national gets 30 months in U.S. prison for military exports | | | A Chinese national has been sentenced to 30 months in a U.S. prison for smuggling or trying to smuggle to China high-tech U.S. military hardware, including night vision and thermal imaging rifle scopes, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. Kan Chen, 26, of Ningbo, in China's Zhejiang Province, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release for illegally exporting or trying to export over 180 items worth over $275,000 (£204,485) to China, the department said in a statement. |
| Special Report: Attacks on LGBT people rarely prosecuted as hate crimes | |  (Corrects size of increase in number of people charged with federal hate crimes in paragraph 24 and adds that 33 prosecutions in past seven years were under the Shepard/Byrd Act in paragraph 25.) By Ned Parker and Mimi Dwyer KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Dionte Greene, a 22-year-old black gay male, was looking for a hook-up. "I'm not interested in smoking weed with you, Travone," Greene wrote to the teenager, Travone Shaw, in their first exchange. "I just find you attractive and I want to have a sexual encounter with you." "I ain't gay," Shaw replied, according to court documents.
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