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| Hate crime reports surge in Britain after divisive EU referendum, police say | | | By William James LONDON (Reuters) - The number of hate crimes reported to British police online, including some assaults, has increased by more than 500 percent in the week after the country voted to leave the European Union, a senior police chief said on Thursday. The number of hate crimes reported to police through its online portal - one of several ways incidents can be reported - was 331 since the vote, compared with a weekly average of 63, said Sara Thornton, chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council. "Migrants are reporting verbal abuse, negative social media commentary including xenophobic language, anti-migrant leafleting and, in very limited numbers, physical assaults." Critics accuse some in the "Leave" campaign of stoking xenophobia and racism, as part of a message that leaving the EU would allow Britain to stop uncontrolled immigration, which many Britons blame for putting pressure on jobs and public services. |
| In Egypt, Sisi's star fades as problems pile up | |  Hisham Genena, Egypt's erstwhile corruption tsar, settles in a corner. "We can speak freely." It has been a long way down for Genena, a former policeman and judge who was appointed to head Egypt's corruption watchdog in 2012 and is now on trial, accused of defaming the state by exaggerating the scale of public sector graft. "When political parties are absent, NGOs are absent, local media is being crushed, international media too... is that a sign of a healthy environment in which a country can flourish?" Three years after general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted the Muslim Brotherhood, a crackdown that first targeted opposition activists has now turned on establishment figures like Genena to TV presenters and street performers.
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| No imminent, credible threats towards U.S. over July Fourth - sources | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There are no known imminent or credible threats against the United States heading into the Fourth of July weekend, three federal law enforcement sources told Reuters on Thursday. The sources, who asked to speak on the condition of anonymity, said there would be increased vigilance and heightened awareness at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security to keep Americans safe as they celebrate the nation's Independence Day. (Reporting by Julia Edwards; Editing by Richard Chang) |
| U.S. court dismisses case against Turkish opponent of Erdogan | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A U.S. judge threw out a lawsuit against a prominent Muslim cleric and opponent of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, saying the court lacked jurisdiction, lawyers for both sides said. Fethullah Gulen, once Erdogan's ally but now branded by the president as a "terrorist", was accused in the lawsuit of ordering his followers in the Turkish police and judiciary to arrest members of another Islamic movement in 2009. Gulen lives in self-imposed exile in Saylorsburg, Penn. The district court in nearby Scranton on Wednesday ruled the suit against Gulen for alleged wrongdoing in Turkey could not be brought in the United States, said Robert Amsterdam, founder of UK-based firm Amsterdam and Partners LLP, who represented the plaintiffs.
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| Brazil lends $895 million to Rio to guarantee safety at Olympics | |  Brazil's government disbursed 2.9 billion reais ($895 million) to cover Olympic security spending by the state of Rio de Janeiro, which declared a state of fiscal emergency just weeks before the sporting event kicks off on Aug. 5. A presidential measure published on Thursday in the government's Official Gazette confirmed the emergency loan, an effort to guarantee safety with as many as half a million foreign visitors expected in Rio during its worst financial crisis in decades. The money will also help complete a subway line crucial for transporting visitors from the city center to Olympic venues in the neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca, Rodrigo Vieira, Rio state's secretary for transport, told reporters on Thursday.
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| U.S. House reignites gun-control debate with planned vote | | | By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, under mounting pressure to advance gun-control legislation, will vote next week on a measure to keep guns out of the hands of people on government terrorism watch lists. House Speaker Paul Ryan announced the plan in a conference call with lawmakers. Democrats, who staged a 25-hour sit-in on the House floor last week to push for gun control following the mass shooting in Orlando, said they were wary that Republican leadership would opt for a watered-down measure backed by the National Rifle Association. |
| Istanbul airport bombers were Russian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz - Turkish official | |  By Humeyra Pamuk and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers who killed 44 people in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbul's main airport this week were Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals, a Turkish government official said on Thursday. The attack on one of the world's busiest airports, a hub at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, was the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings in Turkey this year.
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| French cardinal suspends four paedophile priests | | | The Roman Catholic cardinal-archbishop of Lyon said on Thursday he had suspended four priests accused of paedophile activities and said their cases were known to French judicial authorities. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin said in a statement that the four had been working in the Lyon region in central France but gave no further details about them. The Roman Catholic Church has been rocked in the past two decades by sexual abuse scandals involving its priests in a number of countries worldwide, including France. |
| U.S. downgrades Myanmar, raises Thailand in human trafficking report | | | By Matt Spetalnick and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States placed Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Sudan and Haiti on its list of worst human trafficking offenders on Thursday, drawing guarded praise from some human rights groups following criticism that last year's State Department report was politicized. While more than two dozen countries were downgraded in the closely watched Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, Thailand was removed from the bottom rung despite what the State Department described as "widespread forced labor" in the country's vital seafood industry. |
| PM's right-hand man under fire as Slovakia takes on EU presidency | | | Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak, a close ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico, faced a second vote of no-confidence on Thursday in the space of just three weeks, putting pressure on the government as it takes over the rotating European Union presidency. Thousands of Slovaks protested earlier this week to demand Kalinak's resignation over a business transaction with a real estate developer, one of whose companies is being investigated over allegations of tax fraud. Interior ministers play a key role in forming EU policy in the migration crisis, an issue Slovakia said would be high on its EU presidency agenda after over 1 million migrants and refugees reached Europe, mostly by sea, last year. |
| Ex-London mayor Boris Johnson halts bid to be UK prime minister, upends race | |  By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Former London mayor Boris Johnson abruptly pulled out of the race to become Britain's prime minister that he was once favoured to win, upending the contest less than a week after he led a campaign to take the country out of the EU. Johnson's announcement, to audible gasps from a roomful of journalists and supporters on Thursday, was the biggest political surprise since Prime Minister David Cameron quit after losing last week's referendum on British membership of the bloc. It makes interior minister Theresa May, a party stalwart who backed remaining in the European Union, the new favourite to succeed Cameron.
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| Lockdown lifted at U.S. base near Washington, no threat found | | | By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Joint Base Andrews, the military facility near Washington that is home to the president's plane, was briefly placed on lockdown on Thursday amid what turned out to be erroneous reports of a gunman at large during a pre-planned exercise to test responses to an active shooter. Base officials issued an all-clear message after about an hour for the base, where personnel had been told to shelter in place. A U.S. defense official said a second sweep was carried out at a medical facility out of "an abundance of caution." "Fortunately, this was not a life-threatening situation," Colonel Brad Hoagland, 11th Wing and Joint Base Andrews commander, said in a statement. |
| Let them eat cake: Manila baker in free give-away after Duterte win | |  A Manila baker says he will stand by his promise to give away more than 7,000 slices of cake throughout Rodrigo Duterte's six-year term as Philippine president after being inundated with requests when his offer went viral. Quim's Cafe owner Eliaquin Labang didn't think much of Duterte or his election chances and said last year he would give away 5 million pesos ($106,000) worth of cake if the 71-year-old former prosecutor was elected. Duterte was sworn in as the country's 16th president on Thursday after his promises to crush crime won over the public in last month's vote and left Labang inundated with demands for free treats.
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| American hurt in Istanbul airport attack - Homeland Security chief | | | By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One U.S. citizen suffered minor injuries in the Istanbul airport attack this week which killed 44 people and injured 256, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Thursday. |
| Human smugglers hail Uber drivers to take migrants to U.S.-Mexico border | |  By Alizeh Kohari MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Human traffickers, who are finding increasingly creative ways to shuttle Central American migrants through Mexico to the U.S. border, have begun to use the Uber ride-sharing service. On June 10, five vehicles carrying 34 Central American migrants were apprehended while traveling together between the northern Mexican states of Zacatecas and Coahuila, said Segismundo Doguin, a Coahuila state official at the National Migration Institute (INM). Four of the vehicles were linked to the Uber Technologies Inc platform, Doguin said, but it was unclear whether the human smugglers had hailed the drivers using the Uber app.
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| Islamic State kills Christian priest in Egypt's North Sinai | | | Islamist militants gunned down a Christian priest in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as he was fixing his car, the Interior Ministry and the Coptic Orthodox Church said on Thursday. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened more attacks in the future. Father Rafael Moussa of the Mar Girgis church in Arish, capital of the North Sinai province, was getting his car fixed when the gunmen shot him, the ministry said in a statement. |
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