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| In Turkey's judicial overhaul, Erdogan's critics see payback time | |  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two days after calling for Turkey's justice minister to resign on Facebook, prosecutor Menderes Arican received a letter reassigning him from a western province to a relative backwater in the east with immediate effect. Critics see it as a bid by President Tayyip Erdogan to remove troublesome judges and tighten his grip on the courts, at a time when he is seeking constitutional change to bolster his powers and introduce an executive presidential system. The AK Party says it will clear bottlenecks in the legal system.
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| Baltimore police officer cleared in Freddie Gray's death | |  Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson Jr. on Thursday was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of injuries sustained while in police custody. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams found Goodson, who is also black, not guilty of all criminal counts including second-degree depraved heart murder, the most serious accusation against any of the six officers charged in connection with Gray's death. Prosecutor had failed to secure convictions in two earlier trials of police officers.
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| Jury sides with Led Zeppelin in trial over song 'Stairway to Heaven' | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A jury sided with Led Zeppelin on Thursday in a federal copyright infringement trial in Los Angeles where the band stood accused of stealing the opening chords of the 1971 classic "Stairway to Heaven" from an American group.
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| Police shoot dead masked man who took hostages in German cinema | |  By Ralf Banser VIERNHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - A masked man took hostages at a cinema in western Germany on Thursday before police stormed the complex and shot him dead, police said. No other people were injured, a police spokesman said. The attacker, who carried a rifle or "long gun", acted alone and appeared to have been a "disturbed man", the interior minister of Hesse state, Peter Beuth, told the regional parliament.
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| Britons vote on EU membership after bitter campaign | |  By Estelle Shirbon and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britons voted on whether to quit the European Union in a bitterly-contested referendum on Thursday that polarised the nation and could change the face of Europe. Financial markets, on edge for weeks over the uncertain outcome, rose on the strength of late polls that showed a swing towards staying in, but the bulk of recent polls have suggested the outcome was too close to call. If Britain becomes the first state to exit the EU, the so-called Brexit would be the biggest blow to the 28-nation bloc since its foundation.
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| Democrats hold all-nighter in Congress over gun control, Republicans adjourn | |  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers staged an all-night sit-in into Thursday morning in the U.S. House of Representatives to push for gun control legislation after the gay nightclub massacre in Orlando, even though Republicans went home for a holiday break. After raucous scenes that nearly erupted into a fistfight, the majority Republicans adjourned the House in the early hours of Thursday morning and said there would be no more votes until after the July 4 holiday. "We are going to hold the floor of the House of Representatives ... until we can get the majority to do their jobs and give us a vote," Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CBS "This Morning." Such dramatic tactics by legislators are rare in the U.S. Capitol and the protest underscored how sensitive the gun control issue has become after the June 12 shooting in which a gunman pledging allegiance to Islamic State killed 49 people.
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| Split U.S. Supreme Court blocks Obama immigration plan | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt President Barack Obama a harsh defeat by blocking his plan to spare millions of illegal immigrants from deportation in a split 4-4 ruling he called frustrating to those aiming to fix America's broken immigration system. The ruling, coming seven months before Obama's term in office ends, marked the latest success that his Republican adversaries have had in thwarting a major policy initiative of the Democratic president. It also guarantees that immigration will remain a prominent part of the campaign ahead of the Nov. 8 election in which voters will pick his successor.
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| Fan chief says Russians suffering "politicised" treatment at Euro 2016 | |  By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Russia's football supporters' association on Thursday said Russian fans were the victims of "politicised" treatment at Euro 2016 and blamed French authorities for violence. Alexander Shprygin said the All-Russian Supporters Association was looking at how to bring home three supporters who were jailed in France for taking part in violence in Marseille on June 11 as England played Russia. Shprygin said he was in contact with Alexei Yerunov, Nikolai Morozov and Sergei Gorbachev, who received sentences of up to two years.
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| Kuwait bans people convicted of insulting emir from contesting elections | | | Kuwait has amended its electoral law to bar anyone convicted of insulting the emir from standing in national elections, closely-watched contests in a Gulf state with an outspoken assembly routinely critical of the government. The state news agency KUNA said late on Wednesday parliament had approved an amendment stipulating that "a citizen convicted of offending God, the Prophets, or the Emir through a final court ruling shall not be allowed to contest the elections". The measure will affect some prominent opposition politicians, including former MP Musallam al-Barrak, who is serving a two-year prison sentence over a 2012 speech in which he addressed the emir by saying: "...we will not let you, your Highness, practise autocratic rule." Kuwaiti courts have also sentenced a number of other people to various prison terms on charges of insulting the emir or for blasphemy. |
| "Scrap the labour reforms!" Paris protesters chant under huge police presence | |  By Ingrid Melander and Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators marched under massive police surveillance in Paris on Thursday to try to force the government to drop its labour reforms but President Francois Hollande said he would pursue the plan "to the finishing line". Protesters - whose numbers were put at 20,000 by police but three times that many by organisers - chanted "Scrap, scrap, the labour reform!" as they marched around the capital's Place de la Bastille square, hemmed in by large numbers of riot police. The defiant march was the latest confrontation in Hollande's four-month showdown with the unions which has dragged down the ratings of the unpopular president to new lows.
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| U.S. Supreme Court upholds race-based college admissions program | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the practice of considering race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas affirmative action program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students. The court, in a 4-3 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, decided in favor of the university in turning aside the conservative challenge to the policy, meaning a 2014 appeals court ruling that backed the admissions program was left intact. The Supreme Court was weighing for the second time a challenge to the admissions system used by the University of Texas at Austin brought by Abigail Fisher, who was denied entry to the school for the autumn of 2008.
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| Gunman shot dead in Germany appeared to be disturbed - state minister | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - A gunman who police shot dead on Thursday after he took hostages at a German cinema appeared to have been a "disturbed man", the interior minister of the state of Hesse said. The gunman had a rifle or "long gun" and special forces intervened and shot him, interior minister Peter Beuth told the Hesse state parliament. There was no evidence that anyone besides the gunman was injured or killed, Beuth added. A police spokeswoman also confirmed the gunman had been shot and said nobody was injured. (Reporting by Ralph Banser and Noah Barkin; Writing by Paul Carrel) |
| German gunman took hostages before being shot, no others hurt - police | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - A gunman took hostages at a German cinema in a small town in western Germany on Thursday before police shot him dead, a police spokesman told the N-TV television channel, adding that no other people were injured. German television showed pictures of heavily armed police, wearing helmets and body armour, storming the Kinopolis complex in Viernheim and a couple fleeing the building. (Reporting by Berlin bureau; Writing by Madeline Chambers; Editing by Paul Carrel) |
| German cinema gunman dead - local newspaper | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - A gunman who reportedly opened fire in a cinema complex in the western German town of Viernheim has been shot dead after police stormed the complex, the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper reported on Thursday, citing the interior minister of the state of Hesse. Earlier, Focus Online magazine reported that German police had arrested the gunman. Police were not immediately available to comment. (Writing by Madeline Chambers; Editing by Paul Carrel) |
| Pistorius says murdered girlfriend would want him to go free - ITV | |  By Pete Vernon JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius said that Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend he was convicted of murdering on Valentine's Day 2013, would want him to go free, in a television interview due to be broadcast on Friday. The Paralympic athlete, who shot Steenkamp dead through a locked toilet door, told British broadcaster ITV she would want him to dedicate his life to charity, not waste it behind bars. Steenkamp's family have not commented on his decision to give his first television interview since her death - though prosecutors have questioned why he felt unable to give testimony but was willing to talk to journalists, accusing him of showing no remorse.
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