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| Russia: We ready to help WADA with doping tests any way we can - Ifax | |  Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Thursday his country was ready to assist the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in testing Russian sports people for doping any way it could, the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. Mutko was speaking after WADA in its latest report concluded that Russian athletes continued to fail drug tests and obstruct doping control officers. The report was the latest in a long line of setbacks for Russia which is trying to overturn a decision that could stop its athletes taking part in the Rio Olympics.
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| Meditating devotees shield scandal-hit abbot from Thai police | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of meditating supporters of an influential Buddhist abbot in Thailand blocked investigators on Thursday aiming to arrest him on corruption charges in his temple north of Bangkok. The controversy over the abbot, Phra Dhammachayo, 72, in part reflects more than a decade of divisive politics in Thailand, which has permeated all aspects of life, including Buddhism. "The temple is being partly cooperative, but when we went inside we were blocked by a group of devotees," DSI deputy chief Police Major Suriya Singhakamol told reporters.
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| U.S. officials say American Muslims do report extremist threats | |  Muslim-Americans have repeatedly informed authorities of fellow Muslims they fear might be turning to extremism, law enforcement officials say, contrary to a claim by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this week. "They don't report them," Trump said in a CNN interview on Monday, in the wake of the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub of 49 people by an American Muslim who claimed allegiance to Islamic State. "For some reason, the Muslim community does not report people like this." But FBI director James Comey said, "They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.
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| Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis - U.N | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic State is committing the crime of genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, seeking to destroy the ethno-religious group of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday. "The genocide of the Yazidis is ongoing," it said. Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the commission of inquiry, told a news briefing: "The crime of genocide must trigger much more assertive action at the political level, including at the Security Council." Commission member Vitit Muntarbhorn said it had "detailed information on places, violations and names of the perpetrators", and had begun sharing information with some national authorities, who were prosecuting foreign fighters.
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| U.N. says it has names of ISIS suspects in Yazidi genocide | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. investigation into genocide of the Yazidi minority in Syria and Iraq has detailed information about the crimes committed by Islamic State fighters, including the names of suspects, one of the investigators said on Thursday. "We do have detailed information on places, violations and names of the perpetrators," Vitit Muntarbhorn, a member of the commmission of inquiry, told a news conference. The team had also begun sharing confidential information with some national authorities, who were prosecuting foreign fighters, he added. ...
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| UK prosecutors say singer Cliff Richard will not face sex crime charges | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Cliff Richard, one of Britain's best-known entertainers, will not face criminal charges over alleged historical sex crimes because there is insufficient evidence, British prosecutors said on Thursday. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service was handed a file of evidence by police in May relating to allegations against Richard, 75. "The CPS has carefully reviewed evidence relating to claims of non-recent sexual offences dating between 1958 and 1983 made by four men," said Martin Goldman, Chief Crown Prosecutor for Yorkshire and Humberside.
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| UEFA "regrets" overnight soccer violence ahead of England-Wales match | |  UEFA said on Thursday it regretted the unrest on the streets of Lille overnight on the eve of the Euro 2016 soccer match between England and Wales, but it stopped short of taking any action to punish fan violence. French riot police charged and used tear gas to disperse rowdy English soccer fans on Wednesday night. "UEFA regrets the skirmishes which occurred in Lille last night.
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| Despite Brexit noise and migrant woes, Turkey committed to EU ties | |  By Nick Tattersall and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey remains committed to closer ties with the European Union despite strains in the relationship, and wants to deepen a customs union to become the bloc's third largest trade partner, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said in an interview. Turkey's relations with Europe have soured over demands it amend its anti-terrorism laws on human rights grounds under a deal to curb migration, prompting President Tayyip Erdogan last month to angrily warn: "we're going our way, you go yours". Countering warnings from Britain's "Out" campaign of dire consequences if the largely Muslim nation of 78 million joins, Prime Minister David Cameron, once a staunch advocate of Turkish accession, joked that it did not look as if it would happen until the year 3000.
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