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| Gunman takes hostages in German cinema, is shot dead by police | |  By Ralf Banser VIERNHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - A masked gunman 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 be a "disturbed man", the interior minister of Hesse state, Peter Beuth, told the regional parliament.
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| Gun control efforts fizzle out in Congress, Democrat sit-in ends | |  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of U.S. gun control suffered another setback on Thursday when they failed to win enough backing in the Senate for a plan to ban firearms sales to people being monitored for links to terrorism in the wake of the Orlando massacre. A few hours after Democrats in the House concluded a daylong sit-in in their chamber over guns, Senate Republican leaders ended a protracted debate over gun control, at least for the time being. It became clear that Senate proponents of gun restrictions did not have the 60 votes needed to advance a bill, according to lawmakers and aides.
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| Led Zeppelin did not steal 'Stairway' riff, jurors say | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Led Zeppelin did not lift the guitar riff used in the opening of its signature hit "Stairway to Heaven" from the lesser-known, U.S. group Spirit, a Los Angeles jury ruled on Thursday, finding there were substantial differences between the two. The unanimous verdict, reached on the jury's second day of deliberations, followed a week-long trial in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles that had called into question the originality of the classic 1971 song by Led Zeppelin, one of the top-selling rock acts of all time. Legal experts said the decision could narrow the grounds on which future copyright infringement challenges are brought in the music industry.
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| Baltimore judge clears second officer in Freddie Gray death | |  By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson Jr. on Thursday became the second officer 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. The second not-guilty verdict makes it less likely prosecutors will succeed in convincing a judge or jury to convict the other officers, said Tim Maloney, a civil rights attorney with Joseph Greenwald & Laake.
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| Britons vote on EU membership after bitter campaign | |  By Estelle Shirbon 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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| Ex-U.N. General Assembly president died in weight-lifting accident | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The death of John Ashe, a former United Nations General Assembly president accused by U.S. prosecutors of taking bribes, was an accident caused by neck trauma he suffered while lifting a barbell, a medical examiner concluded on Thursday. Ashe, 61, died on Wednesday afternoon due to "traumatic asphyxia," an official with the Westchester County Office of the Medical Examiner said, contradicting reports that he died of a heart attack. The medical examiner's conclusion came a day after police responded to a medical emergency call at Ashe's residence in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he was pronounced dead.
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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 blocked President Barack Obama's plan to spare millions of immigrants in the country illegally from deportation in a split ruling that heartened political foes who had accused him of overstepping his powers. The 4-4 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. Obama had hoped that overhauling the U.S. immigration system and resolving the fate of the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally would be part of his presidential legacy.
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| Boxing champ Wilder countersued over cancelled Povetkin bout | |  Heavyweight boxing champion Deontay Wilder and his promoter were countersued on Thursday by Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin and his promoter over the recent cancellation of a title bout, after the Russian tested positive for the banned substance meldonium. Povetkin and Andrey Ryabinskiy's World of Boxing LLC said American Wilder and DiBella Entertainment Inc breached their contract by walking away from the May 21 fight in Moscow after hearing of the test results, rather than waiting for the World Boxing Council to decide what to do. Wilder then began a public "smear campaign" against Povetkin and Ryabinskiy, the lawsuit said.
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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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| 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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