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| U.S. House to vote on measure to keep guns from terrorists - source | | | U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan told Republican lawmakers on a conference call that the House will vote next week on a measure intended to keep guns out of the hands of people on terrorism watch lists, according to a knowledgeable source. The announcement came a week after Democrats staged an unprecedented House sit-in to protest the Republican-controlled chamber's lack of movement on guns in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, which killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12. |
| 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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| 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. |
| U.S. downgrades Myanmar, raises Thailand in human trafficking report | | | By Matt Spetalnick and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday placed Myanmar on its list of worst human trafficking offenders for failing to do more to curb widespread abuses, and upgraded Thailand from the lowest grade for what was deemed to be an improved record. The State Department demoted Uzbekistan to the bottom tier in its annual assessment of global efforts to combat human trafficking, just a year after giving a higher rating to the central Asian country, where a state-orchestrated forced labor system underpins its vital cotton industry. Turkmenistan, which also forces citizens into the cotton fields, joined Haiti and Sudan among the countries downgraded to the lowest level in the closely watched Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. |
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