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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. |
| 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, favourite to become Britain's prime minister, abruptly pulled out of the race on Thursday, upending the contest less than a week after leading the campaign to take the country out of the EU. Johnson's announcement, to audible gasps from a roomful of journalists and supporters, was the biggest political surprise since Prime Minister David Cameron quit on Friday, the morning after losing the referendum on British membership in the bloc. It makes Theresa May, the interior minister who backed remaining in the European Union, the new favourite to succeed Cameron.
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| U.S. military base near Washington locked down after report of gunman | | | By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Joint Base Andrews, the military facility near Washington that is home to the president's plane, was placed on lockdown on Thursday because of reports of a gunman at large and personnel were told to shelter in place. Base officials issued an all-clear message for the base after about an hour, but said in Twitter messages that a medical center at the facility remained on lockdown. A U.S. defense official said a second sweep was being conducted at the Malcolm Grow Medical Facility out of "an abundance of caution." There had been no reports of gunfire or casualties. |
| 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. |
| Pakistan plans talks with Afghanistan, U.N. agency over refugees' return | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan plans talks with Afghanistan and the United Nations refugee agency to move longtime Afghan refugees to camps at home, the foreign office said on Thursday, after the numbers of those returning plunged this year. Pakistan has the world's second largest refugee population, with more than 1.5 million registered, and about a million unregistered, refugees from neighbouring Afghanistan, most of whom fled the Soviet occupation of their country in the 1980s. The U.N. says the number of Afghans voluntarily returning from Pakistan has fallen to about 6,000, well below last year's 58,211, as violence worsens in Afghanistan, where the government and its U.S. allies are battling a stubborn Taliban insurgency.
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| China issues rare rebuke in police brutality case | | | Two Chinese police officers acted improperly in the arrest and detention of a well-known environmentalist who died in police custody last month, state media reported on Thursday, a case that sparked a public outcry. The officers had been detained and accused of dereliction of duty, as well as impeding the course of the investigation, the official Xinhua news agency reported online. Lei Yang, who was accused of visiting a brothel, died of asphyxiation, Xinhua said, though the report did not elaborate on the exact circumstances of his death. |
| Belgium transfers Paris attacks suspect to France | |  One of two men who drove to collect a key suspect in the Paris attacks the night after it occured has been transferred to France from Belgium, Belgian federal prosecutors said on Thursday. Hamza Attou, 21, was handed over to French authorities on Wednesday, Belgian prosecutors said in a brief statement, declining to give any details on the timing or manner of the transfer. Attou drove hours after the Nov 13 attacks from Brussels with Mohamed Amri to pick up Salah Abdeslam, who was in Paris at the time and whose brother Brahim had blown himself up.
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| Lebanese army says it foils planned attacks by Islamic State | | | Lebanon's army said on Thursday it had foiled planned terrorist attacks by Islamic State on a tourist site and a crowded area, days after suicide bombers killed five people in a Christian village. Five people involved in the two thwarted attacks, including the mastermind, were arrested on Thursday, an army statement quoted by the National News Agency said. "Those arrested confessed to having carried out terrorist acts against the army previously. |
| Istanbul bombers were Russian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz nationals - Turkish official | |  By Humeyra Pamuk and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers who killed 42 people in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbul airport this week were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, a Turkish government official said on Thursday. The attack on Europe's third-busiest airport was the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings in Turkey this year.
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