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| U.S. attorney general to accept FBI findings in Clinton email probe | |  By Julia Edwards and Adam DeRose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, seeking to tamp down a firestorm over meeting with former President Bill Clinton, said on Friday she will accept the recommendations of career prosecutors and the FBI director on whether to charge Hillary Clinton for mishandling emails. The United States' top law enforcement officer, however, stopped short of saying she would recuse herself from the investigation of the Democratic presidential candidate. Republicans, including presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, have said a political appointee like Lynch should not be involved in the email investigation and that the Monday night meeting with Bill Clinton shows Lynch is too close to the Clintons.
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| U.S. says kills up to 116 civilians in strikes outside war zones | |  By Phil Stewart, Jonathan Landay and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's government said on Friday it inadvertently killed up to 116 civilians in strikes in countries where America is not at war, a major disclosure likely to inflame debate about targeted killings and use of drones. Obama's goal for the release of the numbers, which are higher than any previously acknowledged by his government but vastly below private estimates, is to create greater transparency about what the U.S. military and CIA are doing to fight militants plotting against the United States.
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| Woman on FBI's top 10 fugitive list captured in North Carolina | |  A Wisconsin woman placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list after being charged with fatally shooting an expectant mother was caught in North Carolina on Friday, the FBI said. Shanika Minor, 24, was captured by sheriff's deputies at a Fayetteville, North Carolina, motel near an airport at about 1:30 a.m. (0530 GMT), the FBI's Milwaukee office said in a statement. Deputies located Minor after someone called the FBI's public tip line with information about her whereabouts, the FBI said.
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| Foreigners among hostages in Bangladesh restaurant siege | | | DHAKA (Reuters) - Several foreigners are among a number of people taken hostage in a Dhaka restaurant by gunmen on Friday evening, the chief of Bangladesh's special police force said. Benjir Ahmed told reporters police were trying to ensure the hostages' safety in a peaceful manner. Eight to nine gunmen had attacked the restaurant in the Gulshan area of the capital, he said. (Reporting by Serajul Qauadir; Writing by Sanjeev Miglani; Editing by Andrew Roche) |
| London bankers face Brexit choice: lobby or leave | |  By Sinead Cruise and Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) - A week after Britons voted themselves out of the European Union, many London-based bankers and their employers face two options if they are to secure their futures: lobby or leave. Some investment banks, anxious not to stir speculation of an exodus from the historic City of London and its modern counterpart at Canary Wharf, have given out "business as usual" messages since last week's shock referendum result. The alternative for banks and bankers, growing increasingly insecure in an information vacuum that has developed since the June 23 vote, is to get out.
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| Al Qaeda leader warns of 'gravest consequences' if Boston bomber executed | |  Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has warned the United States of the "gravest consequences" if Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any other Muslim prisoner is executed. Tsarnaev, named in a new online video message from Zawahri, was sentenced last year to death by lethal injection for the 2013 bomb attack, which killed three people and injured more than 260. "If the U.S. administration kills our brother the hero Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any Muslim, it ... will bring America's nationals the gravest consequences," Zawahri said.
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| U.N. rights investigator urges Myanmar to crack down on religious violence | |  By Wa Lone and Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights investigator on Friday urged the Myanmar government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate last week's mob attack on a mosque and crack down on religious violence. Buddhists burnt down a Muslim prayer hall, underscoring the challenges Suu Kyi faces as she deals with the legacy of decades of direct junta rule and bitter religious and ethnic divisions. Religious tensions have simmered in Buddhist-majority Myanmar for almost half a century of military rule, before boiling over in 2012 into clashes between Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.
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| U.S. House unveils gun legislation due for vote next week | |  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a gun control measure on Friday that would give authorities three days to prove that someone on a terrorism watch list should not be allowed to obtain a firearm. The measure, due to come up for a vote next week as part of a broader counter-terrorism package, was immediately rejected by Democrats as "toothless" gun legislation that would not protect the public in the aftermath of the June 12 mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have said that next week's vote would likely undermine prospects for a stronger bipartisan gun control bill that has been backed by a small number of Republicans in both the House and Senate.
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| Gunmen attack restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter | | | Gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday and the U.S. State department said there was a hostage situation. Three policemen were wounded by gunfire that erupted as police surrounded the Holey Artisan restaurant in the upscale Gulshan area of Dhaka, a police officer said. The U.S. State Department said on Twitter that there was a hostage situation in the diplomatic enclave of Dhaka. |
| Two suspects in Istanbul attack identified as Russian - Turkish media | |  By Daren Butler and Margarita Antidze ISTANBUL/TBILISI (Reuters) - Two Russian nationals have been identified as suspected Islamic State suicide bombers in the attack on Istanbul's main airport that is thought to have been masterminded by a Chechen, Turkish media said on Friday. Prosecutors have identified two of the three suspected attackers as Russians Rakim Bulgarov and Vadim Osmanov, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Turkish officials declined to comment.
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| U.S. sued over background check error in Charleston church shooting - newspaper | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Family members of the people killed in an attack on a South Carolina church last year have sued the U.S. government over an FBI clerk's mistake that allowed the purchase of the gun used in the shooting, the Post and Courier newspaper reported on Friday. Lawsuits filed by relatives and survivors of the shooting are seeking millions of dollars from the federal government, the newspaper reported. "At the end of the day, those who were wrong are accountable," one of the plaintiffs, Arthur Hurd, said in a telephone interview.
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| Three Kenyan police reported held over disappearances, rights group says two dead | | | By Edmund Blair NAIROBI (Reuters) - Three Kenyan police officers have been detained over the disappearance of a lawyer and his client who had alleged mistreatment by the police, newspapers and broadcasters reported on Friday. A rights group said the bodies of the lawyer and his taxi driver had been found in a river northeast of the capital. Rights groups have said they believe foul play is behind the disappearance of the men and their driver, and demanded an investigation into that and other allegations of police corruption and heavy-handed tactics. |
| Protesters demand South African state TV end news blackout | |  By Tanisha Heiberg JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Protesters called on South Africa's state broadcaster on Friday to reverse a decision not to show footage of violent anti-government protests, but the station denied their claims it was censoring the news in the run-up to local elections. The SABC announced in May that it would not show footage of people burning public property in its news bulletins, saying this would encourage others to carry out similar violence.
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