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| Italy's biggest Chinese community clashes with police near Florence | | | By Silvia Ognibene FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Violent clashes broke out this week between police and the Chinese community in a suburb of Prato, near Florence, in central Italy, home to one of the largest concentrations of Chinese-run industry in Europe. Tensions had been rising in the town, Italy's textile capital, where people began emigrating from China in the mid-1990s. The area is also the focus of an investigation into alleged illicit transfers of some 4.5 billion euros ($5.01 billion) to China from Italy between 2006 and 2010. |
| All U.S. diplomatic staff accounted for in Dhaka - State Department | | | The U.S. State Department said on Friday it had accounted for all diplomatic staff at its mission in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka following an attack by gunmen on a restaurant in the city's diplomatic quarter, and had offered U.S. assistance to help bring those responsible to justice. Spokesman John Kirby, however, could not confirm whether private U.S. citizens were caught up in a "hostage situation." It was too early to say who was behind the attack or the motivation of the attackers, Kirby said. "We have accounted for all Americans working for the chief of mission authority" in Dhaka, Kirby told a press briefing. |
| Gunmen take hostages at cafe in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a restaurant popular with expatriates in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night and took about 20 people hostage, including several foreigners, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. The Islamist militant group said more than 20 people had been killed, although police have so far confirmed the deaths of two policemen. In the latest flare-up of Islamist militant violence to hit the South Asian nation, police said eight to nine gunmen attacked the Holey Artisan restaurant in the upscale Gulshan area of Dhaka.
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| IS news agency says IS affiliates claim Bangladesh cafe attack | | | A news agency run by Islamic State said the militant group's affiliates were responsible for an attack on a cafe in Bangladesh on Friday, where gunmen were holding hostages as police laid siege to the building. A tweet from the Amaq news agency also said more than 20 people had been killed in the attack in Dhaka. |
| 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 accepted responsibility on Friday for inadvertently killing 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. Drone advocates, including those within the U.S. military, argue the strikes are an essential part of reducing the ability of militant groups to plot attacks against the United States.
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| California tightens gun control laws, expands assault weapons ban | |  By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday signed a sweeping package of gun control bills, banning high-capacity ammunition magazines and expanding the definition of prohibited assault weapons in the wake of mass shootings in San Bernardino and Orlando. Democrats in the legislature rushed the measures through in hopes of passing them before their summer break, in part to try to forestall a competing gun control proposal headed for the November ballot. California already has some of the toughest gun control laws in the nation, but after the shooting spree in the Southern California city of San Bernardino last December, lawmakers began work on measures they said would close unintended loopholes.
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| Sierra Leone diplomat is kidnapped in Nigeria - sources | | | Sierra Leone's deputy high commissioner in Nigeria has been kidnapped in the northern state of Kaduna, a security source and an embassy official said on Friday. An investigator from Nigeria's Department of State Security (DSS) said Major-General Nelson Williams had been abducted, but did not disclose when the kidnapping took place. |
| U.S. House Republican gun bill draws the ire of Democrats | |  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday introduced a measure intended to prevent gun sales to people on government watch lists, only to draw demands from Democrats for stronger proposals and a warning of possible new protests. A week after Democrats ended a 25-hour sit-in on the House floor to call for gun legislation after the June 12 mass shooting in Orlando, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, said lawmakers will vote next week on a measure giving government authorities three days to convince a judge that someone on a terrorism watch list should not be allowed to obtain a firearm. "It is a responsible measure that confronts this threat while protecting the rights of law-abiding citizens," House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement.
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| U.S. sued over flawed gun background check in Charleston church shooting | |  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. Wrongful death lawsuits filed by relatives and survivors of the shooting and reviewed by Reuters allege that at least one of the background check databases maintained by the federal government had information that should have prevented the firearm sale. "At the end of the day, those who were wrong are accountable," one of the plaintiffs, Arthur Hurd, said in a telephone interview on Friday.
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| U.S. judge blocks law allowing religion as reason to deny service to LGBT people | |  By Letitia Stein and Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law intended to allow people who object on religious grounds to refuse wedding and other services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, in a ruling late on Thursday, said that the wide-ranging law adopted this spring unconstitutionally allowed "arbitrary discrimination" against the LGBT community, unmarried people and others who do not share such views. "The state has put its thumb on the scale to favour some religious beliefs over others," wrote Reeves, who issued a preliminary injunction halting the law that was to take effect on Friday.
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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. In one of the most serious outbursts of inter-religious violence in months, a group of men from a village in central Myanmar last week destroyed a mosque in a dispute over its construction and beat up a Muslim man. In a separate incident on Friday, Buddhists burnt down a Muslim prayer hall in northern Kachin State, police said.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
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