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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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| 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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| Hungary sentences 10 migrants for illegal border crossing | | | By Marton Dunai SZEGED, Hungary (Reuters) - A Hungarian court on Friday sentenced 10 migrants to jail terms for illegally crossing the border during a riot in September 2015, after Hungary built a razorwire fence to seal its frontier with Serbia. It was the first case to come to trial under a law passed days before the incident that made illegal border crossing as part of a rioting crowd punishable by between one and five years in prison. Nine of the migrants were sentenced to about a year in jail, but were released immediately as their sentences were cut by two-thirds at the judge's discretion and offset by time they had spent in detention since September. |
| Mississippi law allowing denial of services to LGBT people is blocked by U.S. judge | | | A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law intended to allow people who object on religious grounds to same-sex marriage and believe gender is determined at birth to refuse wedding and other services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves found late Thursday 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 favor some religious beliefs over others," wrote Reeves, who issued an injunction halting the law that was to take effect on Friday. |
| Six killed in attack in Kenya; al Shabaab claims responsibility | | | At least six people were killed in Kenya on Friday when gunmen sprayed two buses with bullets near the border with Somalia, a regional official said. The Somali militant group Al Shabaab carried out the attack, said Abdiasis abu Musab, al Shabaab's spokesman for military operations. The attack came at 9:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) as the buses were travelling in Mandera county to Mandera town from the capital, Nairobi, Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia told Reuters. |
| Home-grown radicals a weak spot in Turkey's fight against Islamic State | |  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A few months after he started attending meetings of a hardline Islamic community group in a poor Istanbul suburb, 25-year-old Murat Kipcak stopped reading the Koran and going to the mosque. Soon after, he sent word that he, his young child, and his wife had travelled to Iraq to join Islamic State, his father Tahir told Reuters at his home in Sultanbeyli, a district on the eastern outskirts of Turkey's largest city. Murat's story - a working class high school graduate turned radical Sunni militant within months - highlights Turkey's vulnerability as it tries to prevent Islamic State from carrying out further attacks like this week's at Istanbul airport.
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