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| Pistorius had no mental disorder at time of shooting - report | |  By Siyabonga Sishi PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, the South African sprinter on trial for murder for shooting his girlfriend, was not suffering from a mental condition at the time she was killed, a psychiatric report said on Monday. Pistorius, who competed in the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics, has admitted to shooting dead his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but maintains he mistook her for an intruder hiding in his toilet in an upmarket Pretoria suburb. The trial, which began in March, took a month-long break to allow the 27-year-old to undergo tests at Pretoria's Weskoppies hospital after a forensic psychologist brought by the defence testified he had an anxiety disorder. "At the time of the alleged offences, the accused did not suffer from a mental disorder or mental defect that affected his ability to distinguish between the rightful or wrongful nature of his deeds," Prosecutor Gerrie Nel read from a report submitted to the court.
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| FEATURE - Poverty, violence drive Central American exodus to U.S | |  By Gustavo Palencia EL GUANTILLO Honduras (Reuters) - Pregnant and with a young child in her arms, 17-year-old Andy Lizette Navarro says she has lost hope for the future in her semi-deserted mountain hamlet deep in rural Honduras, and dreams of America. There are precious few options in El Guantillo, which lives primarily from corn, beans and coffee grown in the mountains all around. Most young men from here migrate north, and the hamlet is now made up predominantly of women, children and the elderly. "Here, in this village, there is no future for me and my children," Navarro said outside her family's modest, dirt-floor adobe home, explaining why she will soon risk the long journey north.
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| Entertainer Rolf Harris found guilty of sex assaults - BBC | |  LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran Australian entertainer Rolf Harris was found guilty on Monday of 12 charges of indecently assaulting four girls over nearly 20 years from 1968, the BBC reported. Harris, 84, who was a mainstay of family entertainment in Britain and Australia for more than 50 years. Some of the victims were as young as seven or eight. He is the latest in a string of celebrities to be tried for historic sex offences in Britain. (Reporting by Jack Stubbs; Editing by Alison Williams)
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| U.S. government to unveil near $9 billion fine for BNP - sources | |  By Maya Nikolaeva and Richard Leong PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce on Monday a settlement with BNP Paribas involving a record fine of nearly $9 billion over alleged U.S. sanctions violations by France's biggest bank, sources familiar with the matter said. The penalties, which the sources said may also include a temporary ban on some dollar-clearing business, could hit BNP's dividend payout, regulatory capital ratios and its investment banking targets, analysts say. BNP is expected to plead guilty to a criminal charge in Manhattan Federal Court on Monday and the U.S. Justice Department is planning a news conference in Washington to announce a deal the same day, sources said. "I want to say it clearly here: we will receive a heavy penalty," BNP Chief Executive Officer Jean-Laurent Bonnafe told staff in an internal message sent on June 27 and seen by Reuters.
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| Thousands denounce Japanese PM Abe's security shift | |  By Minami Funakoshi TOKYO (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched in Tokyo on Monday to denounce a landmark shift in security policy by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to ease constitutional constraints that have kept the military from fighting abroad since World War Two. The protesters, including students, pensioners and women working at home, massed in front of Abe's office on the eve of a cabinet meeting expected to endorse what some analysts describe as the biggest shift since Japan set up armed forces in 1954. Some carried banners saying: "I don't want to see our children and soldiers die" and "Protect the constitution". "If the prime minister changes the interpretation of the constitution every time, the constitution won't function," said Ayumi Yamashita, 51, her voice fading among chants from the crowd of "Don't let us go to war!".
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| U.S. cancels Sri Lankan hardline monk's visa, Buddhist group says | | | The United States cancelled the visa given to a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk heading a hardline group accused of involvement in violence against Sri Lanka's minority Muslims, an official of the group said on Monday. Clashes erupted on June 15 in Aluthgama and Beruwela, two towns with large Muslim populations on the island's southern coast, during a protest march led by the hardline group Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), or "Buddhist Power Force". Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, a Buddhist monk and the secretary general of the BBS, had been told of the decision, the official said. "An official from the U.S. Embassy called Gnanasara thero (monk) on Friday and informed him that the State Department wants to convey him that he cannot use his existing visa to enter the United States," BBS spokesman Dilantha Vithanage told Reuters by telephone. |
| China to try top military officer in strike against corruption | |  By Sui-Lee Wee and Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China will court-marshal one of its most senior former military officers on charges of corruption, state media said on Monday, the highest-ranking official to date felled in President Xi Jinping's battle against deep-rooted and pervasive graft. Xu Caihou retired as vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission last year and from the party's decision-making Politburo in 2012. Xi heads the Central Military Commission, which controls the 2.3 million strong armed forces, the world's largest, and has repeatedly reminded them to be loyal to the ruling Communist Party. Xi has made weeding out corruption in the military one of the top goals in his administration.
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| Suu Kyi races to change Myanmar constitution before 2015 elections | |  By Jared Ferrie YANGON (Reuters) - With elections looming next year, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is stepping up efforts to change a constitution that bars her from the presidency and gives substantial political power to unelected military members of parliament. Suu Kyi became an international icon after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her pro-democracy efforts and spent most of the next two decades under house arrest where she continued to resist Myanmar's military rulers. She remains wildly popular at home, but is nonetheless unable to fulfil her wish to become president due to a constitutional clause written to exclude her from office. Now, she says, her priority is to change another clause that grants the military de-facto power over constitutional amendments.
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| Tribunal upholds insider trading penalty on RIL unit | |  India's main securities tribunal on Monday upheld a 110 million rupees ($1.83 million) penalty imposed on a unit of Reliance Industries Ltd by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in a seven-year old insider trading case. The ruling by the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) marks a victory for the SEBI, which imposed its largest ever fine for an insider trading case on Reliance Petroinvestments Ltd last year over share transactions involving a separate company. Reliance Industries has since sought the dismissal of the fine and SEBI's insider trading ruling.
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| Dutch Islamist radicals becoming elusive "swarm" - spy service | | | By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Radical Islamist groups in the Netherlands have become a decentralised and elusive "swarm" that may broaden their focus from the conflict in Syria to the wider Middle East, the Dutch intelligence service warned on Monday. Its report reflects widespread concern in Europe at the threat posed by European citizens - mainly from an Islamic immigrant milieu - leaving to fight in Middle East conflicts and returning battle-hardened and posing a security threat. Dutch authorities estimate that 120 Dutch citizens have so far left to fight in Syria's civil war, but said that a larger movement of radical Muslims in the Netherlands had several hundred adherents and thousands of sympathisers. "There is a less hierarchical structure than at the turn of the millennium, which makes it more flexible, effective and less vulnerable to 'attack' from outside." The Netherlands has banned recruiting for militant groups and is also weighing legal measures to prevent its nationals from joining foreign insurgencies. |
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