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| Protesters clash with police in Ukraine capital, throw smoke bombs | |  KIEV (Reuters) - A few thousand protesters clashed with police on Tuesday outside the Ukrainian parliament, throwing stones and smoke bombs and firing with air guns through the building's windows. A Reuters photographer said that the mainly young people, many of whom were masked and armed with batons or metal chains, massed outside the central entrance of the building and began bombarding it with projectiles. Parliamentary deputies, who had just passed anti-corruption laws and voted in a new defence minister in what was the last day of the current parliament ahead of an Oct. ...
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| Trial of accused Boston bomber's friend turns to text messages | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Text messages between the accused Boston Marathon bomber and some of his college friends will be the focus when the criminal trial of a man charged with lying to investigators resumes on Tuesday. U.S. prosecutors contend that Robel Phillipos, 21, lied to authorities about a visit that he and two other friends made to accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the 2013 attack, which killed three people and injured more than 260. ...
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| No WTO judgment in tobacco packaging dispute until at least 2016 | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization will not rule on a legal challenge to Australia's landmark tobacco packaging laws until at least the first half of 2016, the panel of judges said on Tuesday, a delay that could slow anti-tobacco laws elsewhere. Australia's "plain packaging" rules ban colourful logos and are seen by public health advocates as heralding a new era of tobacco control. But Cuba, Indonesia, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Ukraine say the laws are an illegal restriction on trade. ...
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| Anger as wounded Syria Kurds die stranded at Turkish border | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley SURUC Turkey (Reuters) - With medical supplies depleted in the war-ravaged north Syrian town of Kobani, Kurdish activist Blesa Omar rushed three comrades wounded in battle against Islamic State fighters straight to the border to dispatch them to a Turkish hospital. He spent the next four hours watching them die, one by one, from what he believes were treatable shrapnel wounds, while Turkish border guards refused to let them through the frontier. "To me it is clear they died because they waited so long. ...
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| British ex-PM Tony Blair may have been terrorism target, court hears | |  LONDON (Reuters) - A man charged with terrorism offences at a trial so sensitive that prosecutors sought to have it heard entirely in secret might have been planning an attack on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a court heard on Tuesday. Erol Incedal, 26, was arrested in October last year with another man, Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadja, who last week admitted possessing a bomb-making document on a memory card. Incedal denies charges of preparing for acts of terrorism contrary to the 2006 Terrorism Act and collecting information useful to terrorism. ...
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| Thai PM plays down concern over tourist murder investigation | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Tuesday dismissed growing diplomatic concern about a police investigation into the murder of two British tourists in Thailand as a pre-trial witness hearing began. Prayuth denied that the Thai charge d'affaires in London, Nadhavathna Krishnamra, had been summoned over concern about how Thai authorities have handled the case. "They did not summon us. We went to provide clarification to them," Prayuth told reporters. "We went to show them how we work. ...
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| Two Thais arrested for trafficking of Bangladeshis, Rohingya | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities have arrested two men charged with human trafficking, police said on Tuesday, following the discovery of 134 suspected victims in southern Thailand at a time when the military government is under international pressure to tackle the crime. The two Thais were charged in relation to a group of 53 men found on Saturday at a rubber plantation - 38 from Bangladesh and 15 Rohingya, a mostly stateless Muslim minority from western Myanmar. ... |
| Woman kills one, injures three in knife attack at Czech school | | | PRAGUE (Reuters) - An unidentified woman stabbed and killed a 16-year-old male student at a Czech high school and injured three other people on Tuesday, a police spokeswoman said. Police detained the 26-year-old woman, who injured a police officer and two other female students at the school in Zdar nad Sazavou, 160 km (100 miles) southeast of the Czech capital Prague. "A 16-year boy was wounded (and) died despite all efforts by medics," police spokeswoman Jana Prouzova said. She added police did not yet know the motive for the attack. ... |
| UK anti-terrorism police arrest six in Syria-linked operation | | | LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested three men and three women on Tuesday in a counter-terrorism operation linked to the civil war in Syria. Counter terrorism officers detained the suspects in London, Portsmouth, on England's south coast, and in Farnborough, west of the British capital. The group, aged between 23 and 57, were being held on suspicion of range of terrorism offences. ... |
| FACTBOX: How does someone end up stateless in Europe? | |  By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There are an estimated 600,000 stateless people in Europe who are not recognised as nationals by any country. Campaigners are calling for better protection of the continent's "legal ghosts". Below, seven people tell their stories. NATASHA grew up in the former USSR in what is now Moldova. In 1991 she was trafficked to Slovakia and forced into prostitution. She escaped and remained in Slovakia without documents. ...
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| Europe urged to end plight of 600,000 ghost people | |  By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - European countries must end the plight of an estimated 600,000 stateless people by giving them similar protection to refugees, campaigners said on Tuesday as they launched a day of action to highlight the predicament of the continent's "legal ghosts". Stateless people, who are not recognised as nationals of any country, are denied basic rights that most people take for granted. They cannot work, access healthcare or even get married. They often end up destitute or in detention and are highly vulnerable to exploitation. ...
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| "Like tumbleweed, I can never put down roots" - stateless woman | | | By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Railya Abulkhanova flies abroad she faces hours of interrogation by immigration officials. When she applies for a job she is met with suspicion. The former university professor has never been in trouble with the law -- her problem is she has no nationality: she is stateless. "I cannot put down roots so it's like tumbleweed which rolls and rolls without stopping. I want to stop and put down roots, but I can't," says Railya, who was born in the Soviet Union's Kazakh republic and now lives in France. ... |
| Palestinian mosque in West Bank torched in suspected arson | | | AQRABA West Bank (Reuters) - A mosque was set alight in a suspected arson attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and the name of an Israeli vigilante group called "price tag" was found scribbled on an outside wall, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. Israeli police said they were investigating the incident, which took place in Aqraba, a village east of Nablus. Residents told Reuters they noticed smoke coming from the building before dawn and rushed to douse the flames, which damaged a carpet and blackened one of the walls. ... |
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