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| Iraqi journalist shot dead by unknown assailant | | | The body of an Iraqi journalist critical of the government has been found at his home in Baghdad with a single bullet wound to the chest after he received threats, relatives, acquaintances and police said on Thursday. "He paid the price of being a journalist in Iraq," said Jubbouri's brother Ahmed. The head of the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory and a person who knew Jubbouri said the presenter had been threatened several times before his death and gave them telephone numbers to call if anything should happen to him. Iraq has consistently ranked amongst the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, long-running civil conflict combining with political tensions in Baghdad. |
| U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal - appeals court | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. spying program that collects data about millions of Americans' phone calls is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, adding pressure on lawmakers to decide quickly whether to end or replace the program, which was intended to help fight terrorism. While stopping short of declaring the program unconstitutional, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Congress did not authorize the National Security Agency to collect Americans' phone records in bulk. The existence of the NSA's collection of "bulk telephony metadata" was first disclosed in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Writing for a three-judge panel, Circuit Judge Gerard Lynch said Section 215 of the Patriot Act governing the collection of records to fight terrorism did not authorize what he called the NSA's collection of a "staggering" amount of information, contrary to claims by the Bush and Obama administrations.
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| German spies curb Internet snooping for U.S. after row - sources | |  By Thorsten Severin BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has halted its Internet surveillance for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in response to a row over the BND intelligence agency's cooperation with Washington, German intelligence sources said on Thursday. Allegations that the BND has helped the NSA spy on European officials and firms has put strains on Angela Merkel's governing coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and could damage U.S. relations and even the conservative chancellor's own popularity. German intelligence sources told Reuters that the BND's station in Bad Aibling this week stopped sending the NSA information garnered from Internet surveillance.
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| Baltimore probe into black man's death fails to support charges - CNN | |  The Baltimore police investigation into the death of a black man from injuries sustained in police custody fails to support some charges filed by the city prosecutor, CNN reported on Thursday. Citing officials briefed on the separate probes by prosecutor Marilyn Mosby and police into the death of Freddie Gray, the television news network said the lack of support for charges from the police findings could allow lawyers representing the officers to undercut the prosecution. Officials familiar with the probes say the homicide investigation run by police at most contemplated a manslaughter charge, not second-degree murder as Mosby charged one of the officers, Caesar Goodson. Homicide investigators briefed by the medical examiner's office believed the autopsy report would likely find the cause of death to fall short of homicide, one official familiar with the case told CNN.
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| Texas shooting sign of lone wolf attacks to come in U.S. - experts | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attacks like Sunday's shooting at a Texas event featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad are a bigger threat in the United States than any by foreign fighters returning radicalized from Syria or Iraq, security experts told a U.S. Senate panel. The so-called lone wolf attackers will be American, inspired by the Islamic State militant group, radicalized online and have easy access to guns, Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation think tank said at a Senate hearing. U.S. investigators are examining the influence of Islamic State on the two men shot to death by authorities after they opened fire in Garland, Texas. There is no evidence either man traveled to Syria or Iraq but they exchanged Twitter messages with Cybercaliphate, an Islamic State affiliate.
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| Omar Khadr, once a Guantanamo inmate, freed on bail in Canada | |  By Dan Riedlhuber EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) - Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was once the youngest prisoner held on terror charges at Guantanamo Bay, will be released on bail from an Alberta prison on Thursday while he appeals a murder conviction by a U.S. military tribunal. A judge in an Alberta court ruled that Khadr, who was captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 and pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier, can be released on bail, denying an appeal by the Canadian government to keep him in custody. Khadr, 28, was transferred to Alberta from prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in 2012. Bail conditions imposed by an Alberta court include that Khadr wears an electronic monitoring device, lives with his lawyer in Edmonton, observes a nightly curfew, and has only monitored contact with his family.
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| Kosovo indicts 32 for fighting and recruiting for Islamic State | | | By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - A prosecutor in Kosovo indicted 32 people on Thursday for fighting alongside Islamist insurgents in Syria and Iraq and recruiting others from the impoverished Balkan country to fight. Security officials say more than 200 people from Kosovo have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq, stirring fears of the threat they might pose when they come home. "For some of the suspects there is strong evidence that they fought and joined the terrorist group in Syria known as ISIS," a statement from the state prosecutor's office said, referring to Islamic State. "Others have recruited people to send to the war in Syria and have collected money for terrorist organizations." All the indicted men were arrested in August 2014, when police began a large-scale operation to deter would-be Islamic State fighters. |
| Athlete dies, three others critical after suicide pact in Kerala | | | By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Kerala police are investigating the death of a 15-year-old female athlete and attempted suicide by three others girls who ate poisonous fruit at a state-run sports institute, a minister said on Thursday. The teen athletes were reported to have eaten othalanga, a toxic local fruit, in a suicide pact at the centre in Alappuzha in Kerala which is run by the Sports Authority of India (SAI). All four were believed to have signed a suicide note, said officials, but no details have been given about the contents of the letter. "Law will take its own course, but I assure you that if anybody from Sports Authority of India is found to be guilty in this connection, we will be taking strictest possible action against her or him," Sonowal said in a statement. |
| Boston bombing jury told of prison conditions Tsarnaev could face | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON(Reuters) - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing, would spend most of his days alone in his cell if a U.S. jury decides to send him to prison instead of sentencing him to death, a penal expert testified on Thursday. The same jury found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty last month of killing three people and injuring 264 others at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, in one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. District Court jury in Boston can only sentence him to death or life in prison without possibility of release. If Tsarnaev goes to prison, he would be alone most of the time at the U.S. government penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, a former federal prison warden, Mark Bezy, told jurors.
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| Egyptian army forces free Ethiopians held in Libya - Sisi | |  By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - A group of Ethiopians who had been kidnapped in Libya arrived at Cairo airport on Thursday after Egyptian army forces rescued them, state media quoted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as saying. State TV broadcast live footage of Sisi greeting about 30 Ethiopians who had arrived on an Egyptian government plane. "Sisi announced during a seminar the success of the armed forces in returning the Ethiopian brothers who had been kidnapped in Libya," state news agency MENA reported. "The Libyan government came and took us to the anti-illegal immigration body and then the Egyptian government took us from there," he told reporters at the airport.
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| Man burned alive in Burundi protest against presidential bid | |  By Patrick Njuwimana and Njuwa Maina BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Protesters burned a man alive in Burundi's capital on Thursday, saying he was a member of the ruling party's youth wing which had attacked them during their demonstrations against the president's bid for a third term, a witness said. Protesters have been on Bujumbura's streets for almost two weeks, often hurling stones at police who they say have fired live rounds, which police deny. Opponents of the government say the June 26 presidential election should be delayed by a few weeks because of unrest. President Pierre Nkurunziza's spokesman said that was unnecessary as most of the country was calm.
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| Israel's Netanyahu faces uneasy future with single-seat majority | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu is unlikely to find much comfort at home or abroad in his fourth term as prime minister after taking six weeks to form a coalition that will hold a parliamentary majority of just a single seat. Long at odds with Western allies over his views on the Palestinians and Iran, Netanyahu could be similarly vexed by domestic legislation that even his right-leaning, five-party alliance will not necessarily agree on, political analysts say. Netanyahu's aides left the door open to a "national unity" government bringing in centre-left opposition leader Isaac Herzog - possibly by offering him the foreign minister's post, a portfolio being kept in reserve. Herzog, scion of a family of statesmen - his father served as president and ambassador to the United Nations and his uncle was foreign minister - could make a valuable emissary to an Obama administration angered by Netanyahu's anti-Iran lobbying.
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| Goldman Sachs must face $120 million suit over mortgage securities-court | |  New York's top state court on Thursday revived a bond insurer's $120 million lawsuit claiming Goldman Sachs Group Inc lied about a pool of securities backed by subprime mortgages in the time leading up the financial crisis. The New York Court of Appeals in a 5-2 decision said the suit by ACA Financial Guaranty Corp should move forward because the insurer had raised issues about the role of billionaire John Paulson's hedge fund in a collateralized debt obligation called Abacus. ACA Financial said Goldman had deceived it into believing hedge fund Paulson & Co was a long investor in Abacus when it knew Paulson was betting the underlying mortgages would fail. ACA says it lost approximately $900 million on the deal when the subprime mortgage market collapsed.
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| Inquiry begins into alleged child abuse in Central Africa by French troops | | | An investigation of alleged child sex abuse by French soldiers in the Central African Republic has begun, Paris prosecutors said on Thursday. Prosecutors decided to open the investigation after written consultation with the author of a United Nations report that first raised the allegations, the prosecutors' office said in a statement. A preliminary investigation was opened last July based on the U.N report. The allegations came to light in April after an internal U.N. report summarising interviews with victims was leaked. |
| Maersk Tigris ship released by Iran, crew safe | | | By Parisa Hafezi and Jonathan Saul ANKARA/LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has released a Marshall-Islands flagged container ship and its crew which were seized last month in one of the world's major oil shipping lanes, the vessel's operator said on Thursday. The vessel was diverted on April 28 by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the United States to send vessels to monitor the situation and to accompany U.S.-flagged vessels passing through the strait. Iran had said the vessel would be let go once a years-old debt case with the ship's charterer Maersk Line was settled. "Rickmers Group is pleased to report today its managed container vessel Maersk Tigris with 24 crew members on board has been officially released by Iranian authorities following an order from the court in Bandar Abbas, Iran," the operator and manager said in a statement. |
| French court rules tapping of Sarkozy phone was legal | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French magistrates ruled on Thursday that authorities had acted legally in tapping ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's phone as part of an investigation into allegations of influence peddling, in a potential blow to his hopes to run for president in 2017. Sarkozy allies had been confident the court would declare the taps inadmissible and clear the way for him to seek the conservatives' ticket for the 2017 ballot without that judicial cloud hanging over him. Sarkozy compared the tapping last year to the mass surveillance of the Stasi secret police of former communist East Germany. His lawyers said they would appeal against the decision, but that will not stop resumption of the investigation over allegations of corruption and influence peddling, a judicial source said.
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| Recruiters of Filipina facing death sentence for drugs smuggling themselves charged | |  A Philippine couple who recruited a Filipino domestic helper, who was granted a temporary reprieve from a death sentence in Indonesia last month for drug smuggling, were charged on Thursday for the same offence. Mary Jane Veloso, 30, was spared from the firing squad last month after officials in Manila asked Indonesian President Jokowi Widodo to allow her to give evidence to an investigation into the network in Manila that recruited her. Claro Arellano, chief prosecutor at the justice department, said it had found probable cause to file charges of drug smuggling and illegal recruitment against Veloso's recruiters - Ma Jristina Sergio and partner Julius Lacanilao. "These cases will be filed before the Regional Trial Court of (the couple's home province of) Nueva Ecija," he said, adding the indictments were based on complaints from three people, who were recruited to work abroad in jobs that proved to be non-existent.
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