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| Grand jury indicts Baltimore police in death of Freddie Gray | |  (Reuters) - A grand jury has brought charges against six Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray from injuries suffered while in police custody, Baltimore City State Attorney Marilyn Mosby told a news conference on Thursday. Gray's death on April 19 set off weeks of largely peaceful protests in Baltimore punctuated by a day of rioting and arson after his funeral on April 27, when rioters threw rocks at police and set buildings and cars on fire.
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| Guatemala president shakes up cabinet as corruption scandals bite | |  By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's President Otto Perez announced a major cabinet reshuffle on Thursday, firing several ministers after corruption scandals battered his government, fuelling calls for him to step down. Perez told a news conference he had dismissed the interior, energy and environment ministers as well as the country's intelligence chief and other senior officials following a string of arrests and recent mass protests in Guatemala City. The retired army general, who has not himself been accused of corruption, said the government would work with investigators to root out abuses by public officials.
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| Man who flew gyrocopter to U.S. Capitol pleads not guilty | | | By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Florida man who flew a gyrocopter onto the U.S. Capitol grounds pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of breaching some of the world's most restricted airspace. Douglas Hughes, a 61-year-old mail carrier from Ruskin, Florida, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday. The flight of the small, unauthorised aircraft was among the most high-profile of recent security lapses in the U.S. capital. |
| U.N. worried about reported diversion of aid in Syria | |  The United Nations children's fund UNICEF is alarmed at reports that some emergency food and other humanitarian aid was not reaching civilians in conflict-torn Syria due to theft by combatants, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday. The rebel Syrian National Coalition said that the Syrian army and allied fighters have been stealing relief items and distributing to their troops. "UNICEF is extremely concerned at reports that some of its humanitarian supplies in Syria have not reached their intended destination," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters.
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| Ecclestone challenges $1.5 billion tax demand | |  By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has taken legal action against British tax officials after facing a demand for payment of more than 1 billion pounds ($1.57 billion) in relation to a family trust. "He (Ecclestone) merely wants HMRC to act in accordance with its obligations and the law," it added. The BBC reported that the judge had ruled however that Ecclestone's application should be stayed while his lawyers pursued alternative proceedings in the Commercial Court.
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| Russia warns Google, Twitter and Facebook on law violations | |  By Maria Tsvetkova and Eric Auchard MOSCOW/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Russia's media watchdog has written to Google, Twitter and Facebook warning them against violating Russian Internet laws and a spokesman said on Thursday they risk being blocked if they do not comply with the rules. Roskomnadzor said it had sent letters this week to the three U.S.-based Internet firms asking them to comply with Internet laws which critics of President Vladimir Putin have decried as censorship. "In our letters we regularly remind (companies) of the consequences of violating the legislation," said Roskomnadzor spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky. To comply with the law, the three firms must hand over data on Russian bloggers with more than 3,000 readers per day, and take down websites that Roskomnadzor sees as containing calls for "unsanctioned protests and unrest", Ampelonsky said.
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| U.S. to release some Clinton Benghazi emails 'very, very soon' | |  The U.S. State Department will release "very, very soon" a first tranche of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails relating to an attack in 2012 on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. "We will be releasing very, very soon the first set we said we would release of the documents that have already been provided to the committee that are related to Benghazi," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters, referring to a House of Representatives committee investigating the attack.
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| Classified document on Bahrain rankles Britain decades later | | | By Noah Browning DUBAI (Reuters)1 - A legal battle between an activist group and Britain over a decades-old diplomatic cable on Bahrain has exposed a thorny link between the UK's colonial past and its new military ambitions in a region it once dominated. The Foreign Office has told a court in London that a censored assessment by a colonial officer of the Gulf Arab island's ruling Al Khalifa family may harm the UK's relationship with Bahrain as it seeks to build a naval base there. The installation will be Britain's first permanent military presence in the Middle East since it withdrew from Bahrain and the rest of the Gulf region in 1971. |
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