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| Morocco looks set to ease but not scrap ban on abortion | | | By Emma Batha CASABLANCA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every day hundreds of Moroccan women and girls put their lives at risk by seeking backstreet abortions or trying to end unwanted pregnancies themselves with needles and poison. Others who give birth in secret discard their babies in rubbish bins or dump them in forests, says Professor Chafik Chraibi, a senior gynaecologist who has led efforts to get abortion legalised in the North African country. At least 600 girls and women in Morocco have illegal terminations every day, Chraibi says. |
| Exclusive: Turkish intelligence helped ship arms to Syrian Islamist rebel areas-court documents | | | By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ADANA, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's state intelligence agency helped deliver arms to parts of Syria under Islamist rebel control during late 2013 and early 2014, according to a prosecutor and court testimony from gendarmerie officers seen by Reuters. The witness testimony contradicts Turkey's denials that it sent arms to Syrian rebels and, by extension, contributed to the rise of Islamic State, now a major concern for the NATO member. Syria and some of Turkey's Western allies say Turkey, in its haste to see President Bashar al-Assad toppled, let fighters and arms over the border, some of whom went on to join the Islamic State militant group which has carved a self-declared caliphate out of parts of Syria and Iraq. |
| 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. The two-page report is a 1977 record of a talk between a British official and Ian Henderson, a senior British security chief who advised Bahrain for decades after its independence. |
| Briton guilty of making bomb that killed U.S. sergeant in Iraq | | | A London taxi driver was found guilty of murder on Thursday for his role in making bombs used against U.S. forces in Iraq in 2007, including one that killed an American sergeant, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. Anis Sardar, 38, of northwest London, was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court of two counts of murder and conspiracy to murder. The bombs had been buried under roads leading west out of Baghdad in an area close to the U.S. Army's Camp Liberty. |
| Amnesty report says Qatar still failing migrant workers | |  BERNE/DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar, host of soccer's 2022 World Cup, is doing little to improve conditions for its 1.5 million migrant workers despite promising reforms last year, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Qatar's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs said several of the allegations in Amnesty's report were inaccurate and that "significant changes have been made over the last year to improve the rights and conditions of expatriate workers." Amnesty researcher Mustafa Qadri told reporters: "Without prompt action, the pledges Qatar made last year are at serious risk of being dismissed as a mere public relations stunt to ensure the Gulf state can cling on to the 2022 World Cup.
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| Insight: Burundi ruling party youth rattles nerves in ethnic tinderbox | |  By Edmund Blair NGOZI, Burundi (Reuters) - In the Burundian president's rural stronghold, his party's youth wing dismisses the fears of those who have fled the east African nation that it is gathering arms and sharpening knives for a new bout of ethnic bloodletting. "Whoever has a machete uses it for cultivating, not for other purposes," said Patrice Barutwanajo, 28, a member of the so-called Imbonerakure in Ngozi in northern Burundi. The group insists it is focused exclusively on campaigning for elections, including a presidential poll on June 26 in which President Pierre Nkurunziza will seek a third term, a bid which protesters in the capital say is unconstitutional.
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| Killing of 14-year-old girl alerts Argentina to femicides - rights group | | | By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The discovery of a pregnant schoolgirl's body under the patio of her boyfriend's family home in northeast Argentina has led local rights groups to condemn her killing as a femicide, shining a spotlight on an invisible scourge in the South American nation. A post-mortem examination carried out on the victim, 14-year-old Chiara Paez, after her body was unearthed on May 11 showed she died from beatings to the head, face and body, local media have reported. Media reports say the 16-year-old boyfriend has been charged with aggravated murder, femicide and forced abortion, and that he confessed to the killing when questioned by prosecutors, in a case that has dominated headlines in Argentina for weeks. |
| Pizza crust links man to Washington, D.C. quadruple slaying - media | | | (Reuters) - Police in Washington, D.C., said they have identified a suspect in the killing of four people found in a home that was torched last week, with local media reporting that a pizza crust may have tied him to the scene. The bodies of four people including businessman Savvas Savopoulos were found inside the multi-million dollar house in a neighborhood near Vice President Joe Biden's official residence last week after a blaze that Washington police immediately labeled as "very suspicious." Police have now identified a Maryland man, Daron Dylon Wint, 34, as a suspect in the case and have obtained a warrant for his arrest. |
| Phone-hacking victims win large damages from UK's Trinity Mirror | | | By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Eight mostly celebrity victims of phone-hacking won a total of 1.2 million pounds ($1.9 million) in damages from Britain's Trinity Mirror newspaper group on Thursday in a court ruling likely to raise the cost of dealing with any future claims. The owner of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror tabloids said it had raised its provision to deal with the fallout from phone-hacking by 16 million pounds in addition to the 12 million pounds it had already set aside. The victims awarded damages were actress Sadie Frost, retired footballer Paul Gascoigne, BBC executive Alan Yentob, three TV soap opera actors, a TV producer and a flight attendant who had dated former England footballer Rio Ferdinand. |
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