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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 grounds of the U.S. Capitol pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of aircraft violations and 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.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. |
| 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. |
| Tunisia says Moroccan held in Italy supplied weapons for museum attackers | |  By Tarek Amara and Emilio Parodi TUNIS/MILAN (Reuters) - The Moroccan arrested in Italy on suspicion of involvement in the Islamist militant attack on Tunisia's Bardo Museum provided the weapons, a Tunisian official told Reuters on Thursday. Italian police said on Wednesday they had arrested Abdelmajid Touil, aged 22, in connection with the March 18 attack in Tunis in which 21 tourists were shot dead. "(He) is a weapons smuggler ... he brought weapons for the Bardo Museum attackers from Libya to Tunisia before the date of the attack," said the official, who asked not to be named.
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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. |
| 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. |
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