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| EU migrant quotas "insane", Hungary's Orban says | |  By Robin Emmott and Marton Dunai BRUSSELS/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban decried EU proposals for migrant quotas as "bordering on insanity" on Tuesday, and defended his recent calls for the possible reintroduction of the death penalty. Orban made a combative appearance before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where lawmakers challenged the centre-right leader over his increasingly tough anti-immigration stance. "The proposal on the table from the European Commission... is absurd, bordering on insanity," Orban told the parliament.
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| Amnesty International says Morocco 'getting away with torture' | | | Amnesty International urged Morocco on Tuesday to stamp out torture, including the use of mock drownings and sexual violence, in a report that cited 173 alleged cases over a four-year period. Beatings, use of stress positions, asphyxiation and psychological violence were also among an array of torture techniques used by Moroccan security services, Amnesty said in a report on alleged cases between 2010 and 2014. Amnesty also accuses Moroccan authorities of using "false reporting" and slander laws to prosecute alleged torture victims who testify about their experiences. |
| U.S. judge pressures State Dept. on Clinton emails release | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. State Department to produce a plan to release batches of Hillary Clinton's emails from her time there, raising the prospect of months of drip-by-drip disclosures that could plague her presidential campaign. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ordered the State Department to come up with a timetable by next week for the rolling release of the 55,000 pages of emails, according to a lawyer in the case, Jeffrey Light. It was a rebuke to the State Department which said on Monday it might need until January, 2016 to produce the emails.
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| Child marriages, trafficking will soar after Nepal quake - charity | |  By Emma Batha CASABLANCA, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The massive earthquakes in Nepal will lead to a dramatic rise in child marriage and the trafficking of children as criminals prey on orphans and parents act to protect young daughters, the head of a social welfare organisation predicted on Tuesday. "Our quake has devastated our country ... Many children have lost both their parents ... they will be more vulnerable," said Anand Tamang, director of CREHPA, a Nepalese group which campaigns against child marriage. "There will be a dramatic increase in child marriage and trafficking, ... we know the situation will be much worse," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the sidelines of an international conference on ending child marriage in the Moroccan city Casablanca.
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| Texas police, under threat, seek gang truce after deadly brawl | |  By Lisa Maria Garza WACO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas police asked rival motorcycle gangs on Tuesday to put aside their differences after a weekend brawl at a Waco restaurant that left nine people dead and 18 injured, calling for a halt to the carnage and threats of revenge attacks. "There has been enough tragedy and there has been enough bloodshed in Waco, Texas. Almost all of those involved in the deadly brawl are not from the Waco area, Swanton said.
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| "Sicario" with Emily Blunt as FBI agent brings drug wars to Cannes | |  By Michael Roddy CANNES, France (Reuters) - A film that Canadian director Denis Villeneuve says is meant to break "a cover of silence" about the brutality of the Mexican drug trade and the complicity of users in the violence that feeds their habits blasted its way into Cannes on Tuesday. "Sicario", which means hitman in Latin America, is an action-packed thriller in which agents cross territorial and legal boundaries. Josh Brolin is Matt, the CIA team leader, while Benicio Del Toro, who played a conflicted cop in the 2000 narcotics-trade hit "Traffic", co-stars as a Colombian who has a role with the CIA team that does not become clear until the end.
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| U.S. charges 6 Chinese nationals with economic espionage | | | By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S government charged six Chinese nationals with economic espionage, saying they stole secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military systems, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. It was the third time in as many years that U.S. authorities have made accusations of economic espionage on behalf of China, a sign that the United States is increasingly focused on what it has termed a top national security concern. One of the suspects, Professor Hao Zhang, 36, was arrested on Saturday in Los Angeles after he arrived on a flight from China, the Justice Department said in a statement. |
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