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| U.S. Senate intelligence chief to offer surveillance compromise | |  The chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said he would announce a compromise bill on bulk telephone data collection on Friday. Republican Chairman Richard Burr said on Thursday he expected votes Friday on a two-month extension of Patriot Act provisions and a separate bill, to end the bulk data collection programme and replace it with a more targeted approach.
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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. |
| Grand jury indicts Baltimore police in death of Freddie Gray | |  (Reuters) - A grand jury has returned charges against six Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore City State Attorney Marilyn Mosby told a news conference on Thursday. Gray, 25, died on April 19 of injuries suffered while in police custody and Mosby had filed charges against the six officers early this month. They will be arraigned on July 2, Mosby said. (Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington and Scott Malone in Boston; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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| 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. |
| 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. |
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