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| Insight: Islamic State learns lessons from U.S. raid - jihadist sources | | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:56 AM | |
|  By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - A U.S. special forces raid against an Islamic State leader in Syria caught the jihadist group off guard, killing not only the declared target, but also two other important figures, jihadist sources in Syria said. The sources said a spy must have infiltrated the movement and passed on vital information that helped the U.S. commandos zero in on the home of their victim early Saturday when most of the guards had left to join a battle elsewhere. The Islamic State was also considering tightening its recruitment procedures to try to root out moles and was considering forming a specialist unit to counter such attacks in future.
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| Venezuela parliament head Cabello denies alleged drug role | | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:54 AM | |
|  The Venezuelan government's second most powerful figure, Diosdado Cabello, denied on Tuesday that he was involved in the drug trade after U.S. media reports said he and other officials were under investigation for trafficking and money laundering. Stories in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times outlined long-simmering accusations from the United States that the governments of President Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez have facilitated cocaine shipments. "It would never occur to us to get involved in something that would hurt young people," the National Assembly head and No. 2 in the ruling Socialist Party told Venezuela's parliament.
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| Gunfight in blood-soaked western Mexican state kills at least eight | | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 1:25 AM | |
| | At least eight people died in a shootout between Mexican federal police and suspected gang members in the troubled western state of Jalisco, a government official said on Tuesday. The gunfight took place on Monday in the municipality of Villa Purificacion, where members of the Jalisco New Generation (JNG) cartel shot down an army helicopter on May 1, killing six military personnel on a day of clashes that claimed 15 lives. Over the past two months at least 20 federal and state police killed have been in separate clashes with the gang. |
| Texas police seek gang truce, end of bloodshed after deadly brawl | | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:06 AM | |
|  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. Few of those involved in the deadly brawl are from the Waco area, Swanton said.
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| High bail, prolonged jail for bikers in deadly Texas gang brawl | | | By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The bail is beyond reach, the booking process is moving at a snail's pace and the time in jail is likely to be lengthy for the 170 people arrested in connection with the motorcycle gang fight in the Texas city of Waco that left nine dead. Law enforcement wants gang members to remain behind bars, legal experts said, as they try to find out who did what to whom in a fight among more than 100 bikers. It happened at a Twin Peaks restaurant and spilled into two parking lots, leaving behind a trail of evidence that included blood, guns, knives and chains. |
| Fifteen people missing in Mexican state where 43 students massacred | | | Announcing an investigation into the disappearance, the attorney general's office of Guerrero state said the 15 went missing last week from the town of Chilapa, the scene of recent violence ahead of local and national elections on June 7. Guerrero has for years been plagued by widespread drug-related crime and political corruption, and the 15 disappeared after an armed vigilante group entered Chilapa and took control of local policing from the municipal authorities. Chilapa is less than 200 kilometres (124 miles) away from Iguala, the city where the 43 students went missing last September, sparking nationwide protests and plunging Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto into a deep political crisis. |
| Venezuela's parliament boss blasts report of drug trafficking | | Venezuela's powerful parliamentary chief, Diosdado Cabello, on Tuesday slammed a Wall Street Journal report that U.S. authorities are investigating him and other senior officials for possible cocaine trafficking and money laundering. "It would never occur to us to get involved in something that would hurt young people," he said in a speech to the Socialist-controlled National Assembly. "Those who today accuse me today of drug trafficking should present one piece of evidence, just one," he told the assembly, which chanted "We're all Diosdado" and pushed a motion to support Cabello, lauding him as a "hero of the fatherland." Citing more than 12 people familiar with the probes, the newspaper on Monday said federal prosecutors in New York and Miami and a Drug Enforcement Administration unit were gathering evidence from former cocaine traffickers, Venezuelan military defectors and people once close to top Venezuelan government officials.
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| Obama meets with advisers on Iraq, reaffirms support for Abadi - White House | |  President Barack Obama was briefed by his top national security advisers on Tuesday on the situation in Iraq and the strategy to counter Islamic State militants, the White House National Security Council said in a statement. Obama "reaffirmed the strong U.S. support" for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the White House said after the meeting, which involved 25 advisers including Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, and General Lloyd Austin of U.S. Central Command. There has been concern in the United States about the risk of sectarian strife in Ramadi, the capital of Sunni-majority Anbar province, because of the need to use Shi'ite militias to try to take back the city from Islamic State fighters.
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| Prostitute pleads guilty in Google executive's heroin death | |  (Reuters) - A prostitute charged with killing a Google executive by injecting him with heroin on his yacht off the California coast pleaded guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter, court officials said. Alix Catherine Tichelman, 27, was sentenced to six years in prison by a Santa Cruz Superior Court judge after she accepted a plea deal in which a manslaughter charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter, a court official said. Prosecutors say Tichelman, a high-priced call girl, injected Forrest Hayes, 51, with heroin during a tryst aboard his yacht off Santa Cruz in November 2013.
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| 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 prepare a timetable by next week for the rolling release of the 55,000 pages of emails sent and received by Clinton, according to a court document. It was a rebuke to the State Department, which had said on Monday it might need until January 2016 to produce the emails.
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