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| Boston bombing jury told of prison conditions Tsarnaev could face | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON(Reuters) - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing, would spend most of his days alone in his cell if a U.S. jury decides to send him to prison instead of sentencing him to death, a penal expert testified on Thursday. The same jury found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty last month of killing three people and injuring 264 others at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, in one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. District Court jury in Boston can only sentence him to death or life in prison without possibility of release. If Tsarnaev goes to prison, he would be alone most of the time at the U.S. government penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, a former federal prison warden, Mark Bezy, told jurors.
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| Egyptian army forces free Ethiopians held in Libya - Sisi | |  By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - A group of Ethiopians who had been kidnapped in Libya arrived at Cairo airport on Thursday after Egyptian army forces rescued them, state media quoted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as saying. State TV broadcast live footage of Sisi greeting about 30 Ethiopians who had arrived on an Egyptian government plane. "Sisi announced during a seminar the success of the armed forces in returning the Ethiopian brothers who had been kidnapped in Libya," state news agency MENA reported. "The Libyan government came and took us to the anti-illegal immigration body and then the Egyptian government took us from there," he told reporters at the airport.
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| Man burned alive in Burundi protest against presidential bid | |  By Patrick Njuwimana and Njuwa Maina BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Protesters burned a man alive in Burundi's capital on Thursday, saying he was a member of the ruling party's youth wing which had attacked them during their demonstrations against the president's bid for a third term, a witness said. Protesters have been on Bujumbura's streets for almost two weeks, often hurling stones at police who they say have fired live rounds, which police deny. Opponents of the government say the June 26 presidential election should be delayed by a few weeks because of unrest. President Pierre Nkurunziza's spokesman said that was unnecessary as most of the country was calm.
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| Israel's Netanyahu faces uneasy future with single-seat majority | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu is unlikely to find much comfort at home or abroad in his fourth term as prime minister after taking six weeks to form a coalition that will hold a parliamentary majority of just a single seat. Long at odds with Western allies over his views on the Palestinians and Iran, Netanyahu could be similarly vexed by domestic legislation that even his right-leaning, five-party alliance will not necessarily agree on, political analysts say. Netanyahu's aides left the door open to a "national unity" government bringing in centre-left opposition leader Isaac Herzog - possibly by offering him the foreign minister's post, a portfolio being kept in reserve. Herzog, scion of a family of statesmen - his father served as president and ambassador to the United Nations and his uncle was foreign minister - could make a valuable emissary to an Obama administration angered by Netanyahu's anti-Iran lobbying.
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| Goldman Sachs must face $120 million suit over mortgage securities-court | |  New York's top state court on Thursday revived a bond insurer's $120 million lawsuit claiming Goldman Sachs Group Inc lied about a pool of securities backed by subprime mortgages in the time leading up the financial crisis. The New York Court of Appeals in a 5-2 decision said the suit by ACA Financial Guaranty Corp should move forward because the insurer had raised issues about the role of billionaire John Paulson's hedge fund in a collateralized debt obligation called Abacus. ACA Financial said Goldman had deceived it into believing hedge fund Paulson & Co was a long investor in Abacus when it knew Paulson was betting the underlying mortgages would fail. ACA says it lost approximately $900 million on the deal when the subprime mortgage market collapsed.
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| Inquiry begins into alleged child abuse in Central Africa by French troops | | | An investigation of alleged child sex abuse by French soldiers in the Central African Republic has begun, Paris prosecutors said on Thursday. Prosecutors decided to open the investigation after written consultation with the author of a United Nations report that first raised the allegations, the prosecutors' office said in a statement. A preliminary investigation was opened last July based on the U.N report. The allegations came to light in April after an internal U.N. report summarising interviews with victims was leaked. |
| Maersk Tigris ship released by Iran, crew safe | | | By Parisa Hafezi and Jonathan Saul ANKARA/LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has released a Marshall-Islands flagged container ship and its crew which were seized last month in one of the world's major oil shipping lanes, the vessel's operator said on Thursday. The vessel was diverted on April 28 by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the United States to send vessels to monitor the situation and to accompany U.S.-flagged vessels passing through the strait. Iran had said the vessel would be let go once a years-old debt case with the ship's charterer Maersk Line was settled. "Rickmers Group is pleased to report today its managed container vessel Maersk Tigris with 24 crew members on board has been officially released by Iranian authorities following an order from the court in Bandar Abbas, Iran," the operator and manager said in a statement. |
| NSA phone surveillance not authorized - U.S. appeals court | |  A federal appeals court on Thursday said a National Security Agency program that collected the records of millions of Americans' phone calls was not authorized by Congress. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge erred in dismissing a lawsuit challenging the program's constitutionality, and returned the case to the judge for further proceedings. It also upheld the denial of a preliminary injunction to block the collection of phone records under the program. Thursday's decision vacated a December 2013 dismissal of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit contending that the NSA's collection of "bulk telephony metadata" violated the bar against warrantless searches under the Fourth Amendment.
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| French court rules tapping of Sarkozy phone was legal | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French magistrates ruled on Thursday that authorities had acted legally in tapping ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's phone as part of an investigation into allegations of influence peddling, in a potential blow to his hopes to run for president in 2017. Sarkozy allies had been confident the court would declare the taps inadmissible and clear the way for him to seek the conservatives' ticket for the 2017 ballot without that judicial cloud hanging over him. Sarkozy compared the tapping last year to the mass surveillance of the Stasi secret police of former communist East Germany. His lawyers said they would appeal against the decision, but that will not stop resumption of the investigation over allegations of corruption and influence peddling, a judicial source said.
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| Recruiters of Filipina facing death sentence for drugs smuggling themselves charged | |  A Philippine couple who recruited a Filipino domestic helper, who was granted a temporary reprieve from a death sentence in Indonesia last month for drug smuggling, were charged on Thursday for the same offence. Mary Jane Veloso, 30, was spared from the firing squad last month after officials in Manila asked Indonesian President Jokowi Widodo to allow her to give evidence to an investigation into the network in Manila that recruited her. Claro Arellano, chief prosecutor at the justice department, said it had found probable cause to file charges of drug smuggling and illegal recruitment against Veloso's recruiters - Ma Jristina Sergio and partner Julius Lacanilao. "These cases will be filed before the Regional Trial Court of (the couple's home province of) Nueva Ecija," he said, adding the indictments were based on complaints from three people, who were recruited to work abroad in jobs that proved to be non-existent.
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| Syrian army, Hezbollah advance in areas along Lebanon border | | | By Laila Bassam and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army bombing in the mountainous area along the border with Lebanon killed dozens of insurgents and helped regain hilly territory overlooking Hezbollah strongholds, the Lebanese group said on Thursday. For years, hideouts in the Qalamoun mountains have allowed al Qaeda-linked insurgents to attack Syrian soldiers and fighters from Hezbollah, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along miles of borderland in eastern Lebanon. The Syrian military backed by Hezbollah fighters captured the strategically important territory known as Assal al-Ward on the Syrian side of the border, after retaking Qarna Heights, a Hezbollah official told Reuters, both in the 100-km (60-mile) Qalamoun range. |
| German spies curb Internet snooping for U.S. after row - media | |  Germany has halted its Internet surveillance for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in response to a row over the BND intelligence agency's cooperation with Washington, German media reported on Thursday. Allegations that the BND has helped the NSA spy on European officials and firms has put strains on Angela Merkel's governing coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and could damage U.S. relations and even the conservative chancellor's own popularity. The Sueddeutsche daily and WDR and NDR broadcasters reported that the BND's station in Bad Aibling this week stopped sending the NSA information garnered from Internet surveillance.
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| Jackie Chan warns Singapore youth on drugs after son's detention | |  Jackie Chan was named Singapore's first celebrity anti-drug ambassador on Thursday and the kung fu movie star sought to warn the city state's youth off illegal substances as he spoke of his son's drug crimes. The Hong Kong actor's son, Jaycee Chan, was released from a Chinese jail in February after serving a six-month sentence on drugs charges. "I was very angry but it made me more determined to be against drugs." Chan, named an anti-drug ambassador by Beijing in 2009, sought to deter youths who had gathered to see him at the Singapore event from involvement with drugs. "Don't ever think you won't get addicted, because not only are you hurting yourself ... your one drug addiction will hurt your family," the actor said.
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