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| Suspected S. Carolina church shooter posed online in apartheid flags | |  The man suspected of fatally shooting nine people at a historically black South Carolina church on Wednesday can be seen in his Facebook profile picture in a jacket that bears the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified the shooter at the church in Charleston as 21-year-old Dylann Roof. The U.S. Department of Justice said it will investigate the shooting as a hate crime, suggesting they believe the attack was motivated by racism.
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| U.S. presidential candidates' react to South Carolina church shootings | |  As authorities hunted a white gunman accused of killing nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, late on Wednesday, U.S. presidential candidates and politicians likely to enter the race used social media and other means to express condolences. No civilized person can react except with revulsion at such a senseless, cowardly, and despicable act ... The prayers that were interrupted by a mass murderer will be continued by a grieving nation." - Former Republican Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee on Facebook "Our prayers for the families & friends of loved ones killed in Charleston, S.C. - SKW" - Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is expected to announce whether he will run next month, on Twitter "Kelley and I are praying for everyone affected by this senseless tragedy in Charleston." - Republican Senator Rand Paul and wife "Saddened by the news from Charleston.
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| Suspected South Carolina shooter had arrest record - court records | |  REUTERS - Suspected South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof was charged on two separate occasions earlier this year with a drug offense and trespassing, according to court documents of his previous arrests. Authorities on Thursday were searching for Roof, 21, who is accused of killing nine people after opening fire in the historic African-American church in Charleston. (Reporting by Laila Kearney)
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| South Carolina church shooter suspect got gun for birthday, uncle says | |  The man suspected of fatally shooting nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday, was given a gun by his father as a 21st birthday present in April, his uncle told Reuters on Thursday. Law enforcement officers were at the home of Dylann Roof's mother on Thursday morning, the uncle, Carson Cowles, said in an interview. The FBI has identified the gunman in the deadly shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina, church as 21-year-old Dylann Roof, the Charleston Post and Courier newspaper said on its website.
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| Boko Haram kills at least 30 in attacks on Niger villages - sources | | | Boko Haram militants attacked two villages in southern Niger's Diffa region overnight, killing at least 30 civilians, two security sources said on Thursday. Its government has declared a state of emergency for the region and has arrested more than 600 people it accuses of links to the group. |
| Australian actress Rachel Griffiths seeks happy endings for trafficking victims | |  By Astrid Zweynert HONG KONG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Australian actress Rachel Griffiths, who rose to fame in the hit 1994 movie "Muriel's Wedding", loves Hollywood's happy endings and this drove her to get involved with helping victims of human trafficking in Asia. Griffiths, 46, said her work as a patron of the charity Hagar has inspired her to believe that individuals can play a key role in helping to abolish modern-day slavery, an industry estimated to be worth $150 billion a year globally. "Every Hollywood actor likes a happy ending so I decided to help raise awareness about these issues," Griffiths told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at a conference on slavery.
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| Argentines sought by U.S. in FIFA scandal surrender - local media | | | Argentine businessmen Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, who are wanted by U.S. prosecutors in a FIFA bribery investigation, turned themselves in on Thursday to the authorities in Buenos Aires, local media broadly reported. Hugo Jinkis and his son were among the nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives indicted in the United States on May 27 on charges of racketeering and corruption that rocked the soccer world. U.S. prosecutors say the two men, together with another Argentine Alejandro Burzaco, conspired to win and keep lucrative media rights contracts from regional soccer by paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes. |
| Manhunt follows attack on historic black South Carolina church | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Police in Charleston, South Carolina, were searching for a white gunman on Thursday who killed nine people in a historic African-American church, in an attack that police and the city's mayor described as a hate crime. The shooter, a 21-year-old white man with sandy blond hair, sat with churchgoers inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for about an hour on Wednesday before opening fire, Police Chief Gregory Mullen said. The victims included Reverend Clementa Pinckney, the church's pastor and a Democratic member of the state Senate, his cousin and fellow state senator, Kent Williams, told CNN.
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| Thai assembly approves new charter, paves way for referendum | |  Thailand's army-dominated national assembly approved amendments to the country's draft constitution at a third reading on Thursday, paving the way for a referendum on the newly drafted charter next year. Opponents say the charter is a major step backwards for Thailand and will only serve to consolidate the military's hold on power and weaken existing political parties. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as army chief came to power in a May 2014 coup, has laid out a 15-month road map involving, among other things, the drafting of a new charter that he says will pave the way for elections sometime in 2016.
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| Kosovo urges Slovenia to release detained ex-PM | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's prime minister has called his Slovenian counterpart to ask for the release of a Kosovar opposition leader and former guerrilla commander detained on Wednesday on a war crimes warrant issued by Serbia. The arrest of Ramush Haradinaj, who served briefly as prime minister of Kosovo in 2004-05, has infuriated Kosovars, many of whom consider him a hero for his role in fighting Serbian forces during the 1998-99 Kosovo war. Detained en route through the ex-Yugoslav republic of Slovenia on Wednesday, Haradinaj was later released by police but his passport was retained and he was told to remain in the European Union country until a judge processes his case.
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| Soccer - Belgium could seek compensation over losing World Cup bid | | | Belgium may seek compensation over the 4.5 million euros ($5.13 million) spent on their unsuccessful 2018 World Cup bid if FIFA's decision to award the finals to Russia is found to be fraudulent. "If fraud is proven it is obvious to me that we will seek compensation," Belgian Football Federation chairman Francois de Keersmaecker was quoted as saying by Het Nieuwsblad on Thursday. Flemish government sports minister Philippe Muyters told the same newspaper that fraud still needed to be proven. |
| Afghan clerics protest nomination of first woman to Supreme Court | | | By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Members of an influential Islamic panel in Afghanistan have protested against President Ashraf Ghani's nomination of a woman to the Supreme Court, a milestone appointment in a country where the Taliban once banned women from most areas of public life. Ghani's decision last week delivered on an election promise to appoint the first woman to the Supreme Court, but conservative lawmakers could fight the parliamentary confirmation of Anisa Rassouli, who now heads a juvenile court. The step represents good news for civil rights activists worried that gains made by women might be eroded after the withdrawal of most foreign troops last year, 13 years after the U.S.-led military intervention that toppled the Taliban in 2001. |
| Top two FIFA officials hire lawyers as Swiss probe bank transactions | |  By Karolin Schaps and David Ingram BERNE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA's embattled president, Sepp Blatter, and his second-in-command have hired high-powered lawyers to represent them as Swiss authorities identified suspicious bank transactions in a corruption probe engulfing soccer's global governing body. Blatter recently retained Richard Cullen, the chairman of the law firm McGuireWoods and a former U.S. federal prosecutor, FIFA confirmed in an email to Reuters on Thursday. Jerome Valcke, FIFA secretary general, has hired prominent New York defense attorney Barry Berke to represent him, FIFA said, adding it had no further comment to make.
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| Hong Kong vetoes China-backed electoral reform proposal | |  By Donny Kwok and Yimou Lee HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday vetoed a China-backed electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing for now the prospect of fresh mass protests in the financial hub. Beijing had pressured and cajoled the city's pro-democracy lawmakers to back the blueprint that would have allowed a direct vote for the city's chief executive, but with only pre-screened, pro-Beijing candidates on the ballot. "Today 28 legco members voted against the wishes of the majority of Hong Kong people, and denied them the democratic right to elect the chief executive in the next election," said the city's current pro-Beijing leader Leung Chun-ying.
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