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| Assad troops and rebels targeting civilians in Syria - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government forces have dropped barrel bombs on Aleppo nearly daily this year, amounting to the war crime of targeting civilians, and insurgent shelling has caused mass casualties, U.N. investigators said on Tuesday. Both the military and rebel groups, including Islamic State, have imposed sieges to "devastating effect", depriving residents of food and medicine and leading to malnutrition and starvation, they said in their latest report. "The government's campaign of shelling and aerial bombardment sits alongside the besieging of areas and the arrest and disappearance of predominantly fighting-age males from restive areas at its checkpoints," Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. commission of inquiry, told the Human Rights Council.
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| North Korea sentences South Korean "spies" to hard labour for life -Yonhap | | | North Korea has sentenced two South Koreans accused of spying to hard labour for life, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday, citing a North Korean state radio broadcast. North Korea has accused the two men arrested in March of working as spies for the South's National Intelligence Service (NIS) from the Chinese border city of Dandong. The NIS has denied the accusations as "groundless." The South has urged the North to release four of its citizens, including the two, Kim Kuk Gi and Choe Chun Gil, who said in interviews with CNN in May that they had spied for the South. |
| China says up to United States to resume cyber security talks | | | It is up to the United States to create conditions to resume regular talks on cyber security, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, as the two countries began three days of high-level meetings in Washington. Cyber security has long been an irritant in relations between China and the United States, despite robust economic ties, worth $590 billion in two-way trade last year. An attack on the U.S. government's Office of Personnel Management, revealed this month, compromised the data of 4 million current and former federal employees, raising U.S. suspicions that Chinese hackers were building huge databases that could be used to recruit spies. |
| Rwanda calls arrest by UK of spy chief an "outrage" | | | By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda said it was an "outrage" for Britain to arrest its intelligence chief at the request of Spain, which wants him on war crimes charges, and suggested Western states were swayed by those behind the 1994 genocide. Karenzi Karake, 54, director general of Rwanda's National Intelligence and Security Services, was arrested at London Heathrow Airport on Saturday, British police said. "Western solidarity in demeaning Africans is unacceptable!! It is an outrage to arrest Rwandan official based on pro-genocidaires lunacy!" Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo wrote on her Twitter account. |
| Thailand says wraps up trafficking probe, rights groups sceptical | | | Thai police said on Tuesday they had "shown sincerity" and wrapped up the country's biggest investigation into human trafficking, as rights groups questioned whether they had even scratched the surface. Thailand began a crackdown on trafficking networks and suspected camps hidden deep in its jungle-carpeted mountains last month following the discovery of more than 30 bodies buried in camps in the south. Police have arrested 56 suspects - including politicians, police, government officials, businessmen and an army general - and issued arrest warrants for 63. |
| South Carolina governor calls for Confederate flag's removal | |  By Harriet McLeod, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise CHARLESTON/COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Monday called on lawmakers to take down the Confederate battle flag at the state capitol grounds, a week after a white gunman allegedly shot dead nine black worshipers at a historic church. The flag that has flown at the State House grounds in Columbia for a half century became a fresh focus of criticism after the Charleston church massacre. Federal authorities are investigating the attack as a hate crime and an act of terrorism by accused gunman Dylann Roof, 21, who posed with the flag in photos posted online.
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| Rapper Sean Combs arrested for assault with deadly weapon at UCLA | |  Rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon at the University of California Los Angeles on Monday, college law enforcement authorities said. Combs, 45, was booked in to the jail on the west Los Angeles college campus after an incident involving a kettleball, a weight with a handle, which was deemed a deadly weapon, UCLA's campus police UCPD said in a statement. Celebrity website TMZ.com, citing unidentified sources, said Combs was involved in an argument with a football team coach at the campus' athletic facility.
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| Qatar group to push sports integrity in US even as World Cup award faces probes | | | By Mica Rosenberg and Mark Hosenball NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA's granting of rights to Qatar to host the World Cup in 2022 is a focus of U.S. and Swiss probes into alleged corruption at soccer's governing body, but that isn't stopping a group financed by the tiny nation from coming to Washington this week to talk about cleaning up sports. The Doha-based International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), which is largely funded by the Qatari government, will talk about its efforts to boost transparency in bidding processes for major sporting events and combat financial malpractice in professional sport at an event it is holding at the National Press Club on Wednesday. The group, which is headed by two former officials from Qatar's military, includes FIFA's former head of security as an executive director and Interpol's former president as a member of its advisory board. The event comes on the heels of the indictment by U.S. authorities of nine current or former FIFA officials and five executives in sports marketing or broadcasting on May 27. |
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