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| Obama announces new hostage response, but no U.S. ransoms | |  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a more coordinated U.S. response to help rescue Americans held hostage by terrorists and acknowledged the government had sometimes let the families down. After an emotional meeting with relatives of executed hostages, he said: "I acknowledged to them in private what I want to say publicly, that it is true that there have been times where our government, regardless of good intentions, has let them down." He added: "I promised them that we can do better." The president reasserted the main plank of the U.S. policy, that unlike some allies the government would not make concessions or pay ransoms to hostage takers, saying this would enrich the militants and encourage further abductions.
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| Exclusive - Swiss authorities examine FIFA grants in football probe: source | |  By Mark Hosenball LONDON - (Reuters) - Swiss authorities are examining development grants made by FIFA around the world as part of their investigation into the sport's global governing body and its award of World Cup hosting rights for Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022, a source familiar with the probe said. The grants mainly go to national football associations and are often earmarked for new football pitches and related facilities, or for training programs. The Swiss investigation is running alongside and in cooperation with a U.S. probe that led to the criminal indictment on May 27 of nine current and former FIFA officials and five executives in sports marketing and broadcasting on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges.
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| Boston bomber apologises, admits guilt for deadly 2013 attack | |  By Scott Malone and Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday apologised for the deadly 2013 attack at a hearing before a U.S. judge formally sentenced him to death for killing four people and injuring 264 in the bombing and its aftermath. "I am sorry for the lives I have taken, for the suffering that I have caused you, for the damage I have done, irreparable damage," said Tsarnaev, who had sat in silence, his head cast down as two survivors and family members of victims described the attacks' heavy toll on their lives. "In case there is any doubt, I am guilty of this attack, along with my brother," Tsarnaev said, standing at the defence table.
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| Two Argentines sought by U.S. in FIFA scandal put under house arrest | | | Argentine businessmen Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, who are wanted by U.S. prosecutors as part of the FIFA graft investigation, on Wednesday were denied their request to fight extradition as free men and were placed under house arrest, legal documents showed. Hugo Jinkis, 70, and his son Mariano, 40, were among 14 current and former FIFA officials and corporate executives indicted in the United States last month on charges of racketeering and corruption that rocked the football world. U.S. justice officials say the two conspired with a third Argentine, media tycoon Alejandro Burzaco, to win and keep hold of lucrative media rights for regional football tournaments by paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes. |
| Rapper Rick Ross arrested near Atlanta on assault charges -officials | |  By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) - Rapper Rick Ross and his bodyguard were arrested at his home near Atlanta on Wednesday on charges they kidnapped a man, beat him and threatened him with a handgun earlier this month at the rapper's mansion, authorities and media reports said. Ross, 39, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II, and his bodyguard Nadrian Lateef James, 42, were being held at the Fayette County Jail in Georgia on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault and aggravated battery, a spokesman for the sheriff's office said. Police went to Ross's mansion in Fayetteville, about 20 miles south of Atlanta, which he bought last year and was once owned by boxer Evander Holyfield, at about 6:30 a.m. and initially were denied entrance.
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| No difference in kids with same-sex, opposite-sex parents - study | |  By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Scientists agree that children raised by same-sex couples are no worse off than children raised by parents of the opposite sex, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Oregon professor. The new research, which looked at 19,000 studies and articles related to same-sex parenting from 1977 to 2013, was released last week, and comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule by the end of this month on whether same-sex marriage is legal. "Consensus is overwhelming in terms of there being no difference in children who are raised by same-sex or different- sex parents," University of Oregon sociology professor Ryan Light said on Tuesday.
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| Wednesday Bible study: Charleston attack upsets a Southern tradition | | | By Luciana Lopez CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Brushing aside her son's concerns, Rosa Ellington plans to keep attending Wednesday evening Bible studies as she has the past 15 years, despite last week's massacre of nine black worshippers at a nearby church in Charleston, South Carolina. Wednesday night Bible study is a cornerstone of religious life across the Southern United States, and particularly in Charleston, dubbed the Holy City because of its many churches. While the horror of that evening was undeniable, Ellington said she has no intention of giving up her beloved weekly church ritual, which falls half-way between Sunday services. |
| White nationalists condemn church killings, identify with shooter | |  By Tom Polansek ABBEVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Leaders of America's core white supremacist groups have a laundry list of perceived grievances. Interviews with half-a-dozen prominent white nationalists reveal a movement that they say has been re-energized by such things as the election of America's first black president and, more recently, what movement leaders describe as "a siege" against white police officers. "A lot of the whites in the U.S. are starting to wake up," Robert Jones, grand dragon of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, said in an interview.
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| In new hostage policy, U.S. will not prosecute families for paying ransom | | | The White House on Wednesday released a new policy aimed at becoming more sensitive to the needs of families of U.S. hostages held abroad, saying the government needed to "evolve" to take account of a shift in the way groups take captives. After a six-month review that included discussions with families of people held overseas, the White House said the government will continue its longstanding policy of not making concessions to hostage-takers. The government may communicate with hostage-takers and intermediaries, and it may help families who are trying to pay ransom, the White House said. |
| Dutch far right politician airs Mohammad cartoons on TV | |  Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on Wednesday aired cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Dutch television that were drawn at a cartoon competition in Texas that was attacked by two gunmen in May. Aissa Zanzen, spokesman for the Council of Moroccan Mosques in the Netherlands, called Wilders' action, using public broadcast time allocated to political parties, a publicity stunt. "Wilders is out to provoke Muslims and he has done everything he can to do that," he said. Wilders, in a broadcast coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, introduced the three-minute broadcast, in the second half of which the cartoons scrolled across the screen accompanied by piano music.
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