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| U.S. top court rules for death row inmate over intellectual disability claim | | | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a federal judge was correct to hold a hearing on whether a convicted cop killer on Louisiana's death row is intellectually disabled and therefore potentially ineligible for the death penalty. The court, in a 5-4 decision, threw out an appeals court ruling that said Kevan Brumfield was not eligible for the special hearing in which the lower court judge found he was intellectually disabled. Brumfield will remain on death row for now, as the appeals court has yet to decide if the judge was correct to find that Brumfield was ineligible for the death penalty. |
| Suspect in killing of nine at black U.S. church arrested - officials | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A 21-year-old white gunman accused of killing nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested on Thursday, said U.S. officials, who are investigating the attack as a hate crime. Law enforcement officials caught alleged gunman Dylann Roof, whose rampage on Wednesday came in a year that has seen months of racially charged protests across the United States over killings of black men. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told reporters that a suspect had been taken into custody, hours after the shooting.
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| Suspect in South Carolina church shooting caught - N.Carolina TV station | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suspected gunman in the shooting at a South Carolina church has been caught in Shelby, North Carolina, a local television station and other news outlets reported on Thursday. WCCB in Charlotte, North Carolina posted the report on its Twitter page but gave no other details. CNN and MSNBC also reported his capture. Reuters could not immediately confirm the reports. Authorities have identified the suspect in the shooting, in which nine people died, as 21-year-old Dylann Roof. (Reporting by Washington Newsroom; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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| Argentines sought by U.S. in FIFA scandal surrender in Buenos Aires | | | Argentine businessmen Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, who are wanted by U.S. prosecutors as part of the FIFA bribery investigation, turned themselves in to authorities in Buenos Aires on Thursday, a lawyer for one of the men said. Hugo Jinkis, 70, and his son, 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 soccer world. U.S. prosecutors say the two men, together with Argentine Alejandro Burzaco, conspired to win and keep lucrative media rights contracts from regional soccer by paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes. |
| 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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| 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. |
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