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| Idealistic Atticus Finch depicted as racist in new Harper Lee novel | | | Harper Lee's just and gentle lawyer Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" is depicted as a bigot and racist in the author's upcoming new novel, which is being published this week 55 years after her portrait of racial injustice in the American South. Early reviews of "Go Set a Watchman", set 20 years after Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, reveal that Finch attends a Ku Klux Klan meeting and opposes desegregation efforts. This portrayal of Finch, one of the most beloved figures in American literature, sharply contrasts with the small town Alabama lawyer who defends a black man charged with raping a white woman in "Mockingbird". |
| U.S. Congress promises rough ride for any nuclear deal with Iran | |  By Richard Cowan and Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican in the U.S. Senate cast doubt on Sunday on whether President Barack Obama would be able to win approval in Congress for any nuclear deal with Iran, and some Democrats also expressed reservations. "I think it's going to be a very hard sell, if it's completed, in Congress," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told "Fox News Sunday". "We already know it's going to leave Iran as a threshold nuclear state." The U.S. Congress could play a key role in the future of any deal to curb Iran's nuclear program, with negotiations reaching a critical juncture in Vienna on Sunday.
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| Sen. McConnell: Any Iran nuclear deal has tough road in US Congress | | | The top Republican in the U.S. Senate on Sunday cast doubt on whether President Barack Obama will be able to win approval in Congress for any nuclear deal now under negotiation with Iran. "I think it's going to be a very hard sell, if it's completed, in Congress," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said during an interview on the "Fox News Sunday" broadcast. "We already know it's going to leave Iran as a threshold nuclear state." The president can enter a deal with Iran, which Congress would review. |
| Mexico kingpin 'Chapo' Guzman stages brazen jailbreak in blow to president | |  By Gabriel Stargardter and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's most notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman broke out of a high security prison on Saturday night for the second time, escaping in a tunnel built right under his cell, and heaping embarrassment on President Enrique Pena Nieto. The kingpin snuck out of the prison through a subterranean tunnel more than 1.5 km (1 mile) long that ended in a building site in the local town, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido told a news conference on Sunday. Guzman, who had bribed his way out of prison during a previous escape in 2001, was seen on video entering his shower area at 8.52 p.m. on Saturday (0152 GMT Sunday), then disappeared, the National Security Commission (CNS) said.
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| Boko Haram attacks prison in Niger, four killed - military | | | Suspected Boko Haram militants launched an attack on the prison in the southern Niger town of Diffa late on Saturday, military sources said, in an apparent bid to free fellow members of the Nigerian Islamist group held there. Boko Haram also attacked the prison in February. "When the attack was repelled, the assailants fled, probably back into the town," one military source said. |
| Hong Kong journalist association says press freedom deteriorating | |  The Hong Kong Journalists' Association says press freedom has deteriorated in the special administrative region of China and it has become more dangerous for journalists to do their jobs. In its first annual report since last year's pro-democracy protests shut down key thoroughfares for 79 days, the Association highlighted a spate of physical attacks against journalists, staff changes, self-censorship and financial pressures. The most violent physical attack was in February, when Kevin Lau, the former chief editor of Ming Pao Daily News, was chopped with meat cleavers.
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| Mexican drug lord Guzman escaped from prison via 1.5 km tunnel - official | |  Mexican authorities found a tunnel stretching more than 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) which Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman used to escape from his high-security prison, the country's National Security Commissioner said on Sunday. The tunnel, which began in his cell, led to a building outside the prison walls, Monte Alejandro Rubido said in a news conference.
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| Pay and pride clash for Latino workers at Trump golf course | | | By Laila Kearney and Sebastien Melo NEW YORK (Reuters) - From the nearest bus stop, workers navigate about a mile of overgrown and cracked sidewalk before they reach Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx, with its pristine fairways, treacherous bunkers and expansive views of the jagged Manhattan skyline. Like Andris Garcia, a 22-year-old security guard at the course, many are Latinos, immigrants or descendants of immigrants. "Just because they're Mexican, it doesn't mean that they came over here to sell drugs or kill people." Since announcing his bid for the Republican nomination last month, Trump has faced the fury of Latinos and the cancellation of major business deals after he accused Mexico of sending rapists and other criminals to the United States. |
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