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| Three gunned down near college as killings surge in Baltimore | | | (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three people and wounded one overnight near the University of Maryland, Baltimore, police said on Wednesday, the latest killings in a city that has seen an upturn in homicides following the death of Freddie Gray in April. A man died at the scene, Baltimore police said, and a man and a woman died while receiving medical treatment. The Baltimore Sun reported that shots had been fired into a vehicle traveling on the same block five days ago. |
| Bill Cosby statue removed from Disney theme park | |  By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - A bronze bust of beleaguered comedian Bill Cosby was removed from the Walt Disney World theme park in Florida overnight, a Disney spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The spokeswoman said the bust, part of an outdoor exhibit at Disney's Hollywood Studios park in Orlando that honors members of the Television Academy Hall of Fame, was taken away after the park closed on Tuesday. Disney gave no reason for the removal but it came a day after the unsealing of testimony in a 2005 sexual assault civil case in which Cosby said he had obtained Quaalude sedatives with the intent of giving them to young women with whom he wanted to have sex.
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| Russia blocks U.N. condemnation of Srebrenica as a genocide | | | Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have condemned the Srebrenica massacre as a genocide to mark the 20th anniversary of the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The vote was delayed a day as Britain and the United States tried to persuade Russia not to veto the resolution, which would have also condemned denial of the 1995 massacre as a genocide. |
| Islamic State supporters hack website of Syria rights watchdog | | | Purported supporters of the hardline Islamic State group hacked the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog on Wednesday and threatened its Syrian director who has documented abuses on all sides of Syria's war. The Britain-based Observatory, which tracks the conflict using sources on the ground, took down its website after the online attack from a group calling itself "The Cyber Army of the Khilafah". The cyber attackers had posted the face of Observatory director Rami Abdulrahman superimposed over a hostage wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling next to an Islamic State militant holding a knife, according to the SITE monitoring service. |
| Tsipras pledges reform to European parliament | |  By Barbara Lewis STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Alexis Tsipras strode in to a Greek hero's welcome in the European Parliament on Wednesday, from allies on the left but also from far-right nationalists who hope Greece is about to start breaking up the euro, and the EU.
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| Rival to Palestinian president wins ruling upholding immunity | |  In a potential blow to President Mahmoud Abbas, a Palestinian appeals court ruled on Wednesday in favour of maintaining parliamentary immunity for his rival Mohammed Dahlan, who has been charged with corruption. Abbas issued a decree in 2012 stripping Dahlan of his immunity, a move to bring him to trial on the charges. It was also seen as an effort to weaken Dahlan, who lives in exile in Dubai, as a potential challenger for the Palestinian leadership.
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| Iraq sentences 24 to death over mass killing of soldiers | | | An Iraqi court sentenced 24 people to death on Wednesday over the killings of hundreds of mainly Shi'ite soldiers captured by Islamic State militants during their offensive through northern Iraq last year. As many as 1,700 soldiers were killed after they fled Camp Speicher, a former U.S. military base just north of Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, and were rounded up by the Sunni Islamist fighters. Video footage of the soldiers being gunned down in their hundreds, posted online by jihadists, came to symbolise Islamic State brutality and could mark the deadliest single act of violence during a decade of intermittent sectarian war in Iraq. |
| Malaysian police raid 1MDB office, PM weighs legal options | |  By Trinna Leong and Yantoultra Ngui KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police raided the office of troubled state investment fund 1MDB on Wednesday, following a report that claimed investigators looking into the firm found nearly $700 million had been transferred to Prime Minister Najib Razak's bank account. Najib has denied taking any money and said the corruption allegations are part of a malicious campaign to force him out of office. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported last week that investigators probing 1MDB had traced funds flowing into Najib's personal account when he was campaigning for a general election over two years ago.
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| Myanmar sets date for election which could define scope of reforms | | | By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Timothy Mclaughlin YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar will hold a general election on Nov. 8, its election commission said on Wednesday, its first nationwide ballot since the end of direct military rule and a vote that could decide the scope of the country's reforms. The election comes at a critical time for Myanmar, which has undergone major changes since shifting to a quasi-civilian system in 2011 but is now seeing tensions between rival forces vying for power after an unprecedented period of reform. The Nov. 8 date was confirmed by Nyunt Tin, a director of the Union Election Commission (UEC), when contacted by Reuters. |
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