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| Romania's PM quits as party leader pending criminal investigation | |  Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta said he would stand down as leader of the ruling PSD party on Sunday until prosecutors have completed a criminal investigation against him. As well as dealing with the prosecutors, Ponta is also trying to revive an aid deal with the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission.
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| Bahrain arrests opposition leader freed three weeks ago - agency | | | Bahrain has arrested a prominent Sunni Muslim opposition leader three weeks after he was freed from jail for plotting to overthrow the monarchy, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Ibrahim Sharif, former head of the secular National Democratic Action Society, or Waad, was detained for incitement to overthrow the government and publicising "hatred of the regime" in a speech on July 10, a ministry statement carried on the official Bahrain News Agency said. Sharif was freed by royal pardon on June 19 after serving more than four years in prison for his role in an uprising demanding political reforms in the Gulf Arab island monarchy. |
| U.S. Senate leader says Congress will block some Obama moves on Cuba | | | By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. Senate Republican said on Sunday that Congress is likely to block any nominee that President Barack Obama names as ambassador to Cuba and retain broad economic sanctions, even as Obama moves to establish diplomatic and economic ties with the Communist-run island. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, interviewed on the "Fox News Sunday" television program, said the Senate is unlikely to confirm any U.S. ambassador to Havana nominated by Obama. McConnell added, "There are sanctions that were imposed by Congress. |
| Chicago rapper Capo, baby killed in gang-related incident - report | | | By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago rapper Capo, a member of Chief Keef's "Glo Gang," has died in a gang-related shooting over the weekend that also resulted in the death of a baby boy who was struck by a vehicle fleeing the scene, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on Sunday. The death of Marvin Carr, who went by the name Capo, was confirmed by the group's manager, Renaldo Hess, according to the newspaper. Chicago police confirmed on Sunday that a 22-year-old gang member who was shot in the hip and the back on the city's south side on Saturday afternoon had died, but could not provide his name. |
| Suicide bomber kills five in Baghdad shrine neighbourhood | | | A suicide car bomber killed five people on Sunday in Baghdad's northern neighbourhood of Kadhimiya, home to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines, police and medical sources said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Islamic State militants who control much of northern Iraq and the province of Anbar west of Baghdad, regularly send bombers into the capital. A second bomb in the Iskan district of western Baghdad killed two people on Sunday evening, medical sources said. |
| 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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| 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. |
| 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. |
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