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| Two shot dead in southern Germany; police arrest suspect | | | A gunman shot and killed two people in northern Bavaria on Friday and was later captured, German police said. "Thanks to the courageous intervention of these employees, the perpetrator was able to be stopped," Joachim Hermann, Bavaria's interior minister, told a news conference. |
| Al Shabaab attacks hotel in Somali capital, 6 civilians killed - police | | | Six civilians and four militants were killed when al Shabaab Islamists attacked a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, police said. Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack on the Wehliya Hotel and said it had also laid siege to another hotel in the city. Mohamed Osman, a hotel guest who was breaking his Ramadan fast at a restaurant inside the hotel when the attack began, said he had been shot in the leg. |
| Miami company described in U.S. soccer case as agreeing to pay bribe-sources | | | By Mica Rosenberg and David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Miami-based affiliate of Spanish media giant Imagina group is one of the unidentified sports marketing companies alleged in a U.S. indictment to have agreed to pay a bribe in a global soccer corruption scandal, sources told Reuters. The company is Media World, a subsidiary of Imagina US, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The indictment does not say that the company - identified only as "Sports Marketing Company C" - paid a bribe, but says it had agreed to do so and was looking for a way to make the payment to a high-ranking soccer official in the Americas. Media World, which buys and sells the media rights to soccer leagues and has operated TV channels aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market, has not been charged with wrongdoing. |
| Alleged Charleston shooter able to buy gun due to background check mix-up -FBI | |  The Charleston shooting suspect should not have been allowed to buy a gun, but the 21-year-old charged in a church shooting rampage was able to purchase one in April because of a mix-up in his background check, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey said on Friday. The examiner of Dylann Roof's federal background check did not see a police report in which Roof admitted to drug possession, which would have barred him from buying the weapon, Comey said. Roof, a 21-year-old white man linked to racist views, is charged in the June 17 shooting rampage at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine black people were killed.
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| FIFA official in Switzerland agrees to U.S. extradition | | | One of seven FIFA officials detained in Switzerland in a corruption probe has agreed to be extradited to the United States, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said on Friday. The seven were arrested in May in a dawn raid by Swiss police at a luxury hotel in Zurich, on corruption charges filed by U.S. prosecutors in New York. The FOJ did not name the official or give any details on when he might be sent to the United States, but said in a statement it would take place within 10 days. |
| Shun gangs, have hope, Pope tells inmates at violent Bolivian jail | |  By Sarah Marsh and Philip Pullella SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Saying he too had made mistakes and sinned, Pope Francis on Friday urged inmates at one of Latin America's most violent prisons to shun gang violence and exhorted guards to treat them with dignity. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins," the pope told hundreds of prisoners and their children on a visit to a place one long-time inmate likened to "Sodom and Gomorrah". It is Jesus Christ, the mercy of the Father," he said as two children wandered up to the stage and sat before him.
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