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| Tom Selleck accused of taking water for California ranch -report | |  Actor Tom Selleck has been accused by a California agency of unlawfully taking water from a public hydrant to supply his ranch, even as the state reels from a four-year drought, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. The Calleguas Municipal Water District filed a complaint on Monday in Ventura County Superior Court against the star of 1980s television series "Magnum, P.I." and the police show "Blue Bloods" which airs on CBS, the Times reported on its website. The complaint said the water district spent nearly $22,000 to hire a private investigator and discovered that, more than a dozen times since 2013, a truck pulled up at a hydrant in the town of Thousand Oaks and filled up on water to deliver to Selleck's ranch in nearby Westlake Village, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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| FBI chief warns encryption makes Islamic State attacks more likely | |  Preventing law enforcement authorities from having access to encrypted communications would make it easier for sympathizers of Islamic State militants to carry out an attack in the United States, FBI Chief James Comey said on Wednesday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pushing technology companies to let law enforcement authorities have access to encrypted communications to investigate illegal activities. Comey told a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that Islamic State, also known by the acronym ISIL, is imploring supporters through Twitter to carry out attacks.
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| White House says monitoring situation at New York Stock Exchange | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House and the U.S. Treasury Department are monitoring the "ongoing issue" at the New York Stock Exchange and President Barack Obama has been briefed on the matter, a White House official said on Wednesday. The NYSE Group, which includes the New York Stock Exchange, has suspended trading in all securities because of technical difficulties. (Reporting by Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Lisa Lambert) |
| Russia blocks U.N. condemnation of Srebrenica as a genocide | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - 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 text, which would have also condemned denial of the 1995 massacre as a genocide. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin had appealed for the council not to vote on the resolution, which he described as "not constructive, confrontational and politically motivated." "The blame for the past is placed basically on one people," Churkin said, but he added: "Our vote against ... will not however mean that we are deaf to the sufferings of the victims of Srebrenica and other areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina." Russia had proposed the council instead condemn "the most serious crimes of concern to the international community." The U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has ruled the massacre, the worst mass killing on European soil since World War Two, was genocide. |
| Inside Palmasola prison, Pope Francis will find inmates rule | | | By Sarah Marsh SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Guards only secure the perimeter of Palmasola, Bolivia's most notorious prison. Inside each unit, murderers, drug traffickers and rapists make the rules and run a lucrative criminal economy. Money can buy inmates everything: a cell, a shower, drugs, protection, prostitutes and prime "real estate" as large as two-story houses, from which to run a business or simply live relatively well. |
| Colombian rebels say prepared to call unilateral ceasefire | | | By Nelson Acosta and Julia Symmes Cobb HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Leftist Colombian rebels said on Wednesday they are prepared to call a month-long unilateral ceasefire from July 20, a potential boost to peace talks that have been threatened by increased battlefield violence in recent months. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos gave no immediate sign he would reciprocate, saying in response that "more is required" and that rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) need to show more urgency in 2-1/2-year-old peace talks. "With this we seek to generate favorable conditions to advance with our counterparty to work toward a definitive, bilateral cease-fire," FARC leader Ivan Marquez read in a statement in Havana before going behind closed doors for talks with the Colombian government. |
| 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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| 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. |
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