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| Germany says new reports of US spying harm security ties | |  By Michael Nienaber and Lesley Wroughton BERLIN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Germany is taking seriously the latest reports about U.S. spying on senior government ministers and they are putting strains on vital security cooperation between the two countries, Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said on Thursday. German media have reported that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) bugged several senior government members, including the economy and finance ministers, as well as Merkel. The reports are the latest twist in a long-running scandal triggered by revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden of wide-ranging U.S. espionage spying on close allies.
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| Afghan 'hero soldier' of parliament attack arrested in traffic death | |  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan soldier hailed as a hero for defending parliament from a Taliban assault has been arrested after a fatal traffic accident in Kabul involving a car he had been given as a reward, the Ministry of Interior said on Thursday. Essa Khan became an overnight sensation in Afghanistan after he shot Taliban gunmen trying to enter parliament on June 22 following a car bomb outside the complex in an attack that killed a woman and a child. The 28-year-old drew praise from President Ashraf Ghani, who called him a "brave son of this nation" and handed him the keys to a new apartment as a reward.
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| Pope's South American trip - defending the poor and the planet | |  The July 5-13 trip to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay will be his first abroad since he made a clarion call for defence of the environment and the poor in his landmark encyclical "Laudato Si" last month. It is also the Argentine pope's first trip to Spanish-speaking South America - he made a trip to Brazil for a youth festival in 2013 to substitute for his predecessor Benedict after his sudden resignation. In Ecuador, he will comfort elderly patients in a hospice and visit sick children.
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| U.S. says relationship with Germany remains strong despite spy reports | | | The United States' relationship with Germany remains deep and strong, the State Department said on Thursday after the U.S. ambassador met in Berlin with a top German official to discuss the latest revelations about NSA spying. "Our desire is not to have any strain on the relationship," State Department spokesman John Kirby said at a news briefing. In the latest twist in a scandal over U.S. spying in Germany, media reported the National Security Agency bugged several senior government members in addition to Merkel, including the economy and finance ministers. |
| Syria rejects UN criticism of barrel bombs, says 'technical' issue | |  Syria rejected a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution condemning its aerial bombing tactics record on Thursday, saying the use of barrel bombs was a "technical" issue that was no business of the Geneva-based body. The United States and 10 European and Arab countries backed the resolution decrying the use of chemical weapons such as chlorine gas and the Syrian authorities' use of cluster munitions, ballistic missiles and barrel bombs. Syrian Ambassador Hussam Eddin Aala said critics of Damascus were hypocrites who were supporting the "terrorists" on Syrian soil and said their resolution was selective and biased.
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| U.N. rights body calls for end to child and forced marriage | | | By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for an end to child, early and forced marriage, and recognising child marriage as a violation of human rights, a move campaigners welcomed as crucial to progress on the issue. The Council said the practice is a barrier to sustainable development which perpetuates poverty, throwing its support behind the U.N. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of eliminating child marriage and female genital mutilation. "Civil society organisations now have a powerful tool to help them hold their governments to account on the commitments they have made to end child marriage and protect girls' rights," Lakshmi Sundaram, Executive Director of Girls Not Brides, said in a statement. |
| BP reaches $18.7 billion settlement over deadly 2010 spill | |  By Terry Wade and Kristen Hays HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc will pay up to $18.7 billion in penalties to the U.S. government and five states to resolve nearly all claims from its deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill five years ago in the largest corporate settlement in U.S. history. BP shares jumped more than 5 percent in New York trading as investors said the British company, often mentioned as a potential acquisition target, could now turn the page on one of the darkest chapters in its century-long history. Under the agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the states, BP will pay at least $12.8 billion for Clean Water Act fines and natural resource damages, plus $4.9 billion to states.
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| Meditating Portuguese actor mistaken for terrorist on Paris plane | | | A Portuguese actor humming a prayer as he meditated to a sacred Tibetan text onboard a plane awaiting takeoff from Paris was mistaken for a terrorist by alarmed passengers and taken off the flight by police. "Police told me that I had been denounced as a terrorism suspect aboard the plane because I was reciting the Koran aloud, that I was reading a text involving words 'death' and 'bomb'," the man, Heitor Lourenco, said in remarks aired by SIC television on Thursday. |
| Ex-Goldman director, Rajat Gupta, fails to void insider trading conviction | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta failed to persuade a U.S. judge to overturn his insider trading conviction for passing tips about the bank's financial results and a crucial investment from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan on Thursday rejected Gupta's argument that his tips to Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam were not illegal because his longtime friend gave him nothing valuable in return. Gupta, 66, who is also a former McKinsey & Co global managing director, is serving a two-year prison term, and eligible for release next March. Evidence against him included a Sept. 23, 2008 phone call during the financial crisis, minutes before Goldman announced a $5 billion investment from Berkshire, in which Rajaratnam told a trader that "something good might happen to Goldman," based on a source whom prosecutors said was Gupta.
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| Nerves rattled by false reports of U.S. Navy Yard shooter in Washington | | | By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A false alarm about a possible shooter at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington on Thursday rattled nerves amid heightened security for potential domestic threats ahead of the July Fourth holiday weekend. A report of a possible gunman, which was later determined to be unfounded, touched off an hours-long lockdown starting at about 7:45 a.m. EDT (1145 GMT) at the military facility just a mile south of the U.S. Capitol and three miles from the White House. The Navy Yard was the site of a 2013 shooting that left 12 dead. |
| North Korean defector lifts lid on world's most secret state | |  By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a schoolgirl in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was forced to watch executions, denounce her friends for fabricated transgressions and dig tunnels in case of a nuclear attack. It wasn't until she left North Korea at the age of 17 that she began to discover the full horror of the government that had fed her propaganda since birth. In a memoir published in London on Thursday, Lee gives a rare insight into the bizarre and brutal reality of daily life in the world's most secretive state.
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