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| U.S. will not release hunger-striking Guantanamo detainee |
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| U.S. Justice Department lawyers on Friday blocked a legal request that a Guantanamo Bay detainee who weighs just 74 lbs (33.5 kg) after an eight-year hunger strike be released for health reasons. Lawyers for the 36-year-old Yemeni detainee Tariq Ba Odah, said the decision indicated that President Barack Obama is unable to control growing divisions in his administration and achieve his goal of closing the Guantanamo detention facility before he leaves office in 2017. Ba Odah's defence attorney, Omar Farah, said the filing, which was sealed, reflected the Obama White House's inability to develop a coherent approach to transfer Ba Odah and 51 other detainees cleared for release. "It is a transparent attempt to hide the fact that the Obama administration's interagency process for closing Guantanamo is an incoherent mess," said Farah, an attorney with the Centre for Constitutional Rights. |
| Hundreds of Syrian prisoners riot in protest at jail conditions |
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| Hundreds of Syrian inmates at a main prison in the city of Hama rioted on Friday in a protest against jail conditions and harsh sentences, a monitor and rights activists said on Friday. A leaked video purportedly from inside the jail showed scores of prisoners with their faces covered chatting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greater) with footage of a ward that had furniture and equipment ransacked and beds turned into barricades to sealed iron gates. The UK Observatory for Human Rights said gunfire shots were heard outside the prison in the city located 213 km north of the capital Damascus, after inmates, mostly held on terror-related charges and for joining protests against the state, took control of several major wards and ransacked prison quarters. |
| Bomb threat prompts evacuation of Stanford business school |
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| A bomb threat prompted the evacuation of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business on Friday morning, the San Francisco Bay Area school said. The message said some 700 faculty and staff members in the Knight Management Center complex were affected and have been dismissed for the day, but classes were not in session at the time. |
| Six people killed, eight wounded in attacks in Turkey's southeast |
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| By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Six people were killed and eight wounded on Friday as violence between Kurdish militants and Turkish soldiers flared up again in Turkey's southeast, security sources and the military said. Fighting between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the military has broken out almost daily over the last month. The PKK has been hitting military targets after Ankara resumed air strikes on PKK camps in northern Iraq in what it calls a "synchronised war on terror". |
| Greek PM faces biggest party revolt yet as bailout approved |
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 By Lefteris Papadimas and Deepa Babington ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced the widest rebellion yet from his leftist lawmakers as parliament approved a new bailout programme on Friday, forcing him to consider a confidence vote that could pave the way for early elections. After lawmakers bickered for much of the night on procedural matters, Tsipras comfortably won the vote on the country's third financial rescue by foreign creditors in five years thanks to support from pro-euro opposition parties. The vote laid bare the anger within Tsipras's leftist Syriza party at the austerity measures and reforms which he accepted in exchange for the bailout loans.
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| Turkish nationalists reject minority government in blow to Erdogan |
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 By Orhan Coskun and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's nationalist opposition made clear on Friday it would not roll over and back a minority government, making President Tayyip Erdogan's aim of taking the country to a snap election with the ruling party in control look increasingly difficult. Talks on forming a grand coalition between the AK Party and the main opposition CHP broke down on Thursday, making an autumn election almost inevitable and leaving the ruling party having to turn to the nationalist MHP for support. The AKP failed to hold onto its majority in an election on June 7, leaving it unable to govern alone for the first time since coming to power in 2002 and plunging Turkey into uncertainty not seen since the fragile coalitions of the 1990s.
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| Turkish military says 3 killed in fighting with Kurdish militants |
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| ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three soldiers were killed and six wounded in clashes with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) insurgents in southeastern Hakkari province on Friday, the military said in a statement. Security sources earlier told Reuters four soldiers had been killed and six wounded. The fighting is the latest in a wave of violence between the army and the PKK in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast. (Reporting by Yesim Dikmen; Writing by David Dolan; editing by John Stonestreet) |
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