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| Hundreds of Syrian prisoners riot in protest at jail conditions | | | 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 | | | 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 | | | 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 | |  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 | |  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 | | | 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) |
| Ex-FIFA official Rocha agrees to extradition to Nicaragua | | | By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Former FIFA development officer Julio Rocha, among seven officials arrested in Zurich in May in a corruption scandal that has rocked world football's governing body, has agreed to be extradited to his native Nicaragua, Swiss authorities said. The United States, which has indicted Rocha and 13 other football officials and sports marketing executives on graft charges, has also requested his extradition. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FoJ) said it may have to decide which country gets priority. |
| Suspect in shooting of New York firefighter is dead after standoff | | | By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man who shot and wounded a firefighter after setting his home ablaze in a standoff with New York authorities is dead, police said on Friday. Fire lieutenant Jim Hayes, 53, a 31-year veteran of the department, was shot twice and wounded by the man, who used an assault rifle, police and fire officials said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton identified the suspect as Tyree Garland, 38, but he was identified in court records as Garland Tyree, also known as "S.I." On Facebook, a man named Garland Tyree from Staten Island wrote "Today I die" on his profile early Friday morning. |
| New York becomes most populous U.S. state to ban powdered alcohol | | | By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York on Friday became the most populous U.S. state to ban the sale of powdered alcohol, a controversial just-add-water beverage that opponents say will lead to a rise in underage drinking and abuses. "For every substance or drug that has been abused by people in our communities, we often look back and ask ourselves if there is anything we could have done differently to prevent a wave of addiction from reaching the point of no return," said state Senator Joseph Griffo, who sponsored the New York legislation. Arizona-based Lipsmark LLC, the company approved by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to sell the drink, called Palcohol, argues that its product is safer than liquid alcohol. |
| Man sentenced to life without parole in deadly Indiana home blast | | | St. Joseph Superior Court Judge John Marnocha handed down the sentence to Mark Leonard, 46, who was found guilty in July of all 53 charges against him, the Indianapolis Star newspaper reported. In addition to the two deaths, dozens of people were injured in the explosion, which destroyed a house and severely damaged nearby homes in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Indianapolis on Nov. 10, 2012. Leonard's former girlfriend, Monserrate Shirley, agreed to plead guilty, while three other men were charged in the case. |
| Three Africans found critically ill in car's hidden compartments - Spain | | | Three young African men who squeezed into hidden compartments in a car to enter a Spanish territory in North Africa were found in critical condition by border police, the Spanish government said on Friday. Photos released by the Interior Ministry showed one of the migrants curled up in the spare wheel well of the vehicle, which had been turned into a hidden compartment. The three - two from Guinea and one from Ivory Coast, aged from 18 to 25 - were found on Wednesday when border police at a crossing between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla grew suspicious and searched the car. |
| BNP Paribas to pay $115 mln to settle currency-rigging lawsuit - source | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - BNP Paribas SA has agreed to pay $115 million to settle U.S. investor lawsuits accusing 16 major banks of rigging prices in the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. The Paris-based bank is among nine that lawyers for the plaintiffs disclosed on Thursday had reached agreements totaling more than $2 billion in class action litigation pending in New York. ... |
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