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| Venice film puts spotlight on Boston's paedophile priests | |  By Hanna Rantala VENICE (Reuters) - "Spotlight" starring Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo as reporters working on the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of paedophile Roman Catholic priests deals with just a fraction sexual predation in the Church, its director says. Reports of sexual misconduct by the late British entertainer Jimmy Savile and other high profile cases are an indication of the global scope of the problem, and of failures to deal with it, Tom McCarthy said before his film's screening on Thursday at the Venice Film Festival. The Globe's Spotlight team exposed the attacks over a period of decades by priests in the Boston archdiocese who molested young boys and girls but instead of being reported to the police were given counselling and moved to a different parish.
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| U.S. federal grand jury indicts London-based 'flash crash' trader | |  By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - London-based day-trader Navinder Sarao has been formally indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on charges of market manipulation that prosecutors say helped contribute to the 2010 "flash crash," according to a Sept. 2 court filing made public on Thursday. The Justice Department first announced the filing of criminal charges against Sarao in April and is seeking to have him extradited to the United States to stand trial.
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| U.S. sanctions against Chinese firms could be next week - FT | | | (Reuters) - The United States is preparing to sanction Chinese companies connected to the cyber theft of U.S. intellectual property as early as next week, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The FT cited three U.S. officials as saying the sanctions probably would come next week in advance of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit later in the month. Suspicions that Chinese hackers were behind a series of data breaches in the United States have been an irritant in relations between the United States and China. |
| Kentucky clerk jailed for refusing to recognise gay marriages | |  By Steve Bittenbender ASHLAND, Ky. (Reuters) - A county clerk in Kentucky was held in contempt of court and jailed on Thursday for failing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court. It remained to be seen whether U.S. District Judge David Bunning, at a third hearing later on Thursday, would grant a request by Davis' attorneys to release her. The 49-year-old woman, who has emerged as a darling of social conservatives, has refused to issue licenses to any couples, gay or straight, since the U.S. Supreme Court in June ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry under the U.S. Constitution, citing her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian.
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| It's risky to come to Europe, Hungary's PM tells migrants | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Refugees should not risk their children's lives trying to reach Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday as he defended his tough approach to border control on the frontline of Europe's migration crisis. Orban, who also insisted Hungary did not want to accept Muslim refugees, was asked on a visit to Brussels about an image of a drowned Syrian child on a Turkish beach which has grabbed world attention this week and said that it was not a moral argument for opening Europe's doors. The moral, human thing is to make clear: Please don't come," Orban told reporters.
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| Migrants scuffle with Hungary police; dead toddler's image shocks Europe | |  By Marton Dunai and Ece Toksabay BICSKE, Hungary/MUGLA, Turkey (Reuters) - Migrants forced from a train in Hungary scuffled with helmeted riot police and some clung to railway tracks on Thursday, as politicians across Europe struggled to respond to public opinion appalled by images of a drowned 3-year-old boy. France and Germany said European countries must be required to accept their shares of refugees, proposing what would potentially be the biggest change to the continent's asylum rules since World War Two. Europe's worst refugee crisis since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s has strained the European Union's asylum system to breaking point, dividing its 28 nations and feeding the rise of right-wing populists.
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| U.S. suspects more freed Guantanamo inmates returned to battlefield | |  The number of detainees freed from the U.S. Guantanamo detention camp who are suspected of "re-engaging" with militant groups overseas increased over the first six months of 2015, the Obama administration said on Thursday. Figures released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence showed that, as of July this year, of 121 detainees released since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, six were confirmed to have gone back to the battlefield and a further six were suspected of having done so. Figures released in January had shown that Obama had released a total of 115 Guantanamo inmates, six of whom had returned to the battlefield, but only one of whom was then "suspected of re-engaging." Between January and July this year the administration released six detainees.
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| White House: sanctions relief for Iran tied to compliance with nuclear deal | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran will only see sanctions relief if it complies with the nuclear deal, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Thursday. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Thursday he favoured a parliamentary vote on its nuclear deal reached with world powers and called for sanctions against Tehran to be lifted completely rather than suspended, state television reported. (Reporting by Alina Selyukh, Ayesha Rascoe and Susan Heavey; Editing by Sandra Maler) |
| FIFA reform chief explains comments on U.S. justice, soccer | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - FIFA's reform chief meant no offence to United States authorities when he questioned why they were investigating corruption in football, he said on Thursday. Francois Carrard, head of FIFA's recently-created reform committee, also told reporters that he had failed to make himself properly understood when he described soccer in the United States as "just an ethnic sport for girls in schools." The remarks were contained in an interview he gave to the Swiss newspaper Le Matin Dimanche.
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| Double suicide bombing in north Cameroon kills 19, wounds 143 | | | A double suicide bombing killed 19 people and wounded 143 on Thursday in northern Cameroon, where soldiers are battling Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria, officials said. The attacks targeted Kerawa, a town in the Far North region that was the scene of clashes between the militants and government soldiers in February. A local government official said he had been told the attacks were carried out by female suicide bombers. |
| Iran parliament debate on nuclear deal will be heated - speaker | |  By Louis Charbonneau NEW YORK (Reuters) - The speaker of Iran's parliament on Thursday predicted that the debate among Iranian lawmakers on the nuclear agreement between Tehran and major powers will likely be more dramatic than in the U.S. Congress, where Republicans have sought to kill the deal. Earlier on Thursday Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he favored a parliamentary vote on the nuclear deal while calling for sanctions against Tehran to be lifted completely rather than suspended.
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| Migrants cling to Hungarian train west, lawmakers debate sealing border | |  By Marton Dunai BICSKE, Hungary (Reuters) - Migrants threw themselves onto railway lines and scuffled with helmeted riot police trying to take them to a reception centre in Hungary on Thursday, forced from a train in desperate scenes symbolic of a European asylum system brought to breaking point. As lawmakers debated measures to effectively seal Hungary's southern border within days, hundreds of migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian war, clung to carriages at a provincial railway station west of Budapest, hoping to reach to Austria and western Europe. In sweltering temperatures, riot police forced some to disembark from one of five carriages, but others resisted, banging on windows and shouting "No camp, no camp!".
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| Guatemala's president quits, faces charges in graft scandal | |  By Alexandra Alper and Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned and turned himself into a court on Thursday to face charges in a corruption scandal that gutted his government and plunged Guatemala into chaos days before a national election. Perez, a 64-year-old retired general, quit on Wednesday evening and Congress was due to hold an emergency session to hand power to the vice president later on Thursday. "I have submitted to (judicial) processes so that Guatemala can move on and so that there is no violence or bloodshed," Perez said in a local radio interview on Thursday.
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| Tamil named as Sri Lankan opposition leader for first time since 1983 | |  Sri Lanka's parliament on Thursday named an ethnic minority Tamil politician as the main opposition leader for the first time in 32 years, a sign of growing reconciliation after a prolonged civil war. The minority Tamils have alleged persecution by the government since the uprising of Tamil Tiger separatists three decades ago.Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, 83, the head of Tamil National Alliance, is the first ethnic minority opposition leader since 1983, when Tamil legislators resigned en masse to protest against a law that compelled them to denounce separatism.Parliament's speaker accepted Sampanthan as the main opposition leader after loyalists to former president Mahinda Rajapaksa were divided on whether they should support the government or go into opposition."We will oppose the government on all issues, where it is in the national interest to do so," Sampanthan told parliament in his debut speech as opposition leader.
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| Pakistan court rejects bid to have deaf-mute Indian woman sent home | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Thursday rejected a petition to send back to India a deaf-mute woman who lost her family when she wandered over one of the world's most militarised borders as a child, saying the two nations should resolve the issue diplomatically. Geeta, a Hindu woman now in her early 20s, was around 11 years old when she inadvertently crossed the border from India to Pakistan. In August, an Indian lawyer filed an application with a Pakistani provincial court through local lawyers, asking that the court invoke a law that allows a judge "to compel restoration of abducted females".
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