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| British boy, 15, gets life sentence for inciting Anzac Day attack in Australia | | | A 15-year-old boy, thought to be the youngest Briton to be convicted of a terrorism offence, was given a life sentence on Friday for inciting an attack on a World War One commemorative event in Australia from his bedroom in northern England. The boy, who cannot be named due to his age, pleaded guilty in July to sending messages online encouraging an attack on police officers at an event in April to mark Anzac Day - a day of remembrance for military dead in Australia and New Zealand. British police said had the plot not been uncovered, it was likely someone would have been seriously injured or killed. |
| Difficult to buy a gun in China, but not explosives | |  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - A series of deadly bomb blasts in China this week has shown how easy it is to acquire explosives in the country, revealing a major gap in its huge security apparatus as the economy slows and anger grows over issues like graft and poor public services. In a country where firearms are banned for most people, the bombings in the southwestern city of Liuzhou on Wednesday, and others in recent years around the country, demonstrate lax enforcement of rules to control access to bomb-making material. Private gun ownership is almost unheard of in China as controls are so strict, meaning gun crime is rare.
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| Gunman kills 9 in Oregon college classroom, town reeling | | | By Eric M. Johnson and Courtney Sherwood ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - Residents of a quiet Oregon town struggled to comprehend the carnage left by the latest U.S. mass shooting as investigators puzzled over what drove a young gunman to kill nine people in a college classroom before he died in an exchange of gunfire with police. The gunman stormed into a classroom in Snyder Hall on campus, shot a professor at point-blank range, then ordered cowering students to stand up and state their religion before he shot them one by one, according to survivors' accounts. |
| Hungarian church thanks God, government for fending off migrants | |  The church in a southern Hungarian diocese heavily affected by an influx of migrants has thanked the right-wing government for regarding its effort to seal Hungary's borders against further migration as "a task given by God". Hungary, a landlocked country whose government has been criticised by European Union peers for its anti-foreigner stance, has become a main transit route for hundreds of thousands of migrants arriving via the Balkans to the south. More than 280,000 migrants fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa have passed through Hungary in central Europe this year so far, nearly all seeking sanctuary in the wealthier countries of the western EU.
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| Pope did not give unconditional support to clerk in gay marriage row -Vatican | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis did not ask to meet a Kentucky county clerk who had been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples and did not offer her unconditional support, the Vatican said on Friday. Looking to limit controversy after last week's meeting in Washington between the pope and Kim Davis, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said she was one of "several dozen" people who had been invited by the Vatican ambassador to see Francis. "The Pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects," Lombardi said in a statement.
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| Sydney cordons off streets after shootings | | | SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police sealed off streets and warned the public to keep away from New South Wales state police headquarters in Sydney on Friday after two people were shot dead, police and media said. The Daily Telegraph newspaper said a man had fired on the building, hitting a police employee before being shot dead by police. Australia has been on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown Islamist radicals since last year. In December, two hostages were killed when policed stormed a central Sydney cafe to end a 17-hour siege. ... |
| China serial blasts suspect killed in explosion - Xinhua | |  A suspect believed to be responsible for a series of bombings in China this week that killed 10 people and injured 51 was himself killed at the scene, the official Xinhua news agency said on its microblog on Friday, citing regional police officials. Police confirmed the suspect in the blasts in China's southwestern city of Liuzhou was Wei Yinyong, 33, who was believed to have been involved in a dispute with his neighbours, Xinhua said.
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| Turkey detains 44 people in raids targeting Kurdish militants - media | | | Turkish police detained 44 people in Istanbul on Friday on suspicion of links with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a continuing crackdown on militants ahead of a snap national election in November, local media reported. Fighting between the Turkish military and the outlawed PKK resumed in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast following the collapse in July of a ceasefire and has reached an intensity unseen since the 1990s. Hurriyet newspaper reported that among those detained on Friday were district officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), a pro-Kurdish party which the government accuses of having links with the hardline PKK. |
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