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| British policy chief apologises for 30-year-old race comments | |  British Prime Minister David Cameron's policy chief apologised on Wednesday after a newly released memo from 30 years ago revealed he had blamed poor morals in the black community for riots and said any investment would be wasted on discos and drugs. Oliver Letwin, a senior minister in Cameron's government, made the comments in a confidential memo to the prime minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher, following riots in north London which revealed the deep strains between Britain's poor black community and the police. Rejecting suggestions that the unrest was due to inadequate housing or a sense of alienation amongst the black community, Letwin said the riots, criminality and social disintegration were caused solely by individual characters and attitudes.
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| One killed, 11 injured in gun attack at fortress in southern Russia - RIA cites official | | | A gunman opened fire on a group of tourists visiting a historic fortress in Dagestan in southern Russia on Tuesday evening, killing one and injuring eleven, an official in the region's health ministry said on Wednesday. "As a result of a gun attack 12 people were hurt, one of whom died," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted the official as saying. Gun and bomb attacks are common in Dagestan, a mostly-Muslim internal republic in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, where Moscow has been fighting Islamist insurgents for years. |
| Bahrain court sentences 29 people to 5-25 years jail for 2014 explosion - BNA | | | Bahrain's High Criminal Court has sentenced 29 people to jail terms ranging from five to 25 years for detonating an explosive device intended to kill policemen in 2014, state news agency Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported on Wednesday. |
| Italy police rumble airport art thieves | | | Italian police have uncovered a complex network of thieves who stole valuable paintings at Rome's main airport, and charged two of the hub's staff with stealing the art works. Cleaners and customer service staff duped people bringing works of art through the oversized baggage areas, national police said in a statement. "Using the uniforms they normally wore to work in the airport, they easily convinced people that they were providing a genuine service and managed to swindle them," the police said. |
| Clinton: Islamic State persecution of Christians, Yazidis, a genocide | |  U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that Islamic State violence against Christians, Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East was genocide. "I think I was asked this a couple months ago, and I said that term carries with it legal import, it is a very important concept and label for behavior that deserves that name," Clinton said at a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, when asked about the Islamic State's killing of Christians, Yazidis, Kurdish Muslims and other religious minorities in the region. "I am now sure we have enough evidence, what is happening is genocide deliberately aimed at destroying lives and wiping out the existence of Christians and other religious minorities," Clinton said.
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| ESPN in TV debate invite to FIFA election five | |  By Simon Evans MIAMI, (Reuters) - U.S. sports television network ESPN has invited the five candidates in FIFA's presidential election to participate in a debate on the future of the crisis-hit governing body for world football. "ESPN has invited all five candidates vying for the FIFA presidency to participate in a debate," a network spokesman told Reuters via email on Tuesday. "Our goal is to provide a forum for an open, transparent discussion about the future governance of the sport in advance of the election that will determine who occupies the most powerful position in global football." The candidates are Frenchman Jerome Champagne, Jordanian Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Swiss Gianni Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain.
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