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| Milwaukee man charged with weapons possession, planned mass shooting - U.S. officials | | | A Milwaukee man who authorities said was planning to kill dozens of people in a mass shooting at a Masonic temple has been arrested and charged with possession of two machine-guns and a silencer, federal officials said on Tuesday. Samy Mohamed Hamzeh, 23, told two FBI confidential sources he planned to carry out the shooting at a Masonic temple in Milwaukee in an attack that would be "known the world over" and in order to "ignite broader clashes," the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. |
| Anti-abortion activists had fake ID's for filming -Texas court papers | | | By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Two anti-abortion campaigners who secretly filmed a Planned Parenthood official discussing fetal tissue procurement used fake driver's licenses to enter the group's offices in the Houston area, court papers released in Texas on Tuesday said. In a twist for the Texas Republican leaders who ordered the probe, accusing the women's health group of illegally trading in aborted fetal tissue, a grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood and indicted video makers David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt on Monday for tampering with a governmental record. |
| Former Chicago official convicted in red light camera bribery case | | | By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago jury on Tuesday convicted a former transportation official in a $2 million bribery scheme for using his influence to expand contracts for the city's red light traffic camera business. John Bills, 54, a former assistant transportation commissioner, helped get millions of dollars in contracts for Phoenix-based Redflex Traffic Systems, part of Redflex Holdings Ltd . In exchange for his efforts that resulted in the installation of hundreds of red-light cameras at intersections, Bills received cash, golf outings, hotel rooms and airline tickets, the jury found. |
| Answers to U.S. gun violence in communities, not Washington - experts | | | By Scott Malone and Bill Berkrot BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advances in curtailing gun violence in the United States are far more likely to come from local efforts than Washington, despite it being a hot topic of debate among presidential candidates, according to a panel of public health experts. U.S. courts and community activists, must be part of the solution to prevent U.S. gun suicides and shootings that far outpace levels in other advanced nations, according to panelists taking part in Preventing Gun Violence: Public Health Perspectives, presented by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with Reuters. "We're going to hear about gun control probably into mid-summer. |
| 'Affluenza' teen drops bid to block deportation to U.S. - source | |  Ethan Couch, the Texas youth known as the "affluenza" teen for using his family's wealth as a defence for killing four people in a drunk driving incident in 2013, has dropped a legal challenge to his deportation to the United States from Mexico, a Mexican judicial source said on Tuesday. Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya, were arrested in Mexico last month following a more than two-week manhunt. "He has dropped his legal challenge ... Now it is over to the foreign ministry or migration," the judicial source said, adding they did not know when the youth would be returned to the United States.
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| Cleveland fires six police officers over deadly 2012 chase | | | By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Six Cleveland police officers were fired over their involvement in a November 2012 chase that led to the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man and woman, city officials said on Tuesday. The officers fired included Michael Brelo, a white former U.S. Marine who was acquitted last May of manslaughter and aggravated assault for the incident, leading to protests. "The incident was unprecedented," Cleveland Police Commander James Chura told reporters of the shooting, which killed Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell. |
| Oregon judge who refused to perform gay marriages should lose job - panel | | | By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - An Oregon judge who has refused to perform gay marriages and has drawn a formal ethics complaint for a raft of other issues should lose his job, a judicial commission leading an investigation into his conduct has found, court documents showed on Tuesday. Marion County Circuit Court Judge Vance Day engaged in the "discriminatory" practise of instructing his staff to screen marriage applicants for same-sex couples and for refusing to perform the marriages and referring them to other judges, the Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability has found. The Commission also found that Day allowed a veteran with a felony to handle a firearm, solicited and collected money from lawyers who appeared before him, and issued a veiled political threat when another judge asked him to take down a picture of Adolf Hitler in his courthouse. |
| Burkina Faso army arrests dozens of suspects after armoury raid | | | Burkina Faso's army has arrested a total of about 40 suspects after an armoury raid last week on the outskirts of the capital Ouagadougou, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The country is still reeling from an attack by gunmen on a hotel and restaurant in Ouagadougou on Jan. 15 during which 30 people were killed, most of them foreigners. Authorities blame former members of the presidential guard - disbanded after a coup in September and loyal to ousted president Blaise Compaore - for the armoury raid on Friday in which rocket launchers and assault rifles were stolen. |
| German Jews fear rising antisemitism during Mideast refugee influx | |  By Tina Bellon BERLIN (Reuters) - When Judith G. helped out at a refugee centre near Frankfurt last October and identified herself as Jewish, she was spat on and insulted. German Jews say the case of Judith G., a 33-year-old optician who asked not to be fully named, isn't isolated and underlines concerns many have about the record arrivals of asylum seekers, largely from Muslim countries in the Middle East. Official figures show German-born far-right supporters commit the vast majority of antisemitic crimes in the country, and Muslim leaders say nearly all asylum seekers - who can be targets of hate crime themselves - are trying to escape conflict, not stir it up.
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| Stockholm police investigating explosion outside shopping centre | | | Police were investigating an explosion outside an up-market shopping centre in central Stockholm on Tuesday, although there were no immediate reports of injuries. Police said they were called to the Mood shopping centre around 1730 GMT after witnesses described hearing a loud blast and seeing a white flash. |
| Migrants wounded in gunfight in camp near Dunkirk | | | Three migrants from the Grande-Synthe camp near Dunkirk, northern France, were injured on Tuesday in what a charity worker said appeared to be a fight between rival bands of smugglers. Some 3,000 people, many of them Kurds, live in the makeshift camp in the town of Grande-Synthe just 35 km away from the so-called "Jungle" camp in Calais on France's north coast. |
| Canada government discriminated against aboriginal children - tribunal | | | The government of Canada discriminated against aboriginal children by underfunding welfare services on reserves, a human rights tribunal ruled on Tuesday, a decision that could affect how Ottawa funds education, healthcare and housing for indigenous Canadians. The ruling comes nearly nine years after aboriginal groups opened a human rights complaint against Ottawa over its funding formula for child welfare on reserves. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who took office in November, has pledged to repair relations with Canada's 1.4 million indigenous people, who make up 5 percent of the population but represent about half of Canadian children aged 14 and under who live in foster care. |
| French protests and strikes disrupt airports, roads, schools | |  French riot police and firefighters cleared a busy Paris ring road at rush-hour on Tuesday after taxi drivers angry about competition from private car ride firms like Uber threw tyres across the road and set them alight. The nationwide protest by licensed taxi drivers coincided with a walkout by air traffic controllers that forced airlines to cut flights by 20 percent, and another protest by teachers that disrupted schooling. Prime Minister Manuel Valls told taxi driver representatives in a meeting that more efforts would be made to ensure other car ride services respected rules limiting them to pre-booked trips and returning to base after each one, according to a statement from the premier's office.
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| Islamic State 'enjoyed Turkish money for oil' - Israeli minister | |  Israel's defence minister said on Tuesday that Islamic State militants had been funded with 'Turkish money', an assertion that could hinder attempts to mend fences between the two countries after years of estrangement. "It's up to Turkey, the Turkish government, the Turkish leadership, to decide whether they want to be part of any kind of cooperation to fight terrorism. This is not the case so far," Moshe Yaalon told reporters in Athens.
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| Denmark passes tough migrant law as Nordic refugee welcome dims | |  By Alexander Tange COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's parliament passed measures on Tuesday aimed at deterring refugees from seeking asylum, including confiscating valuables to pay for their stay, despite protests from international human rights organisations. The measures, which also include extending family reunification among refugees from one year to three years, are the latest sign that the Nordic welcome for refugees is waning as large numbers flee war in Africa and Middle East for a better life in Europe. The "jewellery bill" is the latest attempt by Denmark's minority centre-right government to curb immigration to a country that took in a record 20,000 refugees last year.
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