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| Black box from crashed EgyptAir plane retrieved | |  By Lin Noueihed and Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - The cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight MS804 has been retrieved by search teams in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to explain what caused the plane to crash into the sea killing all 66 people on board. Since then, search teams have worked against the clock to recover the two black box recorders crucial to explaining what went wrong, before they stop emitting signals in about a week. Egypt's investigation committee said in a statement that a specialist vessel owned by Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search was forced to salvage the device in stages because it was extensively damaged, but was able to retrieve the memory unit.
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| Belgium agrees to extradite two Paris attack suspects to France | |  A Belgian court on Thursday cleared the extradition to France of two suspects under investigation in connection with Islamist militant attacks in Paris that killed 130 people last November, the Belgian government said. A government statement said a Brussels appeals court "declared enforceable" European arrest warrants issued by France for Mohamed Amri and Ali Oulkadi.
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| Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious community of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday. The U.N. report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said the Islamist militants had been systematically rounding up Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, seeking to "erase their identity" in a campaign that met the definition of the crime as defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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| British parliamentarian in critical condition after attack | |  A British member of parliament was in critical condition after being shot and stabbed in her constituency in northern England on Thursday, British police and media reports said. Jo Cox, 41, who is a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party, was attacked as she prepared to hold a meeting with constituents in Birstall near Leeds. West Yorkshire Police said a 52-year-old man had been arrested by armed police and that a woman in her 40s had suffered serious injuries.
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| Interview: France's Sinclair mines family art history for comeback | |  By Paul Taylor PARIS (Reuters) - Delving into the history of a family art business she once shunned, French celebrity journalist Anne Sinclair is returning to public life by reconnecting with her roots. While U.S. prosecutors investigated the case that forced the Socialist politician to resign as managing director of the International Monetary Fund and abandon plans to run for president in France, Sinclair stood by her man in public - before divorcing him after their return to Paris.
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| A year later, Charleston families still reeling from church shooting | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Many were surprised when Nadine Collier stood in a South Carolina courtroom a year ago and said she forgave the young white man who had just killed her mother and eight other black churchgoers in a racially motivated attack. Collier's sister, the Reverend Sharon Risher, recalls wondering how she could so readily absolve Dylann Roof, 22, the man accused of opening fire during a Bible study on June 17, 2015, at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Roof will go on trial in November on federal hate crime charges that could result in a death sentence before facing state murder charges in January.
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| Russia questions WADA doping report, but pledges cooperation | |  By Dmitry Solovyov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday called into question the veracity of a new report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which accused Russian athletes of still doping, but it promised to facilitate the agency's work. Russia is bracing itself for a decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Friday which could determine whether its athletes can take part in the Rio Olympics in August. In its report, WADA concluded that Russian athletes continued to fail drug tests and obstruct doping control officers.
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| Obama to visit Orlando as U.S. mulls charges for shooter's wife | |  By Bernie Woodall ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama was set to visit Orlando on Thursday to meet with survivors of the Orlando massacre at a gay nightclub and relatives of the 49 people killed as authorities weighed whether to charge the assailant's wife. Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old U.S. citizen born in New York to Afghan immigrant parents, also wounded 53 people in a three-hour-long rampage inspired by Islamic State militants that stands as the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has interviewed Mateen's second wife, Noor Salman, who knew of his plans, according to a law enforcement source, and prosecutors were preparing to present evidence against her to a federal grand jury.
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| French police brace for "Battle of Britain" after night of fan violence | |  By Lucien Libert LENS, France (Reuters) - Thousands of England and Wales fans gathered in the French town of Lens for their team's Euro 2016 soccer showdown on Thursday, with police braced to prevent more of the violence that has brought England and Russia the risk of expulsion from the tournament. French riot police charged and used tear gas to disperse rowdy English soccer fans in the nearby northern city of Lille on Wednesday night. UEFA said on Thursday it regretted the violence but it stopped short of action to punish the fans or teams.
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| Bangladesh questions attacker of Hindu teacher; hunts two more | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Police in Bangladesh were hunting on Thursday for two of the three suspected Islamists who attacked and seriously injured a Hindu college teacher in the latest assault on minority groups and liberal activists in the mainly Muslim nation. Bangladesh has arrested more than 11,000 people in a week-long crackdown on Islamists begun on Friday, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to halt a wave of targeted killings. Mathematics teacher Ripon Chakraborty was attacked on Wednesday night by three knife-wielding assailants when he answered the doorbell at his home in Madaripur, 70 km (44 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka, police said. |
| Hong Kong bookseller says associate "abducted" by China authorities | |  One of five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing under mysterious circumstances last year said on Thursday he had been detained for more than eight months by Chinese authorities and that another of the five had been abducted from Hong Kong. Lam Wing-kee told a news conference his colleague, Lee Bo, who went missing from Hong Kong, had been abducted and said "cross-border enforcement actions" by mainland Chinese authorities in Hong Kong were "not acceptable". The five booksellers, linked to the shop Causeway Bay Books, went missing from late last year.
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