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| Court convicts 24 in Gulbarg society massacre case | |  A court convicted 24 Hindus on Thursday of murder and other charges related to an anti-Muslim riot in Gujarat in which dozens of Muslims were killed at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister. A total of 69 Muslims, including a former lawmaker, were killed at a housing society in Ahmedabad in the 2002 riot when a mob set fire to their homes and attacked fleeing families, prosecutors said. "It has taken me 14 years to prove the crime committed against innocent Muslims.
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| Teargas fired at Venezuela food protest near presidential palace | | | Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting "We want food!" near the presidential palace in Caracas on Thursday, the latest street demonstration in the crisis-hit OPEC nation. National Guard soldiers and police blocked a road near the Miraflores palace in downtown Caracas, an area that is a traditional bastion of government support, after scores of angry people began trying to approach, witnesses told Reuters. President Nicolas Maduro, under intense pressure over a worsening economic crisis in the South American nation of 30 million, had been scheduled to address a rally nearby. |
| Ohio prosecutor reviewing Cincinnati Zoo gorilla case | |  Prosecutors are reviewing a police investigation into the parents of a 3-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday, prompting the killing of an endangered gorilla. Cincinnati police have said the child's parents and family were the target of the probe and not the operation or safety of the zoo. The Cincinnati Zoo said on Thursday it has re-evaluated its Gorilla World exhibit and will modify the railing that surrounds it.
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| Gunman in UCLA murder-suicide had planned three killings - police | |  By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former University of California, Los Angeles, graduate student shot dead a woman at her home in Minnesota before he drove almost 2,000 miles (3,200 km) to his alma mater, killed a professor and took his own life, police said on Thursday. Mainak Sarkar, 38, had intended to kill a second professor in addition to engineering professor William Klug, 39, at a small office on the campus, police said. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters on Thursday that a search of Sarkar's St. Paul, Minnesota, home turned up a "kill list" that included the name of the woman found dead nearby, as well as the name of the other UCLA professor, who was not harmed.
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| Singer Prince died of accidental painkiller overdose - medical examiner | |  By Fiona Ortiz and Suzannah Gonzales CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tests show music superstar Prince, who was found dead in his home in a Minneapolis suburb in late April, died of an accidental, self-administered overdose of an opioid painkiller, the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office said on Thursday. The medical examiner, based in Anoka County, Minnesota, had been investigating the 57-year-old singer's death since he was found in an elevator in his home and studio outside Minneapolis on April 21.
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| Chilean ex-soldier faces U.S. trial in death of singer Victor Jara | |  By Gram Slattery SANTIAGO (Reuters) - An army lieutenant under late Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet will face a civil trial in Florida this month for his involvement in the 1973 murder of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the U.S. human rights group bringing the suit said on Thursday. Jara, also a poet and political activist, inspired generations of artists from U2 to Bruce Springsteen with his lyrical odes to the working class. A communist, he fell afoul of the Chilean government when leftist president Salvador Allende was overthrown by right-wing Pinochet in a bloody 1973 military coup.
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| Germany triggers Turkish outcry with Armenian genocide vote | |  By Madeline Chambers and Tulay Karadeniz BERLIN/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey recalled its ambassador to Germany on Thursday in protest against a parliament resolution declaring the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a genocide at a time when Europe is looking for Ankara's help in the migrant crisis. Turkey rejects the idea that the killings of Christian Armenians during World War One amounted to a genocide.
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| Some officials worry about briefing Trump, fearing spilled secrets | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that Donald Trump's "shoot from the hip" style could pose national security risks as they prepare to give him a routine pre-election briefing once he is formally anointed as the Republican presidential nominee. Eight senior security officials told Reuters they had concerns over briefing Trump, whose brash, unpredictable campaign style has been a feature of his rise as an insurgent candidate. Current and former officials said that the scandal over Hillary Clinton's use of emails also raises concerns about her handling of sensitive information.
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| Philippines' Duterte offers no apology for attacks on media | |  By Neil Jerome Morales DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday offered no apologies for his fierce criticism of the country's media, insisting some journalists were "vultures". On Wednesday, international and local media groups denounced Duterte for saying journalists were being killed because they were corrupt. About 175 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since 1986.
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| Three Syrians arrested in Germany suspected of planning attack | | | By Noah Barkin and Michelle Martin BERLIN (Reuters) - Three Syrian men with suspected links to Islamic State have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a large-scale attack in the western city of Duesseldorf, the federal prosecutor said on Thursday. The plot was uncovered because a fourth Syrian man, identified as Saleh A., voluntarily turned himself in to authorities in Paris on Feb. 1 and confessed to the plot. Saleh A. remains in custody in France and Germany is seeking his extradition, the prosecutor said. |
| Philippines' Duterte says he won't surrender rights in South China Sea | |  Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he would not surrender the country's rights over the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, which China seized in 2012. "There will never be an instance that we will surrender our right over Scarborough Shoal," Duterte told a news conference after holding talks with China's ambassador Zhang Jianhua. It is an issue about being obstructed or impeded because of the constructions there and we cannot exercise freely the rights under UNCLOS of the 200-mile economic zone that is exclusive to us." He said he did not discuss the South China Sea dispute with the ambassador because the Philippines was anticipating a decision from a tribunal in The Hague.
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