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| Lawyer of Briton in Kenya denies woman died taking "selfies with a gun" | | | A defence lawyer for a British business executive who was charged on Friday with the murder of a Kenyan woman has denied a previous account which suggested she had died while taking "selfies with a gun" that accidentally went off. Another lawyer, Evans Monari, who is no longer defending businessman Richard Alden, 52, gave the "selfies" account on Monday when the Briton was remanded in custody pending further investigations into the death of Grace Wangeci, 42. "The selfie story is not consistent with the statement recorded by Richard Alden at the police station," a current member of the defence team, lawyer Tom Okundi, told Reuters, adding he could not explain how that version had emerged. |
| Kazakh forces kill five suspected of links to Islamist attack | | | Kazakh security forces killed five armed people on Friday suspected of being Islamist militants linked to deadly attacks this week, the National Security Committee (KNB) said. A special forces unit stormed an apartment and killed four suspects after they refused to surrender and opened fire, the KNB said in a statement. There were no casualties among civilians or security forces. |
| Wider Image: Migrant boys tell of attacks, murder in Libyan "hell" | |  By Steve Scherer CALTAGIRONE, Italy (Reuters) - Street gangs in Tripoli, known as Asma Boys, attacked him with shards of broken glass, slicing his leg and his face, 17-year-old Augustine Okukpon from Nigeria said at a shelter in Sicily. Okukpon is just one of thousands of unaccompanied minors who have flooded into Italy, many with horror stories about their time in Libya, where people smugglers, militias and Islamic State militants operate with impunity in the chaos of civil war. "In Libya there are all those Asma Boys, street boys.
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| Military sweep in Nigeria's Delta risks fuelling more dissent | | | By Tife Owolabi OPOROZA, Nigeria (Reuters) - The Nigerian army has swept into villages in the southern swamplands in an operation to crush the Niger Delta Avengers group, but allegations by residents of brutal tactics and rapes by some of its soldiers risk stoking anger in the region. The army has vowed to stop the militant group which has claimed a string of attacks on oil pipelines which have cut Nigeria's oil output by half a million barrels a day to a 20-year low. The military has deployed dozens of gunboats in the Delta swamps to search a cluster of villages that are home to a former militant leader whom officials link to the previously unknown group, residents said. |
| Indian aid worker abducted in Afghan capital | | | An Indian woman working for an international aid group has been abducted in the Afghan capital, Kabul, her family said on Friday and her country's foreign minister promised to do everything possible to rescue her. Judith D'Souza, who works for the Aga Khan Foundation, is believed to have been kidnapped on Thursday night, her sister, Agnes, told reporters in her home city of Kolkata, in eastern India. The family learned the news in a call from Indian Embassy officials in Kabul in the early hours of the morning. |
| Indian men given life for gang-rape of Danish tourist | |  Five Indian men were sentenced to life in prison on Friday for raping a Danish tourist in the heart of New Delhi's tourist district in 2014, in a case that reignited worries about sexual violence against women in India. The men, all in their twenties, were found guilty by a Delhi court on Monday for robbing and raping the 52-year old Dane at a secluded spot close to New Delhi railway station. "All the five convicts have been sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment for their offences," additional public prosecutor Atul Shrivastava, told Reuters at the court. The Dane was walking through an area of narrow lanes near Delhi's Paharganj district, a tourist area packed with backpacker hotels, on the evening of Jan. 14, 2014, when she asked a group of men for directions to her hotel.
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| U.N. says Israel move on Palestinian permits may be collective punishment | |  Israel's cancellation of entry permits for Palestinians following a deadly attack in Tel Aviv may amount to collective punishment, which is banned under international law, the United Nations' top human rights official said on Friday. The Israeli military on Thursday revoked permits for 83,000 Palestinians to visit Israel and said it would send hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank after a Palestinian gun attack that killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv.
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| IOC should ban Russian track and field athletes, German federation chief says | | | Germany's athletics federation chief called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban Russian track and field athletes from the Olympic Games in Brazil this year, according to an open letter published on Friday by the German magazine Der Spiegel. Clemens Prokop wrote to IOC President Thomas Bach ahead of a June 17 meeting of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) which is set to decide the fate of the Russian athletes. Der Spiegel said that in his letter Prokop said German athletes were shocked by recent reports about state doping in Russia and urged him to take action. |
| Maldives ex-VP Adeeb jailed for plotting president's assassination | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - A court in the Maldives jailed former vice president Ahmed Adeeb for 15 years for plotting to assassinate President Abdulla Yameen in an explosion on the president's launch last September, his lawyer said on Friday. The judgment was delivered late on Thursday, four days after Adeeb was sentenced to 10 years on terrorism charges for possessing firearms. The secret trial was denounced by the opposition and is likely to raise international concern over the evidence used to convict Adeeb, once seen as a future leader of the Indian Ocean atoll whose popularity as a tourist paradise is at odds with its deeply troubled politics.
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| Italy arrests two Ukrainians suspected of trafficking Syrians by boat | | | Italian police have arrested two Ukrainians suspected of trafficking Syrians to Italy on a sail boat, and have launched a probe to find the criminal organisation ultimately responsible. Almost 50,000 sea-borne migrants have landed this year in Italy, which is on the front line of Europe's biggest migration crisis since World War Two. |
| British soccer fans, locals clash in Marseille as Euro 2016 opens | | | PARIS/MARSEILLE (Reuters) - French police stepped in to halt skirmishes between British soccer fans and locals in the port city of Marseille overnight, just hours before the Euro 2016 championship opens in France. A police official said two British fans had been injured and four police officers slightly hurt in a string of incidents in the southern French city, due to host an England-Russia match on Saturday. Paris, in contrast, hosted a massive music concert near the Eiffel Tower where tens of thousands of revellers danced late into the night, with no immediate reports of major trouble ahead of the month-long tournament. |
| South Africa's Zuma appeals reinstatement of graft charges against him | |  South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and the state prosecutor launched an appeal on Friday against a High Court ruling to reinstate 783 corruption charges against the head of state. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) set aside the charges against Zuma in April 2009, allowing him to run for president that same month, but the High Court this May ordered a review of that decision, terming it "irrational". The case has reemerged in the run-up to local government elections in August that should be a stern test for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) as opposition parties gain support on the back of Zuma's perceived failures and scandals.
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| Kurdish militant group says it was behind Istanbul bombing | | | The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, said on Friday it carried out a suicide bombing in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul this week that killed 11 people. TAK also warned in the statement on its website that, although it was not deliberately targeting foreigners, Turkey was no longer safe for tourists. Turkey is the world's sixth-biggest tourist destination but has seen a sharp dropoff following a spate of bombings that have killed hundreds of people in the last 12 months. |
| Kurdish militant group TAK claims Istanbul bombing - website | |  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, said on Friday it carried out a suicide bombing in Istanbul on June 7, which killed 11 people. A car bomb ripped through a police bus in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour on Tuesday near the main tourist district, a major university and the mayor's office. In a statement on its website, TAK said it was a suicide bombing. (Reporting by Orhan Coksun; Writing by Seda Sezer; Editing by Nick Tattersall)
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