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| British lawmaker in critical condition after attack | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A British lawmaker was in critical condition after an incident in her constituency in northern England on Thursday, British police said, with media reports suggesting she had been shot and stabbed. Media reports said Jo Cox, 41, who is a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party, had been attacked as she prepared to hold an advice surgery for 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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| 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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| 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. |
| 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 and family members of the 49 people killed in a gunman's rampage at a gay nightclub 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.
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| 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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| African youth blame politicians for conflicts, crises: U.N. poll | | | By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Power-hungry politicians are the main driver of conflicts across Africa and leaders are not doing enough to stop the violence, according to tens of thousands of young Africans polled by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Up to 86,000 Africans from Cameroon to Central African Republic and Mali to Nigeria took part in the survey via their mobile phones. The poll targeted people aged between 15 and 30 for their views on the continent's conflicts and crises. |
| Jimmy Page to give more testimony in Led Zeppelin copyright trial | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is expected to give more testimony in a copyright infringement trial on Thursday where the British band is accused of stealing the opening chords of its classic "Stairway to Heaven" from another band's song. The lawsuit alleges that Led Zeppelin lifted the opening chords for "Stairway to Heaven" from the 1967 instrumental "Taurus" by the American band Spirit. Page, 72, took the witness stand in federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where he said he did not recall hearing "Taurus" until recently, after he had been made aware of comparisons being made between the two songs.
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| F1 has a clear conscience in Baku, says Ecclestone | |  By Alan Baldwin BAKU (Reuters) - Formula One will race in Baku with a clear conscience this weekend, the sport's commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Thursday in response to questions about human rights in Azerbaijan. 100 percent," he told reporters ahead of the European Grand Prix, the first to be held in the former Soviet republic. Various European bodies and human rights groups have accused Azeri President Ilham Aliyev of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents, charges that Baku denies.
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| Meditating devotees shield scandal-hit abbot from Thai police | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of meditating supporters of an influential Buddhist abbot in Thailand blocked investigators on Thursday aiming to arrest him on corruption charges in his temple north of Bangkok. The controversy over the abbot, Phra Dhammachayo, 72, in part reflects more than a decade of divisive politics in Thailand, which has permeated all aspects of life, including Buddhism. "The temple is being partly cooperative, but when we went inside we were blocked by a group of devotees," DSI deputy chief Police Major Suriya Singhakamol told reporters.
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| U.S. officials say American Muslims do report extremist threats | |  Muslim-Americans have repeatedly informed authorities of fellow Muslims they fear might be turning to extremism, law enforcement officials say, contrary to a claim by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this week. "They don't report them," Trump said in a CNN interview on Monday, in the wake of the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub of 49 people by an American Muslim who claimed allegiance to Islamic State. "For some reason, the Muslim community does not report people like this." But FBI director James Comey said, "They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.
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| Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis - U.N | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic State is committing the crime of genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, seeking to destroy the ethno-religious group of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday. "The genocide of the Yazidis is ongoing," it said. Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the commission of inquiry, told a news briefing: "The crime of genocide must trigger much more assertive action at the political level, including at the Security Council." Commission member Vitit Muntarbhorn said it had "detailed information on places, violations and names of the perpetrators", and had begun sharing information with some national authorities, who were prosecuting foreign fighters.
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