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| Hosts France get Euro 2016 party started on peaceful Paris night | |  By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Hosts France enjoyed an uplifting start to Euro 2016 as Dimitri Payet's superb last-gasp strike bailed out Les Bleus in a 2-1 victory over a stubborn Romania side at the Stade de France on a peaceful night in the capital on Friday. Starting the month-long tournament amid strikes to protest against a labour law and terror fears seven months after Islamic attacks on Paris killed 130, the national team lightened the mood thanks to Payet's 20-metre drive into the top corner. Didier Deschamps' team seemed to be heading for a gloomy draw but a moment of magic from talismanic West Ham United player Payet left the home fans celebrating a memorable win on a serene Paris evening to get the finals off to a fine start.
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| Ex-Stanford swimmer in sex assault spoke of drugs before college - court | |  By Curtis Skinner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The former Stanford University swimmer, whose sentence for sexual assault has been widely condemned as too lenient, spoke of drug and alcohol use before entering college, undermining his claims to a judge that he lacked experience with alcohol, court documents showed on Friday. Brock Turner, 20, was sentenced by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky to six months in county jail after being convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.
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| Peru's Kuczynski tightens proposed target for fiscal deficit | |  Incoming Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has scratched his proposal to widen the fiscal deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product after credit rating agencies expressed concern, his pick for finance minister Alfredo Thorne said on Friday. Thorne, who like Kuczynski is a former investment banker and World Bank economist, said the plan is now to run a 2.8-2.9 percent deficit in 2017 before leaving it at 1 percent in 2021. Kuczynski had proposed a 3 percent deficit in 2017-2019, up from the 2.5 percent target for this year, to fund a stimulus spurt and a gradual lowering of sales taxes that his critics said threatened Peru's long-term fiscal standing.
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| U.N. says Israeli move on Palestinian permits may be collective punishment | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - 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. Israel responded that its actions were "legitimate steps in order to defend its citizens from terrorists". 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 a day after a Palestinian gun attack that killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv.
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| Colombian government and rebels plan joint drug crop eradication | | | By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels agreed on Friday to a pilot project to replace illicit crops, mainly coca, as part of negotiations aimed at ending Latin America's last and longest guerilla war, which is fuelled in part by drug profits. Colombia is one of the world's biggest producers of cocaine, derived from the coca plant. Under the agreement, the government will provide security for FARC delegates to implement the agreement, as well as funding programmes to help farmers transition to alternative crops. |
| TV actor Michael Jace gets 40 years to life for murder of wife | |  (Reuters) - Actor Michael Jace, best known for playing a policeman on the TV drama "The Shield," was sentenced on Friday to 40 years to life for shooting his wife dead in front of the couple's two children at their Los Angeles home, a court official said. Jace, 53, received a credit of 754 days served for his time spent imprisoned since his arrest for the May 2014 killing of April Jace, Los Angeles criminal court clerk Melody Ramirez said. Ramirez said family members of the victim, April Jace, gave emotional statements in court on Friday.
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| French riot police disperse English and Russian fans in Marseille | |  PARIS/MARSEILLE (Reuters) - French police stepped in to break up small groups of English and Russian football fans who squared up and hurled taunts at one another in Marseille on Friday, ahead of the opening match of the Euro 2016 football tournament. Reuters TV footage showed one bare-chested supporter in the back of a police van and a handcuffed English supporter being frogmarched by two officers along the edge of Marseille's old harbour. "Officers separated groups of English and Russian supporters," one police source said, adding that at least two arrests had been made.
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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. |
| Interview - Among political sharks, Ukrainian pilot Savchenko to be a 'small piranha' | | | By Matthias Williams and Sergei Karazy KIEV (Reuters) - Pointing at a man hanging on a rope while fitting insulation onto a building across the road, Ukraine's most famous soldier sometimes wishes she had such a life, earning money with an exciting job without having to think about politics. Instead, straight after spending nearly two years in solitary confinement in a Russian prison cell, Nadiya Savchenko has dived into a career in parliament, hoping to use honesty and plain speaking to fight corruption and end a separatist war. "It's like I'm in an aquarium full of sharks, but I'm also a small piranha." A 35-year-old helicopter pilot, Savchenko was captured during a mission to rescue wounded soldiers during a battle with Russian-backed rebels. |
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