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| UCLA shooter had 'kill list,' left another victim: police | |  The man accused of slaying a University of California, Los Angeles, professor in a murder-suicide had written a "kill list" that included a woman who has been found dead in Minnesota, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said on Thursday. Investigators found the list while searching his home in Minnesota, Beck told Los Angeles television station KTLA. The list also contained the name of another UCLA professor, who Beck did not identify, who was unharmed, he said.
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| 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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| Kenyan court frees 43 accused of being secessionist group members | | | By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A court in Kenya's port city of Mombasa released 43 men on Thursday who had been charged with being members of a group that seeks the independence of the Coast region from the hinterland. The Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) accuses the government of decades of social and economic marginalisation of the Coast region, and wants it to secede and form its own government. The 43 were arrested in 2014, in Kilifi, north of Mombasa, for stepping up the activities of the movement. |
| Paris police to get reinforcements for some Euro 2016 games | |  Paris security forces will receive reinforcements to protect fan zones during Euro 2016 soccer matches held in the French capital, the city's police force said on Thursday. Police chief Michel Cadot's office released a statement after Le Point magazine reported that Cadot had recommended the Eiffel Tower fan zone be closed during games played at stadiums in the city and its outskirts. France, which remains in a state of emergency after militants killed 130 people on Nov.13 in assaults across Paris on cafes, at the national Stade de France stadium and a music hall, hosts the month-long championship from June 10 to July 10.
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| Germany sparks 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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| Madonna prevails in copyright lawsuit over 'Vogue' song | |  By Dan Levine NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop singer Madonna prevailed on Thursday in a copyright lawsuit over her song "Vogue" that alleged a producer copied a fraction-of-a-second segment of horns from an earlier song. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a general audience would not recognize the 0.23-second snippet in "Vogue" as originating from the song "Love Break." Attorneys for the plaintiff, VMG Salsoul LLC, could not immediately be reached for comment. A producer of "Vogue," Shep Pettibone, also recorded "Love Break" in the early 1980's, according to the court ruling.
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| Ukraine's corrupt judges targeted in constitutional reforms | |  By Alexei Kalmykov and Alessandra Prentice KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament approved on Thursday judicial reforms that Western backers say are needed to fight corruption, in the first constitutional vote the ruling coalition has pushed through since an overhaul of the government in April. Bribery in the court system is seen as a major obstacle to Ukraine's broader reform effort under a $17.5 billion International Monetary Fund bailout programme that political infighting has threatened to derail. The bill, which aims to curb political influence on the appointment of judges and limit their immunity in case of malpractice, was backed by 335 lawmakers, 35 more than the required votes needed for changes to the constitution.
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| Lionel Messi says he knew nothing about tax fraud | |  By Richard Martin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Soccer's five-times World Player of the Year Lionel Messi said on Thursday he knew nothing about an alleged tax evasion scheme when he signed contracts related to image rights. The Barcelona and Argentina forward appeared in court in Barcelona on Thursday alongside his father Jorge Horacio to testify against charges of tax evasion. Lionel and Jorge Horacio Messi are accused by the Spanish tax office of defrauding the government of 4.2 million euros ($4.7 million) between 2007 and 2009. They could face jail terms of up to 22 months if found guilty, although it is customary in Spain that offenders of non-violent crimes with a sentence of under two years do not serve time in jail. The case centres on the player's image rights and a web of shell companies allegedly used to evade taxes on income from those rights. According to the prosecutors' office, revenue was hidden using shell companies in Uruguay, Belize, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
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| Rare U.S. biplane stamp stolen six decades ago to be returned | |  It will be turned over to the American Philatelic Research Library during the World Stamp Show in New York, the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. The stamp, considered the most famous in the United States, was one of four stolen from an exhibit by New York arts patron Ethel McCoy in 1955. Two of the four were recovered in the 1970s and 1980s and returned to the Bellefonte, Pennsylvania-based American Philatelic Research Library, to which McCoy donated all four stamps decades ago.
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| RBI asks lenders to put in place cyber security policy | |  The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday said the country's lenders must put in place a cyber security policy "immediately" in order to combat internet threats and asked the sector to identify risks according to the degree of potential danger. "It is essential to enhance the resilience of the banking system by improving the current defences in addressing cyber risks," the RBI said in a statement. "Banks should immediately put in place a cyber-security policy elucidating the strategy containing an appropriate approach to combat cyber threats." The central bank asked lenders to specify potential risks as "low, moderate, high and very high" and reiterated that the lenders must report all "unusual cyber-security incidents" to the RBI.
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| Use it or lose it: Occasional Ohio voters may be shut out in November | |  By Andy Sullivan and Grant Smith CINCINNATI (Reuters) - When Larry Harmon tried to vote on a marijuana initiative in November in his hometown of Kent, Ohio, the 59-year-old software engineer found his name had been struck from the voter rolls. Two hours south in Zanesville, restaurant worker Chris Conrad, 37, was also told he was no longer registered. Both men later found out why: they had not voted often enough. As the Nov. 8 elections loom, officials in Ohio have removed tens of thousands of voters from registration lists because they have not cast a ballot since 2008.
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| China graft buster raps health ministry, drug regulator | | | China's top graft buster rapped the health ministry and food and drug administration on Thursday for problems including taking bribes for drug purchases, following its latest inspection of the two bodies. China's over-burdened health-care system is blighted by crowded hospitals, corruption and tension between patients and staff, and the government has struggled to enforce reforms. The drug regulator came in for particular criticism this year after a scandal over millions of illegal trades of vaccines through a black market drugs ring. |
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