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| Convicted Stanford rapist talked of drug use before college - court records | |  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. In a letter to the judge before his sentencing, Turner said he did not have experience with alcohol.
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| 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. |
| Spain's De Gea denies links to prostitution case, to stay with squad | |  Spain goalkeeper David De Gea on Friday said press reports linking him to a prostitution case currently under investigation in Spain were false and he would not leave the Spanish squad. It is in the hands of my lawyers," de Gea told journalists in Saint Martin de Re where the Spanish team is preparing the Euro 2016 soccer championship.
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| Bollywood star Anil Kapoor aims to spotlight suffering of India's child workers | |  By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bollywood star Anil Kapoor on Friday kick-started a campaign to highlight the plight of millions of children in India who are forced into work, adding that he hoped his celebrity status would influence and inspire others to stamp out the practice. The campaign run by the children's charity Plan India aims to use Kapoor - a veteran Hindi film actor with a career spanning three decades - to raise awareness and encourage the public to shake off apathy linked to decades of social acceptance of child labour. Kapoor, best known internationally for his role in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning 2008 film 'Slumdog Millionaire', said millions of children in the country were being exploited, largely due to poverty, and as a result not going to school.
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| 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, Los Angeles criminal court clerk Melody Ramirez said. Ramirez said family members of the victim, April Jace, gave emotional statements in court on Friday, though she could not provide transcripts.
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| Kazakh forces kill five suspected of links to Islamist attack | |  Kazakh security forces killed five people on Friday who were 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. No casualties were reported among civilians or security forces.
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| Exclusive: Syria requiring released prisoners to join army, opposition says | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's government has freed prisoners on condition that they join the army upon their release, the president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition told Reuters on Friday, citing reports from Adra Central Prison near Damascus. On Thursday, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said he had information from Russia and Syria that "some substantial number of fighters appeared to have been released". Al-Abdah said those reportedly released were not political prisoners but mostly criminal convicts, especially those jailed for drug crimes.
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| Russia passes law limiting beer bottle size to 1.5 litre | | | Russian lawmakers on Friday passed a law limiting the size of a plastic beer bottle to no more than 1.5 litre. The restrictions apply to beer and all other alcoholic beverages and come into effect on Jan. 1, 2017, for industrial production and from July 1, 2017, for retail sales. The long-debated move, part of the government's efforts to curb drinking, adds to pressure on brewers whose sales have been falling in Russia over the past several years due to sales and advertising restrictions and tax hikes. |
| Hindu hacked to death in latest attack on Bangladesh minorities | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - A Hindu monastery worker was hacked to death on Friday in what police suspected was fourth killing in a week by Islamists attacking minority groups in the majority-Muslim country. Nitya Ranjan Pandey, 60, who had volunteered at the monastery for 40 years, was taking a walk in the northwestern district of Pabna when he was attacked, police said. "He was found lying in a pool of blood," district police chief Alamgir Kabir said, adding that no one saw the attackers as it took place early in the morning. |
| Poland approves closer surveillance of foreigners ahead of NATO summit, pope visit | | | By Wiktor Szary WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's parliament tightened anti-terrorism laws on Friday ahead of hosting two high-profile events, giving security forces the right to more closely monitor the movements of foreign citizens and hold suspects for longer without charges. Poland is one of several eastern European states reviewing its anti-terror laws in the wake of the Islamist attacks in Brussels in March, signalling the region's growing concern that it may no longer be immune to the threat. In early July, heads of NATO members, including U.S. President Barack Obama, will hold a summit in Warsaw at which they are likely to agree to deploy more troops on the alliance's eastern flank to counter Russia's renewed assertiveness. |
| Uganda says to withdraw troops hunting rebels in Central African Republic | |  Uganda plans to withdraw troops involved in an operation to hunt down Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Central African Republic by the end of this year, a military spokesman said on Friday. Uganda has 2,500 troops tracking the rebels, notorious for mutilating their victims and kidnapping children, and their leader Joseph Kony. Most of the soldiers are in the Central African Republic, though there is a small contingent in South Sudan.
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| EU ministers tighten gun controls in wake of terrorist attacks | |  By Gabriela Baczynska LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - European Union interior ministers on Friday endorsed tighter rules for purchase and possession of guns in the bloc, a response to the Islamist attacks in Paris and Brussels that was diluted to exempt groups from shooting clubs to collectors. The deal adds further weapons to a list of those banned from civilian possession, introduces joint rules to prevent deactivated guns being made operational again and improves identification markings. The agreement would "improve the security of European citizens in the face of the terrorist threat and organised crime," French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
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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. Responding to the criticism, Israel defended its actions as "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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| Indian aid worker abducted in Afghan capital Kabul | | | 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. |
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