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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. |
| Kazakh forces kill five linked to suspected Islamist attack | | | Kazakh security forces killed five suspected militants on Friday linked to deadly attacks this week on a national guard base and several firearms shops in the city of Aktobe, 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. |
| 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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| Pakistan coach Arthur vows to help Amir flourish on return to England | |  New Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur has promised to do everything in his power to help disgraced paceman Mohammad Amir realise his full potential after the bowler was granted a visa for the team's upcoming tour of England. Amir will return to England six years after a spot-fixing scandal in a Lord's test resulted in bans and jail sentences for the then teenage bowler and his former team mates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif. "He served his time, he's done it," Arthur, who coached Amir at Karachi Kings in Pakistan Super League (PSL), said in his first news conference since succeeding Waqar Younis in the post.
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| Hindu hacked to death in latest attack on Bangladesh minorities | | | Suspected Islamist militants hacked a Hindu to death in Bangladesh on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks on minority groups in the south Asian nation. Nitya Ranjan Pandey, 60, who had worked at a temple as a volunteer for 40 years, was taking an early morning walk in the northwestern district of Pabna when he was attacked, police said. The killing came days after an elderly Hindu priest and a Christian were hacked to death in attacks claimed by Islamic State. |
| Kazakh security forces fired on by suspected militants behind Aktobe attack | | | Kazakhstan security forces were locked in a gunbattle on Friday with suspected "religious radicals" in Aktobe, the northwestern city where at least 20 people were killed in a militant attack days earlier. The National Security Committee (KNB) said in a statement law enforcers had hunted down gunmen suspected of carrying out Sunday's attack, but they had refused to surrender. Authorities have not identified the group responsible for the Aktobe attack, but have described them as "religious radicals", a term commonly used in Kazakhstan to refer to Islamist militants. |
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