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| British lawmaker shot dead, EU referendum campaigns suspended | |  By Craig Brough BIRSTALL, England (Reuters) - A British member of parliament was shot dead in the street on Thursday, causing deep shock across Britain and the suspension of campaigning for next week's referendum on the country's EU membership. Jo Cox, 41, a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party and a vocal advocate for Britain remaining in the European Union, was attacked while preparing to meet constituents in Birstall near Leeds in northern England. West Yorkshire regional police said a 52-year-old man was arrested by officers nearby and weapons including a firearm recovered.
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| Newtown families see hope for gun control after Orlando | |  Since his 7-year-old son, Daniel, was gunned down in his elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, 3-1/2 years ago, Mark Barden has been an outspoken advocate for gun control. Time and again, he has watched with disappointment as Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Senate blocked gun control measures, saying they infringed on the right to bear arms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Congress has not passed major gun control legislation since 1994.
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| In Manila, police welcome arrival of president Duterte | |  By Romeo Ranoco MANILA (Reuters) - For Manila's struggling police, the June 30 inauguration of Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte cannot come soon enough. Dhondie Bayaban, inspector of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said the police had recently received a base pay rise to 14,000 pesos ($300) a month but welcomed Duterte's pledge of further salary increases. As the police struggle for funds, reported crimes in the Philippines have more than doubled over the last five years to 675,816 last year, according to national police data.
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| HSBC reaches $1.575 billion settlement in Household case | |  (Reuters) - A unit of HSBC Holdings Plc on Thursday said it will pay $1.575 billion to end a long-running securities fraud class action stemming from the acquisition of the Household International consumer finance business more than a decade ago. HSBC Finance Corp said the settlement is subject to court approval and expected to result in a roughly $585 million pretax charge in the second quarter, including legal fees and expenses. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Diane Craft)
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| McCain says he 'misspoke' in blaming Obama for attacks on Americans | |  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain said on Thursday that President Barack Obama was "directly responsible" for attacks on Americans like the one in Florida because of policies that contributed to the rise of the Islamic State. McCain, who is in a tough re-election race, made the comments after reporters chased him down a marble stairway and into a hallway of the U.S. Capitol. "I'm hearing a lot from my constituents about what happened and of course I am making them realise that Barack Obama is directly responsible for it," McCain said.
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| Reaction to the killing of British lawmaker Jo Cox | |  British lawmaker Jo Cox was shot dead in the street in northern England on Thursday, causing shock across Britain and leading to the suspension of campaigning for next week's referendum on the country's EU membership. Following is a summary of reaction: BRENDAN COX, JO'S HUSBAND "Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people." "She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her." BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON "We have lost a great star.
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| Probe of Disney resort after alligator death not criminal | |  By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The probe into the death of a 2-year-old boy killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, is not criminal in nature, the local sheriff's office said on Thursday. Police divers recovered the body of Lane Graves on Wednesday from the man-made lake where he had been snatched by the alligator as he played at the water's edge the night before. The investigation is continuing, said Orange County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Rose Silva, adding, "It's not criminal in nature at this time." She did not provide further details.
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| Brazil tourism minister resigns as Temer link to graft scandal | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's tourism minister resigned on Thursday, less than two months before the country hosts the Olympics, as the government of interim President Michel Temer lost its third minister in a month to a sweeping graft probe of state oil company Petrobras. Tourism Minister Henrique Alves was one of two dozen officials named in plea bargain testimony by a former Petrobras executive linking Temer and several of his closest allies to Brazil's biggest corruption scandal ever. While Temer dismissed the accusations as frivolous lies, the latest ministerial resignation underscored the risks that come with the sweeping Petrobras probe, which has thrown Brazil's politics into chaos and deepened its worst recession in decades.
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| Coroner said death of Baltimore detainee Freddie Gray an accident -witness | |  By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Maryland medical examiner twice told investigators that the death of black detainee Freddie Gray from a broken neck in a police van was an accident, a Baltimore detective testified on Thursday. Taking the stand for the defence in the van driver's murder trial, Police Detective Dawnyell Taylor said Dr Carol Allan had contradicted her official report that Gray's death in April 2015 was a homicide. "She said that it was a freakish accident, and that no human hands had caused his injury," she said as the defence for Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. began presenting its case in Baltimore City Circuit Court.
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| Trumped by candidate's rhetoric, Republican lawmakers at a loss for words | |  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The awkward efforts of Republicans to embrace their party's standard-bearer Donald Trump looked particularly painful in Congress this week as lawmakers ducked into elevators, dashed away from reporters, ignored questions or, worse, tried to answer them. Only days after a furore over his criticism of a Mexican-American judge, the presumptive presidential nominee sent Republicans reeling again by renewing his call for a ban on Muslim immigration after a gunman who pledged allegiance to Islamic militants killed of 49 people at a Florida nightclub. Then former reality TV star Trump waded into two sensitive topics for social conservatives by embracing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and suggesting the country may need certain new gun control measures.
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| Obama says massacres to continue unless country acts to control gun violence | |  President Barack Obama on Thursday said after meeting with survivors and family of victims killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history that if the United States does not act to control gun violence and homegrown terrorism, the massacres will continue. "If we don't act we will keep seeing more massacres like this because we will be choosing to allow them to happen," Obama told reporters after the meetings in Orlando, home to the gay night club where 49 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in the shooting early on Sunday.
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| England football fans party in Lille after winning 'Battle of Britain' | |  By Philip O'Connor and Philip Blenkinsop LILLE, France (Reuters) - Beer-swilling English football fans bathed in public fountains on Thursday evening in the northern France town on Lille to celebrate their team's victory over Wales in nearby Lens, with little sign of the tensions seen there in previous nights. Police were braced for the kind of violence that threatened England and Russia with expulsion from the tournament and led to the use of tear gas on Wednesday to disperse rowdy English fans in Lille. As long as it stays that way, no problem," one police officer said.
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| Obama meets massacre survivors, assails homegrown terrorism | |  By Bernie Woodall and Roberta Rampton ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met survivors of a gay nightclub massacre and relatives of the 49 people killed on Thursday and said the United States must act to control gun violence and fight what he called homegrown terrorism. "The last two terrorist attacks on our soil - Orlando and San Bernardino - were homegrown," Obama told reporters. It's going to take more than just our intelligence community." Obama and Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Orlando, Florida, four days after a U.S.-born gunman claiming allegiance to various Islamist militant groups carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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| U.N. worried about Bahrain's crackdown on political opposition | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Thursday voiced concern about Bahrain's crackdown on the country's political opposition in what appears to be an escalating campaign against dissent in the Western-allied Gulf Arab kingdom. A Bahraini court on Tuesday ordered the suspension of the main Shi'ite opposition group al-Wefaq and closed down its offices. Al-Wefaq's lawyer, Abdallah al-Shamlawi, said the Bahrain administrative court had also set an October date for a hearing into dissolving al-Wefaq.
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| Brexit opinion poll delayed after lawmaker killed | |  British research agency BMG delayed the publication of a closely watched Brexit opinion poll on Thursday after a member of parliament was shot dead in the street in northern England. The victim of the attack, Jo Cox, 41, was a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party and a vocal advocate for Britain's remaining in the European Union. Britain will hold a referendum on EU membership on June 23.
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| Brazil's tourism minister resigns amid graft scheme implications | |  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's tourism minister, Henrique Eduardo Alves, resigned on Thursday, according to the president's office, making him the third minister to leave the month-old government of interim President Michel Temer. Alves was one of about two dozen officials implicated in a graft scheme at state oil company Petrobras in plea bargain testimony by a former executive made public on Wednesday. (Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Writing by Marcelo Teixeira; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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| Family of U.S. student killed in Paris attacks sues social media companies | |  The family of a California design student killed in November's attacks in Paris sued Twitter Inc , Google and Facebook Inc , claiming the social media companies provide "material support" to the militant group Islamic State. Nohemi Gonzalez's family filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco, asking the court to rule that the companies are violating the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act. "For years, defendants have knowingly permitted the terrorist group ISIS to use their social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds and attracting new recruits," the lawsuit said.
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| Head of Russian football fan club to be deported from France, three jailed | | | The head of a Russian football supporters' association, Alexander Shprygin, is among 20 Russian fans who will be expelled from France in the coming days after violence flared at their Euro 2016 match against England, a police source said on Thursday. Also on Thursday three Russian fans were jailed for one year, 18 months and two years respectively by a Marseille court for planning acts intended to harm people and destroy property. Much of the violence was due to Russian fans, Robin said, adding that some of them belonged to "Orel Butchers" Lokomotiv Moscow supporters' group and others to Spartak Moscow's "Gladiators" group. |
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