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| 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. |
| Kurdish militant group says it was behind Istanbul bombing | |  By Seyhmus Cakan and Humeyra Pamuk DIYARBAKIR/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Kurdish militants said on Friday they carried out a suicide bombing which killed eleven people in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul this week and warned the country was no longer safe for foreign tourists. In a statement on its website, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), vowed to continue attacks across Turkey and said while it was not targeting tourists, they could be at risk. Turkey, the world's sixth-biggest tourist destination, has seen a sharp drop-off in visitors due to concerns about deteriorating security.
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| S.Africa's Zuma appeals reinstatement of graft charges against him | |  By Zimasa Mpemnyama PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and state prosecutors on Friday sought the right to appeal against a High Court ruling to review a decision to drop 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 the same month. The case has re-emerged before local government elections set for August where the ruling African National Congress (ANC) faces a challenge from opposition parties that have used Zuma's perceived failures and scandals in their campaigns.
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| French police teargas brawling England fans ahead of Euro 2016 | | | PARIS/MARSEILLE (Reuters) - French police fired tear gas to break up clashes between England soccer fans and local people in the Mediterranean city of Marseille on Thursday night on the eve of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. A police official said about 100 England fans and 50 residents were involved in the fracas in the streets around the Vieux Port (Old Port) area. Up to 70,000 England fans and 20,000 Russians are expected to arrive throughout the day and on Saturday ahead of the match between the two countries. |
| 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, adding he could not explain how that version had emerged. |
| Kazakh forces kill five suspected of links to Islamist attack | | | Kazakh security forces killed five armed people on Friday 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. There were no casualties among civilians or security forces. |
| Wider Image: Migrant boys tell of attacks, murder in Libyan "hell" | |  By Steve Scherer CALTAGIRONE, Italy (Reuters) - Street gangs in Tripoli, known as Asma Boys, attacked him with shards of broken glass, slicing his leg and his face, 17-year-old Augustine Okukpon from Nigeria said at a shelter in Sicily. Okukpon is just one of thousands of unaccompanied minors who have flooded into Italy, many with horror stories about their time in Libya, where people smugglers, militias and Islamic State militants operate with impunity in the chaos of civil war. "In Libya there are all those Asma Boys, street boys.
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| Military sweep in Nigeria's Delta risks fuelling more dissent | | | By Tife Owolabi OPOROZA, Nigeria (Reuters) - The Nigerian army has swept into villages in the southern swamplands in an operation to crush the Niger Delta Avengers group, but allegations by residents of brutal tactics and rapes by some of its soldiers risk stoking anger in the region. The army has vowed to stop the militant group which has claimed a string of attacks on oil pipelines which have cut Nigeria's oil output by half a million barrels a day to a 20-year low. The military has deployed dozens of gunboats in the Delta swamps to search a cluster of villages that are home to a former militant leader whom officials link to the previously unknown group, residents said. |
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