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| France fans in party mode after Euro 2016 win | |  By Patrick Vignal PARIS (Reuters) - France fans brushed any security fears aside to offer feverish support to the host nation in their Euro 2016 opener at the Stade de France on Friday. The home crowd had to wait for a superb late goal by France's man-of-the match Dimitri Payet for a 2-1 victory over Romania before disappearing into the night with smiles on their faces. Reaching the elegant arena on the outskirts of Paris on a stormy evening posed a challenge for some because of rail transport disruption in a country plagued for weeks by mass protests against a labour law.
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| Ex-Stanford swimmer in sex assault spoke of drugs before college - court | |  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.
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| Peru's Kuczynski tightens proposed target for fiscal deficit | |  Incoming Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has scratched his proposal to widen the fiscal deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product after credit rating agencies expressed concern, his pick for finance minister Alfredo Thorne said on Friday. Thorne, who like Kuczynski is a former investment banker and World Bank economist, said the plan is now to run a 2.8-2.9 percent deficit in 2017 before leaving it at 1 percent in 2021. Kuczynski had proposed a 3 percent deficit in 2017-2019, up from the 2.5 percent target for this year, to fund a stimulus spurt and a gradual lowering of sales taxes that his critics said threatened Peru's long-term fiscal standing.
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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. Israel responded that its actions were "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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| Colombian government and rebels plan joint drug crop eradication | | | By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels agreed on Friday to a pilot project to replace illicit crops, mainly coca, as part of negotiations aimed at ending Latin America's last and longest guerilla war, which is fuelled in part by drug profits. Colombia is one of the world's biggest producers of cocaine, derived from the coca plant. Under the agreement, the government will provide security for FARC delegates to implement the agreement, as well as funding programmes to help farmers transition to alternative crops. |
| 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 of April Jace, Los Angeles criminal court clerk Melody Ramirez said. Ramirez said family members of the victim, April Jace, gave emotional statements in court on Friday.
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| French riot police disperse English and Russian fans in Marseille | |  PARIS/MARSEILLE (Reuters) - French police stepped in to break up small groups of English and Russian football fans who squared up and hurled taunts at one another in Marseille on Friday, ahead of the opening match of the Euro 2016 football tournament. Reuters TV footage showed one bare-chested supporter in the back of a police van and a handcuffed English supporter being frogmarched by two officers along the edge of Marseille's old harbour. "Officers separated groups of English and Russian supporters," one police source said, adding that at least two arrests had been made.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Brazil's Rousseff calls for referendum on early elections | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Dilma Rousseff said she would call a referendum on holding early elections if she is reinstated as president, an offer analysts saw as a bid to sway undecided senators to help clear her in an impeachment trial. Rousseff's proposal for early elections, which emerged on Thursday, is seen by many political analysts as a way out of Brazil's political crisis because it would subject a political class tainted by scandal to a popular vote. Rousseff's supporters have questioned the legitimacy of an interim government led by her Vice President Michel Temer, which is governing while she is suspended for the duration of the trial.
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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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| Uganda says will withdraw troops hunting rebels in Central African Republic | |  By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda plans to withdraw by the end of the year troops involved in an operation to hunt down Lord's Resistance Army rebels in Central African Republic, a military spokesman said on Friday. Uganda leads a U.S.-supported African Union regional task force tracking the LRA rebels, who are notorious for mutilating civilians and kidnapping children for use as fighters and sex slaves. Most of its 2,500 troops are in eastern Central African Republic.
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| De Gea vehemently denies allegations | |  Spain goalkeeper David de Gea said on Friday that press reports linking him to a prostitution case currently under investigation in Spain were false and he would not leave the Spanish squad for the Euro 2016 football championship. It is in the hands of my lawyers," de Gea told a news conference at Spain's headquarters in Ile de Re, France. According to the Spanish newspaper El Diario, the Manchester United goalkeeper was named in a statement given by a protected witness in a rape case against pornography producer Ignacio Fernandez Allende, nicknamed Torbe.
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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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