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| Hungary sentences 10 migrants for illegal border crossing | | | By Marton Dunai SZEGED, Hungary (Reuters) - A Hungarian court on Friday sentenced 10 migrants to jail terms for illegally crossing the border during a riot in September 2015, after Hungary built a razorwire fence to seal its frontier with Serbia. It was the first case to come to trial under a law passed days before the incident that made illegal border crossing as part of a rioting crowd punishable by between one and five years in prison. Nine of the migrants were sentenced to about a year in jail, but were released immediately as their sentences were cut by two-thirds at the judge's discretion and offset by time they had spent in detention since September. |
| Mississippi law allowing denial of services to LGBT people is blocked by U.S. judge | | | A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law intended to allow people who object on religious grounds to same-sex marriage and believe gender is determined at birth to refuse wedding and other services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves found late Thursday that the wide-ranging law adopted this spring unconstitutionally allowed "arbitrary discrimination" against the LGBT community, unmarried people and others who do not share such views. "The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor some religious beliefs over others," wrote Reeves, who issued an injunction halting the law that was to take effect on Friday. |
| Six killed in attack in Kenya; al Shabaab claims responsibility | | | At least six people were killed in Kenya on Friday when gunmen sprayed two buses with bullets near the border with Somalia, a regional official said. The Somali militant group Al Shabaab carried out the attack, said Abdiasis abu Musab, al Shabaab's spokesman for military operations. The attack came at 9:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) as the buses were travelling in Mandera county to Mandera town from the capital, Nairobi, Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia told Reuters. |
| Home-grown radicals a weak spot in Turkey's fight against Islamic State | |  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A few months after he started attending meetings of a hardline Islamic community group in a poor Istanbul suburb, 25-year-old Murat Kipcak stopped reading the Koran and going to the mosque. Soon after, he sent word that he, his young child, and his wife had travelled to Iraq to join Islamic State, his father Tahir told Reuters at his home in Sultanbeyli, a district on the eastern outskirts of Turkey's largest city. Murat's story - a working class high school graduate turned radical Sunni militant within months - highlights Turkey's vulnerability as it tries to prevent Islamic State from carrying out further attacks like this week's at Istanbul airport.
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| Turkey police detain 11 more over airport attack, focus on alleged mastermind | |  By Daren Butler and Margarita Antidze ISTANBUL/TBILISI (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 11 foreigners on Friday suspected of belonging to an Islamic State cell linked to the attack on Istanbul's main airport, state media reported, and attention turned to a suspected Chechen mastermind. The three suspected attackers were Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals, a Turkish government official has said. The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper has said the organiser of the attack, the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings in NATO-member Turkey this year, was suspected to be a man of Chechen origin called Akhmed Chatayev.
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| EU's Juncker after Brexit: "Everyone wants EU reforms - but what reforms?" | |  By Gabriela Baczynska BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - The head of the European Union's executive vented frustration on Friday at calls for deep reforms to reinvent the EU after Brexit, saying there were no proposals on what exact changes were needed to safeguard European integration. The comments by Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the European Commission, highlight the vulnerable spot the EU has found itself in after the shock British vote to leave what is still a 28-nation bloc cast a long shadow over its future. "We have to re-explain the reform agenda which is under way," Juncker told a news conference in Slovakia.
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| Al Qaeda leader warns of "gravest consequences" if Boston marathon bomber executed | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri warned the United States of the "gravest consequences" if Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any other Muslim prisoners is executed. Tsarnaev, named in Zawahri's online video message, was sentenced to death by lethal injection on June 24 last year for the 2013 bomb attack which killed three people and injured more than 260. (Reporting by Mostafa Hashem; Writing by Amina Ismail; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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| Turkey's parliament passes law to restructure judiciary, bolstering Erdogan | | | Turkey's parliament approved sweeping plans late on Thursday to restructure the high courts, in a victory for President Tayyip Erdogan that critics say will allow him to remove troublesome judges and tighten his grip over the judiciary. The ruling AK Party has said the law will clear bottlenecks in the legal system. The main opposition CHP said it would launch an appeal at the Constitutional Court, although the success of that challenge looks doubtful. |
| French charity official says stabbed by couple shouting "Allahu Akbar" | | | French police opened an investigation on Friday after a director at the Restos du Coeur charity said he had been stabbed earlier in the day by a couple shouting "Allahu Akbar," the Paris prosecutor's office said. The director of the Restos du Coeur soup kitchen in Montreuil, east of Paris, said a man who appeared to be of African origin swung an axe at him and missed, before his female accomplice stabbed him with several blows to the stomach, according to a statement by the prosecutor. The victim told investigators the assailants attacked him inside the charity's premises and shouted 'God is greatest' in Arabic as they ran away. |
| Two Romanians charged in Hungary for leaving 100 migrants in locked lorry | | | Hungarian prosecutors have charged two Romanians with human trafficking, saying they tried to smuggle more than 100 migrants from Hungary to Austria in a lorry last June but left them trapped in the summer heat. One of the men was also charged with attempted murder and excessive cruelty against several people, including children, a statement from Csongrad county prosecutors said on Friday. The two men squeezed at least 106 illegal migrants into a lorry near the Hungarian village of Morahalom close to the Serbian border in late June 2015, the prosecutors said. |
| Czech president urges referendum on EU, NATO, says would back staying | |  Czech President Milos Zeman has called for the Czech Republic to hold a referendum on its membership of the European Union and NATO following Britain's shock vote to leave the EU, though he said he backed his country staying in both organisations. Zeman has no power to call a referendum, which would require a constitutional amendment. "I disagree with those who are for leaving the European Union," Czech Radio quoted Zeman as saying at a meeting with citizens in the eastern Czech town of Velke Mezirici on Thursday evening.
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