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| Corrected - Obama issues challenge on climate change with power plant rule | |  (Corrects fifth paragraph to delete reference to President Barack Obama acting by executive order in this story released on August 3, 2015) By Jeff Mason and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama challenged America and the world to step up efforts to fight global warming on Monday at the formal unveiling of his administration's controversial, ramped-up plan to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants. Declaring climate change the greatest threat facing the world, Obama said the regulation requiring the power sector to cut its emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 would reduce Americans' energy bills and improve the health of vulnerable populations nationwide. The plan, which also mandates a shift to renewable energy from coal-fired electricity, is meant to put the United States in a strong position at international talks in Paris later this year on reaching a deal to curb global warming.
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| Palestinian vigilantes patrol villages amid fear of more arson attacks | |  By Hassan Titi QUSRA, West Bank (Reuters) - Armed men stopping cars at checkpoints in the West Bank are usually Israeli security forces policing the occupied territory, but in some areas they are Palestinian civilians patrolling their own villages. "They used to break glass, damage houses, and torch the mosque and vehicles," said Abed al-Atheim Adi, mayor of the village of Qusra where locals have been patrolling the streets at night since 2001. Reuters accompanied a patrol in Qusra this week.
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| Heavily armed "Oath Keepers" inject disquieting element in Ferguson | |  By Scott Malone FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Four white men carrying military-style rifles and sidearms added a disquieting element to riot-torn Ferguson, Missouri, when they began patrolling the streets before dawn on Tuesday, which police quickly labeled "inflammatory." The men said they were part of a group called "Oath Keepers," which describes itself as a non-partisan association of current and former U.S. soldiers, police and first responders who aim to protect the U.S. Constitution. The men attracted immediate attention in the mostly black neighborhood, which exploded into violence on Sunday night as protesters marked the one-year anniversary of the killing of an unarmed black teen by police. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit civil rights organization, has described the "Oath Keepers" as a "fiercely anti-government, militaristic group," and St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar condemned their appearance in Ferguson.
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| Spanish court grabs prized Picasso in tug-of-love with banker | | | A Picasso painting belonging to one of Spain's wealthiest bankers and seized in France following an export ban was delivered to a Madrid museum on Tuesday, where it will be held until a dispute over its status is resolved. Deemed a national treasure by Spain, whose high court slapped an export ban on it, the picture has been the subject of legal wrangling for several months. Both painting and vessel are owned by billionaire Jaime Botin, part of the family dynasty that ran Santander for several generations and brother of the bank's late chairman Emilio Botin. |
| Ex-IOC official Carrard to head FIFA reform task force | |  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - Scandal-plagued FIFA have turned to the man who helped the International Olympic Committee (IOC) out of their corruption crisis, appointing Swiss Francois Carrard as chairman of their reform committee. The new FIFA committee was originally announced as a 'task force' of 11 members but has been expanded to 15 with Carrard, two members from each of the six continental football confederations plus two members to be appointed by FIFA's commercial partners. FIFA's corruption troubles came to a head in May when U.S. prosecutors indicted nine soccer officials, most of whom had FIFA positions, and five marketing and broadcasting company executives over a range of alleged offences, including fraud, money-laundering and racketeering.
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| Iraq parliament votes to transform ruling system in boost for Abadi | |  By Saif Hameed and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday for the biggest shakeup in its governing system since the U.S. military occupation, eliminating entire layers of government and giving Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi new powers. Several of Abadi's influential rivals will be stripped of official posts, including his predecessor Nuri al-Maliki, who will lose the job of vice president he has held since stepping down as prime minister last year after eight years in power. A year in office, Abadi had sought to transform a system which divvies posts to party leaders on ethnic and sectarian lines, which he says encouraged corruption, incompetence and political blackmail that were making the country ungovernable.
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| Police search Uber offices in Hong Kong and arrest 5 drivers | |  Police raided the Hong Kong offices of taxi-hailing service Uber Inc on Tuesday and arrested five drivers for the "illegal use of vehicles for hire", police said. A Hong Kong police senior inspector, Bruce Hung, said undercover police officers had used a mobile phone app to hail five cars, and after being driven to their destinations, arrested the drivers. Police also conducted a search of two offices in Hong Kong on Tuesday, including at least one belonging to Uber, a police spokeswoman told Reuters.
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| Zimbabwe partially lifts ban on big game hunting around Cecil's park | |  Zimbabwe has partially lifted a ban on big-game hunting around Hwange National Park that was imposed after an international outcry over the killing of Cecil, the country's most prized lion, by an American dentist last month. Cecil, a rare black-maned lion, was killed on one of the farms adjacent to the park where the ban on big game hunts, first imposed on Aug. 1, remains in force. Authorities in Zimbabwe imposed the indefinite ban after it emerged that American hunter Walter Palmer had killed Cecil with a bow and arrow after, they say, his guides used bait to lure the big cat out of the park's protective embrace.
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| Malaysia's Najib looks to ride out political crisis | |  By Trinna Leong KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The future looked dark for Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak last month when it was reported that investigators probing alleged mismanagement at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) had traced a payment of nearly $700 million to a bank account under his name. "Najib, it appears, has indeed emerged from the eye of the storm," said Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Najib has consistently denied taking any money for personal gain.
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| Australia ruling party blocks members from voting for gay marriage | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's conservative coalition government on Tuesday blocked its members from voting in favour of gay marriage, a politically risky move that effectively rules out a marriage equality bill passing under his government. The decision by Abbott to use parliamentary tactics to thwart the libertarian wing of his Liberal Party comes just six months after he narrowly survived a party room coup and amid dismal polls that have reignited speculation over his future. The coalition's current position is against same-sex marriage.
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| Dutch prosecutors: fragments from MH17 site may be from Russian-made missile | |  By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Some of the debris recovered from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine may be fragments of a Russian-made missile system, Dutch prosecutors leading an international investigation said on Tuesday. MH17 crashed over territory held by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, killing all 298 aboard, who were mostly Dutch citizens. "The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) investigates several parts, possibly originating from a Buk surface-air-missile system," a statement from prosecutors said.
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| Yemen "crumbling" from war, sieges causing starvation - aid groups | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemen is "crumbling" under a deepening humanitarian crisis after months of civil war, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday, and a U.N. investigator said sieges imposed by combatants were causing starvation. ICRC President Peter Maurer, ending a three-day visit to the Arabian Peninsula country, called for free access to deliver life-saving food, water and medicines, while urging the warring parties to work towards a negotiated solution. Every family in Yemen has been affected by this conflict," Maurer said in a statement.
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