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| Two detained after shooting outside Istanbul palace - news agency | | | Turkish police detained two suspects with automatic weapons after a shooting on Wednesday near the entrance to Istanbul's Dolmabahce palace, popular with tourists and home to the prime minister's Istanbul offices, the Dogan news agency said. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutolgu was in the capital Ankara as reports of the attack emerged and did not interrupt a speech being broadcast on live television. Turkey has been in a heightened state of alert since launching a "synchronised war on terror" last month, which included air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. |
| Turkish police detain two armed suspects after Istanbul shooting - Dogan | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police on Wednesday detained two armed suspects not far from the scene of a shooting at the Dolmabahce palace in Istanbul, Dogan News Agency said. There were no reports of casualties, the agency said. Earlier, gunfire was heard earlier near the entrance to the Ottoman-era building, which is popular with tourists and also houses the prime minister's Istanbul offices. (Reporting by Daren Butler; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Nick Tattersall) |
| Mali's Islamist conflict spreads as new militant group emerges | | | By Emma Farge and Adama Diarra BAMAKO/SEVARE (Reuters) - Imam Elhadji Sekou Ba was one of the few people in his village of Barkerou who dared to speak out against the rise of Islamist militants in central Mali, denouncing in his sermons the young men taking up arms in the name of religion. Locals suspect the killing was carried out by the Massina Liberation Front (MLF), a new group blamed for a wave of attacks that is shifting Mali's three-year-old Islamist conflict from the remote desert north ever closer to its populous south. The emergence of the new group, recruiting among central Mali's marginalised Fulani ethnic minority, has sown panic among residents, forced some officials to flee, and undermined the efforts of a 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission to stabilise the West African state. |
| China blast warehouse execs used connections to get safety approvals - Xinhua | |  By Natalie Thomas TIANJIN, China (Reuters) - Chinese state media on Wednesday appeared to convict executives of a company whose chemical warehouse exploded last week killing 114 people of slipshod practices at least, saying they used connections to obtain fire safety and environmental approvals. Public anger against the government has surged in the northeastern port of Tianjin among residents of apartments near the blasts who believed authorities neglected to properly police the firm, Tianjin Dongjiang Port Ruihai International Logistics. "My connections are with police and fire.
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| Thai police issue arrest warrant for "foreign man" seen in Bangkok blast footage | | | Thai police on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for an individual they described as a "foreign man", in connection with a bomb blast in Bangkok that killed 20 people, including many foreigners. A court approved the arrest warrant, said Thai police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri. |
| Tsipras said not to have decided on early Greek elections, left rebels turn up heat | |  By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has yet to make up his mind on calling early elections, a government minister said on Wednesday, following a rift in the ruling party over the country's new bailout deal. The comment came as former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who leads hard left rebels in Tsipras' Syriza party, repeated his opposition to the bailout and signalled he might refuse to support Tsipras in any confidence vote. Ministers have spoken openly about the possibility of a parliamentary confidence vote leading to elections since Tsipras had to rely on opposition lawmakers to win approval on Friday for the 86 billion euro bailout deal.
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| Police say two other men seen in Bangkok bomb footage also suspects | | | Thai police said on Wednesday that two other men seen in CCTV footage near the scene of a bomb blast that killed 20 people in Bangkok are also suspects, bringing the number of suspects police have said they are actively looking for to three. "The person in red and the person in white are also suspects," police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said in a televised interview, referring to two men seen in grainy closed-circuit television footage along with a man in a yellow t-shirt who police believe is linked to the attack. |
| German lawmakers back third Greek bailout | |  By Paul Carrel and Tina Bellon BERLIN (Reuters) - German lawmakers overwhelmingly voted in favour of a third Greek bailout on Wednesday, heeding a call from Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to give Greece the chance for a new start, despite his own concerns it might not work. There was a sizeable rebellion in Chancellor Angela Merkel's own party ranks, however, suggesting she cannot return to parliament to seek aid for Athens again. Popular misgivings about sending more aid to Athens run deep in Germany, the euro zone country which has already contributed most to Greece's two previous bailouts since 2010.
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| Global court to reopen obstruction case against Kenya | |  By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges will reopen a hearing into whether to take action against Kenya over allegations it obstructed investigations into its President Uhuru Kenyatta, after an appeals court ordered them on Wednesday to reconsider their rejection of the case. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) accused Nairobi last year of failing to send in evidence linked to charges Kenyatta orchestrated a wave of deadly violence after 2007 elections. The prosecution asked judges to refer Kenya to the United Nations, which could impose sanctions, or the court's overseeing body.
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| Trail goes cold in hunt for Bangkok shrine bomber | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Wednesday they had still not established the nationality or whereabouts of the man they suspect bombed a popular Bangkok shrine, killing at least 20 people, suggesting the trail had gone cold after he was captured on CCTV at the scene. Authorities said they were keeping watch for the suspect at the country's borders, but police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang told a news conference it was not clear how many people were involved in the attack or if they were still in Thailand. "I am confident there are Thais involved, but I am not saying it is just Thais or that there are foreigners." On Tuesday, a day after the bombing at the Erawan shrine in the heart of Bangkok, grainy closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage was released showing a young man dumping a backpack at the scene and walking away.
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| Thai police release sketch of Bangkok bomb suspect | |  Thai police released a sketch on Wednesday of the main suspect in a deadly bomb blast in Bangkok that killed at least 20 people, more than half of them foreigners. The sketch shows a fair-skinned man with thick, medium-length black hair, a wispy beard and black glasses. On Tuesday, a day after the bombing at a religious shrine in Bangkok's busy Ratchaprasong commercial district, police released grainy closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of a young man wearing a yellow t-shirt.
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| Poll victor to build Sri Lankan unity government | |  General election victor Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday called on Sri Lankans to unite as he set about the task of forming a national unity government that will seek to heal the divisions of the past. In his first major statement since his United National Party (UNP) foiled ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa's comeback bid, Wickremesinghe struck a note of reconciliation. "We can achieve unity, progress in this country if we work together." Wickremesinghe, 66, who has led a minority government since President Maithripala Sirisena beat Rajapaksa in a presidential election in January, said he expected to be sworn in as prime minister.
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| Bangladesh arrests three Supreme Court lawyers accused of funding militants | | | Bangladeshi security forces said on Wednesday they had arrested three lawyers practising at the Supreme Court in connection with funding for an Islamist group to buy weapons. In April, several brigade members were arrested in the port city of Chittagong. Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years, while the government has tried to crack down on hardline Islamist groups seeking to make the South Asian nation of 160 million people a sharia-based state. |
| Key Hong Kong pro-democracy students charged after Occupy protests | |  Two key figures in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement have been charged with illegal assembly almost a year after students stormed government headquarters at the height of huge protests against Chinese rule, one of the activists said on Wednesday. Alex Chow, 25, the former leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, one of the main groups leading protests that became known as the Occupy movement, told Reuters he and teenager Joshua Wong had been formally charged. Wong, 18, is leader of the student group Scholarism.
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