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| Islamic State claims Brussels blasts - Amaq agency | |  Islamic State claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks that killed at least 30 people in Brussels on Tuesday, a news agency affiliated with the group said. "Islamic State fighters carried out a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices on Tuesday, targeting an airport and a central metro station," the Amaq agency said. The attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital came four days after Brussels police captured the prime suspect in attacks by the jihadist groups in Paris.
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| U.S. cities on high alert after deadly bombings in Belgium | |  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major U.S. cities deployed police in large numbers, some with heavy weapons patrolling transit hubs, after at least 30 people were killed in attacks on a Brussels airport and subway, though officials said there was no evidence of specific threats to the United States. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago stepped up their security and major airlines scrambled resources to cope with closings at the airport in Belgium's capital. Islamic State, a militant group that has gained control of large areas of Iraq and Syria and has sympathizers and supporters around the world, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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| Islamic State claims Brussels attacks that kill at least 30 | | | By Philip Blenkinsop and Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which killed at least 30 people, a news agency affiliated to the group said. The coordinated assault triggered security alerts across Europe and drew global expressions of support, four days after Brussels police had captured the prime surviving suspect in Islamic State's attacks on Paris last November. A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic and shots shortly before two blasts struck a packed airport departure lounge at Brussels airport. |
| Non-essential staff at Belgian nuclear plants Doel and Tihange sent home | |  Staff not essential for the running of nuclear plants in Doel and Tihange in Belgium have been sent home at the request of Belgian authorities following the deadly attacks in Brussels, the plants' French operator, Engie, said on Tuesday. A spokesman for Engie - which owns and operates seven reactors in Belgium through its Electrabel unit - told Reuters that key staff remained on site to continue operating the facilities, however. "Only those who are really needed are staying, the other people were sent home," Belgium's Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) spokeswoman Nele Scheerlinck told Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws.
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| Rob Ford, notorious for smoking crack while Toronto mayor, dead at 46 | |  By Andrea Hopkins and Matt Scuffham TORONTO (Reuters) - Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, whose tumultuous four years as leader of Canada's largest city included an admission of smoking crack and erratic behavior, died on Tuesday after struggling with cancer. Ford, 46, who was serving as a Toronto city councillor, had been undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of cancer that had recurred despite surgery and several rounds of chemotherapy. Ford, married and a father of two small children, was diagnosed with a rare and hard-to-treat cancer in September 2014 after being hospitalized with abdominal pain.
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| Russian court sentences Ukrainian pilot to 22 years in jail | |  By Gennady Novik and Alexander Reshetnikov DONETSK, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian court sentenced Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in jail on Tuesday after finding her guilty of involvement in the killing of two Russian journalists during the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his country would never recognise the verdict of what he called a "kangaroo court" and called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to send Savchenko back home to Ukraine. Fighting in eastern Ukraine has subsided since a fragile ceasefire was agreed, but Savchenko's trial showed the depth of bitterness that remains.
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| Trump backs tougher border security, waterboarding after Brussels attacks | |  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump renewed a call for tougher U.S. border security following Tuesday's deadly attacks in Brussels, and suggested torture could be an effective technique to gain information to thwart future attacks. Trump's comments, in an interview on NBC's "Today" program, came a day after he expressed skepticism about the U.S. role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and said the United States should significantly cut spending on the defense alliance.
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| Brussels attacks won't shake resolve to defeat Islamic State - U.S. | |  The attacks in Brussels on Tuesday that killed at least 34 people will not undermine the will of the United States and its allies to ramp up the campaign against Islamic State, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress. "No attack will affect our resolve to accelerate the defeat of ISIL," Carter told a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, using an acronym for Islamic State. The United States was monitoring the situation in Brussels, including ensuring that U.S. personnel and citizens were accounted for, he said.
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| Supporters of Islamic State praise Brussels blasts on social media | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Supporters of Islamic State praised on social media blasts in Brussels that killed about 20 people on Tuesday. "The state will force you to reevaluate your ways a thousand times before you are emboldened to kill Muslims again, and know that Muslims now have a state to defend them," said one supporter of the group on Twitter. (Reporting by Mostafa Hashem; Writing by Eric Knecht; Editing by Michael Georgy and Angus MacSwan)
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| Police find assault rifle next to dead attacker at Brussels airport - VRT | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police have found a Kalashnikov assault rifle next to dead attacker at Brussels airport, the Belgian public broadcaster VRT said on Tuesday. The death toll in the twin attacks on Tuesday on the Belgian capital's main airport and a metro station has risen to 34 with more than 130 wounded. (Reporting By Jan Strupczewski)
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| Cartel office probes Germany's Euro 2016 ticket sales | | | Germany's federal cartel office on Tuesday launched an investigation into the German football association's (DFB) sale of tickets for the national team's matches at Euro 2016. The DFB's decision to combine the sales with membership that has a 10 euro sign-up cost and a 30 euro annual fee angered fans of the 2014 World Cup winners. "Acquiring Euro 2016 tickets is already difficult for football fans as not everyone requesting a ticket gets one," cartel office president Andreas Mundt said in a statement on Tuesday. |
| Denmark, Sweden, Finland increase airport security after Belgium explosions | |  Police in Denmark, Sweden and Finland have stepped up security at airports and public places following the explosions in Brussels on Tuesday. Danish police said they had increased patrols at Copenhagen airport and other key points in the city following the deadly explosions at Brussels airport and a metro station in the city. "We are aware of what has happened in Brussels.
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| Brussels attacks death toll rises to 34 - broadcaster VRT | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian public broadcaster VRT raised the death toll from Tuesday's twin attacks in Brussels to 34, with 20 people killed in the blast on a metro train and 14 in explosions at the airport. (Reporting by Julia Fioretti)
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| Russian doping scandal spreads to wrestling, sports minister prepared to quit | | | By Jack Stubbs MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's sports minister said on Tuesday he was prepared to resign over a raging doping scandal in his country which could cost more Russian athletes their places at the Rio Olympics after "tens" more cases of cheating were exposed in wrestling. Russian wrestlers may now join the country's track-and-field athletes in being barred from competing at the Games in August, after an internal Russian Wrestling Federation (WFR) investigation uncovered multiple doping cases, WFR President Mikhail Mamiashvili said. The disclosure came a day after four Russian athletes were exposed as having tested positive for the banned drug meldonium, further damaging Moscow's efforts to overturn a doping suspension in time for the Olympics starting in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 5. |
| Trump says U.S. should toughen up fight against Islamist militants | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, reacting to attacks at Brussels airport and a metro station on Tuesday, said the United States and Western countries should toughen up in their fight against Islamist militants. "I would close up our borders," Trump told Fox News in an interview. "We are lax and we are foolish," said Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination in the November election. (Reporting by Washington Newsroom; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) |
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