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| Turkey frees 758 soldiers after failed coup, Erdogan drops lawsuits | |  By Yesim Dikmen and Humeyra Pamuk ANKARA/ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey has released more than 750 soldiers detained after an abortive coup, state media reported on Saturday, while President Tayyip Erdogan said he would drop lawsuits against people who had insulted him, in a one-time gesture of "unity". Turkey's Western allies have condemned the coup, in which Erdogan has said 237 people were killed and more than 2,100 were wounded, but have been rattled by the scale of the resulting crackdown which has targeted supporters of Fethullah Gulen. The U.S.-based Muslim cleric, accused by Ankara of masterminding the July 15-16 putsch, denies the charges and Erdogan's critics say the president is using the purges to clamp down on dissent.
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| Masked attackers target religious devotees in Bangladesh | | | Masked attackers stormed a religious meeting place in southwest Bangladesh, cutting off the long hair of the worshippers, police said on Saturday. It was not clear whether the attack was linked in any way to other killings this year of liberals and religious minorities in the mostly Muslim nation of 160 million people. "About nine to 10 miscreants with masks stormed the (bauls') meeting place and tied up them to a tree, beat them and set fire to their shelter," said Abu Jihad Mohammad Fakhrul Islam, the officer in charge of Damurhuda police station, 260 km (160 miles) south west of Dhaka. |
| Policeman killed as Armenian security give gunmen ultimatum | | | By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - One policeman was killed on Saturday by armed men seizing a police station in Armenia's capital Yerevan, after the country's security service warned the group to lay down arms or law enforcement would open fire. An unknown number of gunmen seized the police station two weeks ago to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Jirair Sefilian and President Serzh Sarksyan's resignation. Within a week, the group had released all its hostages.. But on Saturday, after police clashes on Friday night with supporters of the armed men in which several dozen were wounded and many detained, Armenia's National Security Service said the option to resolve the conflict peacefully had been exhausted. |
| Bavaria leader rejects Merkel's 'we can do this' refugee mantra | |  By Jens Hack and Paul Carrel MUNICH/BERLIN (Reuters) - Bavaria's premier, whose state bore the brunt of recent attacks in Germany, took aim at Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy on Saturday by rejecting her "we can do this" mantra. The comments from Horst Seehofer, whose Christian Social Union is the Bavarian sister party of Merkel's conservatives, exacerbate the chancellor's difficulty in standing by a policy that her critics have blamed for the attacks and which risks undermining her popularity before federal elections next year. Five attacks in Germany since July 18 have left 15 people dead, including four assailants, and dozens injured.
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| Belgium charges man with planning attack, releases brother | | | Belgium charged a man with planning to commit murder in a terrorist attack and released his brother after a series of house searches on Friday evening, federal prosecutors said. For the time being, there was no connection with the attacks at Brussels airport and the metro on March 22, in which 32 people were killed, the prosecution office said on Saturday. Nourredine H., was detained with his brother Hamza H., on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack somewhere in Belgium. |
| Pokemon GO players robbed at gunpoint in London park | |  Three teenagers playing the hit game Pokemon GO have been robbed at gunpoint in a north London park and forced to hand over their mobile phones, British police said on Saturday. While one suspect demanded that the three teenagers hand over their phones, a second revealed what the police said was a handgun from his waistband. The three teenagers handed over their phones and left the scene unhurt.
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| Turkey misses chance for peace with Kurdish militants after coup failed | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A chance to revive a wrecked peace process with Kurdish rebels has been missed as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan taps nationalist sentiment to consolidate his support after a failed military coup, the head of the pro-Kurdish opposition said. Decrees during a state of emergency, including purges of tens of thousands of suspected coup plotters, may threaten the wider opposition, Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), also said in an interview. The failed intervention by a faction of the military to overthrow the government on July 15 killed more than 240 people and posed the gravest threat yet to Erdogan's 13 years in power before it was quickly put down by loyalist forces.
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