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| Turkey shakes up armed forces, US says purges harming cooperation | |  By Tulay Karadeniz and Seda Sezer ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan angrily rejected Western criticism of purges under way in Turkey's military and other state institutions after a failed coup, suggesting some in the United States were on the side of the plotters. The purges target supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of masterminding the July 15-16 coup. Turkey's Western allies condemned the coup, in which at least 246 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured, but they have been rattled by the scale of the crackdown.
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| U.S. Democratic congressional group confirms it was hacked | |  The U.S. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee confirmed on Friday that it had been the target of a cyber security incident similar to other recent attacks, including the theft of documents from the Democratic National Committee. The DCCC said in a statement that it took immediate action and engaged forensic investigator CrowdStrike to investigate the breach of its systems. "The DCCC takes this matter very seriously.
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| China holds Japanese man for endangering national security - media | | | China is investigating a Japanese citizen on suspicion of endangering national security, Japan's Kyodo news agency cited the Chinese Foreign Ministry as saying on Friday. The man, in his late 50s, was scheduled to stay in Beijing for five days through July 15, but did not return to Japan and has not answered his mobile phone, Kyodo cited Japanese government sources and others as saying. |
| Turkey probes 1,300 labour ministry staff over failed coup - minister | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is investigating 1,300 personnel at the labour ministry over the failed coup attempt two weeks ago, Labour Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Friday. Turkish authorities have detained, suspended or placed under investigation tens of thousands of people in state institutions, universities, the police, media and other sectors since the July 15-16 failed coup over suspected links to a U.S.-based Islamic cleric accused by Ankara of masterminding the putsch. ...
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| Austria extradites pair thought to be linked to Paris attacks | | | Two men thought to be connected to the militants who carried out the Paris attacks in November have been extradited to France from Austria, the prosecutors' office in the city of Salzburg said on Friday. "The two accused have left federal territory," the Salzburg prosecutors' office said in a statement. The French newspaper Le Monde has reported that the two men travelled together from Syria to the Greek island of Leros with two Iraqi brothers who blew themselves up near the Stade de France stadium outside Paris on Nov. 13. |
| Turkey to shut down air base, barracks used in coup attempt - PM | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will shut down an air base near the capital Ankara as well as all military barracks which were used by rogue soldiers during an attempted military coup two weeks ago, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday. "We will shut all barracks that dispatched tanks and launched helicopters," Yildirim said in a speech broadcast live from near the Akinci air base north of Ankara, which served as a hub for the coup plotters on the night of July 15. (Reporting by Ayla Jean Yackley; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Gareth Jones) |
| San Diego police say officer fatally shot, another wounded | | | A San Diego police officer was fatally shot and another was wounded late on Thursday, the police department said on Friday, adding one suspect was taken into custody. The officers, members of the department's gang suppression unit, were shot during a traffic stop at about 11 p.m. PDT (0600 GMT) in Southcrest, a neighborhood in southeast San Diego, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The officers were taken to hospitals. |
| France detains Syrian refugee as church attack investigation widens | |  By Richard Lough and Sophie Louet PARIS (Reuters) - French police have detained a Syrian asylum seeker in connection with the Normandy church attack, two sources said on Friday, as security services widened their investigation into the killing of an elderly priest at the altar by two would-be jihadists. Three days after teenagers Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Nabir Petitjean chanted in Arabic as they slit the throat of Father Jacques Hamel, investigators are probing their network of associates from the northern Normandy region to the alpine east. A police source said the Syrian man was arrested near a refugee centre in the rural Allier region of central France, where Petitjean lived for four years with his parents until 2012, according to French media.
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| Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown | |  Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday for up to three-and-a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country's economy. The crash thrust Ireland into a three-year sovereign bailout in 2010 and the finance ministry said last month that it could take another 15 years to recover the funds pumped into the banks still operating. Former Irish Life and Permanent Chief Executive Denis Casey was sentenced to two years and nine months following the 74-day criminal trial, Ireland's longest ever.
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| India's new reforestation law ignores indigenous people, analysts say | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new Indian law to boost reforestation across the country ignores the importance of indigenous people in conserving land and tramples on their rights, analysts and activists said. The Rajya Sabha passed a bill late on Thursday that would give state governments more than 60 billion rupees ($895 million) a year to conserve and protect forests and wildlife. "It is a good bill," Minister of State of Environment Anil Madhav Dave said in a statement, adding that the new law would help to focus reforestation efforts in a concerted way.
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| Tibetan monk who died was tortured, says niece who fled China | |  By Abhishek Madhukar DHARAMSALA (Reuters) - The niece of a leading Buddhist monk who died in a Chinese jail has fled to India to tell the world she suspects he was a victim of torture, and disbelieves the official version that he died of a heart attack. Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, had been serving a life sentence for "crimes of terror and incitement of separatism" when his family was told on July 12, 2015, that he had died in prison in China's southwestern city of Chengdu. Only a week later did state media report that Tenzin Delek, a supporter of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, had died of a heart attack.
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| Singaporean detained for 'terrorism-related activities' | | | By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singaporean man has been detained for "terrorism-related activities" that included supporting the Islamic State (IS) militant group and encouraging violence through Facebook posts, the government said on Friday. Multi-ethnic Singapore has an image as one of the safest countries in the world and has never seen an attack by Islamist militants though authorities did break up a plot to bomb several embassies soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Authorities have detained or repatriated dozens of people in the past year, most of them migrant Bangladeshi workers, for suspected links to militant fund-raising. |
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