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| Suicide bomber attacks Indonesian police station, wounding one | | | By Fransiska Nangoy and Nilufar Rizki JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a police station in the small Indonesian city of Solo on Tuesday, killing himself and wounding a police officer, a police spokesman said. Following the attack, President Joko Widodo, who is from Solo and a former mayor of the town, urged calm and ordered police to quickly arrest others that may have been connected to the suicide bomber. Police have increased security at churches, mosques, shopping malls and airports as Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population, prepares to celebrate the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. |
| Australian PM Turnbull defies critics, cliffhanger vote count resumes | |  By Matt Siegel and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Embattled Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull defended his performance after widespread calls for his resignation and said on Tuesday he was confident of retaining office after vote counting resumed in a cliffhanger election. Turnbull's Liberal-National coalition has so far secured 68 lower house seats and the centre-left Labor opposition 67, according to projections by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, both agonisingly short of the 76 seats needed to form a majority government in the House of Representatives. Turnbull said in his first public comments since Sunday that he took full responsibility for his coalition's campaign and that he was still confident of winning a majority.
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| Exclusive: Infidelity website Ashley Madison facing FTC probe, CEO apologizes | |  By Alastair Sharp and Allison Martell TORONTO (Reuters) - The parent company of infidelity dating site Ashley Madison, hit by a devastating hack last year, is now the target of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigation, the new executives seeking to revive its credibility told Reuters. Have an affair", cost Avid Life Media more than a quarter of its revenue, Chief Executive Rob Segal and President James Millership revealed in an interview, the first by any senior executive since the incident.
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| Seventeen jailed pending trial over Istanbul airport attack - media | |  A Turkish court jailed 17 suspects pending trial on Tuesday in connection with last week's suicide bombing attack on Istanbul's main airport that killed 45 people and wounded hundreds, state media said. The arrest of the suspects, 11 of them foreigners, brought the number of those remanded in custody over the attack to 30 after 13 were sent to jail on Sunday, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Officials believe last Tuesday's triple suicide bombing at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings this year in Turkey, was carried out by Islamic State.
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| Corrected - Queen, in Scotland after Brexit vote, says staying calm can be hard | |  (Corrects to show 62 to 38 percent exact result of EU vote in Scotland not 2 to 1 in paragraph 7) EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth told Scottish lawmakers on Saturday that staying calm in a fast-changing world can be difficult. Speaking as she formally opened the fifth session of Scotland's devolved parliament, she made no mention of last week's vote by Britain to leave the European Union, a result which prompted dismay in Scotland and sparked calls for another independence referendum.
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| U.S. military to limit legal protection to some contractors in Japan | | | By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - Washington said it will limit legal protections and benefits to some U.S. civilian contractors working for the military in Japan in a bid to assuage local anger following the killing of a Japanese woman on Okinawa island. Japan and the U.S. agreed on Tuesday to tighten eligibility for the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed in 1960, which sets out the legal status of U.S. bases and military personnel working in Japan. |
| UK Labour MP says ready for leadership challenge; Corbyn clings on | |  Britain's opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will face a leadership contest unless he considers his position, Labour Party lawmaker Angela Eagle said on Monday, saying she has the necessary support to trigger a challenge and is ready to do so. Corbyn has refused to resign following Britain's vote to leave the European Union, despite mass defections from his policy team and a no confidence motion that was passed by an overwhelming majority of lawmakers in his own party. The party's deputy leader Tom Watson told Labour lawmakers on Monday he would meet with trade union representatives, Labour's financial backers, in a "last throw of the dice" to try and reach a deal over Corbyn's leadership, his spokesman said.
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| Japan's Uniqlo suspends most Bangladesh travel; others reviewing operations | |  By Abhirup Roy, Promit Mukherjee and Chang-Ran Kim MUMBAI/TOKYO (Reuters) - Foreign companies with nationals working in Bangladesh's garment and building industries have suspended travel to the country and told workers there to stay at home after a deadly attack by Islamist militants on a restaurant in Dhaka on Friday. Fast Retailing Co, the Japanese owner of the Uniqlo casual-wear brand, said it would suspend all but critical travel to Bangladesh and had told staff there to stay indoors. Bangladesh's $26 billion garment industry has been bracing for the fallout of Friday's killings, fearing major retailers from Uniqlo to Marks and Spencer and Gap could rethink their sourcing plans after the latest attack targeting foreigners.
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| Bangladesh says some restaurant attackers were well off and educated | | | By Aditya Kalra and Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh police sought more information on Monday from friends and family of the men suspected of carrying out a deadly attack on a restaurant in the capital, and some are believed to have attended top schools and colleges at home and abroad. The gunmen stormed the restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone late on Friday and killed 20 people, most of them foreigners from Italy, Japan, India and the United States, in an assault claimed by Islamic State. It was one of the deadliest militant attacks to date in Bangladesh, where Islamic State and al Qaeda have claimed a series of killings of liberals and religious minorities in the last year while the government says they were carried out by local groups. |
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