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| Hackers hit Vietnam airports with South China Sea messages | | | Hackers attacked the website of a national airline and flight information screens at Vietnam's two biggest airports on Friday, posting notices that state media said criticised the Philippines and Vietnam and their claims in the South China Sea. The website of Vietnam Airlines was also compromised, directing browsers to what the flag carrier described as "bad websites overseas". State-run media said the messages were about the South China Sea and denounced Vietnam and the Philippines, which are at odds with Beijing over maritime sovereignty. |
| Two people suspected of terrorism links arrested on train in s.France, conductor announces | | | Two people suspected of links to terrorism were arrested on Friday by armed police officers on a high-speed train in Toulon, in the south of France, and the train was searched, a train conductor announced to passengers, according to a Reuters witness. The TGV train was travelling from Nice to Paris. |
| Democratic campaign group for U.S. Congress confirms computer hack | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A committee that raises money for Democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives confirmed on Friday it had been hacked, a cyber intrusion that may be linked to Russian hackers, like an earlier one targeting another Democratic Party group. In an incident likely to raise concerns among party donors about their personal information, Reuters first reported on Thursday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the hack at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC. The DCCC hack may be related to an earlier hack against the Democratic National Committee, which raises money and sets strategy for Democratic candidates nationwide.
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| Brazil nabs former Hezbollah member wanted for drug trafficking | | | In a continued roundup of suspects linked to terrorism ahead of the Rio Olympics, Brazilian police said Friday they had arrested a Lebanese man who was a former member of the militant group Hezbollah and wanted for drug trafficking. Fadi Hassan Nabha, 42, was arrested late Thursday at his home in Caieiras, a suburb of Sao Paulo, on orders from the justice ministry that has been seeking to expel him from Brazil, a spokesman for the military police said. "We have been looking for him since May because he was wanted for drug traffic, not terrorism," the spokesman Augusto Roque told Reuters. |
| San Diego police say officer fatally shot, another wounded | | | A San Diego police officer was fatally shot and another was injured at a traffic stop late on Thursday, police said on Friday, and a wounded suspect was taken into custody. The officers, members of the department's gang suppression unit, were shot shortly after making a traffic stop at about 11 p.m. PDT (0600 GMT) in Southcrest, a neighborhood in southeast San Diego, Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said at a news conference. "I'm extremely heartbroken to report that we had an officer shot and killed," Zimmerman said. |
| French church attacker: from troubled childhood to altar killer | |  By Michel Rose SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (Reuters) - Adel Kermiche was an attention-seeking child whose behavioural problems frequently led him to a psychiatric hospital and later a specialist school. Kermiche burst into a church on the outskirts of Rouen during morning mass on Tuesday with another teenage Islamic militant and killed the 85-year-old father at the altar, chanting in Arabic, before they were both shot dead by police. "All he would talk about was Syria." A judicial source said Kermiche received regular psycho-therapy and medication between the ages of six and 13, at which point he was sent to school for pupils with behavioural problems.
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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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| 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. |
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