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| False alarm triggered Geneva airport security alert - prosecutors | | | A security alert at Geneva's Cointrin airport on Wednesday was triggered by a false alarm, prosecutors said. "Following an anonymous call announcing the presence in Geneva Airport of a person with a bomb, an investigation by prosecutors, the Geneva police and French authorities identified and questioned the caller who admitted making a false alarm," a statement said. |
| Turkey's interior min says more than 15,000 detained over failed coup | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have detained more than 15,000 people, including more than 10,000 soldiers, following the July 15-16 failed coup attempt, broadcaster CNN Turk on Wednesday cited interior minister Efkana Ala as saying. A total of 8,113 people have been formally arrested pending trial, the broadcaster cited Ala as saying. A faction of Turkey's armed forces attempted to overthrow the government this month, but their effort failed when thousands of supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan took to the streets to defy the putsch. ... |
| Turkey detains more journalists in clampdown on cleric's followers | |  By Daren Butler and Orhan Coskun ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey ordered another 47 journalists detained on Wednesday, part of a large-scale crackdown on suspected supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused by Ankara of masterminding a failed military coup. Turkey has suspended, detained or placed under investigation more than 60,000 soldiers, judges, teachers, journalists and others suspected of ties to Gulen's movement since the July 15-16 coup, which was staged by a faction within the military. Turkey's army General Staff on Wednesday put the number of soldiers belonging to the Gulen network who took part in the coup attempt at 8,651, roughly about 1.5 percent of the armed forces, broadcaster NTV reported.
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| IAAF confirms ban on Russia's track and field athletes in Rio | |  The global governing body for athletics on Wednesday stood behind its ban on Russia's track and field athletes competing at the Rio Olympics, effectively leaving all paths trodden in Moscow's attempts to get them readmitted. Confirmation of the ban, announced by the IAAF after Russia's sports minister sought its revocation, was discriminatory and amounted to a political campaign waged against Russian sportspeople, President Vladimir Putin said in Moscow. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) imposed the ban in November for systematic state-sponsored doping.
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| Putin: Olympic ban on Russian athletes result of political campaign | |  President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the exclusion of Russian track-and-field athletes from the Rio Olympics over doping allegations was discrimination and that a political campaign had been waged against Russian sportspeople. Putin, who was addressing members of Russia's Olympic team in the Kremlin, said that the absence of some Russian sportspeople from the Olympics would damage international sport as well as the Olympics.
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| Morocco arrests 52 suspected militants, foils several attacks | | | Morocco said on Wednesday that it had arrested 52 suspected militants inspired by Islamic State and that it had foiled several attacks in the North African kingdom by seizing weapons and bomb-making materials. It is the largest group arrested in years and the latest of a series of cells that the authorities say they have found plotting attacks inside and outside Morocco. The North African kingdom, an ally of the West against Islamist militancy, has been on high alert since 2014, when IS took control of large swathes of northern Iraq and Syria. |
| Police tighten security at Geneva airport after French tip-off | | | By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Police tightened security at Geneva's Cointrin airport on Wednesday after a French tip-off about a possible bomb threat. Preventive security measures were being taken around the airport, Geneva police said on their Facebook page, and would continue for an indefinite period. Officers armed with machine guns were on duty around the airport, which straddles the Swiss border with France. |
| France's Hollande meets religious leaders amid row over attacks security | |  By Andrew Callus and Chine Labbé PARIS/SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande demonstrated interfaith unity with France's religious leaders on Wednesday after two Islamist militants killed a Roman Catholic priest in a church, igniting fierce political criticism of the government's security record. One of the assailants was a known would-be jihadist awaiting trial under supposedly tight surveillance, a revelation that raised pressure over the Socialist government's response to a wave of attacks claimed by Islamic State since early in 2015. "We cannot allow ourselves to be dragged into the politics of Daech (Islamic State), which wants to set the children of the same family against each other," the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, told journalists after the meeting at the Elysee presidential palace.
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| Bahrain Shi'ite cleric goes on trial for money laundering | |  The spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shi'ite Muslim majority went on trial on Wednesday on charges of collecting donations illegally and money laundering in a case that has increased tensions in the Western-allied Gulf Arab state. Ayatollah Isa Qassim, who also faces expulsion from the country after authorities revoked his citizenship last month for alleged foreign links and fomenting violence, says the charges are part of a political crackdown on majority Shi'ites to stop them from pushing for political reforms. A prosecution statement said Qassim and two others accused in the same case did not appear in court despite having been informed of the trial.
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| U.N. calls for humanitarian truce in Yemen's Taiz province | |  The United Nations called for a humanitarian truce in the Yemeni province of Taiz after government forces captured a town from Iran-allied Houthi militia in heavy fighting that has spurred allegations of war crimes. The fighting has complicated U.N.-sponsored peace talks, as envoys for the Houthis have delayed responding to U.N. proposals calling for Houthi pullouts from cities they control, including the capital Sanaa, and the creation of an inclusive government. James McGoldrick, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, voiced alarm at increasing bloodshed in the southwestern Taiz Governorate, particularly the al-Sarari area, and the closure of Taiz city, the regional capital.
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| Democrat Clinton makes history with U.S. presidential nomination | |  By Amanda Becker and Luciana Lopez PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party's White House nomination, coming back from a stinging defeat in her first presidential run in 2008 and surviving a bitter primary fight to become the first woman to head the ticket of a major party in U.S. history. In a symbolic show of party unity, Clinton's former rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, on Tuesday told the chairwoman from the convention floor that Clinton, 68, should be selected as the party's nominee at the dramatic climax of a state-by-state roll call at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Capping nearly a quarter century in public life, Clinton will become the party's standard-bearer against Republican nominee Donald Trump in the Nov. 8 election when she accepts the nomination on Thursday.
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| Turkish military says coup-plotting soldiers account for 1.5 percent of force | |  The Turkish military said on Wednesday that 8,651 soldiers took part in a failed attempt to overthrow the government earlier this month, accounting for about 1.5 percent of the army. In a statement carried by Turkey's NTV television, the military said the soldiers belonged to a "terrorist" network led by Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric who has led a religious movement for decades.
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| Corrected - Turkish defectors to Greece seek time to prepare asylum case | |  (Corrects final paragraph to read Greece, not Turkey.) ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek authorities on Wednesday postponed hearings for eight Turkish soldiers who sought asylum after they fled Turkey following an abortive coup attempt, a case that has underscored lingering tensions between the two NATO allies. The men - three majors, three captains and two sergeant majors - flew a military helicopter to the northern Greek border town of Alexandroupolis on July 16, a day after the coup attempt unfolded. Claiming they fear for their lives, the men have sought political asylum in Greece.
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| No aim to "perpetuate military rule" with Thai charter; ex-PM rejects it | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A constitution that Thailand will decide on in a referendum next month is not aimed at perpetuating military rule, an official who helped write it said on Wednesday, as a former premier from a pro-establishment party rejected the draft charter. Critics argue that the constitution, to replace one torn up by the military after the coup, will entrench military control at the expense of elected political parties. Norachit Sinhaseni, a former diplomat and spokesman for the Constitution Drafting Committee, said the main objective of the charter was to ensure a swift return to democracy.
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| Japan mass killing sparks debate: why didn't the system prevent it? | |  By Linda Sieg and Minami Funakoshi TOKYO (Reuters) - A day after the mass murder of 19 people at a facility for the disabled, many shocked Japanese were questioning why the only suspect was discharged after just two weeks from a hospital to which he'd been forcibly committed under mental health laws. "However, there were warning signs before the incident," said the Asahi, one of Japan's two biggest newspapers. The suspect, 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, gave himself up to police just an hour after the frenzied attack at the Tsukui Yamayuri-En facility in the sleepy town of Sagamihara, southwest of Tokyo early on Tuesday.
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