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| Ex-U.S. National Guardsman charged with trying to aid Islamic State | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former member of the Army National Guard has been charged with trying to aid Islamic State militants by buying weapons for an attack on U.S. soil, authorities said on Tuesday. The suspect, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 26, of Sterling, Virginia, was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on Sunday, the Justice Department said in a statement. The previous day, Jalloh had bought and test-fired a 5.56mm Stag Arms assault rifle at a Virginia gun store.
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| President Obama joins Clinton on campaign trail in North Carolina | |  By Jeff Mason CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - After months on the sidelines, President Barack Obama joined Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail at a rally on Tuesday, urging voters to pick his former secretary of state to succeed him in the White House. "I'm here today because I believe in Hillary Clinton, and I want you to help elect her to be the next president of the United States of America," Obama said at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, in what was likely to be the first of many trips on behalf of his 2008 primary rival. Obama was returning the favour after Clinton backed him in 2008.
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| Russian whistleblower still waiting for Rio go-ahead | | | By Gene Cherry EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova returns to action at the European Athletics Championships on Wednesday but is still waiting to hear from the IOC whether she can participate in the Rio Olympics, her husband told Reuters on Tuesday. The 800 metres runner, along with husband Vitaly, helped expose massive doping problems in Russia that led to the country's athletics team being banned from international competition. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) last month cleared the former convicted drug cheat's return to competition as a neutral athlete and she will run the 800m Amsterdam. |
| Infidelity website Ashley Madison facing FTC probe, CEO apologises | |  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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| Nigerian militants say their only Twitter account suspended, others are imposters | | | Nigerian militant group the Niger Delta Avengers said on Tuesday that its only account on microblogging website Twitter is under suspension and all other accounts claiming to represent the group were imposters. The group, which issued a statement on its website, has used a Twitter account as its main form of communication to publicise claims of attacks carried out in the last few months facilities in the southern Niger Delta oil hub. Twitter suspended the account on Monday. |
| Israeli settlement plans undermining efforts for peace deal - U.S. State Dept | |  Reports that Israel is planning to build hundreds of new homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, if true, seem to be part of a systematic process that is undermining efforts to reach a political deal with the Palestinians, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday. State Department spokesman John Kirby said U.S. officials had seen reports that Israel intends to advance plans for hundreds of housing units in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. "If true, this report would be the latest step in what seems to be a systematic process of land seizures, settlement expansions and legalisations of outposts that is fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state solution," Kirby told a news briefing.
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| Clinton 'extremely careless' with emails, but FBI recommends no charges | |  By John Whitesides and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI recommended on Tuesday that no criminal charges be filed over Hillary Clinton's use of private email servers while she was secretary of state, but sharply rebuked the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate for "extremely careless" handling of classified information. While FBI Director James Comey's announcement lifted a cloud of uncertainty for Clinton's White House campaign, his strong criticism of her judgment is likely to fuel a continued onslaught on the email issue by her Republican presidential rival, Donald Trump. In a lengthy statement on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's conclusions from its yearlong investigation, Comey directly contradicted statements Clinton has made while defending her use of the private email set-up.
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| FBI says conducting 30 undisclosed insider trading probes | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI in New York City has undisclosed probes into about 30 suspected insider trading schemes, the agency said, in a sign investigators remains focused on building cases despite a court ruling that could curtail such prosecutions. The number of probes, which has not been previously reported, comes amid a resurgence of insider trading cases, with prosecutors in Manhattan charging 11 people so far in 2016, up from just four in 2015. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York office has about 50 ongoing insider trading investigations, about 30 of which have yet to result in publicly-filed charges, a spokeswoman for the agency said last week.
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| UK PM candidate Crabb withdraws from race, endorses May | |  British Conservative lawmaker Stephen Crabb pulled out of the race to be the next prime minister on Tuesday and endorsed front-runner Theresa May as the list of candidates was reduced to three. Crabb, 43, withdrew after he came fourth out of five in the first round of voting, securing support from just 34 out of 330 Conservative lawmakers. Interior minister Theresa May secured 165 votes, ahead of Andrea Leadsom and Michael Gove.
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| Bangladesh police say may have shot hostage, missed attack warnings | |  By Aditya Kalra, Ruma Paul and Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh police shot dead the pizza chef of a Dhaka restaurant, mistakenly thinking he was one of the militants who killed 20 people, and misread online warnings of an impending assault, police and government officials said on Tuesday. New details from interviews with the officials and the first information report registered at a Dhaka police station painted a picture of security agencies slow to deal with Friday's attack, one of the country's deadliest. "This was the first time in Bangladesh such a thing had taken place.
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| Bodies of 9 Italians killed in Bangladesh attack brought to Rome | |  The bodies of nine Italians killed by Islamist militants who stormed an upmarket restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital last week were brought to Rome in a military plane on Tuesday. Italian President Sergio Mattarella cut short a visit to Latin America after the attack and returned to Rome, where he waited for the arrival of the plane with Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni. The Holey Artisan restaurant in Dhaka where the attack took place is popular with foreigners, and investigators in Rome are looking into whether Italians were specifically targeted, a judicial source said.
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| White House says Obama will not discuss FBI probe with Clinton | |  President Barack Obama will not speak with Hillary Clinton about the FBI's investigation of Clinton's use of private email servers while secretary of state, the White House said on Tuesday. "The president all along has believed that it is important for the Department of Justice to conduct their investigation free from any sort of perceived influence of the White House or anyone else in the federal government," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
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| Killing of mother in Saudi Arabia sparks debate about Islamic scholar | |  By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - Driven by radical beliefs, twin brothers allegedly killed their mother in Saudi Arabia after she tried to stop them from joining Islamic State in Syria in a case that outraged Saudi Arabians worried about rising Islamic militancy. The June 24 killing, in a country where respect for elders is seen as a bedrock of society, whipped up a storm of debate over the possible influence of a mediaeval Islamic scholar revered as a forerunner of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam. Saudi interior ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki said the pair were suspects in the killing.
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| Prime minister can launch EU exit procedure without parliament - minister | |  Lawyers have advised the British government that the prime minister does not need parliamentary approval to trigger the procedure to leave the European Union, government minister Oliver Letwin said on Tuesday. Formal talks on Britain's departure cannot start until it triggers Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, after which it has two years to negotiate the terms of its exit. Prime Minister David Cameron, who has announced his resignation but is staying in power until his ruling Conservatives choose a new leader, says he will leave it to his successor to notify Brussels that Britain is exiting the EU.
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| Turkey jails 17 over Istanbul attack, blames ex-Soviet members of Islamic State | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey jailed 17 suspects on Tuesday, mostly foreigners, over last week's suicide bombing at Istanbul's main airport, which President Tayyip Erdogan described as the work of Islamic State militants from the ex-Soviet Union. The arrests bring the total number of people jailed pending trial to 30 over the triple suicide bombing at Ataturk Airport, which killed 45 people and wounded hundreds, the deadliest in a series of bombings this year in Turkey. "The incident is of course completely within the framework of Daesh, a process conducted with their methods," Erdogan told reporters after praying at an Istanbul mosque at the start of the holiday.
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| Maldives foreign minister quits over death penalty | |  The foreign minister of Maldives said she quit on Tuesday because she opposed the government's use of capital punishment, which the government of the Maldives adopted in May. "It was one of the most difficult decisions I had to take," Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon said in a statement sent to Reuters. "Yet, the decision became inevitable because of the profound differences of opinion on the government's policy in implementing the death penalty at a time when serious questions are being asked, and concerns being expressed, about the delivery of justice in the Maldives." Ibrahim Hussain Shihab, a spokesman in Yameen's office, confirmed Dunya's resignation without elaborating on the reason.
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| Members of Belgian Islamic State cell jailed for up to 16 years | | | By Robert-Jan Bartunek BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian judge on Tuesday sentenced 15 members of an Islamic State (IS) militant cell - nine of them in absentia - to up to 16 years in prison after convicting them of plotting attacks on targets including Brussels airport. IS suicide bombers killed 16 people at Brussels airport - as well as 16 on a Brussels metro train - on March 22 this year, although prosecutors said the men sentenced on Tuesday had no role in those attacks. The six defendants present in court on Tuesday were arrested after a bloody police raid in the town of Verviers at the start of 2015 that suggested Belgium had become a hub for militants returning from stints with Islamist militant groups fighting in Syria's civil war. |
| Hong Kong sending delegation to Beijing on detainee notification | |  Hong Kong will send a delegation of senior officals to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss notification when its residents are detained, after protests in the Asian financial hub over the disappearances of five booksellers. No decisions will be made but senior Hong Kong justice, security, immigration, customs and police officials will travel to the Chinese capital for a one-day meeting with mainland authorities for a "comprehensive and in-depth review" of the existing notification system, Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Monday. The meeting comes after five Hong Kong booksellers went missing under mysterious circumstances, then later appeared in mainland Chinese custody.
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| France urged to shake up counterterrorism services - inquiry | |  France needs to set up a national counterterrorism agency to oversee the fight against dangerous militants, according to a parliamentary inquiry into security failings that allowed the bomb and shooting attacks in Paris last November. The recommendation for a body modelled on the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center reporting to the prime minister was one of 40 proposals made by a parliamentary committee after a five-month inquiry. Poor coordination between security services in France and at the European level let crucial information slip through about militants who killed 130 people in coordinated attacks in and near Paris on a stadium, cafes and the Bataclan concert hall, the inquiry found.
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| FIFA appeals committee reduces Valcke ban from 12 to 10 years | |  FIFA said on Tuesday it had reduced the bans imposed on two senior officials, including its former secretary general, who were barred from taking part in soccer-related activities following a corruption investigation. Former secretary general Jerome Valcke was handed a ban of 12 years while another official, Chung Mong-joon, was given a six-year ban in a corruption scandal at the heart of FIFA which led to several dozen people, including senior football officials, being indicted. Valcke, who was right-hand man to FIFA's now-banned president Sepp Blatter for eight years, was found guilty of misconduct over the sale of World Cup tickets, abuse of travel expenses, attempting to sell TV rights below their market value and destruction of evidence.
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| China jails former aide to retired Chinese president for life | | | By Ben Blanchard and Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Monday jailed a former top aide to retired president Hu Jintao for life after finding him guilty of taking bribes, illegally obtaining state secrets and abuse of power during a secret trial in which his wife testified against him. The verdict in the case, which the ruling Communist Party has said caused major damage to its image, brings to a close another chapter in President Xi Jinping's sweeping campaign against corruption which he began more than three years ago. The party announced its investigation into the one-time aide to Hu, Ling Jihua, in December 2014. |
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