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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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| Obama joins Clinton on the campaign trail in North Carolina | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In her June 2008 concession speech for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton pledged to do all she could to propel Barack Obama to the White House. After months of waiting on the sidelines while his former secretary of state battled Senator Bernie Sanders to be this year's Democratic nominee, the president hits the campaign trail in what is likely to be the first of many trips to urge voters to pick his one-time rival as his successor. Obama endorsed Clinton last month with a forceful video in which he stated that no one had been so qualified for the job.
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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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| FBI to recommend no charges in Clinton email probe, director says | |  By John Whitesides and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI will recommend to the U.S. Justice Department that no charges be filed over Hillary Clinton's use of private email servers while secretary of state, agency Director James Comey said on Tuesday, lifting a cloud of uncertainty over her White House campaign. The Federal Bureau of Investigation found evidence of "extremely careless" handling of emails by Clinton and that at least 110 emails contained classified information when they were sent, said Comey, announcing the result of a yearlong investigation.
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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. |
| German police evacuate Turkey bound plane after anonymous call | | | German police evacuated a Germania plane due to take off from Kassel airport for Turkey on Tuesday after an anonymous caller said luggage on board posed a danger. Germania said flight ST8056 had been due to fly to the Turkish resort of Antalya before notice of the threat. All 128 passengers and seven crew members were being looked after at Kassel airport in western Germany. |
| FBI ending Clinton email probe, referring for prosecutorial decision - director | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey said on Tuesday the agency is completing its yearlong probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state, and will refer its findings to the Justice Department for a decision on whether it merits prosecution. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, gave a voluntary 3-1/2-hour interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday in Washington. (Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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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. "This was the first time in Bangladesh such a thing had taken place. "Initial response was slow." Bangladesh authorities who monitor social media saw several messages on Friday posted on Twitter saying there would be an attack, he said.
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| Prime minister can trigger formal exit procedure from EU, says UK 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 exit cannot start until it triggers Article 50 of the EU 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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| Chinese authorities warn Hong Kong bookseller for "violating" bail | |  A law enforcement body in China has warned Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee that he could face harsher legal action for violating his bail conditions after he was allowed to return to Hong Kong in June, a Hong Kong newspaper reported. A statement issued by the Ningbo Public Security Bureau said Lam had broken his bail terms by failing to return to the mainland for further investigation after an initial eight months in detention, Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper reported. Lam was one of five booksellers whose disappearances over the past year have been linked to the Causeway Bay Books store that had specialized in publishing and selling gossipy books about China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping.
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| French govt forces labour law through parliament, shrugs off protests | |  By Brian Love and Emile Picy PARIS (Reuters) - France's government, overriding street protests and rebels in its own ranks, invoked special powers on Tuesday to impose labour legislation by decree that will make it easier for employers to hire and fire staff. President Francois Hollande's government hopes the labour reform will cut stubbornly high unemployment. Thousands marched through Paris and other cities under heavy police presence in what labour unions say will be the last of a dozen such demonstrations before a summer holiday hiatus.
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| U.N. warns of renewed cycle of sectarian strife in Iraq, urges prevention | |  The top U.N. human rights official called on Iraq on Tuesday to stop groups that are fighting alongside government forces against Islamic State from taking revenge on civilians and to clarify the fate of hundreds who went missing. Witnesses say a government-affiliated Shi'ite militia that helped the army recapture Falluja from Islamic State in early June abducted more than 600 Sunni Muslim men and boys who had just fled the city. The disappearances, along with one of the worst single bombings in Iraq to date in Baghdad on Saturday "increase the likelihood of a renewed cycle of full-throttle sectarian violence," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement.
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