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| Islamic State releases new video of France church attacker | | | Islamic State's affiliated news agency AMAQ on Thursday released a video purportedly showing one of the two men who attacked a church in northern France this week urging all Muslims to destroy the country. In the pre-recorded video, Abdel-Malik Nabir Petitjean, formally identified as one of the men who killed a priest in the attack before being shot dead by police, addresses President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls directly. Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the video. |
| Suspects arrested in Yemen over attack on Aden old folks' home | | | Yemeni security forces have arrested a number of suspects in connection with an attack on a senior citizens' home in Aden in March in which at least 16 people were killed, including four Indian nuns, a spokesman said on Thursday. The motive for the attack was unclear but President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi called it an act of terrorism. The spokesman described those arrested as a "gang" but gave no details on their number or motives, and said the search for suspects continued. |
| U.S. SEC freezes assets of Utah-based Ponzi scheme operator | | | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday it had frozen the assets of the operator of a Utah-based Ponzi scheme that raised more than $207 million from investors worldwide, mainly in the United States, India and Russia. In a complaint filed in federal court in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, the SEC alleged that Traffic Monsoon LLC and Charles Scoville, its only member, falsely represented the company as a successful advertising firm, but raised more than 99 percent of its funds from new investors. Scoville began Traffic Monsoon in October 2014 as a combination internet traffic exchange and pay-per-click program and signed up more than 162,000 investors globally, the federal regulator said in a statement. |
| Indonesia executes three Nigerians, one local, despite protests | | | By Johan Purnomo CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia executed four convicted drug traffickers, three of them Nigerians, in the early hours of Friday, leaving the fate of 10 others uncertain. The Africans and an Indonesian man were shot by firing squad during a thunderstorm shortly after midnight on Nusakambangan Island in Central Java, as the government ignored international calls for clemency and pushed ahead with what it considers a war on drugs. An official said on Friday the planned executions would go ahead "in stages" but declined to give a timeframe. |
| After rousing opening acts, Clinton to make case for the White House | |  By Amy Tennery and Jonathan Allen PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton will make her case for the White House on Thursday night, facing the tough task of equalling show-stopping speeches by President Barack Obama and others who have embraced her bid to become the first woman elected U.S. president. Known as a more effective politician in small gatherings than as a big-event speaker, the former secretary of state has a hard act to follow after Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden electrified this week's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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| Erdogan wants army under president's control after coup - Turkish official | |  By Ece Toksabay and Daren Butler ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wants the armed forces and national intelligence agency brought under the control of the presidency, a parliamentary official said on Thursday, part of a major overhaul of the military after a failed coup. Erdogan's comments came after a five-hour meeting of Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) - chaired by Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and including the top brass - and the dishonourable discharge of nearly 1,700 military personnel over their alleged role in the abortive putsch on July 15-16. After the meeting, Erdogan approved the council's decisions to keep armed forces chief Hulusi Akar and the army, navy and air force commanders in their posts, making few changes to the top brass, Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told reporters.
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| Spain's Rajoy accepts mandate to form government, warns he may fail | |  By Julien Toyer and Carlos Ruano MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Thursday he had accepted a mandate from the King to form a government although he warned he might fail and left open the date for a potential confidence vote in parliament. Rajoy said he would now open a round of talks with other parties to try to convince them to vote for his conservative People's Party. Most of them declined to support plans for a conservative-led government in talks with the King on Thursday and earlier this week, however, leaving the PP with just 137 votes in parliament when 176 are needed to secure a majority.
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| France had been hunting second church attacker after tipoff | |  By Chine Labbé and Michel Rose PARIS/SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (Reuters) - Police had been hunting the second teenager who killed a priest in a church in France this week after a foreign intelligence tipoff that a suspected jihadist might be preparing an attack, police and judicial sources said. The revelation is likely to further fuel criticism by opposition politicians that President Francois Hollande's Socialist government did not do enough to stop the pair given that they were both already known to intelligence services. Police had already identified 19-year-old Adel Kermiche as one of the attackers.
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| Judge rejects Sumner Redstone bid to end Viacom CEO lawsuit | |  A Massachusetts judge on Thursday rejected Sumner Redstone's bid to quickly end a case that will likely determine the future of the media mogul's holdings and set an October trial date, marking a victory for Viacom Inc Chief Executive Philippe Dauman. The issue is whether the 93-year-old Redstone knew what he was doing when he removed Dauman and Viacom board member George Abrams in May from the seven-person trust that will control his majority ownership of Viacom and CBS Corp when he dies or is incapacitated. Dauman and Abrams filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts, where the trust was established, contesting their removal from the trust and from the board of National Amusements Inc, Redstone's privately-held movie theatre company, through which he owns 80 percent of the voting shares of CBS Corp and Viacom. Judge George Phelan of Norfolk County Probate and Family Court in Canton, Massachusetts, rejected Redstone's motion to dismiss and ruled that the case should proceed in Massachusetts.
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| Zimbabwe arrests war veteran over Mugabe rebuke | | | HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police said on Thursday they had arrested a top official of a war veterans association that called President Robert Mugabe a corrupt dictator, and human rights lawyers said the leader had begun a crackdown on his former allies. Douglas Mahiya, information secretary of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), was detained on Wednesday over a statement the association issued last week attacking Mugabe's rule. The government has labelled the statement "treasonous". ... |
| Senior Pakistani officer to investigate British woman's suspected 'honour killing' | | | By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan on Thursday appointed a senior police official to investigate the death of a British woman whose husband alleges she was killed for marrying him against her parents' wishes. The case has attracted attention because it comes days after the high-profile "honour killing" of outspoken social media star Qandeel Baloch by her brother. Samia Shahid, 28, a beautician from Bradford who had gone to visit her family in Pakistan, died last week in the village of Pandori in northern Punjab, the political power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. |
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