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| Putin: Olympic ban on Russian athletes is result of political plot | |  By Andrew Osborn and Denis Dyomkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said a shadowy political plot had succeeded in unfairly stripping some Russian sportspeople of the right to compete at the Rio Olympics over doping allegations and promised to defend Russia's tarnished sporting reputation. Addressing members of Russia's Olympic team in the Kremlin on Wednesday, Putin said a decision by global sporting organisations to ban Russian track-and-field athletes and sportspeople in everything from swimming to rowing flew in the face of common sense and legality. "It is an attempt to apply the rules which unfortunately dominate in geopolitics to the sporting world," he said, hitting out at what he called "short-sighted political schemers." With Russia months away from parliamentary elections and stuck in an economic crisis, the scandal, which centres on allegations the Russian government and the FSB security service covered up doping for years, has rocked the Russian sports world and tarnished Putin's showcase 2014 winter Olympics.
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| Obama to pitch for Clinton as having the judgment for the White House | |  By Amanda Becker and Luciana Lopez PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Barack Obama will add an optimistic pitch on Wednesday to the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton as the first woman U.S. president, as he seeks to hand off the White House to a trusted fellow Democrat and stop Republican Donald Trump. Clinton formally secured the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on Tuesday, coming back from a stinging defeat to Obama in her first White House run in 2008 and surviving a bitter primary fight against Bernie Sanders to become the first woman to head the ticket of a major U.S. party.
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| Austria to extradite Pakistani over suspected Paris attack links | | | A Pakistani man suspected of links to the jihadists who killed 130 people in Paris in November will be extradited to France, an Austrian court spokesman said on Wednesday. French newspaper Le Monde has reported that the two men travelled together from Syria to the Greek island of Leros with the two Iraqi brothers who blew themselves up near the Stade de France national stadium outside Paris on Nov. 13. "The extradition of the Pakistani man was declared admissible," a spokesman for a regional court in the Austrian city of Linz said, declining to give any further details. |
| Conspiracy theories flourish after Turkey's failed coup | |  By Michael Georgy and Mert Ozkan ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's failed coup was financed by the CIA and directed by a retired U.S. army general using a cell in Afghanistan, said one Turkish pro-government newspaper. CIA agents used an island hotel off Istanbul as a nerve centre for the plot, said another. Turks are churning out conspiracy theories about who helped orchestrate the abortive military coup that nearly toppled President Tayyip Erdogan, with the United States - a close NATO ally but a traditional object of suspicion - top of the list.
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| Armed standoff heats up in Armenian capital as gunmen seize hostages | |  By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armed men holed up at a police station in Armenia's capital Yerevan took several doctors hostage on Wednesday, ratcheting up tension in their 10-day standoff with security forces. The group of 30 gunmen seized the police station on July 17, killing a police officer, wounding two others and taking hostage nine officers. After negotiations with security forces, they released four remaining captives on Saturday, but refused to surrender.
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| No plans to release tax returns as pressure mounts, Trump aide says | |  (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump "will not be releasing" his tax returns due to a federal audit, his campaign manager said on Wednesday, despite pressure to release them and provide a window into his finances before the Nov. 8 election. "Mr. Trump has said that his taxes are under audit, and he will not be releasing them," campaign manager Paul Manafort said in an interview with CBS on Wednesday. "That issue will be dealt with when the audits are done." His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, has released tax returns and called on Trump to put out his.
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| Pope says attacks shows "world is at war", religion not to blame | |  ABOARD PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Wednesday that a string of recent attacks, including the murder of a priest in France, was proof that the "world is at war". However, speaking to reporters aboard a plane taking him to Poland, the pope said he was not talking about a war of religion, but rather one of domination of peoples and economic interests. "The word that is being repeated often is insecurity, but the real word is war," he said in brief comments to reporters while flying to southern Poland for a five-day visit. "Let's recognise it. ...
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| India makes crucial tweaks to push through stalled GST reform | |  The Indian government on Wednesday made crucial ammendments to its goods and services tax bill in a move to enlist the support of opposition parties as well as state governments. The proposed tax reform, the biggest since India's independence from Britain in 1947, seeks to replace a slew of taxes and levies in 29 states, transforming the nation of near 1.3 billion people into a customs union. Analysts say the goods and services levy (GST) could boost India's economic growth by up to 2 percentage points.
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| Suitcase filled with aerosols detonated near Nuremberg - German broadcaster | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - An explosion went off close to an office for migration in the town of Zirndorf near Nuremberg on Wednesday, German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk reported, adding that it was not yet known whether there were any casualties. The broadcaster said on its website that a suitcase filled with aerosols was detonated, adding that it was unknown who had caused the explosion. (Reporting by Michelle Martin and Paul Carrel) |
| 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, accused by Ankara of masterminding a failed military coup. Interior Minister Efkan Ala said more than 15,000 people, including about 10,000 soldiers, had been detained so far over the July 15-16 coup attempt, CNN Turk broadcaster reported. Tens of thousands of others suspected of having links to the Gulen movement, including police, judges and teachers, have been suspended or placed under investigation since the coup, which was staged by a faction within the military.
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| British-Bangladeshi survivor of cafe attack held at unknown location - lawyer | |  By Serajul Quadir and Douglas Busvine DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A man who was celebrating his daughter's 13th birthday with his family in a Dhaka cafe when they were caught up in a bloody hostage-taking nearly four weeks ago is still being held as a suspect, the family's lawyer said on Wednesday. Hasnat Karim, a 47-year-old engineer who holds dual British and Bangladeshi citizenship, survived the ordeal in which 22 hostages died at the hands of Islamist militants because he and his family were Muslims and could recite verses from the Koran. "He was there for his daughter's birthday, and got caught up as a hostage himself, together with his family," Dixon told Reuters in a telephone interview from London.
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| French investigators conduct DNA tests on second church attacker, source says | | | French investigators believe the second assailant in the Normandy church attack was a 19-year-old from southeastern France who was previously unknown to the police, a judicial source said on Wednesday. The source said the delay in formally identifying Abdel Malik P. as the second attacker occurred because DNA tests were being carried out. The two men attacked and killed an 85-year-old parish priest, Father Jacques Hamel, as he was leading prayers in a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a working-class town near Rouen, northwest of Paris. |
| Spanish police arrest two Moroccans accused of funding Islamic State | | | Spanish police have arrested two Moroccan brothers in the northern city of Girona and charged them with helping to fund Islamic State's operations in Syria and Iraq, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. The pair, aged 22 and 33, diverted funds from Europe to pay the costs of moving members of the militant group into conflict zones, the ministry said. Police found a large amount of money and telephone information at the brothers' home, which they hope will yield details on Islamic State's financing networks from Spain, the ministry said. |
| Germany bomber influenced in chat by unknown person - minister | |  A Syrian asylum seeker who blew himself up in the southern German town of Ansbach on Sunday was influenced by an unknown person in a chat conversation on his mobile phone, Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said on Wednesday. "It's possible to deduce that another person wherever they were at the time of the call, of the chat, significantly influenced how the attacker acted," Herrmann said on the sidelines of a meeting of the Bavarian cabinet. The 27-year-old Syrian, who had arrived in Germany two years ago, set off explosives in his rucksack on Sunday outside a musical festival in Ansbach, a town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg, killing himself and injuring 15 people.
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| Pope's trip to Poland overshadowed by killing of priest in France | |  By Wojciech Zurawski and Wiktor Szary KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Pope Francis set off on his first trip to Poland on Wednesday to preside at an international Catholic youth jamboree, a usually joyous event that has been dampened by the murder of a priest in a church in France. The killing of 85-year-old Father Jacques Hamel, forced to his knees by Islamist militants who then slit his throat [nL8N1AC2BG], sent a deep chill over the World Youth Day event. "Pope John Paul II said that we should be tolerant and not resort to force.
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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 avenues explored in Moscow's attempts to get the team readmitted. The decision was discriminatory, amounted to a political campaign waged against Russian sportspeople and devalued any medals won in their absence, Russia's President Vladimir Putin said. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) imposed the ban in November in response to systematic state-sponsored doping by Russia.
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| After mass shooting, German police focus on 'dark net' crime | |  By Frank Siebelt WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) - German police will do more to fight crime committed on the "dark net", they said on Wednesday, days after a gunman killed nine people with a weapon bought on that hidden part of the internet. "We see that the dark net is a growing trading place and therefore we need to prioritise our investigations here," Holger Muench, head of Germany's Federal Police (BKA), told journalists as he presented the latest annual report on cyber crime. The dark net, which is only accessible via special web browsers, is increasingly used to procure drugs, weapons and counterfeit money, allowing users to trade anonymously and pay with digital currencies such as Bitcoin, the BKA said.
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| Wife's bomb hoax caused security scare at Geneva airport | | | By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A woman who wanted to stop her husband boarding a plane at Geneva has admitted making a false bomb threat, prosecutors said on Wednesday, after hours of tightened security that caused traffic chaos around the airport on the French-Swiss border. "Yesterday in the evening, a woman called Swiss customs at Geneva airport. The Swiss authorities traced the number to Annecy in France, some 45 kms from Geneva, where French police raided an address. |
| Wife's bomb hoax caused security scare at Geneva airport - prosecutor | |  A woman who wanted to stop her husband boarding a plane at Geneva has admitted making a false bomb threat, prosecutors said on Wednesday, after hours of tightened security that caused traffic chaos around the airport on the French-Swiss border. "Yesterday in the evening, a woman called Swiss customs at Geneva airport.
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| Turkey cancels research director's licence over report on coup attempt | | | Turkey's Capital Markets Board on Wednesday cancelled the licence of the head of research at brokerage AK Investment and called for him to face charges over a report he wrote analysing the July 15 coup attempt. In a regular bulletin, the board said it had cancelled Mert Ulker's capital markets activity licence over a report he had sent to clients on July 18, saying he had not "fulfilled his responsibilities". The general manager of AK Investment, Mert Erdogmus, told Reuters the company had sacked Ulker on July 25 over the report, saying it contained "mistakes and a lack of foresight", though he denied the move was linked to the board's decision. |
| 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. ... |
| 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. |
| 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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