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| Australian PM Turnbull scrambles for independent votes as race tightens | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scrambled on Thursday to gain support from a small handful of independent lawmakers whose backing he will likely need to form a workable government and end a political vacuum after an unexpectedly close election. There were signs that the instability was beginning to take its toll on the Australian economy, with Standard and Poor's cutting Australia's credit rating outlook to negative from stable, threatening a downgrade of its coveted triple A status. The Australia dollar fell half a U.S. cent after S&P's announcement, which cited concerns the coalition government would be hampered in its plans to return to budget surplus as it struggles to form a majority government.
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| Protests and U.S. probe after Louisiana police shoot black man | |  By Bryn Stole and Kathy Finn BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it would investigate the killing of a black man pinned to the ground and shot in the chest by two white police officers outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One officer shot Sterling five times at close range, and the other took something from his pants pocket as he was dying, according to images recorded by Abdullah Muflahi, owner of the Triple S Food Mart where Sterling was killed in the parking lot.
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| Italian victims tortured in Bangladesh attack, autopsies show | |  Islamist militants tortured a group of Italians before killing them during an attack on a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka last week, a legal source said on Wednesday. The bodies of the nine Italians, most of whom worked in the clothing industry, were flown back to Rome on Tuesday. The victims, mostly foreigners, included Japanese, Indians and Americans as well as the Italians.
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| Briton pleads not guilty to weapons charges over Trump rally incident | |  (Reuters) - A British man pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to weapons charges stemming from an incident where he was accused of trying to steal a gun from a policeman during a Las Vegas rally for Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Michael Steven Sandford, 20, of Britain, was charged with two felony counts of being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and one felony count of impeding and disrupting the orderly conduct of government business, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Las Vegas. Brenda Weksler, one of Sandford's federal public defenders, declined to comment when reached by email on Wednesday evening.
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| U.S. attorney general closes Clinton email probe, says no charges | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of private email while secretary of state is closed, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday, removing a legal cloud that threatened the presumptive Democratic nominee's presidential bid. Lynch said she accepted the Federal Bureau of Investigation's recommendations that no charges be brought in the probe, as Republicans made clear they would not let Clinton's email headaches fade away easily. With the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential and congressional elections beginning to heat up, Republicans called on the administration to make public key documents in the Clinton email case.
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| 'Vatileaks' trial due to end after nearly eight months | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The trial of five people accused of leaking or publishing confidential documents depicting a Vatican plagued by corruption and mismanagement goes to a panel of judges for verdicts on Thursday. Verdicts in the "Vatileaks II" trial, which started in November, are expected for Thursday afternoon. Once colleagues in a now-defunct papal reform commission investigating Vatican finances, their past relationship was at best ambiguous, and they spent most of the trial hurling insults and accusations at each other.
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| Accused al Qaeda supporter in U.S. charged with seeking judge's murder | | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 11:48 PM | |
| | A man already awaiting trial on charges of conspiring to aid the late U.S.-born al Qaeda preacher Anwar al Awlaki and an al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen was indicted on Wednesday over accusations he plotted to have the federal judge presiding over the case murdered. Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 37, was accused in the three-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Toledo, Ohio, with attempting to pay an undercover FBI agent $15,000 to have the judge killed. "Conspiring to have a judge killed is not the way to avoid being prosecuted - now Mohammad will be held accountable for additional serious federal charges," Stephen Anthony, special agent in charge of the FBI's office in Cleveland, said in a written statement released with the indictment. |
| Two leading Republicans shy away from being Trump's VP pick | | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 11:41 PM | |
|  By Susan Cornwell and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump's list of potential vice presidential running mates got a little shorter on Wednesday when one prominent U.S. senator withdrew from consideration and a second said she wanted to focus on her home state. The moves by Bob Corker of Tennessee and Joni Ernst of Iowa could complicate Trump's efforts to rally establishment Republicans behind his presidential bid. With Trump looking at a self-imposed deadline of July 15 to announce his pick, there was no indication that the wealthy businessman was anywhere close to reaching what is perhaps the most important decision he will make as the presumptive Republican nominee.
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| After FBI report, Clinton aides could find it harder to get security clearances | | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 11:24 PM | |
|  By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI's harsh criticism of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email system as U.S. secretary of state could make it difficult for some of her closest aides to keep or renew government security clearances, but it would not affect Clinton herself if she is elected president, experts said. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Tuesday an FBI investigation had found evidence that Clinton, now the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, and her aides "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information" at the State Department.
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| Japan election manifestos free LGBT rights from political closet | | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 11:20 PM | |
|  By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - When openly gay independent candidate Wataru Ishizaka campaigned for a 2007 Tokyo local election, people snickered at his speeches, but now even Japan's conservative ruling party mentions gay rights in its platform for this year's upper house election. By Asian standards, Japanese laws are relatively liberal - homosexual sex has been legal since 1880 - but social attitudes keep the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community largely invisible.
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| Ex-Fox News anchor accuses former boss Ailes of sexual harassment | | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 11:17 PM | |
|  Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson sued Fox News Channel architect Roger Ailes on Wednesday for sexual harassment, claiming her ex-boss wrongfully fired her after she rebuffed years of unwanted advances. Ailes, the network's chairman and chief executive officer, denied Carlson's allegations in a statement late on Wednesday. The parent of Fox News, 21st Century Fox , said it had begun an internal review of the matter.
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| 'Special K' party drug to be trialled as treatment for alcoholics | | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 11:13 PM | |
| | By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists are recruiting volunteers to test whether ketamine, also known as the party drug "Special K", may be helpful in reducing relapse rates among people with severe alcoholism. After pilot studies that showed ketamine combined with psychotherapy might make detoxing alcoholics less likely to relapse, the scientists are looking for 96 volunteers with severe alcohol disorder who have been "recently abstinent". Ketamine is a licensed medical drug, widely used as an anaesthetic and to relieve pain. |
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