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| Dhaka attack deals blow to improvements in post-Rana Plaza garment industry - analysts | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A deadly attack by Islamist militants in Dhaka may stymie efforts by the Bangladeshi government and Western retailers to improve the rights and safety of garment workers, labour rights experts warned on Tuesday. Gunmen stormed a restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone on Friday, killing 20 people, most of them foreigners from Italy, Japan, India and the United States, in an assault claimed by Islamic State. Bangladesh's $26 billion garment industry fears the attack could force major retailers from Uniqlo to Marks and Spencer and Gap to rethink their sourcing plans.
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| China says suspect in NZ extradition case "hyping up" right to fair trial | | | A murder suspect China wants extradited from New Zealand is "hyping up" his right to a fair trial so as to evade justice, China said on Tuesday, after a New Zealand court told the government to reconsider its decision to send the man back. The case has thrown into sharp relief the hurdles China faces in its efforts to win international cooperation as it seeks to hunt down corruption suspects who have fled overseas. Courts in China are not independent of the ruling Communist Party, and many Western nations have not signed extradition pacts with China over fears that the accused will be denied a fair trial or put to death. |
| 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. |
| French unions rally last protest as labour reforms take final steps | |  Prime Minister Manuel Valls' decision, announced by party spokesman Olivier Faure, was immediately condemned by dissidents in his party who warned they would consider seeking a vote of no confidence in the government less than a year from elections. "This is sad, compromise was possible," said Laurent Baumel, one of 30 or more Socialists who say the law is a betrayal of left-wing principles. "Valls seems to have refused out of customary intransigence." At issue is a bill that is designed to trim a 10 percent jobless rate, giving companies more freedom to set tailor-made pay and work conditions at company level.
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| IS-linked suicide bomber attacks Indonesia police, wounding one | | | By Fransiska Nangoy and Nilufar Rizki JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian suicide bomber believed to be a supporter of the Islamic State militant group attacked a police station in the city of Solo on Tuesday, killing himself and wounding a police officer, security officials said. Indonesia has been on heightened alert since Islamic State claimed responsibility for its first attack in the Southeast Asian country last January in Jakarta, in which eight people were killed including the four attackers. Shortly after Tuesday's attack, President Joko Widodo, who is from Solo and a former mayor of the city, urged calm and ordered police to arrest anyone who may have been connected to the bomber. |
| Bangladesh may have killed hostage by mistake during Dhaka siege | |  Police on Tuesday named five Bangladeshi gunmen who stormed the restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone late on Friday. Most of the victims in the violence claimed by Islamic State were foreigners, from Italy, Japan, India and the United States. It was one of the deadliest militant attacks in Bangladesh, where Islamic State and al Qaeda have claimed a series of killings of liberals and members of religious minorities in the past year.
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| Bangladesh police say may have killed hostage by mistake in cafe siege | |  Bangladeshi police said on Tuesday security forces may have shot dead a hostage by mistake during a siege of a Dhaka cafe on the weekend, believing he was one of the attackers. Saiful Islam, a senior police official in Dhaka, said Saiful Islam Chowkidar, a pizza maker at the Holey Artisan restaurant, was among six men who were killed by the police on Saturday when officers stormed the eatery to end a 12-hour siege.
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| President Duterte names and shames top Filipino cops for helping drug gangs | |  Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte publicly accused five police generals of involvement in the drugs trade on Tuesday and said only he would be accountable for a bloody crackdown that has killed 30 people since he took office last week. "It's going to be a dirty fight, it's going to be a bloody fight.
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| Turkey jails 17 over Istanbul attack, blames ex-Soviet members of IS | |  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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| In Bill Cosby criminal case, accuser's turn to face scrutiny | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Bill Cosby faces the latest court hearing this week in his sexual assault case in Pennsylvania, but his attorneys will again try to shift attention to his accuser. Lawyers for the 78-year-old entertainer are set to ask a judge to throw out the charges leveled by Andrea Constand, who says Cosby drugged and assaulted her at his Philadelphia-area home in 2004. If the Cosby case proceeds to trial, U.S. media attention will focus once more on the debate over the justice system's handling of sexual assault cases.
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| Congo opposition leader says will return for vote, dismisses arrest warrant | |  By Pascale Antonie PARIS (Reuters) - Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi said he will return from Europe to fight presidential elections later this year, dismissing an arrest warrant against him as "fake". Any return would heighten political tensions in Democratic Republic of Congo where opposition groups have accused President Joseph Kabila of trying to cling to power by cracking down on dissent and delaying elections due in November. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Katumbi in May on charges of hiring foreign mercenaries in a plot against the republic.
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| Thailand to free seven activists on bail as referendum looms | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai military court ordered the release on bail on Tuesday of seven activists detained for campaigning against a military-backed draft constitution to be put to a referendum next month. The pro-democracy campaigners are part of a small but growing number of activists who are challenging the junta in the run-up to the Aug. 7 vote on a constitution that the military says will end more than a decade of political crisis. With a month to go before the referendum the junta has taken what rights groups say is a tough stance on opposition to its plans and banned all public discussion of the constitution.
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| Rome police detain homeless man over killing of American student | | | A homeless Italian man was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of murdering 19-year-old American university student Beau Solomon, police said. Massimo Galioto, 40, was detained overnight and was being held for questioning later in the day by a judge on suspicion of aggravated homicide, a police spokesman said, declining to give further details. Solomon, from Wisconsin, had been due to start a study programme at John Cabot University, whose campus is in the central Trastevere district. |
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