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| Bastille Day truck killer drove up low kerb onto promenade | | | By Johnny Cotton and Michel Bernouin NICE, France (Reuters) - The Bastille Day killer drove his truck up a low kerb and onto the Nice waterfront to get at his victims, using an apparently easy and unblocked route that delivery drivers take daily, according to witnesses and the French government's account. The ease with which Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel reached the pedestrianised Promenade des Anglais, where he killed 84 people by driving the rented white truck into a crowd on Thursday, has become a focus for criticism of security arrangements at the event. The mass killing, claimed by Islamic State, was the third in France since January 2015. |
| Baltimore police lieutenant acquitted in Freddie Gray case | |  By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Baltimore prosecutors on Monday failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction against a city police officer for the death of black detainee Freddie Gray, as a lieutenant was cleared of all charges. The acquittal of Lieutenant Brian Rice renews questions about the prospects for the remaining cases stemming from the death of Gray, who suffered a fatal neck injury in April 2015 after he was bundled into the back of a police transport van. The controversy took a tragic turn when eight police officers were shot dead in apparent reprisal attacks staged by lone black gunmen in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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| United States lifts ban on Turkish Airlines flights - CNN Turk | |  The United States lifted its ban on Turkish Airlines flights to the United States on Monday, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. The ban, which included both direct flights and those from a third country, went into effect after a failed coup over the weekend in which a faction of the military attempted to overthrow the Turkish government. The coup crumbled on Saturday as supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan answered his call and took to the streets in defiance of the coup plotters.
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| Turkey widens post-coup purge, demands Washington hand over cleric | |  By Humeyra Pamuk and Ercan Gurses ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey purged its police on Monday after rounding up thousands of soldiers in the wake of a failed military coup, and said it could reconsider its friendship with the United States unless Washington hands over a cleric Ankara blames for the putsch. The broad crackdown and calls to reinstate the death penalty for plotters drew concern from Western allies who said Ankara must uphold the rule of law in the country, a NATO member that is Washington's most powerful Muslim ally. Some voiced concern President Tayyip Erdogan was using the opportunity to consolidate his power and further a process of stifling dissent which has already caused tensions with Europe.
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| Bahrain slams UK, U.S. 'interference', clerics say Shi'ites under threat | | | Bahrain on Monday dismissed as "unacceptable interference" U.S. and British criticism of its decision to dissolve the main Shi'ite Muslim opposition party, as senior clerics warned the Shi'ite majority was under threat. Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, said a court's decision on Sunday to dissolve the al-Wefaq opposition group, accused of helping foster violence and terrorism, was "just" and "transparent", state news agency BNA reported. The move against al-Wefaq was one of several steps taken by the Sunni-led government against its opponents that have drawn international criticism, including revoking the citizenship of the country's Shi'ite spiritual leader Ayatollah Isa Qassim. |
| Armenian officials urge hostage-takers to surrender | |  By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - Authorities in Armenia called on gunmen holed up in a police station in the capital Yerevan to lay down their arms on Monday and release four people they were holding hostage. The gunmen seized the police station and hostages on Sunday, killing a police officer and wounding two others in the process before demanding Armenians take to the streets to secure the release of jailed opposition politicians. The hostage-takers' main demand is to free Jirair Sefilian, an opposition leader whom authorities in the ex-Soviet republic have accused of plotting civil unrest.
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| IOC vows 'toughest sanctions' after report finds Moscow ran broad doping scheme | | | By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) - With the Rio Olympics less than three weeks away, the IOC on Monday promised "the toughest sanctions available" after a report found Moscow had concealed hundreds of positive doping tests in many sports ahead of the Sochi winter Games. The International Olympic Committee did not spell out whether it would heed growing calls for Olympic bans already imposed on Russia's track and field athletes and weightlifters to be extended to all its competitors in Rio. "Therefore, the IOC will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organisation implicated." WADA itself explicitly urged the IOC to consider banning Russia from the Rio Olympics altogether. |
| Erdogan tells CNN - Turkish parliament to decide on death penalty | | | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday it was for the country's parliament to decide whether to restore the death penalty but that if it did so he would sign such a measure into law, according to international broadcaster CNN. Turkey scrapped capital punishment in 2004 as part of its push to join the European Union but calls for its reinstatement have grown following an abortive military coup on Friday evening in which more than 200 people were killed. "It will take a parliamentary decision to take action... As president I will approve any decision to come out of the parliament," Erdogan told CNN in an interview, according to the broadcaster's translation. |
| Baton Rouge shooter changed name, pledged to anti-government group - documents | |  The suspect in the killing of three Baton Rouge police officers changed his name and pledged affiliation to an African-American offshoot of the anti-government Sovereign Citizens Movement, documents show. The suspect, was shot dead on Sunday morning in a gunfight with police, changed his name from Gavin Eugene Long to Cosmo Ausar Setepenra last May, according to Jackson County, Missouri, public records. Ryan Lenz, an expert from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization that tracks extremist groups, said the papers Setepenra filed showed he was a member of the movement.
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| White House urges Turkey to exercise restraint, respect laws | |  The United States on Monday urged NATO ally Turkey to exercise restraint and respect the rule of law in the aftermath of a failed military coup. Turkey purged its police after rounding up thousands of soldiers in the wake of the weekend coup attempt and there have been calls to reinstate the death penalty for plotters. "What U.S. officials will make clear to their Turkish counterparts is that it's critical for them to exercise restraint, to respect and observe due process and to protect the freedoms that are enshrined in the Turkish constitution," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing.
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| After Nice attack, French Muslims feel fear and alienation | |  By Richard Lough and Sophie Sassard NICE, France (Reuters) - In the poor Nice suburb of Ariane, many Muslims feel their community is being unfairly blamed for the Bastille Day attack that killed 84 people, and fear discrimination and social divisions will grow in its wake. Islamic State claimed the attack and hailed Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who drove a truck through a crowd of revellers on the French city's sea-front promenade last Thursday, as one if its soldiers. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said at the weekend that the 31-year-old attacker had been "radicalised very quickly".
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| Presidential candidate Clinton promises to prosecute police killers | |  Hillary Clinton promised on Monday to bring the "full weight of the law" against people who kill police officers if she becomes the next U.S. president after two recent episodes of gunmen slaying police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic candidate ahead of a Nov. 8 election, made the promise in a speech in Cincinnati at the annual convention of the civil rights group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "Anyone who kills a police officer and anyone who helps must be held accountable," Clinton said.
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| Faith in government drops, leaders jeered as France mourns Nice victims | |  By Brian Love and Sophie Sassard PARIS/NICE, France (Reuters) - Crowds jeered France's leaders at a tribute on Monday to victims of last week's truck attack in Nice and an opinion poll showed a sharp drop in confidence in the ability of President Francois Hollande's government to combat terrorism. "The government promises us things but nothing sticks," Nice city resident Antony Fernandez told Reuters. Every six months we're going to mourn for more dead?" The latest poll came at a moment when, less than a year from a presidential election, political opponents have fast abandoned the initial restraint that usually prevails on such occasions to sharply criticise Hollande and his government.
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| WADA says IOC should consider ban on Russian athletes in Rio | | | The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday recommended that the IOC and International Paralympic Committee should consider banning all athletes entered by the Russian Olympic Committee for next month's Rio Olympics. WADA was responding to a damning independent report produced by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren and published on Monday that revealed evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. WADA made seven recommendations after the report was published, including one that Russian government officials be denied access to international competitions, including Rio 2016. |
| Coup turmoil endangers Turkey's investment-grade rating | |  By Marc Jones and Sujata Rao LONDON (Reuters) - Turkey's investment-grade credit rating is hanging by a thread after last week's attempted coup and any further deterioration would force some conservative investors to dump billions of dollars worth of Turkish assets. Turkey now faces a similar threat. Standard and Poor's already rates the country BB+, its highest junk grade, but it remains on the last rung of the investment grade ladder at Moody's and Fitch, which rate Turkey Baa3 and BBB- respectively.
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| Russia's Putin casts doubts on WADA doping report | |  Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) report on doping among Russian athletes was based on the testimony of just one man and that the Olympic movement could be on the verge of split. In a statement published by the Kremlin, Putin said that there was no place for doping in sport as it was a threat to the lives and health of the athletes and discredited fair play.
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| Baton Rouge shooter was ex-Marine who denied ties to any group | |  By Mark Hosenball and Kevin Murphy WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - The gunman who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Sunday was a former U.S. Marine sergeant who served in Iraq and made the dean's list in college, government officials with knowledge of the case said. The suspect, Gavin Eugene Long, 29, who also wounded three other officers, was from Kansas City, Missouri, a source familiar with the investigation told Reuters. It was not immediately clear how Long, who was black, ended up in Baton Rouge, where police killed him in a shootout on his 29th birthday, according to media reports.
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| Louisiana gunman targeted and ambushed cops, police say | |  By Andy Sullivan BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The black U.S. Marine Corps veteran who shot dead three police officers in Louisiana's capital specifically targeted them, police said on Monday, as the United States reeled from the latest deadly violence involving police and black people. Following Sunday's shootings, Baton Rouge police officers took steps to increase their own security. Baton Rouge police spokesman Sergeant Don Coppola said, "We usually ride solo.
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| Republicans to portray Trump as tough leader in troubled times | |  By Ginger Gibson and Steve Holland CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Republicans meeting this week to anoint Donald Trump as their presidential candidate will try to sell the combative businessman to voters as a strong leader who can shield America from the threats of violent crime and Islamist militants. The weekend killing of three policemen in Baton Rouge overshadowed the first day of the Republican convention in Cleveland on Monday, when party officials and Trump allies will make televised speeches to promote what he bills as a tough line on law and order and national security. Before those deaths, an apparently targeted attack by a gunman who may have intended retaliation for police killings of black people, the theme at the convention for Monday was already set as "Make America Safe Again." Events were to include speakers discussing the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
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| Key points from the WADA report in doping at the 2014 Sochi games | | | (Reuters) - Following are some of the key points from the World Anti-Doping Agency's report into allegations of a Russian state-sponsored doping programme in the run up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The report said that the Ministry of Sport, the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) and the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the main heir to the Soviet-era KGB, were all involved. If the order was "Save", laboratory officials had to report the sample as negative in WADA's anti-doping management system. |
| Factbox - Reaction to McLaren report into Russian doping | | | An independent commission report, led by Canadian law professor and sports lawyer Richard McLaren, published on Monday revealed evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. McLaren, who was a member of WADA's independent commission which last year exposed widespread doping and corruption in Russian athletics, said the Russian Ministry of Sport oversaw the manipulation of athletes' analytical results and sample swapping. |
| British lawmakers set to renew Trident nuclear deterrent | |  By Michael Holden and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Lawmakers are expected to vote on Monday to renew Britain's ageing nuclear weapons system, a multi-billion pound project regarded as key to maintaining the country's status as a world power following its vote to leave the European Union. Parliament, where the Conservatives have a majority of 16, is likely to approve renewing the Scottish-based nuclear-armed Trident submarines despite opposition from some lawmakers from the main opposition Labour Party and the pro-independence Scottish National Party. Opponents say the vote is being used by the newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May to unify her party after a bruising Brexit campaign and embarrass Labour by highlighting its own deep divisions.
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| Italy probes man who spoke to Nice attacker hours before massacre | |  Italian counter-terror officials are investigating a Tunisian living in the southern city of Bari who spoke to Nice attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel hours before he killed 84 people, investigative sources said on Monday. The man spoke with Bouhlel, who was also Tunisian, by telephone just hours before the delivery man ran down revellers at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice on Thursday with a 19-tonne refrigerator truck, sources said. Italy's anti-terror police and magistrates opened the probe at the request of French authorities, who had Bouhlel's phone records, the sources said.
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| Turkey private broadcasters: Ex-air force chief denies role in coup plot | |  Former Turkish air force chief Akin Ozturk has not confessed to playing a role in a failed military coup that attempted to topple the government at the weekend, two private broadcasters said on Monday, contradicting a state media report. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency said earlier on Monday that Ozturk had confessed to helping to plot the coup. "I am not someone who has planned or directed the coup attempt that was carried out on July 15 and I don't know who did," NTV cited him as saying in his testimony.
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| Merkel tells Erdogan death penalty not compatible with EU membership | |  By Michael Nienaber and Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkey cannot join the European Union if it reinstates the death penalty, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a telephone call on Monday, a German spokeswoman said. Turkey abolished capital punishment in 2004, allowing it to open EU accession talks the following year, but the negotiations have made scant progress since then. With pro-government protesters demanding that the coup leaders be executed, Erdogan said on Sunday there could be no delay in using capital punishment and the government would discuss it with opposition parties.
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| Former Turkish air force chief confesses to plot coup - state media | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Former Turkish air force chief Akin Ozturk has confessed to prosecutors his role in plotting the coup that attempted to topple the government over the weekend, state-run Anadolu Agency said on Monday. More than 200 people were killed after a faction in the military launched the coup attempt on Friday night, sealing off a bridge across the Bosphorus, trying to capture Istanbul's main airport and sending tanks to parliament in Ankara. (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker; Writing by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by David Dolan)
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| Suspects in Saudi embassy attack appear in Iranian court | |  By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) - More than 10 people accused of storming Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran in January appeared in a Tehran court on Monday, Iranian news agencies reported, weeks after President Hassan Rouhani urged the judiciary to take action. The suspects are accused of "disturbing the public order and damaging embassy buildings", according to state media. Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic relations with its Shi'ite Muslim rival Iran after protesters stormed the kingdom's embassy in Tehran and consulate in Mashhad following Riyadh's execution of a prominent Saudi Shi'ite cleric.
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| Turkey foreign minister slams EU commissioner over coup remarks | | | Comments from European Union Commissioner Johannes Hahn that Turkey had already compiled a list of judges and others it wanted rounded up before a failed military coup are "unacceptable", Turkey's foreign minister said on Monday. On his Twitter account, Mevlut Cavusoglu also said Turkey would never take a step back from its civil democratic achievements and rule of law. Earlier on Monday Hahn said: "It looks at least as if something has been prepared. |
| Suspected Islamist militant kills five in Kazakhstan | |  By Mariya Gordeyeva and Olzhas Auyezov ALMATY (Reuters) - A lone gunman with Islamist links killed at least three policemen and two civilians in Kazakhstan's financial capital Almaty on Monday, senior security officials said, the second such attack in less than two months. Police detained the attacker, identified as 26-year-old Ruslan Kulikbayev, in a shootout on a busy central street after he had gone on the rampage, attacking a police station and an office belonging to the KNB security service. Kulikbayev had been imprisoned before for robbery and illegally possessing weapons and had "became close to Salafists" in prison, KNB security service head Vladimir Zhumakanov told a Security Council meeting.
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| Merkel tells Erdogan death penalty "in no way" compatible with EU membership | |  Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday that Germany vehemently opposes the reinstatement of the death penalty in Turkey and that such a step would prevent Turkey becoming an EU member, a German government spokeswoman said. "The chancellor urged the president to abide by the principles of proportionality and rule of law in the Turkish state's response (to the coup attempt)," the spokeswoman said, adding that the recent wave of arrests and dismissals in Turkey was a cause for great concern. Merkel also told Erdogan during a telephone conversation that a reintroduction of the death penalty in Turkey is "in no way compatible" with its goal of EU membership, she added.
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| Nice attack premeditated, assailant attracted to radical Islam - prosecutor | |  The man who killed 84 people in Nice had planned his attack in the days prior to Bastille Day and had recently developed an interest in radical Islam, the Paris prosecutor said on Monday. "If there are no elements in the investigation to suggest at this stage an allegiance to Islamic State nor links with individuals from the group ... he (Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel) showed a certain recent interest for radical jihadist movements," Francois Molins said. The prosecutor said Bouhlel had told people close to him that he had been growing his beard for religious reasons and that he could not understand why Islamic State could not have its own territory.
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| IOC will take 'toughest sanctions' over Sochi doping | |  By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee said that Russian doping cover-ups confirmed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday showed a "shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and the Olympic Games", and that it would not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions. An independent report commissioned by WADA confirmed extraordinary systematic abuse of the anti-doping process across many sports by Russian authorities before and during the Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi in 2014. In a statement, IOC President Thomas Bach said the IOC "will now carefully study the complex and detailed allegations in particular with regard to the Russian Ministry of Sport". "The findings of the report show a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games," he said.
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| Kosovo jails five for planning to pledge loyalty to Islamic state | | | A Kosovo court sent five people to prison for terms ranging from four to 13 years on terrorism charges for planning to pledge loyalty to the Islamic State and post a video of the event on the internet. "Their aim was to read the oath of the terrorist organisation Islamic State and publish it on the Internet to show the presence of ISIS in Kosovo," a judge said while reading the verdict in a Pristina court. Police say around 300 Kosovars have joined Islamic State and more than 50 have been killed. |
| Bangladesh charges 38 with murder over 2013 garment factory collapse | |  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - A court in Bangladesh formally charged 38 people with murder on Monday in connection with the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building which killed 1,135 people in the country's worst industrial disaster. A total of 41 defendants face charges over the collapse of the complex, which housed five garment factories supplying global brands. Plaza owner Sohel Rana is the principal accused.
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| German foreign minister: Death penalty would prevent Turkish EU membership | |  Any move by Turkey to reinstate the death penalty after the failed military coup would derail its efforts to join the European Union, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in Brussels on Monday. "Reintroduction of the death penalty would prevent successful negotiations to join the EU," Steinmeier told reporters. Turkey decided to abolished capital punishment in 2004, allowing Ankara to open EU accession talks the following year, but the negotiations have made scant progress since then.
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| Russian Olympic chief says pleased WADA made no recommendations to IOC - TASS | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov said on Monday he was pleased a World Anti-Doping Agency report into allegations of state-backed cheating at the 2014 Sochi Games had not made recommendations to the International Olympic Committee, TASS news agency reported. Several anti-doping agencies, including those of the United States and Canada, called on Saturday for a complete ban on Russia competing at this year's Rio Olympics if the report's findings were damning. (Reporting by Jack Stubbs; Editing by Vladimir Soldatkin)
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