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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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| Imprisoned U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning hospitalised in Kansas | |  (Reuters) - U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning, imprisoned for handing over classified files to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks, was hospitalised, her attorney said on Wednesday, after media reports that Manning had attempted to commit suicide. The Army confirmed Manning, 28, who was born male but identifies as a woman, had been released back into custody from the hospital, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Chase Strangio said. Manning's medical condition was not immediately available.
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| Justice Department to investigate police shooting of black man in Louisiana | |  By Bryn Stole BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it will investigate the killing of a black man pinned to the ground and shot in the chest by white police officers outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Captured on a bystander's video, the graphic images of the shooting of Alton Sterling, 37, early Tuesday stirred a social media outcry over the latest case of alleged police brutality against African-Americans in cities from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore and New York. Overnight, about 200 protesters in Baton Rouge chanted "Hands up, don't shoot" and "Black lives matter" and more protests were planned for Wednesday evening.
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| U.S. sanctions North Korean leader over rights abuses | |  By David Brunnstrom, Yeganeh Torbati and Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday sanctioned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first time, citing "notorious abuses of human rights," in a move that diplomats say will incense the nuclear-armed country. The sanctions, the first to target any North Koreans for rights abuses, affect property and other assets within U.S. jurisdiction and extend to 10 other individuals and five government ministries and departments, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.
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| Soccer superstar Messi gets 21 months jail for tax fraud, unlikely to serve time | |  By Emma Pinedo and Angus Berwick MADRID (Reuters) - World soccer superstar Lionel Messi was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison and fined 2 million euros ($2.2 million) after being found guilty of three counts of tax fraud, although it is unlikely he will serve time in jail. The Spanish court handed the same sentence to the Argentine player's father, Jorge Horacio, with a 1.5 million euro fine. "The sentence is not correct and we are confident the appeal will show the defence was right," Messi's lawyers said in a statement.
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| Senator Corker withdraws as potential Trump running mate | |  U.S. Senator Bob Corker withdrew himself from consideration as a vice presidential candidate for Republican Donald Trump on Wednesday in a move that could complicate Trump's efforts to rally establishment Republicans behind his presidential bid. "There are people far more suited for being a candidate for vice president, and I think I'm far more suited for other types of things," Corker told The Washington Post. A Corker aide confirmed Corker had withdrawn from consideration.
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| France sentences two men to life in prison for 1994 genocide in Rwanda | | | France on Wednesday sentenced two former Rwandan mayors to life in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity committed in the African country in 1994. Tito Barahira, 65, and Octavien Ngenzi, 58, were tried over attacks against ethnic Tutsis in the town of Kabarondo, where they both have been mayor. A number of Rwandan genocide-related crimes have been tried in recent years in Rwanda and other countries. |
| France puts two Paris attack suspects under formal investigation | |  French magistrates on Wednesday put under formal investigation two men suspected of helping the main surviving suspect of the attacks that killed 130 people in Paris last November, a judicial source said. Mohamed Amri and Ali Oulkadi were extradited earlier in the day from Belgium. Investigators say Amri drove to Paris shortly after the attacks to bring key suspect Salah Abdeslam back to Belgium.
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| Italian agent and coach held in Kenya for questioning | | | Italian sports agent Federico Rosa and coach Claudio Berardelli are being questioned by Kenyan police over the alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes they managed and trained, court documents showed on Wednesday. Kenya, renowned for its distance runners, has faced frequent allegations of doping, with some 40 cases reported in the past four years. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said last month that competitors from Russia and Kenya, given the recent history of doping in both countries, would have to be screened individually before being allowed to participate in the Rio Games next month. |
| 'Please stop saying I was lying,' says ex-UK PM Blair after Iraq war inquiry | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair, the former prime minister who led Britain into war in Iraq in 2003, launched a defence of his legacy following the publication of a highly critical report into the war with a simple message: "Please stop saying I was lying." The long-awaited report into a war which has cast a shadow over British foreign policy for more than a decade found that Blair relied on flawed intelligence and that the way the war was legally authorised was unsatisfactory. Blair faced hostile questioning from national and international media, who said his assurances to former U.S. President George Bush had amounted to a "blank cheque for war" and that he had abandoned diplomatic channels too easily.
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| Al Qaeda claims attack on south Yemen army base near Aden | | | By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN (Reuters) - Eight Yemeni troops and six militants were killed on Wednesday in an assault claimed by Al Qaeda on a military base near the international airport of Yemen's southern city of Aden, the military said. Two suicide bombers blew up their cars, then militants stormed the Solaban base and fought with troops backed by Apache helicopters for several hours, a special forces statement said. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attack on the messaging app Telegram, according to the militant monitoring SITE Intelligence group, calling the attack revenge for government attacks elsewhere in southern Yemen. |
| Inquiry slams ex-British PM Blair for catalogue of failures over Iraq War | |  By Michael Holden and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's justification, planning and handling of the Iraq War involved a catalogue of failures, a seven-year inquiry concluded on Wednesday in a scathing verdict on Britain's role in the conflict. Eight months before the 2003 invasion, Blair told U.S. President George W. Bush "I will be with you, whatever", eventually sending 45,000 British troops into battle when peace options had not been exhausted, the long-awaited British public inquiry said. More than 13 years since the invasion, Iraq remains in chaos, with large areas under the control of Islamic State militants who have claimed responsibility for attacks on Western cities.
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| Ex-Fox News host sues CEO Roger Ailes claiming sexual harassment | |  Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson sued Fox News Chairman and Chief Executive Roger Ailes on Wednesday claiming sexual harassment and that he wrongfully fired her after years of making unwanted advances. A Fox News representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Carlson claimed in the lawsuit that Ailes took her off the popular morning show "Fox & Friends" in 2013, cut her pay and placed her in a less desirable afternoon time slot because she refused to have a sexual relationship with him.
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| Slow and injured - Stepanova's comeback falls flat | |  Yulia Stepanova's much-heralded return to action turned into a damp squib on Wednesday when the Russian whistleblower, running as an independent athlete, dropped out of her 800 metres heat with a foot injury having been off the pace throughout. Stepanova has not raced since September due to the ban on Russian athletes but raced under the European Athletics Association (EAA) flag at the European championships after the sport's governing body had requested she be given special dispensation to compete as an independent. Stepanova, who turned 30 on Sunday, is hoping the International Olympic Committee will allow her to run in the Rio Games under a neutral flag and has the qualifying standard, but she looked desperately off the pace from the gun on Wednesday.
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| Iraqi who hammered Saddam's statue says Blair should be put on trial | |  By Saif Hameed and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi man who was filmed attacking Saddam Hussein's statue with a sledgehammer when U.S. troops stormed into Baghdad in 2003 said Iraq was in a better shape under his rule and George W. Bush and Tony Blair should be put on trial "for ruining" it. Kadhim Hassan al-Jabouri was speaking on Wednesday as British former civil servant John Chilcot released a long-awaited report criticising Britain's role in the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. The report said that "policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed intelligence and assessments", and that claims that Iraq posed a threat by possessing weapons of mass destruction were "presented with unjustified certainty".
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| Ryan says Congress examining possible action on Clinton's email use | |  U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday said lawmakers are examining whether there is any action they can take over Hillary Clinton's email practices while secretary of state, saying it appeared she had received preferential treatment from the FBI. Ryan, a Republican, said the House of Representatives would not "foreclose any options" when asked whether a special prosecutor was necessary to get to the bottom of the Democratic presidential candidate's use of a private email server while she ran the State Department. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Tuesday it would not recommend charges regarding Clinton's email.
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| Chef at Bangladesh cafe probably working with attackers - police | |  By Ruma Paul and Aditya Kalra DHAKA (Reuters) - A pizza chef killed during a militant attack on a cafe where he worked in Bangladesh's capital city last week was probably in league with the assailants, police said on Wednesday. Saiful Islam Chowkidar carried no arms but was seen "moving and running" with the five gunmen during the 12-hour stand-off, Monirul Islam, the chief of counter-terrorism police, said. On Friday, at least five Bangladeshi men had stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery, a cafe popular with foreigners, businessmen and diplomats and killed 20 customers, including Italians, Japanese, Indians and Americans.
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| Turkey seeks militants linked to Istanbul attack near Syrian border - media | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities are seeking two suspected Islamic State militants thought to be linked to last week's Istanbul airport attack and believed to be in hiding near the border with Syria, a Turkish newspaper said on Wednesday. Turkey has jailed a total 30 suspects pending trial 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. Turkish officials are not commenting on reports about the investigation, although one government official has said the attackers were Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals.
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