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| Police confirm evacuation of German mall, no 'anti-terror' operation | | | Police in Bremen, Germany confirmed the evacuation of a local shopping centre on Wednesday and said they were searching for a 19-year-old Algerian man who fled a psychiatric facility earlier in the day, but said it was "not an anti-terror operation". "There is no evidence of any danger and this is not an anti-terrorism operation," a police spokeswoman said. |
| French government faces security criticisms after church attack | |  By Chine Labbé and Michel Rose PARIS/SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (Reuters) - France's government faced criticism of its security record on Wednesday in the wake of revelations that one of the assailants who slit the throat of a priest at a church altar was a known would-be jihadist under police surveillance. President Francois Hollande met interfaith leaders in an effort to promote national unity. Tuesday's attackers interrupted a church service, forced 85-year-old Roman Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel to his knees at the altar and slit his throat.
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| Islamic state posts video of men it says were French church attackers | | | Islamic State's news agency on Wednesday posted a video of two men it said were those who attacked a church in France in which they pledged allegiance to the group's leader. The video was posted by Amaq news agency a day after two men burst into the Catholic church in Normandy during a service, forced the priest to his knees and slit his throat. The two men who identified themselves as Abu Omar and Abu Jalil el-Hanafy appeared in the one-minute video sitting on a staircase pledging loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State's leader. |
| Baltimore prosecutor drops police charges in Freddie Gray case | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baltimore's top prosecutor on Wednesday dropped remaining charges against police officers tied to the death of black detainee Freddie Gray, after failing four times to secure convictions in a case that inflamed the U.S. debate on race and justice. Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby had stunned the city and became a national figure when she filed charges against six officers just days after Gray's death from a broken neck suffered in a police van sparked protests and rioting in April 2015. The death of the 25-year-old was among the high-profile deaths of black suspects at the hands of U.S. police that have made law enforcement tactics and police officers' treatment of minorities into national headlines, It also fuelled the rise of the civil rights movement Black Lives Matter.
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| German mall evacuated as police hunt Algerian suspect - Bild | | | Authorities evacuated a shopping centre in Bremen, Germany on Wednesday evening as police hunted for a 19-year-old Algerian suspect who fled a psychiatric facility and was believed to have links to Islamist extremists, the Bild newspaper reported. The newspaper, citing police sources, said the man had behaved suspiciously in the mall, but gave no details. A police spokesman confirmed that a police operation was under way in the area but gave no details. |
| Trump urges Russia to find Clinton's 'missing' emails, drawing ire | |  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson MIAMI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump on Wednesday invited Russia to dig up tens of thousands of "missing" emails from Hillary Clinton's time at the U.S. State Department, prompting political foes to accuse him of dangerously urging a power abroad to spy on the United States. "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, told reporters. Clinton, a Democrat who faces Trump in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election, responded with a campaign statement alleging he was posing a possible national security threat by encouraging Russian espionage to try to influence the vote.
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| 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. Officials say the bombing by the 27-year-old Syrian, who had arrived in Germany two years ago, was clearly a terrorist attack, citing a video found on his mobile phone in which he talks of planning an "act of revenge" against Germans.
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| U.S. President Reagan's would-be killer Hinckley to go free | |  John Hinckley Jr., who wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three other people in a 1981 assassination attempt prompted by a deranged obsession with actress Jodie Foster, can be freed from a psychiatric hospital to live with his mother, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said Hinckley, 61, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a 1982 trial, no longer posed a danger to himself or others. "Since 1983, when he last attempted suicide, he has displayed no symptoms of active mental illness, exhibited no violent behaviour, shown no interest in weapons, and demonstrated no suicidal ideation," Friedman said of Hinckley in a 103-page opinion.
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| Detention of more Turkish journalists part of 'troubling trend' - U.S. | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States understands Turkey's need to hold perpetrators of the recent attempted coup to account but the detention of more journalists is part of a worrisome trend that discourages public discourse, the State Department said on Wednesday. "We would see this ... as a troubling trend in Turkey where official bodies, law enforcement and judicial, are being used to discourage legitimate political discourse," State Department spokesman John Kirby told a press briefing. (Reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Eric Walsh) |
| 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. |
| Pope says Europe attacks show "world at war", religion not to blame | |  By Philip Pullella and Wiktor Szary KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Pope Francis, starting a trip to Poland overshadowed by the killing of an elderly priest in France by suspected Islamist militants, said on Wednesday this and a string of other attacks were proof the "world is at war". After his arrival under heavy security in Krakow, the pope also took on Poland's conservative government, implicitly criticising its anti-immigration stance.
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| U.S. Democrats to contrast Clinton with Trump's 'dangerous' approach | |  By Amanda Becker and Luciana Lopez PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Barack Obama will highlight Hillary Clinton's judgment and toughness on Wednesday as he seeks to boost her campaign to be the first woman U.S. president, hoping 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 at the party's convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Wednesday's convention events will focus on national security, looking to contrast the 68-year-old former secretary of state's skills with Trump's "unsteady, unfit and dangerous approach," said Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.
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| Indonesia says will execute 14 drug convicts this weekend | | | Indonesia will execute 14 drug convicts including at least four foreigners this weekend, the attorney general said on Wednesday, stepping up a "war on drugs" that has drawn international condemnation. News of the impending executions prompted condemnation from the United Nations and the European Union. The U.N. human rights chief expressed alarm and urged Indonesia to reinstate a moratorium on the death penalty that was suspended in 2013. |
| More than 250 Russian sportspeople cleared for Rio - Russian Olympic chief | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - International federations have approved the participation of more than 250 Russian sportspeople, including wrestlers, in the Rio Olympics next month, Russian Olympic Committee chief Alexander Zhukov told Rossiya-24 TV channel on Wednesday. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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| French police watchdog defends operation on night of Nice attack | |  The scale of the police operation tasked with securing Nice's Bastille Day celebrations was appropriate given there was no specific warning of a terror threat before a Tunisian drove his truck into a crowd of revellers, France's police watchdog said on Wednesday. The government has come under fire for not doing enough to prevent Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel from reaching the pedestrianised Promenade des Anglais using an apparently unblocked route and killing 84 people on July 14. "For an event that was not exceptional ... and without knowledge of any particular threat, the overall police operation was not inadequate," Marie-France Moneger-Guyomarc'h, director of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) watchdog told a news conference.
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| Activist Bezwada Wilson wins Magsaysay award for fighting manual disposal of faeces | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian activist who helped to set up a human rights group campaigning for the eradication of manual scavenging, a euphemism for disposing of faeces by hand, was awarded Asia's equivalent of the Nobel prize on Wednesday. The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation named Bezwada Wilson one of six winners this year, citing his "moral energy and prodigious skill in leading a grassroots movement to eradicate the degrading servitude of manual scavenging in India". Disposing of faeces from dry toilets and open drains by hand to be carried on the head in baskets to disposal sites, has long been an occupation thrust upon members of the Dalit group, traditionally the lowest ranked in India's caste system. |
| Suitcase filled with aerosols detonated near Nuremberg - German broadcaster | | | An explosion went off around 200 metres (220 yards) from a reception centre for migrants in a town close to Nuremberg on Wednesday, German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk said, 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 in Zirndorf, saying it was not known who was behind the explosion. Bayerischer Rundfunk cited police as saying witnesses had reported hearing a loud bang before finding a burning suitcase in an allotment garden. |
| 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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| 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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