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| Baton Rouge shooter said he was member of anti-government group - documents | |  The gunman who killed three Baton Rouge police officers identified himself as a member of an African-American offshoot of the anti-government Sovereign Citizen Movement last year, documents showed. Gavin Long, a former U.S. Marine sergeant who was shot dead by police on Sunday, affiliated himself with the Washitaw Nation, an African-American group whose members view the federal government as illegitimate, in legal papers filed in a Missouri county. In an interview on Monday, a senior member of the Washitaw Nation denied that Long was a member of the group.
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| Gunman said to have targeted Baton Rouge police for assassination | |  By Andy Sullivan BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The Iraq war veteran who shot three policemen dead in Louisiana's capital methodically targeted the officers for assassination, authorities said on Monday, as America confronted racially charged gun violence against law enforcement for the second time this month. During an update on Sunday's ambush in Baton Rouge, police described how video footage showed the former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, Gavin Eugene Long, 29, hunting down police officers even as he bypassed civilians he encountered. The carnage came to an abrupt end less than 10 minutes after it began when Long himself was shot dead by a police marksman, firing from a position about 100 yards away.
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| Guatemalan army captain convicted of killing bishop dies in prison riot | |  A former army captain convicted of murdering a Guatemalan bishop was killed on Monday in a prison riot in which 13 people died, the National Institute of Forensic Sciences said. A spokesman for the institute said the death of Byron Lima Oliva, who was serving 20 years for the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi in 1998, took place in Pavoncito, a prison 18 miles (30 km) from the capital, Guatemala City. Twelve other inmates were killed in the riot, said spokesman Roberto Garza. A defence attorney for Lima, Moises Galindo, said he did not know the motive for the attack. The killing of the bishop was one of the most notorious crimes in recent Guatemalan history. Gerardi was killed on April 26, 1998, two days after presenting testimony about atrocities committed by the military in Guatemala's civil war, mainly against indigenous populations.
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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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| 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. |
| German train attacker was 17-year-old Afghan - Bavarian minister | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - The axe-wielding man who attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany on Monday, critically injuring several people, was a 17-year-old Afghan refugee who was living in the town of Ochsenfurt, Bavaria's interior minister said. Joachim Herrmann told public broadcaster ARD that the young man, who was later shot dead by police, appeared to have made his way to Germany as an unaccompanied minor. Herrmann declined to speculate about the motive for the attack. (Reporting by Noah Barkin; Editing by Michael Nienaber)
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| Dozens of wrestlers sue WWE over neurological injuries | |  World Wrestling Entertainment Inc was sued on Monday by Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and dozens of other retired male and female wrestlers seeking to hold it responsible for neurological injuries they claimed to suffer by participating in its bouts. The complaint was filed on behalf of more than 50 plaintiffs who have performed with WWE orX predecessors since the 1970s, including Joseph "Road Warrior Animal" Laurinaitis and Paul "Mr. Wonderful." It accused Stamford, Connecticut-based WWE and Chairman Vince McMahon of intentionally classifying wrestlers as "independent contractors" rather than employees, as a means to avoid liability under federal and state worker protection laws. WWE has won the dismissal of some claims in other lawsuits accusing it of hiding the risks of head trauma from wrestling.
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| Arrest of several dual-national Iranians could be politically motivated | |  By Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Montreal academic Homa Hoodfar was preparing to return to Canada from Iran in March when agents from Iran's powerful paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps raided her Tehran home and took her laptop, phone, books and passport, her family said. On June 6, she went in for yet another interrogation session but was not released. Nine days later, the hardline Mashregh site, which is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, published what it alleged were her crimes: creating security problems within the Islamic Republic by taking part in feminist activities. Hoodfar's niece said the 65-year old anthropology and sociology professor at Concordia University in Montreal was in Iran on a personal trip.
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| FIFA promises 'appropriate steps' over alleged Russian doping cover-up | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Soccer's world ruling body FIFA has promised "appropriate steps" after a report on Monday said a dozen positive doping cases in Russian football were among hundreds covered up by Moscow. The independent WADA report, which followed an investigation led by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, concentrated on allegations of systematic doping by Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. "FIFA will request from WADA all details concerning the individual cases of doping in Russian football that are referenced in the McClaren report," FIFA said in a statement to Reuters.
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| 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. Baltimore's police union called on prosecutors to drop the charges against three officers still awaiting trial in the case.
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| U.S. lifts ban on flights to and from Turkey after coup bid | |  The United States has lifted a ban on flights to and from Turkey following a failed coup in the country, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday. The ban, which included both direct flights and those from a third country, went into effect after a faction of Turkey's military attempted to overthrow the Turkish government. The coup crumbled on Saturday as supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan took to the streets in defiance of the coup plotters.
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| Turkey widens post-coup purge, demands U.S. 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 - who said he was almost killed or captured by the mutineers - 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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| Deputy mayor in Istanbul dies from shooting injuries - NTV | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The deputy mayor of Istanbul's Sisli district has died after being shot in the head by an unknown assailant on Monday, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported. A Turkish official said the incident was not related to Friday's abortive military coup in which more than 200 people were killed. Turkey remains in a state of high tension, though the government says it has the situation fully under control. NTV reported that an assailant had entered the office of deputy mayor Cemil Candas and then gun shots were heard. ... |
| Russian PM suspends sports ministry official named in doping report | |  Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has suspended Deputy Sports Minister Yury Nagornykh, who was named in a report on the doping of Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the government said on Monday. President Vladimir Putin said earlier on Monday that Russian officials named in the World Anti-Doping Agency's report would be temporarily suspended. The investigation was led by Canadian sports lawyer Richard McLaren, who sat on the independent commission that last year exposed doping and corruption in Russian track and field, leading to its exclusion from international competition.
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| Brutality of Turkey's failed coup caught on phones, social media | |  The brutality of Turkey's failed coup attempt, when soldiers commandeered fighter jets, military helicopters and tanks in a bid to seize power, has gradually been emerging in video and pictures captured on cellphones during the chaos. Throughout the night of July 15, terrified Turks in Istanbul and Ankara listened to sporadic gunfire, explosions and the sonic booms of low-flying jets over their apartment blocks, rattling buildings and blowing out windows. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said 232 people were killed, 145 of them civilians.
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| U.S. Republican convention begins with stress on security issues | |  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. Trump allies will promote what he bills as a tough line on law and order and national security in speeches later in the day. The theme for the first day of the meeting had already been set as "Make America Safe Again." Trump has sought to position himself as the law-and-order candidate in an echo of Richard Nixon's successful presidential campaign of 1968.
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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. Before and after a minute of silence held to pay respects to the 84 dead, many of the thousands gathered in the south-coast resort city of Nice chanted "resign, resign" at Manuel Valls, the Socialist prime minister. "The government promises us things but nothing sticks," Nice city resident Antony Fernandez told Reuters.
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| 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.
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| Murdochs decide to oust Fox News chief Ailes - report | |  Rupert Murdoch, executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox Inc , and his sons James and Lachlan agree that Fox News Channel boss Roger Ailes should leave the company but they have not settled on the timing, New York magazine reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources. Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson has sued Ailes, claiming sexual harassment.
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