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| Bavarian leader plans to visit Putin again in October-media | |  Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer plans to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in October, risking a repeat of the firestorm caused by their meeting in February, a German newspaper said on Wednesday. The Straubinger Tagblatt, citing an internal document, reported that Seehofer's meeting with Putin was planned for Oct. 5 as part of a broader visit to Moscow that will also include a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Seehofer, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel who has blamed her open-door refugee policy for a spate of recent violent attacks in Germany, sparked tensions in Berlin's right-left coalition government when he met Putin in February.
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| Family of 'Star Trek' actor sues Fiat Chrysler over rollaway death | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The parents of the late "Star Trek" movie actor Anton Yelchin sued Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV FCHA.MI for negligence and product liability on Tuesday over the rollaway crash of a Jeep Grand Cherokee that killed their son. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, is believed to be the first wrongful death complaint linked to the Fiat Chrysler recall in April of more than 1.1 million cars and SUVs because of vehicles that roll away after drivers exit them. Yelchin, 27, was killed on June 19 when his 2015 Grand Cherokee, which was covered under the recall, rolled backward in the steep driveway of his Los Angeles home and crushed the actor against a brick wall and fence.
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| Brazil impeachment trial closer to sealing Rousseff fate | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Senate report found on Tuesday that Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff violated the constitution by manipulating government accounts, moving her drawn-out impeachment trial closer to deciding her fate. The report is expected to be approved by the impeachment committee on Friday and by the full Senate next Tuesday, leading to the final trial phase in which the 81 Senators must reach a verdict at the end of August or first days of September. The impeachment of the unpopular leftist leader has paralysed Brazilian politics for seven months and held interim President Michel Temer in a legal limbo that has hindered his efforts to pull Brazil from fiscal crisis and severe recession.
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| Maryland police kill armed black woman who threatened them | | | The shooting of Korryn Gaines, 23, of Randallstown, Maryland, about 17 miles northwest of Baltimore, on Monday prompted outrage on social media, reigniting concerns about police use of force, especially against African-Americans. Gaines pointed a shotgun at Baltimore County officers when they arrived at her apartment to serve warrants on her and Kareem Courtney, 39, her boyfriend, police said. |
| NBA 2K videogame maker wins dismissal of big tattoo damages claim | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The maker of the popular NBA 2K video game series on Tuesday won the dismissal of a potentially large damages claim in a lawsuit over its depiction of tattoos belonging to LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and other National Basketball Association stars. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said Take-Two Interactive Software Inc cannot be held liable to the plaintiff Solid Oak Sketches LLC for statutory damages of as much as $150,000 per copyright infringement, a sum that in theory could reach billions of dollars. Swain said Solid Oak can still pursue actual damages over New York-based Take-Two's alleged unauthorised incorporation into NBA 2K16 of eight tattoo designs that the plaintiff had licensed from various artists.
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| Senior Democratic National Committee officials resign - DNC | | | By Luciana Lopez and Amanda Becker NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three senior officials with the Democratic National Committee have resigned, the DNC said on Tuesday, amid a shake-up following a hack of thousands of emails that embarrassed the party just as it staged its national convention last week. The resignations of DNC Chief Executive Officer Amy Dacey, Communications Director Luis Miranda and Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall were announced by interim Chairwoman Donna Brazile. Brazile, who took over the role after Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepped down last week, did not mention the hacks or give a reason for the resignations in a statement on the reorganization, but cast the changes as looking ahead to the U.S. general election on Nov. 8. |
| A group of Chinese tourists robbed near Paris airport | | | Twenty-seven Chinese tourists were assaulted on Tuesday by half a dozen men as they boarded a bus that was to take them to Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, a French police source said. Attacks on Chinese, Korean and Japanese tourists are frequent in the French capital as robbers believe they carry large sums in cash and their suitcases are stuffed with luxury goods purchased in Paris. In May, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo travelled to Beijing to reassure Chinese authorities that the world's most visited city had taken measures to beef up its security. |
| U.S. counterterrorism agents arrest Michigan man with grenades | | | Federal counterterrorism agents have arrested a 29-year-old Michigan man accused of illegally purchasing an arsenal of explosives and other devices capable of mass casualties, according to a criminal complaint filed this week. Sebastian Gregerson, a Detroit resident who also goes by the name Abdurrahman Bin Mikaayl, is accused of unregistered possession of a destructive device and the unlicensed receipt of explosive materials, according to the complaint. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterterrorism squad arrested Gregerson on Sunday, when he met with undercover agents at a gas station and traded a Beretta M9 handgun as payment for several grenades, the complaint said. |
| Obama says DNC hacks would not alter relations with Russia | |  By Timothy Gardner and Ruthy Munoz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday if Russia had engaged in hacking Democratic Party organizations it would be an issue he would discuss with President Vladimir Putin, but it would not "wildly" alter the countries' relationship. The United States already has "a lot of differences with Russia on a whole bunch of issues, but I think that we've been able to try to stay focussed on those areas where we still have a common interest," Obama said at a press conference during a state visit with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Calling the relationship between the United States and Russia tough and difficult, Obama noted common concerns.
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| White House directs federal agencies to consider climate change impacts | | | U.S. federal agencies will be required to disclose whether their actions and decisions will have an impact on climate change, the White House announced Tuesday. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalised an update after nearly six years of consultations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a Nixon-era statute that called on officials to weigh the environmental effects of projects such as highways, dams or oil drilling. The update takes NEPA a step further by requiring agencies such as the Interior Department to the Army Corps of Engineers to quantify greenhouse gas emissions in NEPA project reviews and to describe the potential climate change impacts. |
| Kazakh dissidents and lawyers hit by cyber attacks - researchers | | | By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers believed to be working on behalf of Kazakhstan government officials tried to infect lawyers and other associates of exiled dissidents and publishers with spyware, according to a report to be presented at this week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. It is also unusual in that the campaign involved an Indian company that was apparently hired by the hackers, and it targeted Western lawyers along with alleged opponents of the Kazakh government. A spokesman at the Kazakhstan embassy in Washington did not respond to emailed questions. |
| British-Iranian aid worker appears in Tehran court - family | |  By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) - A British-Iranian aid worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, detained since early April and accused by hardline Revolutionary Guards of trying to overthrow Iran's government has appeared in court for the first time, her family said on Tuesday. In a statement, the family said Zaghari-Ratcliffe, arrested as she tried to leave Iran after a short visit with her two-year-old daughter, appeared in the Revolutionary Court on Monday.
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| Bishop removes priests from Irish seminary over gay sex app claims | | | The Catholic archbishop of Dublin has removed trainee priests from Ireland's largest seminary over allegations of widespread use of the gay sex app Grindr and the failure of the authorities to properly investigate it. The move is the latest scandal to hit the Catholic Church in Ireland, once the defining influence on public life, but now humbled by reports of child sex abuse stretching back decades and of church leaders' complicity in covering them up. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said a series of anonymous allegations about a gay sex culture at the Maynooth seminary, where over 50 students are training to be priests, had been compounded by the college authorities' failure to investigate. |
| After Saudi uproar, U.N. chief urges protecting children | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon warned countries on Tuesday that if "you want to protect your image, protect children" after diplomats said in June that Saudi Arabia threatened to cut U.N. funding when its military coalition was blacklisted for killing children in Yemen. Ban told the U.N. Security Council he had received information from the Saudi-led coalition on measures taken to prevent attacks on children and said the review was continuing.
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| New York City Police Commissioner Bratton to retire in September | |  New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton will retire in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday, capping a four-decade career that saw him become the most well known figure in U.S. policing. Bratton will step down after two years at the helm of the nation's largest city police force, the second time he has served in that position. Calling his accomplishments "literally inestimable and extraordinary," de Blasio credited Bratton with pushing the city's crime levels to historic lows and working to repair relations between the department and the communities it protects.
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| Erdogan says Turkey's coup script was 'written abroad' | |  By Ece Toksabay and Nick Tattersall ANKARA/ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan accused the West of supporting terrorism and standing by coups on Tuesday, questioning Turkey's relationship with the United States and saying the "script" for an abortive putsch last month was "written abroad". In a combative speech at his palace in Ankara, Erdogan said charter schools in the United States were the main source of income for the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who he says masterminded the bloody July 15 putsch. "I'm calling on the United States: what kind of strategic partners are we, that you can still host someone whose extradition I have asked for?" Erdogan said in a speech to local representatives of multinational firms operating in Turkey.
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| Georgia man pleads guilty in insider trading hacking case | | | Leonid Momotok, 48, pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, for his role in an alleged scheme that involved the theft of more than 150,000 unpublished press releases from Business Wire, Marketwired and PR Newswire. "I profited from these trades," Momotok told U.S. Magistrate Judge Ramon Reyes. "Using non-public press releases stolen by overseas hackers, Momotok and his group of traders engaged in a brazen scheme that was unprecedented in its scope, impact and sophistication," U.S. Attorney Robert Capers in Brooklyn said in a statement. |
| Obama to Republican leaders: Why are you still endorsing Trump? | |  By Jeff Mason and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama issued a scathing attack of Donald Trump on Tuesday for criticizing a Muslim family whose U.S. Army captain son was killed in Iraq, and he challenged Republican leaders to withdraw support for their "unfit" nominee. Obama's comments added to a growing number of statements from Republicans and Democrats lambasting Trump for his criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who appeared at the Democratic National Convention last week. Trump questioned whether Ghazala Khan did not speak at the convention because she was prevented from doing so by her religion and he characterized Khizr Khan's criticism of him as "vicious." Families who lose an immediate relative in a U.S. military action are called Gold Star families.
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| Obama, Singapore leader push Pacific trade deal in state visit | |  By Timothy Gardner and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Singapore's prime minister on Tuesday made impassioned sales pitches for the benefits of a pending Trans-Pacific trade deal during a state visit by the head of the Southeast Asian commercial hub. Both the United States and Singapore are signatories to the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which Obama hopes Congress will approve before he leaves office in January.
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| As party unease grows with Trump, Republican lawmaker says he will back Clinton | |  By Susan Heavey and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican lawmaker in Congress became the first to break with the party and support Democrat Hillary Clinton for the White House on Tuesday amid signs of growing Republican unease with volatile presidential nominee Donald Trump. The break by Representative Richard Hanna of New York followed days of uproar over Trump's criticism of the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army officer killed in the Iraq war, which has fueled a fresh round of Republican rebukes of the New York businessman. Illustrating the escalating tension between the candidate and the party, Trump pointedly thanked the primary opponent of Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday for his "kind words" after Ryan had issued a statement saying the sacrifice of the parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, should be honored.
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| Brazilian police arrest two as corruption probe turns to major builder | |  By Alonso Soto and Sergio Spagnuolo BRASILIA/CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police said they had arrested two people and raided properties on Tuesday over alleged corruption at building firm Queiroz Galvao, widening a sweeping investigation focused on state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. "Operation Carwash" was launched two years ago to tackle price fixing, bribery and political kickbacks at Petrobras, as the company is commonly known. It has led to dozens of convictions for bribery and money-laundering, and several top politicians are being investigated. Former Galvao Queiroz senior executive Ildefonso Colares Filho and current employee Othon Zanoide de Moraes were arrested, authorities said in a press briefing in the southern city of Curitiba.
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| Indian man charged with sexually touching sleeping Virgin America passenger | | | (Editor's note: Please be advised that paragraph 5 contains language that may offend some readers) By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A male Virgin America passenger has been criminally charged with sexually touching a sleeping female passenger on an overnight flight to Newark, New Jersey from Los Angeles last week, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. Veerabhadrarao Kunam, 58, of Visakhapatnam, India, was charged with one count of abusive sexual conduct aboard Flight 170 which departed on July 29, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in New Jersey said. Fishman said the defendant was arrested on July 30 when his flight arrived, and was released on $50,000 bond following a Monday court appearance in Newark federal court. |
| Activists demand justice after Kenyan hacks off wife's hands in machete attack | | | By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Kenyan man who chopped off his wife's hands with a machete because she had not conceived a child must face the full force of the law to deter other perpetrators of widespread domestic violence in Kenya, women's rights activists said on Tuesday. Stephen Ngila from Machakos County in southern Kenya, was yesterday arrested and charged with attempted murder, after attacking his wife, Jackline Mwende, almost two weeks ago, according to the women's rights organisation Equality Now. |
| Guns, drugs and maybe Islamists: Brazil tightens border before Games | |  By Stephen Eisenhammer FOZ DO IGUAÇU, Brazil (Reuters) - On a chilly morning, with a breeze blowing in from Paraguay, customs officials occasionally stop and search vehicles crossing Brazil's busiest border point, looking for contraband. Most passengers are poor Brazilians, carrying electronics they were commissioned to buy duty-free over the river in Paraguay's Ciudad del Este, but there is a more dangerous trade too. With just days to go before the Olympics start in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian security forces have shifted their gaze to an even more amorphous crime: terrorism.
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| Maryland prosecutors appeal new trial ruling for 'Serial' podcast's Adnan Syed | |  Maryland's attorney general has appealed a judge's order for a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was put into question by the 2014 podcast "Serial." Syed, 36, is serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. The appeal, filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court late on Monday, argued that Judge Martin Welch had wrongly allowed new arguments over cellphone evidence that linked Syed to Lee's death.
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| Protesters disrupt Hong Kong election meeting over rule change | |  By Tyrone Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Dozens of masked demonstrators tried to force their way into an electoral meeting in Hong Kong on Tuesday to protest against a new bar on anyone running for the legislature who refuses to declare the territory an "inalienable" part of China. Members of the League of Social Democrats and People Power tried several times to charge the stage and take the microphone before being pushed back by security, forcing the meeting to be suspended at least three times. Politicians from other pro-democracy parties chanted: "No more political elimination!" and "Defend a fair election!" The Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) said last month that potential candidates for the September Legislative Council election must sign an additional "confirmation form" declaring Hong Kong an inalienable part of China and acknowledging that advocating independence could disqualify them from the election.
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