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| U.S. warns Afghans against forming 'parallel government' amid protests | |  By Mohammad Aziz and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - The United States warned on Tuesday it would withdraw financial and security support from Afghanistan if anyone tried to take power illegally, as supporters of a presidential candidate rallied in Kabul for a parallel government. Preliminary results announced on Monday showed that Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank official, won the June 14 second round, but his rival Abdullah Abdullah immediately rejected the outcome, saying the vote was marred by widespread fraud. Underscoring the magnitude of the crisis, Abdullah said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would visit Kabul on Friday. "I have noted reports of protests in Afghanistan and of suggestions of a 'parallel government' with the gravest concern," he said in a statement issued by the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
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| Executive in World Cup ticket scalping probe released | |  By Brian Homewood RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Ray Whelan, the chief executive of a hospitality firm arrested in connection with an investigation into VIP ticket scalping at the World Cup, was released on Tuesday after spending the night in custody. His company, MATCH, said the Englishman was released from custody in Rio de Janeiro and that he will assist police with further enquiries. "MATCH have complete faith that the facts will establish that he has not violated any laws," it said in a statement, adding that Whelan would continue with his work at the World Cup. Whelan was arrested at Rio's beachfront Copacabana Palace hotel as a result of Operation Jules Rimet which has seen 12 people arrested into investigations over the illegal resale of tickets for the tournament.
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| Iranian journalist sentenced to two years and 50 lashes | | | Iranian journalist and blogger Marzieh Rasouli reported to Evin prison on Tuesday to serve a two-year sentence and receive 50 lashes over charges of spreading anti-government propaganda, sources close to the journalist said. The case has angered some Iranian journalists, who had hoped that the election of a moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, last year would bring greater political and cultural freedoms at home, a development that has yet to materialise. |
| Islamic State claims Baghdad bombs; parliament to meet Sunday | |  By Isra'a al-Rubei' and Maggie Fick BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamist militants claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Baghdad, and there were signs the deadlock paralysing Iraq's parliament might finally be loosening in the face of the threat from the "Islamic State" that has seized much of the country. The Sunni Muslim group, which has taken over large areas of Syria and Iraq, posted web photos of two men with scarves covering their faces, posing in front of its black and white flag and machineguns. It identified them as the Baghdad bombers and said they were Lebanese and Libyan. Baghdad had seen few attacks compared to the violence in other areas hit by the Islamic State's lightning offensive last month.
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| Islamic State rounds up ex-Baathists to eliminate potential rivals in Iraq's Mosul | |  By Maggie Fick and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD/MOSUL Iraq (Reuters) - One night last week, Islamic State militants in an SUV with tinted windows pulled up at the home of a former Iraqi army officer, one of the men they see as an obstacle to their goal of establishing a caliphate from Iraq to the Mediterranean. In the past week, Sunni militants who overran the city of Mosul last month have rounded up between 25 and 60 senior ex-military officers and members of former dictator Saddam Hussein's banned Baath party, residents and relatives say. The crackdown potentially signals a rift in the Sunni alliance that helped secure Islamic State fighters swift victory when they rode in from the desert to capture Mosul last month. The northern city of around 2 million people is by far the largest to fall to the group now known as the Islamic State and a central part of its plans for an Islamist caliphate.
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| Defence team closes case in Pistorius murder trial | |  By Siyabonga Sishi PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius' lawyers wrapped up their defence of the Olympic and Paralympic track star on Tuesday, bringing the dramatic murder trial of one of the world's best-known athletes closer to conclusion. Judge Thokozile Masipa adjourned the court until August 7 to allow the legal teams to prepare closing arguments, due to take a day each. The case has captivated global audiences and had round-the-clock coverage in Pistorius' native South Africa, making it arguably the most-watched celebrity murder trial since U.S. athlete O.J. Simpson was cleared of murdering his wife and her friend in 1995. Pistorius, who had his lower legs amputated as a baby, could face life in prison if he is found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot and killed at his luxury Pretoria home on Valentine's Day last year.
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| China tightens state secrets rules for journalists | |  China will toughen curbs on journalists disclosing state and commercial secrets, a top media regulator said on Tuesday, in the latest effort by President Xi Jinping's government to muzzle critical speech, both in traditional media and online. News outfits must stiffen oversight of material obtained by journalists and other employees containing national and commercial secrets and information that has not yet been made public, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television said in a statement. China's state secrets law is notoriously broad, covering everything from capital punishment statistics to industry data.
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| Four Czech NATO servicemen killed in Afghanistan - ISAF | | | At least four NATO servicemen were killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the International Security Assistance Force said. Earlier, Ziaul Rahman Sayedkhili, a senior police officer in the eastern province of Parwan, said the death toll included six NATO soldiers, 10 Afghan civilians and two Afghan policemen. "There was a suicide bomber on a bicycle who detonated his explosives which killed 10 local civilians, two policemen and six ISAF soldiers." ISAF said in a separate statement four of its servicemen were killed. The attack took place amid deteriorating security in Afghanistan as most ISAF forces prepare to leave the country after 12 years of war against Taliban insurgents. |
| U.S. in sanctions talks with Commerzbank and Deutsche - source | |  By Thomas Atkins and Alexander Hübner FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have begun settlement talks with Germany's Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank over their dealings with countries blacklisted by the United States, extending a crackdown on European banks at a delicate point in U.S.-German relations. Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank declined to comment. Washington has come down hard on European banks which have evaded their sanctions, imposing a record fine on France's BNP Paribas last week and stoking resentment among bankers and officials at what they see as U.S. imperialism. Commerzbank, Germany's second-largest lender, is 17 percent owned by the German government and the settlement talks could further strain ties between Berlin and Washington, already at a low ebb due to allegations a German man had worked as a double agent for U.S. intelligence.
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| Agent who interrogated accused Boston bomber's friend due to testify | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent who interrogated a college friend of the suspected Boston Marathon bomber three days after the deadly blasts is due back on the witness stand on Tuesday in the man's trial on obstruction charges. The agent, Sara Wood, was part of a team of law officers who surrounded the Massachusetts apartment shared by Azamat Tazhayakov and a fellow Kazakh exchange student, ordered the pair out and questioned them into the pre-dawn hours of the next day about their friend and accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. His attorney on Monday said that Tazhayakov, who has pleaded not guilty, never touched the laptop or backpack, contending that had been the work of his roommate Dias Kadyrbayev, who is awaiting trial later this year on obstruction charges. Prosecutors contended that the two and a third friend, Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts, intended to help cover Tsarnaev's tracks when they went to his dorm.
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| Australia ruling could leave Sri Lankan asylum seekers at sea | |  By Jane Wardell and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - The fate of a boatload of Tamil asylum seekers could be undecided for weeks as Australia's High Court considers a legal challenge to Australia's attempts to hand them over to Sri Lanka. Australia promised on Tuesday to give three days' notice before returning the 153 asylum seekers, including children, a move being hailed by human rights lawyers as a minor victory against the country's hardline immigration policy. The High Court hearing, which could last up to three weeks, undercuts the government's attempt to maintain secrecy over "Operation Sovereign Borders", a centrepiece of its election victory last year. The case, which follows the return on Sunday of 41 other Sri Lankan asylum seekers on a separate boat by Australia, has received international attention amid strong criticism by the United Nations and other human rights groups.
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| Moscow accuses United States of "kidnapping" Russian hacker | | | WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused the United States on Tuesday of violating a bilateral treaty and "kidnapping" a Russian accused of hacking into U.S. retailers' computer systems to steal credit card data. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Monday the Secret Service had arrested Roman Valerevich Seleznev, 30, on July 5 for actions carried out from 2009 to 2011. Russian media carried reports that the man arrested may be the son of a member of parliament, Valery Seleznev. The deputy told Russia's Itar-Tass news agency he had not been able to speak to his son but added: "This is a monstrous lie and a provocative act." The man was apprehended in an airport in the Maldives, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. |
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