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| Islamic State urges followers to escalate attacks in Ramadan | |  By Ali Abdelaty and and Suleiman al-Khalidi CAIRO/AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State urged its followers on Tuesday to escalate attacks against Christians, Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims fighting with a U.S.-led coalition against the ultra-radical group. Jihadists should turn the holy month of Ramadan, which began last week, into a time of "calamity for the infidels ... Shi'ites and apostate Muslims", Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani said in an audio message. "Be keen to conquer in this holy month and to become exposed to martyrdom." Adnani also called on Sunnis in Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia to rise against "tyrannical leaders" and warned them against advancing Shi'ites, pointing to the treatment of Sunnis under a Shi'ite-led government in Iraq and in Syria under the Alawites, the Shi'ite offshoot to which President Bashar al Assad belongs.
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| Exclusive - International tribunal looks like best chance for MH17 justice: Dutch sources | |  By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands is discussing with its allies an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing a Malaysian airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine last year, sources familiar with the discussions have told Reuters. The chance of a successful prosecution is considered slim at best but the Dutch still hope that, by pushing for a U.N.-style court with the backing of Western allies, they could pressure Russia, whose role in the process is critical, into cooperating. Of the 298 dead passengers and crew on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, two-thirds were Dutch.
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| Mexico captures son of drug kingpin in troubled western state | | | Mexican security forces in the western state of Jalisco have captured the son of one of the country's most wanted drug lords, a state government spokesman said on Tuesday. Ruben Oseguera, the son of Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera, is believed to be an important figure in his father's gang, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which in recent weeks has become a major headache for President Enrique Pena Nieto. The Jalisco government spokesman said he did not have details of the arrest, but another official in the state said the younger Oseguera, known as El Menchito, was captured in a pre-dawn army operation in a house in a western part of greater Guadalajara, the state capital. |
| Outreach to gay couples not on agenda for Vatican meeting | | | By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A working paper for a Vatican meeting on the family indicated on Tuesday that organisers do not want the issue of how the Church should reach out to homosexual couples to be a key topic. The gathering of world bishops, or synod, will be held at the Vatican on Oct. 4-25 and its preparations have been peppered with debate about possible reforms, particularly on issues concerning gay people and divorced Catholics. Gay rights activists had hoped the working document, the final one before the meeting, might resurrect at least some of the conciliatory language on the pastoral care of gay couples that surfaced during a preparatory meeting last year. |
| Exclusive - Swiss authorities probing FIFA say Garcia report of little help - source | |  By Mark Hosenball and David Ingram LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swiss authorities investigating whether there was corruption in the awarding of World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar are finding that a report produced by U.S. lawyer Michael Garcia at the end of an internal FIFA inquiry is of little value to their probe, according to a source close to investigations into the soccer governing body. Switzerland's Attorney General Michael Lauber told reporters last week that the FBI, which has been conducting its own wide-ranging probe into corruption in FIFA and its affiliates, has not asked him or his office for a copy of the Garcia report, and he hadn't provided the U.S. authorities with one.
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| Pakistani cleric launches anti-ISIS curriculum in Britain | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A prominent Pakistani Islamic cleric launched a "counter-terrorism" curriculum in London on Tuesday, to rebut the message of militant groups such as Islamic State (ISIS) and stop young people becoming radicalised and heading to Syria. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, a politician, scholar and fiery orator, said he wanted his 900-page curriculum, containing theological and ideological arguments to undermine extremists, to be taught not just at mosques and Islamic institutions but at schools across Britain. "We want to make clear that all activities being carried out by ISIS or any other terroristic and extremistic organisation either in the name of God or religion or establishing any kind of Islamic state by acts of violence ... are totally in violation of the Koran and Islam," he told Reuters.
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| Soldier's heroics lift gloom for Afghans tired of Taliban attacks | |  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - On Monday morning, Essa Khan was an just another Afghan soldier earning about $200 a month to guard national institutions in Kabul from militant attack. Khan's overnight fame underlines Afghans' yearning for good news in a year when violence has risen, Taliban insurgents appear to be gaining ground and a government formed after last year's messy election is still mired in disputes. Recalling the dramatic events, Khan told Reuters on Tuesday that as soon as a car bomb exploded outside the parliamentary compound, he prepared for more insurgents to attack.
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| Assad troops and rebels targeting civilians in Syria - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government forces have dropped barrel bombs on Aleppo nearly daily this year, amounting to the war crime of targeting civilians, and insurgent shelling has caused mass casualties, U.N. investigators said on Tuesday. The military and rebel groups, including Islamic State, have imposed sieges to "devastating effect" on a total of 420,000 Syrians, depriving them of food and medicine and leading to malnutrition and starvation, they said. "Civilians continue to lose their lives, homes and livelihoods in a conflict in which there little if any attempt to adhere to international law," Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. commission of inquiry, told a news conference.
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| Greek offer to creditors stirs angry backlash at home | |  By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek lawmakers reacted angrily on Tuesday to concessions Athens offered in debt talks and parliament's deputy speaker warned the proposals might be rejected, puncturing optimism that a deal to pull Greece back from the abyss might be sealed quickly. Euro zone leaders welcomed new budget proposals from Athens on Monday as a basis for further negotiations to unlock billions of euros in frozen aid and avert a default that could trigger a Greek exit from the single currency area. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who was voted into office in January on a pledge to roll back years of austerity in a country battered by recession, must keep his leftist Syriza party as well as his creditors onside for a deal to stick.
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