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| Homegrown jihadists with Libya ties target Tunisia's democracy | |  By Patrick Markey and Tarek Amara SOUSSE, Tunisia(Reuters) - In late 2013, two young Tunisians returned from a jihadi camp in Libya planning to blow themselves up among foreign tourists. Two years later, just a few months apart, three more Libyan-trained Tunisian militants succeeded in bringing bloodshed to Sousse and the capital Tunis, gunning down 60 people, mainly tourists, in the two deadliest attacks in the country's history. Hailed as the only "Arab Spring" success, Tunisia now finds its young democracy under siege from a jihadist expansion in North Africa, where militants, radicalised locally and trained in Libya, are exporting their violent ideology back home.
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| U.N. Srebrenica vote delayed in bid to avoid Russia veto: diplomats | | | A U.N. Security Council vote on a resolution to condemn the Srebrenica massacre as genocide, marking the 20th anniversary of the mass killing, was delayed several hours on Tuesday as Britain and the United States tried to convince Russia not to veto the commemoration, diplomats said. Russia has deemed the British-drafted resolution unbalanced and does not want the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys described as genocide. Instead it proposed condemning "the most serious crimes of concern to the international community." A vote by the 15-member council had been scheduled for 10 a.m. (1400 GMT), but has now been delayed until 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) as talks between Britain, the United States and Russia continue on the draft, said diplomats. |
| Suspect in Charleston church shooting indicted on 9 murder counts | |  (Reuters) - Dylann Roof, the suspect in last month's massacre at an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, has been indicted by a grand jury on nine counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, the prosecutor said on Tuesday. Roof, a 21-year-old white man linked to racist views, is charged in the June 17 shooting rampage at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where nine black people were killed. Roof had already been charged by state warrants with the nine murder counts and one count of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
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| Britain pays tribute to 7/7 victims 10 years after London bombings | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain held a minute of silence on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of al Qaeda-inspired attacks in which four suicide bombers killed 52 people across London's transport system. The commemoration came just four days after the country came to a standstill to mourn a massacre of mainly British tourists at a resort in Tunisia last month. The government and security services warned the threat of further attacks remains severe.
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| South Carolina Senate votes to banish Confederate flag to museum | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - South Carolina's Senate passed legislation Tuesday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state house, where it has flown for five decades despite being viewed by many as a symbol of slavery. A bill to banish the flag from the Capitol grounds to a museum easily passed a third and final vote in the Senate by a 36-3 margin and is now headed for debate in the state's House of Representatives. The legislation, deemed a non-starter only months ago, has garnered strong bipartisan support after the June 17 killings of nine African-American churchgoers during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in the port city of Charleston, about two hours south of the state capital Columbia.
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| Pakistan kills leader of anti-Shi'ite militants in southwest | | | Pakistani security forces killed the leader of a fiercely anti-Shi'ite Muslim militant group during a targeted operation early on Tuesday on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta, security officials said. Jaish-ul-Islam, a relatively new movement that considers Shi'as as apostates against Islam, has claimed many of the recent attacks on Shi'ite Hazara in Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital. The military's Frontier Corps and intelligence agents acted on a tip to conduct the Quetta raid, according to Frontier Corps spokesman Khan Wasey. |
| Afghan delegation meeting Taliban, twin attacks hit Kabul | |  By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday he had sent a delegation to Pakistan to meet Taliban representatives, his first acknowledgement of official talks with insurgents who are fighting to topple the government in Kabul. The tentative step towards full peace negotiations aimed at ending more than 13 years of war came hours after suspected Taliban suicide bomb attacks in the Afghan capital struck a convoy of foreign troops and a compound of the country's intelligence agency. Separately, two drone strikes targeting militants loyal to Islamic State in the eastern province of Nangarhar this week killed dozens of fighters, including the movement's second-in-command in Afghanistan, officials said.
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| French forces kill commander with al Qaeda branch in Mali | | | By Marine Pennetier and Kissima Diagana PARIS/NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - France's army confirmed on Tuesday that its special forces had killed a prominent commander with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the group's north African branch, during a weekend operation in the northern Mali region of Kidal. France led a military operation to drive Islamist militant groups, including AQIM, out of northern Mali in 2013 after they seized the vast, desert zone a year earlier amid a Tuareg uprising. |
| Former Yara executives sentenced to prison in corruption case | | | A Norwegian court sentenced four former top executives at Yara, the world's biggest nitrate fertiliser maker, to prison on Tuesday for paying bribes in Libya and India, in one of Norway's biggest corruption scandals. Prosecutors had accused the men of paying around $8 million in bribes to officials in India and Libya - including to the family of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's oil minister and the family of a financial adviser in India's Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers - for the right to establish joint ventures. Former chief legal officer Kendrick Wallace was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison, while former head of upstream activities Tor Holba and former deputy CEO Daniel Clauw were both given two-year jail terms years, court documents showed. |
| Cartoonist cyber-bullied as Greek politics turn sour | | | By Dina Kyriakidou ATHENS (Reuters) - One of Greece's most popular cartoonists has pulled down his Facebook page after what appeared to be a concerted attack by pro-government cyber bullies. A cartoon published by Arkas last month seemed anodyne enough: a newscaster saying "I have complete trust in the government. It has its feet firmly planted in the clouds." But in Greece's polarised political climate, this prompted an avalanche of hostile messages. |
| South China Sea dispute between China, Philippines heads to court | |  By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Philippines argued at a closed hearing on Tuesday that an international court should intervene in its dispute with China over the right to exploit natural resources and fish in the South China Sea. The Philippines argues that the arbitration court is the correct venue for resolving disputes covered by the treaty, which both countries have signed. "The Philippines believes the court has jurisdiction over all the claims it has made," said lawyer Paul Reichler, representing the Philippines.
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| Spain arrests woman for recruiting girls for Islamic State | | | Spanish police on Tuesday arrested a woman in the Canary Islands on suspicion of recruiting adolescent girls to join Islamic State in Syria, the interior ministry said. Once the girls reached Syria they were sexually exploited and made to do domestic and hospital work, it said. The woman, who was arrested on the holiday resort island of Lanzarote, had direct contact with a member of Islamic State in Syria who gave her information on how to recruit and send women to that country, the ministry said. |
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