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| Chile takes step toward cannabis decriminalisation | | | Chile took a step forward in decriminalizing the use of cannabis on Tuesday after the lower house of Congress approved by a wide margin a bill that seeks to change the law in the South American country. Although socially conservative Chile is not following Uruguay's lead on full legalization, it is considering decriminalizing it for personal use and cultivation. |
| Al Shabaab gunmen kill 14 in attack on Kenyan workers | |  By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Al Shabaab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic militant group said had targeted Christians. Many died in their sleep, the Kenya Red Cross said. The raid, in the town of Mandera, mirrored one in the same county in December in which 36 quarry workers died.
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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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